In my cohort? Several, and who knows? The recruitment effort is very visible and intense.

The US math phd market has been a slow-rolling disaster for over a decade. Everyone who can hack it outside the ivory tower is actively looking for the exits.

So why is it surprising that some of them go to work at the NSA?

> it takes a very narrow range of personality to want to be a cop, which at the end of the day is a government job... the only people they make rich are contractors

I don’t think you have context on what math phds are making in entry level positions, post-docs, or adjuncting. I just picked a random entry level NSA role on LinkedIn (doctorate + 0 yrs) and they’re offering solid six digits. There are tenured faculty (post-doc(s) + 5ish yrs) who don’t make that.

Yeah, the judge is well aware that every court this case can be appealed to already agrees with him. The legal arguments and the facts of the case are causally disconnected from the outcome.

You specifically have the much harder problem of explaining how you intend to maintain tech dominance with a Cultural Revolution and also without any foreigners or any of the many various groups of citizens you find personally undesirable.

That’s how I understood it, yes. So unhappy that they’ll write him in for a third term.

It’s so weird. Presumably the conservatives still want the US to be a superpower, which presumably includes high-tech capabilities like global power projection, missile defense, and persistent space operations. At the same time they seemingly want a Cultural Revolution-like decimation of intellectuals.

I don’t see how they believe they can attain both objectives at once.

Curious what the plan is when the academic pipeline for training researchers collapses entirely. AI all the things?

Yep, me too. Maybe someday the HoTT folks will get around to formalizing it and standardizing the notation. /j

That reminds me, I’ve been meaning to rewrite parts of Hormander’s epic with tools from GMT but never found the time.

> As I see it, GA is not so much a subject as an ideological position, consisting of basically two ideological claims about the world:

> Claim 1: That the concepts of EA (so, wedge products, multivectors, duality, contraction) are incredibly powerful and ought to be used everywhere, starting at a much lower level of math pedagogy—basically rewriting classical linear algebra and vector calculus.

I support this claim, so I suppose I’m a proponent of geometric algebra.

I think it’s more or less been carried out for vector calculus by Spivak’s “classical” Calculus on Manifolds, which is somewhat widely taught.

> Claim 2: That the Geometric Product (henceforth: GP) should be added to that list as the most fundamental operation, where by “fundamental” I mean that other operations should be constructed in terms of it, and theorems should be stated using it.

Like the author, I also believe this claim is nonsense.

“Rewriting classical linear algebra” is a honored pastime but it’s very difficult to make any headway doing it—the classical texts are classical for a reason, we more or less know how to teach them as an “80% solution” and it’s unclear that the investment in a new pedagogy would get us to an “81% solution.”

Especially with today’s undergrads. If you’re not churning arithmetic, they’re not into it.

Everyone I know in the field has come into it laterally either from a prior software or hardware job in an unrelated field.

It’s an interesting counterfactual but I don’t see the mechanism. The hijackers were mostly in country by inauguration day. While it’s true that they weren’t really operating covertly prior to the attack, I don’t envision a Gore administration that could within months ratchet up FBI/CIA natsec awareness to a level that would change the outcome.

It’s hard for many of us to remember the “before times” now but back then there was a great deal of misplaced faith that foreign attacks on American soil were more or less impossible.

> In all likelihood, George W. Bush still would have won Florida and the presidency last year if either of two limited recounts -- one requested by Al Gore, the other ordered by the Florida Supreme Court -- had been completed, according to a study commissioned by The Washington Post and other news organizations.

> But if Gore had found a way to trigger a statewide recount of all disputed ballots, or if the courts had required it, the result likely would have been different. An examination of uncounted ballots throughout Florida found enough where voter intent was clear to give Gore the narrowest of margins.

So on this basis, GP has the right of it: Gore probably won that election.