Michael Barany
@mbarany
Historical and cultural theories about maths and science theories. Fields Medal killjoy. Scotland enjoyer. formerly @mbarany on birdsite and intermittently @mjb@mathstodon.xyz on fediverse
Not the Big Funder precision targeting my 3 biggest bugbears of current maths comms
went to his website to see if he's done anything with LLMs and found this instead
outstanding French scholarship has no need of your American "cookies" 🍪
Russell Group but it's just guys like this checking out their pensions collectionimages.npg.org.uk/large/mw2510...
it was so bright here in Scotland, rare clear-ish night for this time of year
building of the first newspaper to call the Fields Medal a Nobel Prize of mathematics (almost certainly a joke that went over the journalist’s head), now a starbucks
and if a foreign adversary snuck into our pantry and rustled up a hearty stew we would probably consider it an act of hospitality, I suppose, in an equally meaningful hypothetical
grumble grumble hate to see it all over the #4s2025 zoom event interface
we used to get a somewhat helpful daily digest by email of new enrollments on our courses; now we still get the email but it just says this every time:
another start of the semester, another email generated by Information Security that expects us to ignore all the anti-phishing training and message injections we've been enduring
... - culturally, a lot of mathematical collaboration is conspiratorial. I gave a talk in this direction a few years ago:
with ratios like this they could be the American Proportion Association
"settings available down to course level" tells me that uni admins are still going to opt everyone in and make it somewhere between a pain and impossible to turn off for individual courses, it's clear the "opt-in" model here is mainly top level
Can anyone at @ucea.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk explain what this means from the "final offer" on joint work on sector finances? How are employers imagining that working with the union on this would end up supporting a dispute? (At worst, I imagine it likely just does very little to mitigate disputes.)