Paul Rowe

Paul Rowe

@pauldrowe.bsky.social

Applied logician. Polyglot. Interested in curiosity, not dogma.

649 Followers 202 Following 288 Posts Joined Jul 2023
7 hours ago

Congratulations! Well deserved. 🎉 🥳

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7 hours ago

Pi is inherently linked with circles and periodic phenomena. Out calendar is also periodic; we can imagine it as a circle beginning Jan. 1.

As pi represents half of a circle’s circumference (half way around the circle) Pi Day is properly celebrated half way thru the year (July 2).

That is all.
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1 day ago

I never would have thought I might confuse Van Gogh and Klimt. But I thought this was early Van Gogh, when it is Gustav Klimt.

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1 day ago

Aka reviewer 2?

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1 week ago

I think that’s healthy to promote respect among disciplines that don’t interface.

These days, I think too many people trained in STEM disciplines revile the humanities and social sciences. And sometimes vice versa.

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1 week ago

Jfc, Jesse!

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1 week ago

Ok, I’m curious. What kind of theory? What was it?

Because we all learn too that there are topics that speak to us and others that will continue to seem like dark arts (which I suspect your theory book will seem to me).

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1 week ago

That is legit a *very* challenging read, (he says, as if he has fully engaged with the text).

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1 week ago

Niiiice!

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1 week ago

Did you assign him Thomas Nagel’s “What Is It Like to Be a Bat”?

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1 week ago

I feel like I should be able to come up with things from my life but I’m coming up blank.

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1 week ago

My favorite Rapaport moment was when he was on Celebrity Wheel of Fortune and just bombed a response. He knew it, but was so excited it was about Tiffany Haddish that he added “my girl” in front of her name, violating official rules. Sajak couldn’t give it to him.

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1 week ago

The rhythm must be: “Bernoulli Bros. and Leibniz and Newton Circus.”

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2 weeks ago

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

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2 weeks ago

Yes, I realize steak usually means beef. The pun was too much to resist.

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2 weeks ago

“Let them eat steak!”

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2 weeks ago

As an American (and mathematician), I have had numerous people comment to me about how my silverware use was decidedly European. It’s just how I was raised, so I was confused the first few times.

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2 weeks ago

I love how she cultivates the pause where she tries to hold back laughing at herself.

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2 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
Screenshot of NY Times Spelling Bee showing that CONCOMITANT is not in the word list. Screenshot of Merriam Webster Dictionary entry for the word CONCOMITANT.

I sometimes post funny math words that aren’t in the NY Times Spelling Bee, but this seems like an actual oversight.

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3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago

That is decidedly important information!

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3 weeks ago
A painting of a lamp being illuminated by the orange glow of a sunset through a window

The day wanes

Oil on Cradled Panel. 12" X 18".

#art #painting #artist #oilpainting #oilonpanel #lamp #sunset #interior

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3 weeks ago

But also, I’m glad there’s a space for explicating others’ work because that will always be necessary, however much we might hope it wouldn’t be.

And it’s super valuable!

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3 weeks ago

I sometimes wonder if stuff like this is an artifact of trying to please reviewers when standing one’s ground is better. Maybe not in this case, but I’ve seen it in other cases (including my own).

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3 weeks ago

The most effective second person narrative I’ve encountered is Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler. But even that had to be uncomfortably aware of the awkwardness of it to make it work.

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3 weeks ago
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Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, by Umberto Boccioni, 1913, (cast 1931 or 1934), 📸 by Wang Zhao

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3 weeks ago

Oh that sounds like a distinct possibility. But frustrating that the ellipsis in that screen grab occurs right at the threshold in question.

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3 weeks ago

Wait, by finiteness do you mean that there are only seven such numbers? If so, I’m with you: I have few intuitions, which I wouldn’t trust in this space.

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3 weeks ago

Me too! (I also missed 1 on my first try, so there’s that 🤦‍♂️)

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