Associate Professor (Clemson) | AIMS Lecturer (South Africa) | Author: "Visual Algebra" (forthcoming) | YouTuber | First Gen | Homesteader | Dad to Ida & Felix
Clemson, SC
Joined July 2009
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🚨🚨 #MathTwitter Announcement! 🚨🚨
As I'm going through and finalizing chapters in my #VisualAlgebra book, I'm recording a new set of YouTube videos in tandem. This will be more than twice as long as my existing #VisualGroupTheory playlist, with MUCH more content.
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ALT Screenshot of my Visual Algebra YouTube playlist.
💥 Some personal news 💥
#VisualAlgebra is finally DONE! I just sent off an 820-page pdf to the editor. Almost exactly 7 years after I started. The zip file that contains the 100+ plain text LaTeX files and nothing else is a whopping 5.4 MB.
Now onward to Volume 2!
I’ve had a stable draft for about 2 years, but kept going back and making changes, including a major overhaul of the last chapter. The last 5% really does take a ridiculously disproportionate amount of work.
Table of Contents: math.clemson.edu/~macaule/vi…
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Looks like math majors still make a ton of money, without graduate degrees. Four years out and Duke grads take the prize at almost 300k/year (17 students). The median is also really healthy, with a lot of clustering around 70-80k
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Mathematics has now fully morphed into biology:
Project costs millions $ ✅
Put out paper that nobody has read ✅
Massive paper supplement nobody will read ✅
Advertise with pretty art ✅
Vicious authorship fight ✅
Say you're curing cancer ✅
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Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.
The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible - but I hear the same people express fear privately. No other human activity poses this level of danger.
My 7-year-old daughter heard me say that Dolly Parton died, and got visibly very sad. I was surprised she even knew that name.
“You know Dolly Parton?”
In the sweetest timid voice, she replied:
“Well, I don’t _know_ know her. But she sent me books.”
🥹😢😭
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hello there the jacobian conjecture is false thanx to my close friend akhil for asking about it and my other close friend fable for working during the world cup final
((1+xy)^3 z + y^2 (1+xy) (4+3xy), y + 3 x (1+xy)^2 z + 3 x y^2 (4+3xy), 2 x - 3 x^2 y - x^3 z): \C^3\to \C^3, has jacobian determinant -2, and sends (0, 0, -1/4), (1, -3/2, 13/2), and (-1, 3/2, 13/2) to (-1/4, 0, 0)
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After reading Matt Shumer’s “Something Big is Coming” yesterday, which has hit 55M views, I started searching high and low for any and all counter arguments.
Not because I believed he wasn’t being honest. Or revealing valid a tectonic shift coming.
But because there is always two sides (minimum) to every story. Not sometimes. All times.
Forming opinions based on one side is how you get lobotomies becoming accepted psychiatric practice for twenty years.
So, is there any other viewpoint other than the end of the world as we know it where we’re all noodling at the local lake for our dinner?
Perhaps.
And, if so, this is the best I’ve seen.
Take a deep breath. And read it. You’ll take a deep breath after reading it, too.
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Doctor: “do you have any pre-existing heart conditions?”
Me: “yes, the Mariners are currently in the playoffs.”
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SOMEWHERE IN HEAVEN, A YOUNG DAVE NIEHAUS IS SMILING 🥹
THE @MARINERS ARE ONE GAME AWAY FROM THE WORLD SERIES!
I DON'T BELIEVE IT!
MY, OH MY!
🔱 #MLBPlayoffs
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Jorge Polanco with the 15th walk-off hit in a winner-take-all game in postseason history
17th walk-off win in a winner-take-all game overall
INCREDIBLY … the only other ALDS winner-take-all walk-off win?
Edgar’s double
BASEBALL!!!
I’m celebrating the 4th of July this year by working all day in the office and drinking tea with a cricket match in the background. ‘Merica! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
