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Canadian mathematician in the Netherlands. Constantly in pursuit of nice distributions, not only in combinatorics and probability, but also more broadly.
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@kangmeister.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gyHere is cartoon by Bruce MacKinnon published in the Halifax Chronicle Herald on 1 October 2026.
This is a painfully apt play on the famed Escher drawing about self-recursive drawing […]
@kangmeister.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gyHere is an omnibus edition of a variety of reactions to the OpenAI omnibus release on Tuesday.
@kangmeister.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gyI haven't been to a barber since 2009. I would just cut my hair manually with professional-grade hair-cutting scissors. Today I finally succumbed to the attractive humming convenience of machine assistance. It shaved 20 minutes off my usual routine!
@kangmeister.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gyI am next in the rota for our local discrete mathematics seminar next week. Given all the things that had kind of bunched up and accumulated privately, I was really undecided on what to talk about. But now I am settled on an elegiac and retrospective overview, still from a more private and […]
@kangmeister.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gyI am relieved to see this change to the Erdos problems website. My own speculation is that Erdos would probably have hated the way problems with his name have been warped into "benchmarking", in no small part due to the way this website was set up (e.g. the numbering system) and co-opted for […]
@lambo.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @kangmeister.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gyRE: https://mastodon.social/@Carl_Zimmer/117345065655681591
Commercial mega platform sucking up virtually all of human knowledge, deceiving the public about it, and bending the rules to their liking - I guess it's just a normal Monday morning in 2026? Have a nice week, everyone.
@kangmeister.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gyA fundamental part of science (not just math!) is citation: "standing on the shoulders of giants". I find proposals --in the wake of large-scale slopmath, and implicit in suggestions for improving the "credit" system-- to change up mathematical citation conventions based on later exposition or […]
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I am not properly trained in political science, sociology, public policy, or history, but still I think I can loosely recognise how this approach, concentrating within a small unrepresentative body a momentous set of decisions/recommendations that are consequential for a […]
@kangmeister.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gyA post of @11011110 has reminded me that (after a year and a half lurking here) it's never too late for me to toot and pin an intro here.
I am a Canadian mathematician in the Netherlands, and I have been based at the University of Amsterdam since 2022. I also have some rich and longstanding […]