We've just hit *LAUNCH* on a @kickstarter.com to fund our debut album #HollowChapters. We've finished 7 of the mixes (explainer & extracts in video via link), but as independent artists need a final push to get over the line 🎶
Ms17 asked me if I wanted to run tomorrow since her XC coach told her to do 5 miles. I didn’t know why she was asking instead of taking her shower. “It’s a complicated calculation whether the marginal benefit of washing my hair outweighs the marginal cost.” … She’s taking Econ at school.
Conclusion of Karl Menger-inspired analysis of USG #Shutdown2025 in my Intro to Math Modeling class @ucsdphysci.bsky.social, with pathways to reopening. Of course, if any actor’s preference statements are insincere …
Most of what you say here is right, Arnold @schwarzenegger.bsky.social but your conclusion is wrong. You know this is a transparent, temporary, redistricting to try to control the Trump administration by overturning the REP majority in the House. Vote YES on #Prop50.
Funny use of "at" to describe a professor emeritus. Martinis left @ucsb.bsky.social in 2014 to work at Google, and then left Google for Silicon Quantum Computing in Australia in 2020. Now he's at QoLab.
Allen, Trump’s Imperfect Compact Is a Perfect Opportunity. www.chronicle.com/article/trum... "an opening to forge a national coalition of higher-education institutions to secure a good, mission-aligned agreement with the federal government"
Hartocollis: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u... “When you have been trying to get into a school like this—any school, not just @harvard.edu—students generally do a lot of extracurriculars their entire life. It only makes sense that they’ll continue doing that.” So change admission policies!
@jonathanbchait.bsky.social, DEMs Still Have No Idea What Went Wrong www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... “This…commercial, w/its potent tagline—“Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you”—moved viewers by an estimated 2.7 points, a shift > Trump’s margin of victory in most swing states.”
Finished setting up a Karl Menger formulation of #Shutdown2025 in my Intro to Mathematical Modeling lecture @ucsdphysci.bsky.social today. Easy to see why parties are incompatible. Next … how impasse may be resolved.
Before my lecture today @ucsandiego.bsky.social I noticed one of the students reading a book. Surprised and pleased, I asked him what he was reading … _Moby Dick_, and not for a class, just for fun! The kids are alright.
John Searle obituary: philosopher of the mind who was sceptical of AI www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie... “If you are a serious intellectual, you should not be comfortable on the left-right spectrum. The right is so stupid it’s not even worth discussing. But the left is evil.”
Bender, Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u... "demands...free tuition to students studying math, biology, or other 'hard sciences' if endowment > $2M/undergrad" Study math for free @mit.edu or Princeton!
