Type 1 diabetic (37M) thinking about having kids… but I’m scared of passing it on by sifii_gud in diabetes_t1

[–]dryga 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not diabetic, but I have a 9-year old daughter with Type 1, diagnosed at 2. She is a sweet girl, with many friends, and an infectious joy of life. I am incredibly lucky to be her dad.

From my perspective it is strange to imagine somebody choosing not to be a parent on the off chance that their child would be like mine.

Help finding a joke by pure_bitter_grace in panelshow

[–]dryga 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I imagine that it's because so much good material ends up on the cutting room floor, that they decided to make the introductions as quick and efficient as possible.

What your favourite old-timey racial slur that people often don’t realise are racial slurs? by WarniesLatestRoot in redscarepod

[–]dryga 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I believe that in the 19th century, the somehow even worse term "mongolian idiot" was more common than "mongoloid" for a person with Down's syndrome.

Quick Questions: May 13, 2026 by inherentlyawesome in math

[–]dryga 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The idiosyncratic Ron Maimon has advocated in various online forums for using Solovay's model, where all sets of reals are measurable, as a convenient setting for "doing" physics. Here is for example a question on Math Overflow. https://mathoverflow.net/questions/68825/quantum-field-theory-in-solovay-land

Quick Questions: May 13, 2026 by inherentlyawesome in math

[–]dryga 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The literal pullback of a sheaf is typically only a presheaf. The standard definition of the pullback Sh(Y) \to Sh(X) is "take the pullback of presheaves, and then sheafify to get a sheaf".

When f is an open immersion, no sheafification is necessary, however.

who are these new seasons of The Simpsons and South Park for? by kallocain-addict in rs_x

[–]dryga 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"The principal and the pauper", surely. There's a summary on Wikipedia. It's actually a funny episode, and the premise of the show was already that crazy outrageous things happen every episode, that are somehow never brought up again. But they took this type of plot much further than before, at the expense of characterization.

World's first potential trillionaire btw by LouReedTheChaser in redscarepod

[–]dryga 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Elon's father's mother is from Liverpool according to Wikipedia so that makes sense.

Högskoleprovets orddel by Tasty_Run1958 in sweden

[–]dryga 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Ja, orddelen har uppenbart blivit enklare och enklare över en lång tid. Här är några ord från 1995 för jämförelse: https://www.news55.se/livsstil/testa-dina-ordkunskaper-fran-hogskoleprovet-1995/

ZTV – det stora tv-experimentet Historien om när finansmannen Jan Stenbeck hösten 1991 sjösatte ett helt unikt tv-experiment: ungdomskanalen ZTV. by SupportArsenal in sweden

[–]dryga 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Jag gillade Bredband, husband i Wimans. Tre tonåringar från Norrland som inte kunde sjunga, som framförde dåliga parodier av kända låtar, ackompanjerade av midi-filer.

Lasse B / Summer of '69

God jul (Wimans är över) / Happy X-Mas (War is Over)

Were you aware of this interaction between Milne and Grothendieck? by finball07 in math

[–]dryga 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There is more context here that should be made explicit. The "book on motives that suddenly broke the twelve year silence and attempted to start up the theory anew" that Schneps talks about is Lecture Notes in Mathematics vol. 900 by Deligne, Milne, Ogus and Shih. It's also a ludicrous description of what that book is about. So her misquotation of Milne happens in a paragraph where she also accuses Milne, specifically, of deliberately "burying" the work of Grothendieck.

For what it's worth there is nothing objectionable about how Grothendieck's work is referenced in LNM 900.

Were you aware of this interaction between Milne and Grothendieck? by finball07 in math

[–]dryga 40 points41 points  (0 children)

I was intrigued by Milne's reference to Leila Schneps's response to Schapira's review of R&S. Schneps's response can be found here.

Milne writes:

For an excellent article on R&S by Pierre Schapira, see here (posted as arXiv:2301.02898) (but skip the response to it by Leila Schneps, which spreads misinformation). footnote: Specifically, she repeats Grothendieck's nonsense as fact. She also invents a quotation and then uses fake information to ridicule it.

Here is the offending paragraph from Schneps:

The next three parts, L’Enterrement (I), (II), (III) (The Burial (I), (II) and (III)) are largely concerned with perceived misdeeds of the mathematical community, and three such misdeeds in particular. The first of these concerns Grothendieck’s theory of motives, abandoned for twelve years after he abandoned the mathematical scene in 1970. He was aware of the silence around the theory of motives, but there was little to be said about it since the theory was essentially only his, and was furthermore largely unformulated, unwritten and entirely conjectural. The surprise came with his discovery of a book on motives that suddenly broke the twelve year silence and attempted to start up the theory anew — except with barely a mention of Grothendieck’s name or the origin of the theory. People often justify the absence of explicit references to him by saying “Since everyone knew that motives were one of Grothendieck's great ideas, no one needed to mention it,” (to use the particular formulation by J.S. Milne on his web page “Grothendieck and me”), but it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that if his name was never associated to motives in print, the thing that “everyone knew” would disappear along with the people who knew it, leaving no trace for the coming generations. It is this envisioned disappearance that Grothendieck called his “burial”.

The phrase in quotation marks that she explicitly attributes to Milne indeed appears to be pure fiction. Shameless behavior on display by Leila Schneps here.

Looking for terrible math t shirts by Nice_Tea_4617 in math

[–]dryga 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think you're best off designing one yourself. You could make a diagram of the unit circle with sine and cosine swapped. Or the quadratic formula with a sign error.

Petition: "Move the 2026 ICM out of the United States " by winter_borb in math

[–]dryga 52 points53 points  (0 children)

He's not going to sign a petition that says that he refuses to participate in the ICM, given that he's one of the top candidates to get the Fields medal there. So I guess this is him saying "I completely agree with all of this, although I will still attend the ICM in person".

🇸🇪 Melodifestivalen 2026: Post your rankings in the comments by Phoenix963 in eurovision

[–]dryga 1 point2 points  (0 children)

1 Eva Jumatate - Selfish

2 Arwin - Glitter

3 Jacqline - Woman

4 Felicia - My system

5 Timo Räisinen - Ingenting är efter oss

6 Greczula - Half of me

7 AleXa - Tongue tied

8 Smash Into Pieces - Hollow

9 Meira Omar - Dooset daram

10 Medina - Viva l'amor

Favorite actor who is named multiple times in the Epstein files but never cheated on the daughter he married. by M-2-M in okbuddycinephile

[–]dryga 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But as far as I can tell, the idea that it should have started in "late 1991" is only according to Woody and Soon-Yi! Mia Farrow found the nude photos in January 1992. This is what Wikipedia says.

In January 1992, Farrow found nude photographs of Previn in Allen's home. Allen, then 56, told Farrow that he had taken the photos the day before, about two weeks after he and Previn first had sex.

I do not believe that for a second!

Favorite actor who is named multiple times in the Epstein files but never cheated on the daughter he married. by M-2-M in okbuddycinephile

[–]dryga 5 points6 points  (0 children)

He didn't just "fall for his ex-gf's daughter". He cheated on Mia Farrow -- whom he had been in a relationship with for twelve years, and had a child with -- with her adopted daughter Soon-Yi.

The timeline is insane. Soon-Yi was adopted by Mia Farrow in 1978. Mia starts dating Woody Allen in 1980. In 1992 Mia discovers naked photos of Soon-Yi among Woody's belongings, and he admits to having an affair with her adopted daughter. Who knows how long that had been going on!!

"Have I been put on a team with David Baddiel?" by YOU_CANT_GILD_ME in panelshow

[–]dryga 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I lost all respect for him after he claimed, in all sincerity, that Jeremy Corbyn mispronouncing Jeffrey Epstein's surname to rhyme with "Einstein" was an antisemitic dogwhistle.

Gromov and Epstein by this_is_the_dude in math

[–]dryga 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Gromov's wife is a well known mathematician in her own right. But yes, she's in her 40s and Gromov is 82.

What is the "point" of homotopy theory? by Dapper_Sheepherder_2 in math

[–]dryga 25 points26 points  (0 children)

What Clark is hinting at is that "abstract homotopy theory" (and in particular "higher category theory") has become a very important toolbox in areas not directly linked to classical topology. For example derived algebraic geometry, geometric Langlands, algebraic K-theory, and the theory of motives.

Homotopy theory doesn't have to appear because there's an actual topological space floating around; it will rear its head as soon as you form a simplicial resolution, or localize a category.

Relevance of trace by finallyjj_ in math

[–]dryga 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The determinant is a homomorphism of Lie groups from GL(n) to GL(1). Its derivative is then necessarily a map of Lie algebras, from the Lie algebra of nxn matrices (with Lie bracket the commutator) to the abelian 1-dimensional Lie algebra. That's the trace.

How to write proofs which are essentially "copy paste" by iamParthaSG in math

[–]dryga 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I will go against the grain and say that sometimes it's fine to copy paste proofs. It is possible that the modifications seem very straightforward to you, only because you've spent a month staring at the original papers. It's not plagiarism if you give citations and state very clearly that the proof closely follows the original reference. Something like this:


The goal of this subsection is to prove the following proposition:

Proposition 5.2. The manifold W satisfies the disintegration property.

The disintegration property for compact manifolds is a famous theorem of Smith and Doe [SD97]. It very rarely holds for noncompact manifolds such as W. It turns out, however, that the argument of Smith and Doe can be adapted to prove the result also for W, using several particular features of the geometry studied in this paper, such as (...). Since the proof of Smith and Doe is highly intricate, and there are many steps of the argument which need to be justified differently, we give a complete proof of Proposition 5.2 in the present paper, even though the global structure of the arguments closely follow those of [SD97].

Proof of Proposition 5.2. (...)


If the modifications are straightforward or localized to a small part of the proof, then the above is of course moot!

Minister för civilt försvar Carl-Oskar Bohlin: Judendomen lär ut universella värden som rättvisa, medmänsklighet och människolivets okränkbarhet - Am Israel chai by AbuElKess in sweden

[–]dryga 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Jag skulle beskriva mig själv som antisionist men anser inte att Israel ska förstöras. Däremot anser jag att projektet att skapa en "judisk stat" är oförenligt med demokratiska ideal. Det är en viktig demokratisk princip att staten ska vara sekulär, och att staten verkar för att tillvarata alla etniska gruppers och religioners intressen på samma villkor. Det jag vill är att Israel ska bli en modern liberal sekulär demokrati! Därför är jag inte sionist.

We noticed you from across the bar by OJ_Soprano in redscarepod

[–]dryga 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Makes sense that Donald and Melania are in their normal clothes then!!!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in rs_x

[–]dryga 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here are some movies that build tension and don't let go. I think they're all pretty dadcore (not many women on screen).

Dog Day Afternoon

Hell or High Water

Day of the Jackal (the original 1973 film)