Michael Tait
@magicT8ball
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@DonaldDiCicco @trajan317 he will get a good job, he is a much better applicant than the average phd. he explained very clearly why he didn’t apply to the open fellowship, which imo (I was an nsf postdoc and have reviewed multiple times for them) he would have also had a reasonable chance of winning
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two pieces of miscellaneous info: in december the president of the ncaa testified to congress that there are under 10 transgender athletes in the ncaa; the department of education enforces title ix
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“there’s no way to speak of human beings without simplifying and misrepresenting them”
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did the swarthmore crew paint the newly resurfaced paris track 🤔🤔
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“His youth was like a Fourth of July rocket — consuming itself in its display” - @JoyceCarolOates
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prediction (c 2030): quincy wilson becomes the first human to run 400 meters in under 43 seconds
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RT @ILAS_news: We strongly encourage you to submit your research papers to ELA, the Electronic Journal on Linear Algebra. ELA fits the cat…
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ncaas: drawing lane 3 for a 200 prelim is extremely unfair and they should not use it, 3 people per heat; @seandolan__ looked great for @NovaTrackXC; on a run over winter break @gary_martin20 told me the uva dmr would be up there, too bad the mile prelim is so soon before
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concept: chile con carne but you put corn in it and call it chile corn carne
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this is still a good idea 🦉
a sb squares variation: de-randomized, multiple wagers allowed per square, but payout is distributed to all winners in proportion to how much was bet. my guess about the optimal strategy comes from @BreakingAGame's theorem on how to win march madness -
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“what people thought were stories were fragments from shattered wholes, the patterns, the brain waves, of a certain man at a certain time in his life, the record of his controlled and uncontrolled inner life: therefore all writing was autobiography, wasn’t it?” -@JoyceCarolOates
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RT @ILAS_news: The ILAS Board approved a proposal to hold the 26th ILAS Conference in Kaohsiung, in the South of the island of Taiwan, June…
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@MarissaKawehi I gave up after several tries and told my program director I couldn’t do it and he said not to worry about it 🥴
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reup the campbell’s soup commercials with jason kelce and his moms
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“He is in that tiny echelon of athletes who not only transcend a sport but transform it”
I wrote about what I’ll be remembering from this baseball season, the dreamlike performance of Shohei Ohtani
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