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Colin Alstad retweeted
24 Oct 2025
We are launching a brand new journal. Please say hello to
Applied & Computational Topology & Geometry
(Link and more info below). Thanks to generous support from the @AMathRes, ACTG will be diamond open access --- completely free for both authors and readers!
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Colin Alstad retweeted
2 Oct 2025
there’s a $500 billion industry aimed at writing press releases about automating your research
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Colin Alstad retweeted
15 Jul 2025
Sorry sorry I was just trying to buy a book from Cambridge University Press.
15 Jul 2025
A $52 billion withdrawal by a single client at BlackRock has dealt a blow to the world’s biggest asset manager thetimes.com/business-money/…
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Colin Alstad retweeted
26 Jun 2025
Congrats to the Toric Project team on the completion of Phase 1 in the formalization (in @leanprover) of the correspondence between affine group schemes and Hopf algebras! leanprover-community.github.…
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Colin Alstad retweeted
12 Jun 2025
Realized today, while walking through Times Square in a downbeat contrapositive mood, that if there is anywhere where you can't make it, then you can't make it in New York.
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Colin Alstad retweeted
3 Jun 2025
Short thread on having fun doing math.
3 Jun 2025
I like this framing; I often tell grad students that it's important to try to cultivate attitudes towards one's work that make it fun, but I think there's a bit more to it. The positive signals one gets from doing math are kind of rare ("I proved something!") and a bit dangerous.
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Colin Alstad retweeted
1 Apr 2025
I don’t believe it!! A new AI startup has a model called Clay 4.1 which will announce this afternoon that it has solved one of the Millennium Problems in Lean, this is HUGE!!! Stay tuned for full announcement...
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Colin Alstad retweeted
28 Oct 2022
"In an ideal world, people would learn [algebraic geometry] over many years, after having background courses in commutative algebra, algebraic topology, differential geometry, complex analysis, homological algebra, number theory, and French literature."
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Our Space Tech Pojects made the list !
#ibm #spacetech #SSA #KubeSat #opensource
developer.ibm.com/blogs/6-in…
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Colin Alstad retweeted
23 Oct 2020
Brand spanking new preprint with @parada_mayorga, Alejandro Ribiero and @prof_g that uncharacteristically takes a radical stance *against* sheaf theory, well at least from a vector-valued signal processing point of view arxiv.org/abs/2010.11525
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My latest article on Space Tech, "A space race is good for humanity" #SpaceTech #ibm #innovation #space
15 Oct 2020
Join the #space debate: A space race is good for #humanity @IBMDeveloper @Lahorite ibm.co/3j14uCY @IBMResearch @IBMWatson @BloombergTV @IQ2US #DevOps #innovation #tech #science #IBMResearch
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Colin Alstad retweeted
8 Oct 2020
A while ago, I tweeted that I hoped Cambridge would allow us to post our online lectures publicly. I'm delighted to say that they do indeed allow this, so I shall be posting my course Topics in Combinatorics on YouTube as I give it. 1/
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12 May 2020
So I was today years old when I learned that Dirichlet was a German so his name is not pronounced Dare-ish-lay but Der-ick-let. Thanks @scottpenberthy!
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16 Apr 2020
I haven't done it enough today so I am going to ask to "do a quick round of introductions" at the dinner table tonight.
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16 Apr 2020
So I thought I had a decent joke until My wife responded with “Can everyone see my plate” and my toddler gave an unenthusiastic “yeah”.
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Colin Alstad retweeted
1 Apr 2020
COVID-19 and AI: A Virtual Conference – Stanford’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute (HAI) presents a special 1-day online conference, live-streamed starting 9am Pacific time, tomorrow, Wed April 1 (no joke!) hai.stanford.edu/events/covi…
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13 Nov 2019
Been watching a lot of Daniel Tiger lately and have learned a lot about how to deal with feelings but the biggest lesson I’ve learned is that if you want awesome public services, like libraries and public transportation an absolute monarchy makes it happen
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18 Jul 2019
Me learning to code in 2008: "I dont want to upload this useless repository to GitHub because people might think I'm dumb"
Me now: "I dont want to upload this useful repository to GitHub because people will expect me to spend 27 hours a day for the next 700 years maintaining it"
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