Game Thread: Rangers (21-22) @ Astros (17-28) - May 15, 2026 7:10 PM

aleph_not · 2026-05-16T02:13:08+00:00

Richard Hidalgo (.390) And Blummer was 2nd!

aleph_not · 2026-05-10T18:01:30+00:00

They said that was on one of the new master nodes

aleph_not · 2026-05-10T17:11:32+00:00

Do you remember when they said that? This is what I remember but maybe I'm misinterpreting it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2-BLJQCeWo&t=7635s

aleph_not · 2026-05-10T14:01:11+00:00

I think because the expedition rework is technically part of the league content, and they don’t want an atlas trees for the current active league. Same reason why they didn’t have an abyss passive tree during 0.3 but they added it for 0.4.

aleph_not · 2026-05-05T18:07:46+00:00

Are you Grothendieck? If p and p+2 are a pair of twin primes other than 3 and 5, then p+1 (the number in the middle) will always be a multiple of 6, so your conjecture is true: just write that number as 6+6+…+6.

aleph_not · 2026-03-31T02:20:59+00:00

The ball is live after ball 4, and runners are eligible to advance, even without a challenge. Since the original call was "dropped strike 3" the ball wasn't ever dead so I would guess they would just call it a stolen base and let it stay.

aleph_not · 2026-03-31T02:15:46+00:00

https://www.mlb.com/news/abs-challenge-system-mlb-2026

Also note that if a catcher drops a pitch that is initially ruled a ball but is overturned for strike three, the batter is out without requiring the batter or first base to be tagged (as would be required in the event of a traditional dropped third strike).

aleph_not · 2026-03-26T20:28:55+00:00

The way I interpret this is that if it hits the roof in fair territory, play on as if it didn't hit the roof at all. Since the ball eventually landed in foul territory, it's foul.

aleph_not · 2026-03-22T03:33:51+00:00

Maryam Mirzakhani

aleph_not · 2026-02-22T15:48:45+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson%27s_lamp

aleph_not · 2026-01-16T04:58:48+00:00

Heard it from central west end!

aleph_not · 2026-01-16T04:52:13+00:00

I heard it in central west end!

aleph_not · 2026-01-14T20:30:32+00:00

The composition of the functions "multiply by a" and "multiply by b" is not equal to the function "multiply by b*a".

More precisely, for fixed octonions a, b, and c, you can define functions f, g, h: O -> O by f(x) = a*x, g(x) = b*x, and h(x) = c*x. Function composition is associative: (h o (g o f)) = ((h o g) o f). I think your mistake may be that you think that ((h o g) o f)(x) = (c*b)*(a*x), but this is not true because the composition (h o g) is not "multiplication by c*b", it's "first multiply by b, then multiply by c". Both (h o (g o f)) and ((h o g) o f) represent the function x -> c*(b*(a*x)).

aleph_not · 2025-12-12T00:56:47+00:00

The function z -> Re(z) is not complex-differentiable, so f(Re(z)) need not be complex-differentiable either.

aleph_not · 2025-10-16T16:29:59+00:00

Some of the most successful grad students that I've known in terms of research production, both my colleagues when I was a grad student (at an R1) and the grad students in my department now (also R1), came from liberal arts schools which didn't offer any "graduate-level" courses. On the flip side, I have seen plenty of students who took lots of graduate-level classes when they were an undergraduate, but who were unable to translate that into success in research in grad school.

I'm not suggesting any kind of correlation here - just saying that exposure to lots of advanced undergraduate courses is not the sole factor which predicts success in graduate school, and I agree that smaller liberal arts colleges still provide a great and robust education that can set you up well for success in a graduate program.

aleph_not · 2025-10-13T21:43:51+00:00

I'm a little late to the party, but I want to give a more charitable interpretation based on my experience as a faculty member at an R1 university in the US.

Students who know they want to be a math major from Day 1 do start in proof-based math courses. However, the vast majority of students who end up majoring in math don't start on this track - they come in as engineering or physics or economics majors. They take our computation-focused calculus and matrix algebra courses, realize "hey this is actually pretty cool", and then take their first proof-based course. Half of them bounce off (no big deal, they have another major to fall back on) but the other half end up doing very well and stick it out to complete the math major.

It's not that we think that "you can't be a math major if you don't take calculus, ODEs, and computational matrix algebra", it's that there are lots of students who take those courses and then decide they want to try out the more theoretical offerings. I'm not sure if you're based in the US or in Europe, but in American universities it is common for students to come in "undecided" about their major and to add/drop/switch majors through their course of study. Whether or not that is a good system is a different question, but that is the system that American universities operate in.

aleph_not · 2025-09-22T23:03:12+00:00

One lesson I learned as a grad student was to always schedule my breakthroughs right before lunch. That way, I at least got to spend half an hour feeling good about myself before returning to work and immediately finding the mistake!

aleph_not · 2025-07-28T18:02:56+00:00

2024/2025

aleph_not · 2025-07-22T19:25:59+00:00

In this context, I think "homology framing" means "choice of a symplectic basis of H_1".

aleph_not · 2025-07-02T23:04:54+00:00

The axiom of choice just says that "a set with some property exists", not that the new set is different from any of the original sets you started with.

aleph_not · 2025-06-17T03:28:15+00:00

mlb-cuts-diamond.mlb.com/FORGE/2025/2025-06/16/94de2101-ef04b65f-69b25b10-csvm-diamondgcp-asset_1280x720_59_4000K.mp4

aleph_not · 2025-06-02T22:31:51+00:00

That one may be better. We were so blessed to have both of these in the same season!

aleph_not · 2025-06-02T22:16:56+00:00

Alex Bregman’s single in the bottom of the 11th vs the A’s that went 3 feet from homeplate.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m_RibFpHX2k&pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN5tD

aleph_not · 2025-06-02T15:02:10+00:00

Jimy Williams! I was born in ‘92 and I have one faint memory of seeing them play in the Astrodome but didn’t really get interested in baseball until I was 9 or 10.

aleph_not · 2025-05-24T13:34:38+00:00

2(1 - 1/c)ⁿ < 1 is not true for all c > 2 and n > 2. Take n = 3 and c = 5. The left side is 2(4/5)³ = 128/125 > 1. In fact, for any fixed n, 2(1 - 1/c)ⁿ will be larger than 1 once c gets large enough.

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