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Kevin Slote

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Applied Mathematician Macro data refinement scientist https://kslote1.github.io Everyone should care. My opinions are my own

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 2d

Students today are being robbed of the joy of writing unhinged college essays and finding it 10 years later and thinking it actually slaps

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 6d

1. Computers were a mistake

Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 9d

You always know you’re onto something when the LLM starts hallucinating real bad.

Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 9d

It’s never too late for a goth phase. I’m personally in one right now and refuse to apologize.

Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 10d

I decided to give my nephew some crypto for his birthday to teach him financial responsibility. He asked “what can I buy with this?” To which I had to reply “nothing.”

Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 11d

Does it work well from first hand experience?

Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 11d

A romcom about Grothendieck

Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 11d

I am also very proud of the Land Acknowledgement I put in my code of conduct.

Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 11d

I recently wrote a new causal network discovery Python library.
My library has 100% unit and integration test coverage.
Leave me a ⭐ on GitHub and I will forever be in your debt.

github.com/Center-For-C...

GitHub - Center-For-Complex-Systems-Science/causationentropy: Implementation of Causation Entropy from Clarkson Center for Complex Systems Science (C3S2)

Implementation of Causation Entropy from Clarkson Center for Complex Systems Science (C3S2) - Center-For-Complex-Systems-Science/causationentropy

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 17d

Glad the streaming platforms have learned the TACO trade I guess

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18d

NEW — I wrote about my confirmed scoop from last night that Disney hastened Kimmel's return because of a planned Disney+ streaming price increase announcement coming on Tuesday:

Kimmel reinstatement preempted Disney+ price increase

The Handbasket reported first Monday evening on Bluesky

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 21d

One time I read a paper where they were denouncing Brouwer as a “dangerous Bolshevik”

Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 22d

I think I get the diffusion over the hodge laplacian thing. Happy to chat about it

Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 22d

Nice.

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 22d

Hell yeah

Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 24d

No, but LOL

Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 24d

illocution and perlocution be damned

Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 25d

I can’t email people python programs or word documents anymore. It seriously hinders collaboration. But also, how much money is this useless advice costing?

Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 25d

I love the banner *warning: this is coming from outside the university*.

Like yeah, it’s called email. Cybersecurity grifters and the corporate consulting industry selling people on industry based performance monitoring is a waste of resources and does not translate to academic settings.

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 27d

The weirdest thing to come out of this last week were the people bailing from Bluesky for Twitter. Like ah yes, Twitter; the paragon of decorum.

Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 27d

Ruining the Gen alpha 67 meme by informing them it’s an isolated prime number.

Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 28d

I think we can all have a little ultrafinitism as a treat. I meant more that he wrote a book arguing for the surreal numbers being the platonic ideal form for numbers themselves. Obviously, that’s a little silly.

Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 28d

This is actually unironically similar to what Alain Badiou believes.

Helen @homotoptheory.bsky.social · 28d

young earth creationist ultrafinitist who thinks that the surreal numbers are the numbers that actually exist but god has only made between 2 and 4 million of them so far

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 29d

Anyone got any cool topology facts about the Kolmogorov Arnold Representation theorem?

Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 29d

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picard%...

Picard–Vessiot theory - Wikipedia

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Kevin Slote @kevinslote.bsky.social · 29d

Yeah, it’s super cool. I’m no expert in it or anything. I just know one of the key results is that the solutions of linear homogeneous ODE can be written in terms of analytic functions boils down to the solvability of a differential Galois groups.