A rack is a generalization of the conjugation operation on a group?
04.03.2026 00:10
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A rack is a generalization of the conjugation operation on a group?
For context, Slovenia has long been a center for bee-keeping and honey production. The Carniolan honey bee is popular with beekeeping hobbyists worldwide (and Carniola ~ old name for Slovenia). And we have a whole museum for beekeeping! mro.si/en/musem-of-...
Medomat honey vending machine
Signs that I've been in Slovenia for a while:
Encountering a "medomat" (bankomat, but for honey). Laughing at the only-in-Slovenia-ness.
Realizing that I need honey, and buying honey at the medomat.
Today's news is a shocking betrayal of the FIFA Peace Prize and everything it stands for.
It's important for students to learn early that their instructors are fallible! :-)
What is good for the michigoose is good for the michigander!
Venn diagram: Mathematicians \cap Hippies = bohemian fashion choices Hippies \cap Conspiracy theorists = hallucinates Mathematicians \cap Conspiracy theorists = just a little more coffee and all will be clear Intersection of all = Everything is connected
Felt cute. Might delete later, idk.
(From my talk at CSASC 2026)
Freeman Hrabowski III, the President Emeritus from the University of Maryland Baltimore County, giving a TED talk.
This is a powerful message from Freeman Hrabowski.
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For what it's worth, it's somewhat likely that the professor doesn't remember your name from the cold email. A rejection is still unpleasant. Unfortunately, there is a certain amount of luck involved.
But don't you need a spectral sequence for full-on inclusion-exclusion?
Already in the era of homework-for-hire websites like Bartleby etc they were a bad idea IMHO. It's a little worse (but not much) in the LLM era.
I found Joe Harris' "Algebraic Geometry: a first course" reasonably helpful, but I wove in and out of it more than reading straight through.
Yeah, I think she kind of ran out of interestingly bad things to happen to the characters. :-)
I also like the Chalion books very well. I wish she wrote the "missing two" full-length books. The Vorkosigan books are also very good. The "Cordelia's Honor" two-volume in one is a good place to start, although a little atypical; "Mountains of Mourning" used to be freely available online.
Books that fit part of the bill are Bujold's Vorkosigan books, which I like a lot. Sci-fi, not fantasy, though. I don't like her _Sharing Knife_ books (based in a fantastic American frontier) nearly as well, but they have moments.
PSA reminder that duckduckgo lets you turn off the AI summaries! (Myself, I don't like seeing them when I'm not prepared to be a bit skeptical.)
I am of the opinion that we should all call the probability distribution that takes on a single value with probability 1 the "Rosencrantz-Guildenstern distribution". RIP, indeed.
You are a lot faster at learning new stuff than a second year undergrad!
In addition to the AMS series, I think that "Contemporary Mathematics" is trying to trade off the reputation of our Slovenian society journal, _Ars Mathematica Contemporanea_. Or at least, I get a lot of spam asking me to be an editor. amc-journal.eu
Word is on the street that the fire in your heart is out (for the NYTimes spelling bee).
You can really wind up mathematicians at cocktail parties by saying that you don't believe in infinity. You just need to drop an axiom from ZFC!
I switched to my primary search to DuckDuckGo to avoid the automatic Google AI summaries. For me, it is a little dangerous to read something from a bullshit engine without girding yourself against plausible-but-wrong.
I've been on both sides of that. I love finding a good counterexample: I can stop trying to prove the wrong thing, and pivot to trying to prove a (possible) right thing!
Following video claims 4, which is about my recollection. Surface tension is a relevant factor.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWlW...
Analytic and algebraic topology of locally Euclidean metrizations of infinitely differentiable Riemannian manifolds will never be quite the same again.
(Er, Daisley. Ah well, was against character limit anyway :-) )
While everyone is remembering Ozzy: his No Rest for the Wicked album is, I think, underrated. First album with Zack Wylde, also has longtime bassist Bob Daisy. Similar lineup to the No More Tears album (but harder edge). Uneven, but the bright spots are there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDpT...
With an impossibly young Ozzy, and no other comment: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qan...
