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James Fairbanks

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Assistant Professor @UF. Studying how math can help us better use computers to understand the world.

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James Fairbanks
9 months
RT @sdwfrost: I'm hiring a new postdoc! Come and work @LSHTM on the intersection of epidemiological modeling, decision support, and applied…
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1 year
I'm rebooting some course materials that I did with Julia Spring 2022. Pkg.upgrade(); include("src/main.jl") just worked. We have come so far since I was running julia's main branch in grad school and all my packages broke every Monday.
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James Fairbanks
1 year
The city buses in Gainesville have digital displays of the route number. I just saw one that was broken and “fixed” with 📝&📼. That’s a good metaphor for Tech innovation.
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James Fairbanks
1 year
@u_map_prop @kendrictonn I like that in the video where they are trying to show how scary it is, it actually works fine and nobody gets hurt because they are driving so slow and attentively.
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James Fairbanks
1 year
@evanewashington I teach something like this out of 7 sketches. It’s in CS so we build towards Graphs and Databases (copresheaves)
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1 year
@VinceVatter A number is the equivalence class of all formulas that evaluate to that number. Never to early to learn HoTT.
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James Fairbanks
1 year
@Anthony_Bonato Is that more or less disturbing to them than {}?
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James Fairbanks
1 year
@tobydriscoll has a github activity that reflects the natural rhythm of the semester. Look at those Fall, Spring, Summer boundaries.
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James Fairbanks
1 year
@u_map_prop @SandMouth We have proofs at home The proofs at home: sorry
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James Fairbanks
1 year
@u_map_prop Use dependently typed FP they said, you can do vector spaces of a fixed dimension they said.
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James Fairbanks
1 year
@VinceVatter Your brain on set-theoretic foundations
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James Fairbanks
1 year
@nassarhuda 🔥 ?
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James Fairbanks
2 years
@PaoloPMath 2 birds, 1 stone: A string diagrammatic proof of de Finetti’s theorem
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James Fairbanks
2 years
PowerpointAI is learning
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James Fairbanks
2 years
So excited about #JuliaCon this week! We are hiring a Julia Programmer for a research software engineering job @UF working on Track down Owen Lynch (@u_map_prop) or Patrick Stokes for more info.
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James Fairbanks
2 years
@ejpatters @ksb_id The article is available free for 50 days at this link
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James Fairbanks
2 years
If you have been working in industry and are looking for a PhD opportunity, there is an NSF program just for you! If you want to do applied category theory or #julialang research, let me know!
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