The “gifted kids” at my school were the ones constantly stressed about math competitions, a big reason I wasn’t interested in math then. Now, I’m so glad I learned math through my own organic meandering path. And I’m keeping up with the math PhD students in my measure theoretic probability class!

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this is the bravest little tabby please look very gently

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New paper day! 🥳 🧮 Pontryagin-Thom, π₀ of the motivic sphere spectrum, and principal quadratic forms arxiv.org/abs/2610.29065 wherein I provide a novel proof of Morel's theorem identifying π₀(𝕊ₖ) with the Grothendieck-Witt ring GW(k) of quadratic forms.

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just found out that the Pioneer head unit that I bought new in ~2008, and carried forward from car to car since then (pictured here in the Scirocco a few years ago), is a retrotech meme object now. brb crumbling into dust.

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Thank you, yes that is true. I am encountering so much doom in my surroundings and amongst my friends 😢 And I just listened to that podcast where Steven Strogatz cried.

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