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Gülce
@gkardes.bsky.social
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I do theoretical computer science at CU Boulder and the Santa Fe Institute.
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Gülce @gkardes.bsky.social · 7h
A relevant footnote: the cellist Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social has responded to this thread and drawn attention to his work arranging compositions by women composers from across history corbinkeep.bandcamp.com/album/unspea... (social media can still be good sometimes.)
Unspeakable Beauty: Works by Historical Women Composers Arranged for Unaccompanied Cello, by Corbin Keep
15 track album
corbinkeep.bandcamp.com
Gülce @gkardes.bsky.social · 7h
At some point, I dream of creating or perhaps collaborating on a project in a similar spirit, centered on female poets and composers...though so much to learn first before ideas can take shape. For now, I’m taking vocal lessons so I can hopefully sing A chantar properly.
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Gülce @gkardes.bsky.social · 7h
Amazing! I listened to this piece from your album, and it’s beautiful. I look forward to exploring the other pieces and composers from the album. Do you have any ongoing or upcoming projects? It’s helpful that there’s a website for this project of yours.
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Gülce @gkardes.bsky.social · 1d
PS Trobairitz were the first known female composers of Western secular music. They walked so Taylor Swift could run. Joking aside, this is the only known trobairitz song to survive with its melody, and it’s wonderful.
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Gülce @gkardes.bsky.social · 1d
This is my greatest cultural find of 2025 so far. I heard it on WQED (yes, radio) one day in February. She’s an incredible poet, and there’s a beautifully written blog post with a translation for those of us who don’t understand Occitan: www.noellemcmurtry.com/comtessa-de-...
Comtessa de Dia, The Early Music Police & Me: Part I | Noelle McMurtry
www.noellemcmurtry.com
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Gülce @gkardes.bsky.social · 1d
weekend tunes from our friend Comtessa de Dia, 12th century www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1UO...
A chantar m'er de so qu'eu no volria
YouTube video by Ensemble Apotropaïk - Topic
www.youtube.com
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Gülce @gkardes.bsky.social · 5d
the tyranny of taste
Gülce @gkardes.bsky.social · 5d
What sounds like Philip Glass’s Akhnaten? Grown weary of it (again) and yet, in the absence of anything that resonates quite the same way, I inevitably circle back to it
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Gülce @gkardes.bsky.social · 11d
I googled “i am a baby lemma and i can't find my theorem“
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Gülce @gkardes.bsky.social · 13d
wow banger bookstore.ams.org/ulect-49
Inevitable Randomness in Discrete Mathematics
bookstore.ams.org
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Gülce @gkardes.bsky.social · Apr 13
this book too is remarkable
i am holding the book titled ‘a short treatise inviting the reader to discover the subtle art of go’ - authors pierre lusson, georges perec, and jacques roubaud
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Gülce @gkardes.bsky.social · Apr 3
chalks a flower, surrounded by green leaves
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Gülce @gkardes.bsky.social · Mar 3
this could apply to areas such as user interface design, where a new perspective can accelerate problem-solving. Please share an example and, if you wish, explain *why* that particular representation made the problem easier to tackle. Well-defined examples, even from everyday life, are welcome.
Gülce @gkardes.bsky.social · Feb 17
have a feeling that this will be my favorite Mathias Énard, translated by the brilliant Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social. You can pre-order...
avecsesdoigts.bsky.social Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social · Feb 9
Reading over the final galleys of Mathias Énard's THE DESERTERS
@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
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Gülce @gkardes.bsky.social · Feb 13
This is a very honest take on the pace of research in complexity theory and math. As a grad student: AI might assist one day but we still only truly understand and solve problems by working them out with pen & paper, alone or with collaborators. Pure research still takes ~the same amount of time.
lance.fortnow.com Lance Fortnow @lance.fortnow.com · Feb 12
A student asked me whether research was easier or harder back when I was a student.

Sure you have fancy drones today, but I had my most success standing on the step stools of giants.

blog.computationalco...
Research Then and Now
A student asked me if complexity research was easier when I was a student. Interesting question. Let's compare research now versus the late ...
blog.computationalcomplexity.org
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Gülce @gkardes.bsky.social · Feb 11
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science. When in doubt, remember what Curie said: “Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something & that this thing must be attained.“
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Gülce @gkardes.bsky.social · Jan 24
P.S. Either the practice of unselfing or its public acknowledgment (likely both) has grown increasingly rare in contemporary academic discourse, I think...
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Gülce @gkardes.bsky.social · Jan 24
"Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer." I think unselfing is about the virtue of directing one's pure attention beyond the self.
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Gülce @gkardes.bsky.social · Jan 24
This is such a lovely Buddhist-looking concept. (Perhaps resonating with how she called herself in her letters "a perpetual Buddhist beginner.") Reminds me of what Simone Weil wrote once:
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Gülce @gkardes.bsky.social · Jan 15
What will come next? The intersection of different tensions might create entirely new forms of social organization we can't yet imagine – or perhaps we'll see a kind of post-narrative phase where people grow tired of reality-shaping and seek more "grounded" experiences (whatever that may mean).
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Gülce @gkardes.bsky.social · Jan 15
TikTok to tech movements to climate activism, and tensions don't stay in their lane. It feels like no single authority reigns supreme anymore, neither tradition nor tech nor any other force. The ability to impact culture, politics, or society isn't confined to established institutions.
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Gülce @gkardes.bsky.social · Jan 15
Connecting back to the start, I think my generation is an answer in-making to this question: what happens when narrative-shaping power becomes widely distributed across society? (We will see.) Living through changes happening too fast to process, with tensions expressed through everything from
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Gülce @gkardes.bsky.social · Jan 15
AI? New government regimes? Tech cults? Climate crisis? Anything can happen. It's not like the 90s, so we are never bored, and the next few decades will be very interesting to watch (and hopefully not too painful collectively).
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Gülce @gkardes.bsky.social · Jan 15
particular ideologies or directions. Today's sense of possibility seems more open-ended. Ask experts to predict what's coming, and you'll get an unusual admission of uncertainty, *anything* is possible. It's like a hyper-American dream.
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Gülce @gkardes.bsky.social · Jan 15
Earlier movements of radical possibility - the 1960s counterculture, avant-garde circles, even the Industrial Revolution - were confined to specific social groups or focused mainly on technological change. In previous eras, belief in what should and can be done was often tied to
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