2026-07-27T13:53:59Z https://nostr.ae Charlotte Aten https://nostr.ae/npub126gtdmmz3nz5mdpkzuk54jhx6pnjvgxpnu8rjk3mfallmq8tghmsgg75xh https://media.mathstodon.xyz/accounts/avatars/110/579/875/650/835/311/original/d28ba33f7f93a8cf.jpg https://media.mathstodon.xyz/accounts/avatars/110/579/875/650/835/311/original/d28ba33f7f93a8cf.jpg https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs26mppjez4f25g2j9ecqhu89fulghzr3nckftrvucl02rwskhkjkqzyptfpdh0v2xv2nd5xctj6jk2umgxwf3qcx0suw268d8hllvqadzlwy7gnvm If I ever need to do something clever, I just imagine what a smart person would do and then do that. I hope you find this helpful.<br/><br/>#humor #intelligence #LifeHack #logic 2026-07-30T19:05:56Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsw2atqqddfvdnyur3frdfdrv6y9y59z74x4jsnc7eegvwlqy4xwfszyptfpdh0v2xv2nd5xctj6jk2umgxwf3qcx0suw268d8hllvqadzlwfn8kar In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst5n46r9lzue2rqr4dgr2urlmrq0cdr4h0xun78z9r4svuladyh8s0h9mvx'>nevent1q…9mvx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This terminology is irksome when students who spent years with &#34;linear functions&#34; have to learn that they are not in general &#34;linear&#34; in the mathematical sense. 2026-07-30T13:39:46Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfs8temuwz8da9zk40d2prk8sdj8clanssptay9u3svhz24vtz4ygzyptfpdh0v2xv2nd5xctj6jk2umgxwf3qcx0suw268d8hllvqadzlwnytccp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswnyvnyp3vh7khu6nt5lgh5jav77yp8vnrhlu5nxk94rtflsym5tgvc2n02'>nevent1q…2n02</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Your company should install home security cameras for free in exchange for the training data. 2026-07-25T13:28:46Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2f73nvue6jjy9hv0qmvm6hrkqrn7k3hkw295h7k6xyy387k3pxpgzyptfpdh0v2xv2nd5xctj6jk2umgxwf3qcx0suw268d8hllvqadzlwaw5y6q I am leaving the university system, possibly forever, at the end of this month. I will be living in the woods, studying mathematics and (hopefully) farming enough to survive. I have posted an essay explaining why I&#39;m doing this on my website:<br/><br/><a href="https://aten.cool/leaving_university_2026.html">https://aten.cool/leaving_university_2026.html</a><br/><br/>#math #research #academia #USpol #mathematics #trans #transgender #farming #solarpunk #fascism #university 2026-04-02T21:28:59Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqst7a8veftxc3kgtuq9ngvq6je2myqelrgtyqvjgm0u6tjjuuz6h7szyptfpdh0v2xv2nd5xctj6jk2umgxwf3qcx0suw268d8hllvqadzlw4r8deq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstmw253vkxz9vvx8aa7qkamckwrrgfumt6gka7hst025056y0tzecxs4zqs'>nevent1q…4zqs</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I guess I just can&#39;t bring myself to trust my communications to a system that was made by people who were investigated for spying on the US for Israel. I hope that I&#39;m just being paranoid, but it can&#39;t hurt to be careful these days. 2026-01-16T03:11:47Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8nu7d3z32py864xel9j6f949nehusdxrsq8jayzshff66auhseuqzyptfpdh0v2xv2nd5xctj6jk2umgxwf3qcx0suw268d8hllvqadzlw3q8hgf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvdkm349kql4ztwmcdyqm0kn8upj03vagtfmd9zgv0q2mzqrnk84gy9cwe3'>nevent1q…cwe3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Idk, the standard could intentionally configure your communications in a way that is more easily monitored via some other pathway the attacker controls. There&#39;s also the issue of people relying on reference implementations that may have some less subtle designed flaw. 2026-01-16T03:05:11Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsqaq8d27td8hd66ngc092dejcf92shg9498sjc2q4rnt6jjz6ua7szyptfpdh0v2xv2nd5xctj6jk2umgxwf3qcx0suw268d8hllvqadzlwujfp3c In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv5zp0mtlfvj2r9c6fkl7dkx720haed69nl9slnnp0m8s6pyqzhjqtgsxyn'>nevent1q…sxyn</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I have a bad impression of Matrix, both in terms of culture and pedigree (that Amdocs company sounds sketchy). There are people who say it&#39;s lacking technically, but I can&#39;t speak to this myself. 2026-01-16T02:54:00Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrkknald6pc002afugn5feaagrllefcg4jflzq2emhcwjnduuphzgzyptfpdh0v2xv2nd5xctj6jk2umgxwf3qcx0suw268d8hllvqadzlwyf9dtt In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg9v4e59suku2c459qrx6affcwgvk57quktvmhm8f0kx2nr0chwgcdzgsp3'>nevent1q…gsp3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Why not WhatsApp -&gt; #XMPP ? 2026-01-15T23:13:28Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9hz7laqjcnfw68feq44lv2f4z08qy2pxchw3ppzrdrcxy4g5jm4gzyptfpdh0v2xv2nd5xctj6jk2umgxwf3qcx0suw268d8hllvqadzlwmxxl9m I received and rejected my first plenary talk invitation recently. It was for the 2026 BLAST conference in Waco, Texas. Since I am transgender, it doesn&#39;t seem wise to visit Texas for any length of time. I told the conference organizers as much, and that I am disinclined to go anywhere I&#39;m a second-class citizen.<br/><br/>As you can see at <a href="https://math.colorado.edu/blast/">https://math.colorado.edu/blast/</a> I was one of the organizers for last year&#39;s BLAST meeting in Boulder, Colorado. I knew that the next two meetings would be in Texas and Indiana and passed along the same concerns (not just about trans people, but about women&#39;s safety) which I had already expressed to my fellow organizers in 2025. I got a polite response, but it&#39;s still tough to keep missing the next steps in my career progression because of things like this.<br/><br/>#math #academia #research #logic #algebra #topology #Texas #Colorado #Indiana #trans #transgender #feminism 2026-01-11T00:50:26Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsp4amsck36yqhcsm8tgcvc20m2fwk4j6ns2jtedsfw7dnmukhl40qzyptfpdh0v2xv2nd5xctj6jk2umgxwf3qcx0suw268d8hllvqadzlwg3j7w6 Today I learned that the English word «thing» originally meant some kind of legal meeting, and my perspective on phrases like «Are you going to the thing?» is forever changed. See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_(assembly)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_(assembly)</a> for more information.<br/><br/>#English #etymology #history #language 2025-11-20T18:43:44Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrnuh8z34derq2yad5r8sj9vkppvsdpsvf07s5yrarep9eq7pmekszyptfpdh0v2xv2nd5xctj6jk2umgxwf3qcx0suw268d8hllvqadzlw0gmrn6 I was reading the Wikipedia page on the Clovis culture (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_culture">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_culture</a>) of ancient North America, as one does, when I came across a mention of the subsequent Folsom tradition (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folsom_tradition">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folsom_tradition</a>). I&#39;m used to streets in Boulder having Native American names like Arapaho, but I didn&#39;t realize that Folsom, which has our math department at the end of it, was such a street.<br/><br/>As you can read about at <a href="https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/2015/02/23/george-mcjunkin-and-the-discovery-that-changed-american-archaeology/">https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/2015/02/23/george-mcjunkin-and-the-discovery-that-changed-american-archaeology/</a>, Folsom is the name of a New Mexico town where the first evidence of these people was found. The discovery was made by a George McJunkin, who was quite the Western character. In addition to a name that sounds classically Western to my ear, McJunkin was a Black cowboy who was born into slavery in Texas but went on to become a rancher, archaeologist, and historian.<br/><br/>#Wikipedia #history #Colorado #NewMexico #Texas #archeology #BlackHistory #NativeAmerican #Boulder 2025-10-16T02:08:46Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsw28cqrv9898qnms77470f9m5uvxq07vjy4c6t5w9qmd4rycvgcgszyptfpdh0v2xv2nd5xctj6jk2umgxwf3qcx0suw268d8hllvqadzlw8d5p2r I keep hearing about people &#34;distro hopping&#34; from one Linux desktop distribution to the next. I never understood this. As a teenager in the 00s, I tried Fedora, but I wasn&#39;t ready for Linux (or maybe Linux wasn&#39;t ready for such casual users), so I dropped it quickly. I tried Ubuntu for like two seconds in my early 20s, hated the desktop environment, then used only Linux Mint for about the last decade. I recently switched to Linux Mint Debian Edition.<br/><br/>I like the clean feeling of a new install, but I have no desire to keep fiddling with my system and customizing everything over and over. It&#39;s tedious. I just want my computer to work. Am I the odd one out here?<br/><br/>#Linux #LinuxMint #Debian #LinuxMintDebianEdition #LinuxMintDE #LMDE #Fedora #DistroHopping #Ubuntu 2025-08-15T15:52:09Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxpm59plv7tvaudwhz6xe8eepj4lec0pxjlx20rhw7ha3w7d9muuqzyptfpdh0v2xv2nd5xctj6jk2umgxwf3qcx0suw268d8hllvqadzlwtns7a3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfu22zje29n0traqdq50ft4atrrweskq7cf2zwhgkj8zuq54h0gfst8q47m'>nevent1q…q47m</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I wonder if our neighbors over at #Palantir are turning off their computers... 2025-08-07T23:00:48Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2t59p8vf7pfd99s723ek5mzevxj3rwfe79mx2yglqxfv388lvaagzyptfpdh0v2xv2nd5xctj6jk2umgxwf3qcx0suw268d8hllvqadzlw0wtm4x In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd5u7ck5qljtjjk8hevfsu8tgy8az008w0xjwhu6fwd2kuq8n8mtg7cqum7'>nevent1q…qum7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m proud to see that my alma mater made the list. 2025-04-15T02:24:28Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs26q39646yy2jm8qhwer00fq8q4prpxczrmptrv8zz7rk0m0mt9mqzyptfpdh0v2xv2nd5xctj6jk2umgxwf3qcx0suw268d8hllvqadzlwzt4xh2 Why don&#39;t we write the logarithm like this? It feels like teaching students what logarithms are is way more painful than teaching roots, but this notation emphasizes that they are perfectly analogous.<br/><br/>I can provide my rough #TexLatex source for this if people are interested.<br/><br/>#math #teaching #notation<br/> <img src="https://media.mathstodon.xyz/media_attachments/files/114/133/445/374/683/906/original/215ba98e8bef8688.png"> <br/> 2025-03-09T16:42:51Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrzdyytxzw6k5hevgxa9v6ea9cmdnhw9f5jexkca2ngzh0g5mzg4szyptfpdh0v2xv2nd5xctj6jk2umgxwf3qcx0suw268d8hllvqadzlw57agp5 I&#39;ve switched to lurking here for a while due to the effects the current political situation in the US is having on me. I am making some big changes to how I do things, including how I livestream and host various products of my math research. I&#39;ll be posting about the steps I take as I take them.<br/><br/>I have switched from #Firefox to #Librewolf on my desktops. This was pretty easy since I have been storing my bookmarks as a plain text file on my desktop for a while now. Very portable. I just wish #VideoDownloadHelper worked on Librewolf.<br/><br/>I am looking into #XMPP now and trying to find a server to sign up for. Does anyone know any with open registration?<br/><br/>I have also recently gotten into #IRC again, and am excited to get more familiar with the #Pidgin client on desktop.<br/><br/>#math #privacy #security #federation #software 2025-03-02T20:22:29Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgass4u00qk40mnpt7nd47r0f80lql4lay9x7507w6s8l5u7aa5qczyptfpdh0v2xv2nd5xctj6jk2umgxwf3qcx0suw268d8hllvqadzlwpemrrw I updated my bio. I am still interested in machine learning, and I am continuing my own projects in this area, but this terminology has become synonymous with an ideology and culture to which I am diametrically opposed.<br/><br/>There is great value in tools like optical character recognition, speech recognition, and machine translation (when ethically applied). However, the current regime selling machine learning tools as products is completely disconnected from what I would view as a healthy and productive contribution to society.<br/><br/>I would still like to contribute to practical applications of mathematics in the world, and I hope that academia will continue to support my efforts to contribute in a way that supports everyone, not just a small cadre of plutocrats.<br/><br/>#MachineLearning #AI #math #ethics #research 2024-12-13T22:34:32Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqstzwhlmjgrtpss7dmrw4hda80e577qg22sjdj52fccajre7ydtwzczyptfpdh0v2xv2nd5xctj6jk2umgxwf3qcx0suw268d8hllvqadzlw5wplpw I&#39;m on the mailing list for Spectra (<a href="https://lgbtmath.org/">https://lgbtmath.org/</a>), a queer math organization, as well as their Outlist (<a href="https://lgbtmath.org/People.html">https://lgbtmath.org/People.html</a>). I&#39;m not any more involved than that at the moment, but I&#39;m now questioning my plans to help out more in the future.<br/><br/>This year, an election was held, the results of which are now nullified since it was apparently held a year ahead of schedule according to the bylaws. The situation appears acrimonious and I cannot yet determine whether leadership has acted in accordance with my own ethics.<br/><br/>The controversy appears to meld several extreme current political issues, and I am disappointed that it is not obvious where everyone stands. Sadly, connection to ethically dubious entities is part of being a mathematician in the US, and I hope that the first tax-exempt queer math organization is not one of them.<br/><br/>I might know more if I was on the organization&#39;s Discord, but given the mailing list discussion, I&#39;m not sure if joining that platform with clarify things.<br/><br/>#queer #math #lgbt #academia 2024-12-06T21:47:34Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfhkv6qxpvk52gtaahdqz0ct33537upgu4eyzpr2neu4xrqngl57czyptfpdh0v2xv2nd5xctj6jk2umgxwf3qcx0suw268d8hllvqadzlwfrmxyc I&#39;ve been on a longer hiatus from livestreaming than I originally intended, but you can see me give a seminar talk this evening at the The New York City Category Theory Seminar:<br/><br/><a href="https://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~noson/Seminar/index.html">https://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~noson/Seminar/index.html</a><br/><br/>I&#39;ll be talking about the invariant theory part of my thesis (<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18063">https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18063</a>) at 7PM, New York time. I&#39;ll discuss how I found that every (positive) property of finite structures can be checked by counting small* substructures.<br/><br/>*Terms and conditions may apply. Small is constrained by the logical complexity of a property and may not conform to mundane notions of smallness in bad cases.<br/><br/>#CategoryTheory #combinatorics #logic #Bourbaki #algebra #AbstractAlgebra 2024-12-04T17:26:54Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqspqmxcqlpks3e4xyxfdlthsxkmpg5t06y06xmgsglv93und6sraegzyptfpdh0v2xv2nd5xctj6jk2umgxwf3qcx0suw268d8hllvqadzlwkq8rkr Did you know that desktop Firefox hides the ability to set custom search engines from users? I finally got fed up with DuckDuckGo and decided to make the change. In order to do this, you need to:<br/><br/>1) Go to about:config in your address bar.<br/>2) Search for browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh<br/>3) Click the + symbol to the right to change this setting to &#34;true&#34;.<br/>4) Under &#34;Search&#34; in the settings menu you will now see that you have a new &#34;Add&#34; button.<br/>5) Click that, and you will be able to include a custom url for searches.<br/><br/>To get this url, the easiest thing to do is make a search in the desired engine, copy the resulting url (maybe removing some garbage, if you know how) and then changing the search query to %s<br/><br/>(1/2)<br/><br/>#Firefox #search #SearchEngine #Mozilla #DuckDuckGo 2024-11-23T22:16:28Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsyrg8k2cxsgv0tlklmw756kauwxq5xhf8h2luza3w8z9mnglla7eqzyptfpdh0v2xv2nd5xctj6jk2umgxwf3qcx0suw268d8hllvqadzlw34yta4 I&#39;ve found a citation of my own work on Wikipedia for the first time!<br/><br/><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commutative_magma">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commutative_magma</a><br/><br/>Naturally, I read this page before I wrote my rock-paper-scissors paper. It&#39;s neat to see that my own work is now the citation for something that was unsourced &#34;original research&#34; on Wikipedia.<br/><br/>#math #research #Wikipedia #algebra #games #RockPaperScissors #AbstractAlgebra #UniversalAlgebra #combinatorics #GameTheory 2024-10-18T17:15:37Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2vemk2nvdh2ayupc6r674xqxhldsl2egl7es06n0xef8tujp4cdszyptfpdh0v2xv2nd5xctj6jk2umgxwf3qcx0suw268d8hllvqadzlwh0gf0s In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswemew26py475e6sxvww39ll2qak40dr3d0ex2p2mwvq7fswlllacn4nven'>nevent1q…nven</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;ve just accepted that my name will not be pronounced correctly most of the time. Kudos to you for not throwing in the towel yet. 2024-09-19T04:00:43Z