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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 1d

Today I turned up to give a lecture and it turned out to be the wrong day 🤦🏽‍♀️ Maybe the universe is telling me to slow down…

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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 2d

Legend: 🥙 = all ingredients in place, 🌾 = just ripening, 🍚 = nice but empty calories, 👾 = excited weird computation, 🤯 = mind blown, 🕳️ = rabbit hole …

Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 2d

I tried to classify the unfinished mathematical problems lurking in my brain: 🥙, 🌾, 🍚, 👾, 🤯, 🕳️ …

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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry for all the questions. I’m looking for the PDE’s independent variables (presumably 3 spatial variables) in which the oscillation is occurring. And whether that’s in some metric or ?

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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 2d

How many independent variables?

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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 2d

What are the equations you’re tackling?

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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 2d

In soliton theory, “waves that “jog on the spot” rather than travelling through a medium” are called breathers 👉🏼 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breather

Breather - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 2d

I tried to classify the unfinished mathematical problems lurking in my brain: 🥙, 🌾, 🍚, 👾, 🤯, 🕳️ …

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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 4d

I’ll have to find and taste it!

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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 4d

The saltiness of analysis, the sweetness of algebra, the umami of algebraic geometry, the bitterness of contradictions, the sourness of dead ends …

Roger Mansuy @roger-mansuy.bsky.social · 4d

I'd be curious to taste mathematics.

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Roger Mansuy @roger-mansuy.bsky.social · 4d

I'd be curious to taste mathematics.

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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 4d

Do mathematicians rely on senses other than vision and hearing? 👉🏼 mathoverflow.net/questions/44...

Do mathematicians rely on senses other than vision and hearing?

The senses of vision and hearing are commonly recognized as being important for the study of mathematics, with fields like geometry and topology relying heavily on vision, while algebra and number ...

mathoverflow.net

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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 6d

Jane Goodall 😢 has passed away www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91

Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour

www.theguardian.com

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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 10d

It’s my PhD advisor Martin David Kruskal’s 100th birthday today en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_... Celebrated for solitons, Kruskal-Szekeres coordinates and the Kruskal count ♣️♦️♠️♥️, always missed …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Da…

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Tara Murphy @taramurphy.bsky.social · 21d

Join us @sydney.edu.au for our 2025 Stibbs Lecture:

"Reflections on the Discovery of Pulsars: An Evening with Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell"

Date: Thursday 16 October 2025
Time: 6pm - 7:15 pm
Venue: University of Sydney

Registration is free: www.sydney.edu.au/science/news...

⚛️ 🔭 🧪

#RadioAstronomy

A slide advertising the Stibbs Lecture at the University of Sydney. Key information is in the main post.

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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 13d

From #Reddit 😁 #mathsky #mathematics

An icon of the poster RepulsiveMousse3992 within the subreddit r/math followed by the text “When do you guys think the Millenium Prize will adjust for inflation?
1 million isn't that much money anymore. It is strange if they don't adjust it and allow their prize to become irrelevant just because of inflation.”

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Michael Kinyon @profkinyon.bsky.social · 13d

I just learned that a planar tree with one vertex is called a corolla, and I keep wondering if the Toyota Planar Tree With One Vertex would have been quite as successful.

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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 14d

A law of conservation of difficulties: there is no easy way to prove a deep result. But only finding complicated ways to prove a result doesn’t mean it’s deep … 😮‍💨#mathjokecuttingclosetoreality

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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 14d

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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 15d

Classification of mathematical problems as linear and nonlinear is like classification of the Universe as bananas and non-bananas. #mathjoke

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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 16d

“Unlike human intelligence, it lacks the humility to acknowledge uncertainty, …When unsure, it doesn’t defer to deeper research or human oversight; instead, it often presents estimates as facts.” 🤨 Like some researchers I know…
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

www.computerworld.com

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 17d

A woman with a speech bubble says “OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws”. A man opens a calendar to see ed Zitron, the smiling man

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Steve Flammia @sflammia.bsky.social · 17d

This would be an important breakthrough if it holds, but I'm skeptical on first glance. Large parts of this were clearly written by a generative AI. Doesn't mean it's wrong, but I suspect it's a "vibe theorem", i.e., not a theorem. I'll wait for Vidick, Regev, etc. to weigh in.

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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 17d

There is a new claim by Yifan Zhang arxiv.org/abs/2509.12341 that the method currently considered to be the *best* protection we have against Shor’s algorithm on future quantum computers, is vulnerable … #PQC #mathematics

Exact Coset Sampling for Quantum Lattice Algorithms

We give a simple and provably correct replacement for the contested ``domain-extension'' in Step 9 of a recent windowed-QFT lattice algorithm with complex-Gaussian windows~\citep{chen2024quantum}. The...

arxiv.org

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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 18d

Tell me what’s wrong with this picture #mathsky

Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 19d

I asked ChatGPT to create a picture of a young me sliding down an elliptic curve 🤔

A cartoon of a young girl sliding down a curve from right to left. She is wearing an orange t-shirt, green shorts, orange & white sneakers, has her hands flung up with a delighted grin, and has dark fuzzy hair tied up in a ponytail on top with an orange band.

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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 18d

SCOOP: The Trump administration has installed a new acting director of the Census Bureau, @npr.org has learned. George Cook takes over the federal government’s largest statistical agency after it's been thrust into the middle of a renewed attempt by President Trump to alter the national head count

The Census Bureau is now headed by a Trump official in an acting position

George Cook is the Trump administration's new acting director of the Census Bureau, which has been thrust into the middle of a renewed attempt by President Trump to alter the national head count.

www.npr.org

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