Michael Tait

Baseball, books, math, fitness!

[Michael Tait @magicT8ball]

“I was in the period of my greatest success, I was publishing two books a year, and selling well. Reading and writing had become a career, and, like all careers, it began to burden me”

[Michael Tait @magicT8ball]

mon: tried to prove theorem
tu: tried to prove theorem
wed: tried to prove theorem
th: tried to prove theorem
fri: theorem false

[Michael Tait @magicT8ball]

@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

[Michael Tait @magicT8ball]

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

[Michael Tait @magicT8ball]

2024 reading: the year of @JoyceCarolOates

[Michael Tait @magicT8ball]

“there’s no way to speak of human beings without simplifying and misrepresenting them”

[Michael Tait @magicT8ball]

did the swarthmore crew paint the newly resurfaced paris track 🤔🤔

[Michael Tait @magicT8ball]

“His youth was like a Fourth of July rocket — consuming itself in its display” - @JoyceCarolOates

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bednarek hates lyles lolol

[AIM @AIMathematics]

This week at AIM: "High-dimensional phenomena in discrete analysis"

[Michael Tait @magicT8ball]

kate grace is an inspiration for a mid 30s parent #lagrandprix

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prediction (c 2030): quincy wilson becomes the first human to run 400 meters in under 43 seconds

[ILAS @ILAS_news]

We strongly encourage you to submit your research papers to ELA, the Electronic Journal on Linear Algebra.

ELA fits the category of "Diamond Open Access" since it is free of charge both for authors and readers.

https://t.co/6SfuDmTYJf

[Michael Tait @magicT8ball]

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

[Michael Tait @magicT8ball]

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 🦉

[Michael Tait @magicT8ball]

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 - https://t.co/nFHXlV7cJz

[Michael Tait @magicT8ball]

“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

[ILAS @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 23–27, 2025. The main organizers are Jephian C.-H. Lin (National Sun Yat-sen University) and Matthew M. Lin (National Cheng Kung University).

[Michael Tait @magicT8ball]

@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 🥴