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Free-range mathematician. Unitarian Universalist minister. He/him Support 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️rights! https://ewhowe.com https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=T1o9ixcAAAAJ #MathSky #math #maths #mathematics #UnitarianUniversalist

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 12h

I’ve become very attached to it!

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 2d

Another option that the advertising department might like would be “smooth”… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth_...

Smooth number - Wikipedia

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 2d

The algorithm was finally written up in the published version (from 2020) of Serre’s course notes for a class he taught in 1985. smf.emath.fr/publications...

Rational points on curves over finite fields | Société Mathématique de France

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 2d

(Here’s a statement of the bound. Note that it involves finding the solution 𝜑 to a trigonometric equation.)

A statement of the Oesterlé bound on the number of points on a curve of genus g over a finite field. The statement is complicated, and involves computing trigonometric functions applied to a the root of an equation that also involves trig functions.

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 2d

This is making me feel smug that 15 years ago, when I wanted to implement a method for computing the Oesterlé bound for the number of points on a genus-g curve over 𝐅_q, I developed an algorithm to do so that uses only rational arithmetic. I didn’t trust floating point computations.

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 4d

What percentage were complaints about your team insulting your user base? That’s certainly one way to increase the count!

Bluesky @bsky.app · 4d

we hit 2 billion posts today! 🥳

Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 4d

who/whom/whomst

Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 5d

Was on a retreat for the first part of the week, so I had lots of things to do in the past few days to catch up.

This is in my home office. Painted so that the walls match a lot of the books on my shelves.

A balding white man with glasses and a grey mustache smiles while holding a coffee mug (decorated with a kookaburra) near his face. Behind him are bookshelves and an out-of-focus black and white print, hanging on a wall painted Springer yellow.

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JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 12d

So exhausting..

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 9d

Did it yesterday for HUD.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 10d

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better."

Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better.

Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand.

We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 10d

I just bought a Remarkable Pro, primarily for reading from while giving sermons (not your use case!), but I have also used it to annotate papers I am refereeing and do light edits on. The writing experience is 10000x better than writing on an iPad with an Apple Pencil, IMO.

Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 12d

Probably no time for math today :( but at least I had my coffee from this mug.

A balding white man with black wire rim glasses and a gray mustache is standing in front of a window with plants outside, holding a coffee mug. The mug has an image on it that looks like an oval next to a large left open parenthesis. The text above the images says “Esto no es una curva elíptica,” and beneath the image it says “28–31 Octubre.”

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 13d

I should have invested in a bottle of The Macallan.

A grocery store shelf tag for bottles of The Macallan 30-year-old single malt Scotch, showing a price of $5499.99 for a 750 ml bottle. But the price per bottle if you are a member and buy six of them is only $4949.99!

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Deb Haaland @debhaalandnm.bsky.social · 14d

Military service is about courage and sacrifice. That’s what my father, a Marine, and my mother, a Navy veteran, taught me.

But awarding medals for the massacre at Wounded Knee is cruelty, not honor. And reaffirming them today only deepens the injustice. (1/2🧵)

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 13d

Sir! The “Guide to Musical Theatre” web site begs to disagree!

Synopsis:
This exuberant musical, with a delightful score, conjures up the timeless dream world of work shy, beer-swilling Andy Capp, known the world over from Reg Smythe’s cartoon strip in the Daily Mirror

Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 13d

I think I had heard rumors, but I had never sought out a recording!

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 13d

Just a few weeks ago, after 60 years on God’s green earth and approximately 55 of reading the funny pages, I realized that “Andy Capp” is a pun.

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👻Josh D. S. 2 On the Boo 👻 @matrixman124.hellthread.vet · 14d

All I gotta say is that ICE didn't exist until 2003 and was only formed out of pure xenophobia.

This is the end result of that xenophobia. ICE needs to be abolished.

Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 14d

What in the absolute FUCK. The only words I have right now are F-bombs.

Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts detained by ICE agents

The superintendent of the largest school district in Iowa has been detained by federal immigration officials. Superintendent Ian Roberts of Des Moines Public Schools was detained Friday morning, accor...

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 15d

Eating hard-boiled eggs from the stash in my overcoat pocket to try to capture some of that Columbo mystique

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 16d

Here’s a gift link to Roxane Gay’s opinion piece about how demands for “civility” are all about exerting power. Well worth a read.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Opinion | Civility Is a Fantasy

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 16d

I don’t think I had seen anything from him other than logic/math and maybe pedagogy, and what I had seen him say on those subjects hadn’t raised any red flags for me. But I could easily have missed something, or failed to notice that it was a flag.

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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 17d

AOC stars in new ad urging California to vote "yes" on new redistricting map. "Donald Trump is redrawing election maps to force through a Congress that only answers to him ... With Prop. 50, we can stop him."

Yes on 50: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

YouTube video by Yes on 50

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 17d

I can still hope that Joel will reconsider.

Until he does, here is a link to the Pink Haven Coalition. You can support their work to help trans people and their families survive the attacks that this brief supports. (6/6)

www.pinkhaven.org

Home - Pink Haven Coalition

Pink Haven Coalition Donate Who We Are We are a collective of organizations and individuals who are committed to trans liberation and joy and to growing community defense, mutual-aid, and alternative ...

www.pinkhaven.org

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Rev. Dr. Everett Howe @ewhowe.com · 17d

Joel and I overlapped as undergrads at Caltech and as grad students at Berkeley. We did not know one another well, but we were acquainted, and it is always tempting to suppose that one’s acquaintances are basically decent. But it is not always the case. (5/6)

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