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Everyone commenting here seems to take this to mean he's leaving Google, when that's not what the article says.

Maybe there's an error, but much of this write-up reads like nonsense to me. The assertion that a semidirect product with an abelian factor must admit that factor in its center is …

If you think not having done this (or really anything else except somehow preventing him and the Republican party from gaining power in the first place) would have prevented any of…

Hmm... If only there were a tangible reason why a treaty would have been impossible to get through the US Congress as currently constituted.

Stark assessment: "The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that mon…

What this is yet another demonstration of how being immensely accomplished in one field says absolutely nothing about what one may be able to contribute to another.

Yes, as someone who prefers developing the 'correct' structure over 'merely' proving theorems, this is good for me in the short term. However, the writing I fear is on the wall for…

I would call that a trivial finite etale cover :)

Speaking as a mathematician, it does seem like we're a bit fucked as a community. Anything that is at all accessible to currently existing methods and mathematical infrastructure i…

This is nonsensical: Properness of the map is equivalent to its being an isomorphism (quick proof: Jacobian invertible implies that the map is etale, and properness would imply tha…

This is of course an oversimplification by graduate students trying to reach a broad audience, but one could argue that it in fact is. Langlands himself viewed his program as part …

I know there's at least one Costco in Brooklyn

How does unrejection work exactly?

You seem to have a strange idea of both money and government.

>The situation with human mathematicians is not much different. Eg, Wiles original proof of Fermat's Last Theorem contained errors found by reviewers, which he later repaired. In f…

I don't know the numbers, but you and the parent are saying different things. The US could still be supplying 2/3s of Israel's weapons while only subsidising about 10% of that supp…

”For example, it allows NSF to make awards to nontraditional recipients such as a limited partnership or a venture capital firm, some of which might have been created solely for th…

The rule is still open for comment. FTA: The public comment period closes approximately July 13, 2026 (45 days from May 29 publication). Comments must be submitted to regulations.g…

This kind of comment might have been borderline reasonable before 2025 (though I would have found it laughable even then), but the evidence of the last 18 months shows that one sid…

FYI, Amazon Fresh is shutting down its physical stores.

Covariance and contravariance are mathematical notions, and have to do with whether each multiplicative constituent or the tensor is a vector in your given vector space (covariant)…

This is not answering my question at all! How do you generate evidence??