Spotted in a classroom today

Haven't posted here in a while... Anyways, here's some Canada geese

Random blasphemous idea: every finite graph is chordal by the fundamental theorem of algebra if we allowed perfect elimination orderings to have complex-valued neighbor counts (whatever that means) and defined chordality through linear factorability of the chromatic polynomial.

Just signed the #LeidenDeclaration. #MathSky #AcademicSky

Funny how people complain that the new arXiv policy is too harsh. If anything, it's still way too lenient. Getting caught with AI slop should result in a permanent, publicly viewable (in the form of a hall of shame) ban and retroactive redaction of all previous arXiv submissions. #AcademicSky (1/4)

Good to see arXiv addressing type 2 errors by going after AI slop, but type 1 errors need addressing too. Lots of legitimate papers get rejected for no reason.

Good to see arXiv addressing type 2 errors by going after AI slop, but type 1 errors need addressing too. Lots of legitimate papers get rejected for no reason.

I did the meme! (well, the first part for now)

I did the meme! (well, the first part for now)

Arrived at my new home :D

Visited a rival school

Love this place so far 🇨🇦

I will never shut up about the absurdity of the tripos grading system.

Just realized the date of this post. These are my genuine thoughts - it wasn't meant to be April Fools. I might still hop on every now and then but I'll be a lot more active on the other site.

Honestly I feel like quitting this platform. The math community just isn't really big here and it Increasingly feels like I'm just talking to the void. I'm still active on tw*tter, and I might give mastodon another try too

Saw this excellent thread on Twitter (x.com/skominers/st...) about the issues surrounding zero-sum grading and thought I should share my thoughts and experiences once again. #AcademicSky (1/10) 🧵

Now that I've finally sorted everything (visa, housing etc) it's time for the grand reveal. I will be starting my Master of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo! Henceforth commences my long-awaited academic redemption... #MathSky #AcademicSky

For those who don't know me and what I've been through, I cannot overstate my gratitude towards Waterloo. While other grad schools refused to look past my grades, Waterloo showed sympathy towards my struggles with the Cambridge Tripos and offered me a chance to prove my worth.

Now that I've finally sorted everything (visa, housing etc) it's time for the grand reveal. I will be starting my Master of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo! Henceforth commences my long-awaited academic redemption... #MathSky #AcademicSky

Institution email activated ✅ Now I can finally use overleaf premium and access paywalled journals again!

Should I pay for Claude? I found the free version quite decent at doing literature reviews. Now that I'll be doing a lot more research soon, $20/month doesn't seem that bad of an investment if it's going to help a lot.

Hey babe, are you the type of conjugate-partition symmetry exhibited by Macdonald polynomials? Cuz damn, you're a (q,t)! #MathSky

CNY is such a fake and performative "festival", can't wait for it to be over. What's the point of giving out red packets if you don't even get to keep the cash lol

#MathSky #AcademicSky Oh well, bad news again. 2nd arXiv paper got a journal rejection too. This one hurts much more than my 1st rejection since it's a much better paper. Coauthor told me she's published worse papers in comparable journals. I'm worried that my paranoia is becoming justified. 1/4

New banger I've been reading lately #MathSky

New banger I've been reading lately #MathSky

Just got a new laptop after 6 years. Look at this bad boy :D

New Year's Resolution: - Finish reviewing the journal manuscript assigned back in November - Read lots of papers in my proposed research area - Prepare for my master's courses - Begin my master's - Publish a paper or two - Finish 40% of my thesis - Hopefully don't get burned out

The thing I'm looking forward to the most as an incoming grad student is having institution access to journals once again.

I used to think that reputation takes years to build and seconds to destroy, but the current state of the world suggests the opposite for the latter. Lots of shameless people, institutions, brands etc that have clearly fallen off are somehow still milking its historical prestige.

Alright, formal offer letter received, visa application submitted, thesis topic decided. Looks like I'm in for a good time!

#MathSky #AlgComb Many people ask me what I study as an algebraic combinatorialist. I don't usually share too much to avoid doxxing myself (it's a niche area after all), but here's an interesting example I feel compelled to share: (continued in reply)

#MathSky #AlgComb Many people ask me what I study as an algebraic combinatorialist. I don't usually share too much to avoid doxxing myself (it's a niche area after all), but here's an interesting example I feel compelled to share: (continued in reply)

Despite all my recent success with my master's offer amongst other things, I sometimes can't help but think about how easily I can lose everything I worked for. I know it's unhealthy to get hung up on these things but I'm just so tired of letting people down again and again.

My first paper just got brutally rejected by Reviewer 1. What a great start to my academic career! (No hard feelings though, my second paper is much better and I'm just happy that I'm improving. I know that I'll make it one day, it's just a matter of time.) #MathSky #AcademicSky

I sometimes wonder how ultra-niche academic fields operate logistically. If the field is so small that every reasonable potential reviewer has a conflict of interest with you, who reviews the articles? Do they even bother anonymizing the peer review process in such a case? #MathSky #AcademicSky

Two months ago I had zero papers on arXiv. Now I have two. Life is good.

White to play and win 😂 #chess #chesspunks

These damn matroids and their q-analogues are blowing my mind #MathSky

I know I've been posting way too much #chess lately, but this game is too good not to post. 97% accuracy and a crazy sequence of 8 knight moves in a row to end the game, 2 of which are brilliant moves. One of my best bullet games ever. #chesspunks

Lol twitter is down apparently. Anyways what a save by Wei Yi, didn't think Arjun would miss 24.Bxd5 #chess #chesspunks

I don't like how quickly this ended...

Wtf? I've just been asked by a reputable journal to review an article. I haven't even started my master's yet, I've only published my first preprint less than 2 months ago, and somehow the journal editor thought I'd be a good referee. Is this normal in the field of mathematics? #MathSky #AcademicSky

Wtf? I've just been asked by a reputable journal to review an article. I haven't even started my master's yet, I've only published my first preprint less than 2 months ago, and somehow the journal editor thought I'd be a good referee. Is this normal in the field of mathematics? #MathSky #AcademicSky

My coauthor is absolutely cracked. She comes up with crazy ass combinatorial formulas like these. I dream to be just as good at this one day... #MathSky

my favorite player just won 2-0. good day to be watching chess :D

This stupid meme is everywhere. Even my research couldn't escape the curse of gen alpha brainrot. (For context, we proved that no such basis exists for n≥12, which is why our conjecture stops at n=11.) #MathSky

Best chess match I've watched in a hot minute. The rollercoaster experience of spectating an unpredictable chess event is always something I look forward to after a long day, especially when Danya is commentating. Unfortunately he's no longer with us 💔 RIP Daniel Naroditsky 🙏

finally found the error in my sage code that has puzzled me for days

Nothing excites me more than the icons on top of my overleaf telling me that my collaborators are online 😃 #MathSky