One of those "AI feels like a superpower" moments. I went to an old tweet about a diagram of city streets by entropy, and pasted the scientific paper and image into Claude and asked it to create code to replicate it. It built the code in one shot, even replicated color scheme

If you work at a government agency, CDC, FDA, CIA, FBI, NASA, NTSB, NOAA, anywhere, you need to start saving every gig of data you can find. Studies, organizational charts, employee manuals, policies and procedures. Anything that can be used to recreate your agency from scratch.

Some northbound F trains are running on the G line from Bergen St to Court Sq, then on the E line to Jackson Hts-Roosevelt Av. Listen to announcements to hear how your train will operate. Expect F delays.

Math meets art in the work of Dr. Edmund Harriss, from the iconic Harriss Spiral to Curvahedra. Discover how he blends creativity & math in our latest Math Values article: mathvalues.org/masterblog/a-m…

Euclidean Voronoi diagrams are affine diagrams: bisectors are hyperplanes (red 1d lines). Compute Voronoi diagrams as minimization diagrams of paraboloids: square distance functions from sites. Extend to Bregman Voronoi diagrams by using convex potential functions. Duality.

This is just a preprint and has not undergone peer review yet, but if the headline is halfway accurate, we in higher ed have a lot of thinking to do about what we think we know about active learning. researchsquare.com/article/rs-424…

Tens of millions of people who never knew Lina Khan's name are going to miss her.

Great kick-off with the Bridges Math Art conference organizers for 2025 today. The conference happens at TU Eindhoven, bring your #MathArt! Deadlines 2025: Reg.📜1 Feb Short📜1 Mar Workshops⚒️1 Mar Art🖼️15 Mar Fashion💃15 Apr Films🎥9 May Family Day👪1 Jun bridgesmathart.org/b2025/

As with Musk doing foreign policy and everything else, this is the privatization of public power, which is always followed by the privatization of public money into the same hands. We saw this in Russia and it's how to replace a democracy with oligarchy.

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holy crap, some great stuff on the website of this math art exhibition! for example "Inside Thurston geometries (2023)" by Rémi Coulon, Sabetta Matsumoto, Henry Segerman, and Steve Trettel

Mathematical jewelry looking for a new home. ✨✨✨

In reading the replies, I think people need to understand that you don't build for the city you have now, you build for the city you want to have. Vast majority of our system was built when city's nabes had completely different demographics and dev patterns.

Scoop: The Internal Revenue Service is nearing an agreement to allow DHS to use tax data to get info on undocumented immigrants “A complete betrayal of 30 years of the government telling immigrants to file their taxes,” one IRS official says W/ the powerhouse (((Jacob Bogage)))

🧵 We're proud to announce our ranked choice endorsements for NYC Mayor in the upcoming Democratic Party primary election. Stay tuned for opportunities to join us at our field events! Remember to rank 5 candidates on your ballot & DO NOT rank Andrew Cuomo!!

🧵 Central Queens Independent Democrats Statement Regarding Recent Mayoral Endorsements In light of State Senator Jessica Ramos’ recent endorsement of Andrew Cuomo for Mayor of New York City, we are officially rescinding our endorsement. #RankTheSlate #DontRankCuomo

The rain didn't dampen our resolve! Thousands of protesters marched down Queens Boulevard this afternoon to say, "NO KINGS IN QUEENS!" Learn more about the coalition of organizers at stsfr.org youtube.com/watch?v=-R6lpV… #QueensSaysNoKings #ImmigrantsAreWelcomeHere

Little secret - the County & State organizations of the Party you think you are a member of bc you checked the box on your voter registration card don't represent you & don't really think of you as members unless you participate in some of the unknown groups that comprise them🧵