markgall

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by markgall 5y ago
Yes, it was very cool (I had a student sit in), but it wasn't anything like an introduction to schemes course. They made it to the nullstellensatz in the last lecture. I love Vakil's book but my attempt to teach out of it was no
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by markgall 5y ago
It's surprising how little the list has changed since then, really, at the more advanced end: at my place we still teach real analysis from Rudin, complex from Ahlfors, commutative algebra from Atiyah-Macdonold, riemannian geometry fro
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by markgall 6y ago
Not exactly news then, is it?
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by markgall 6y ago
I think this is the way to go. The only central database where I officially put my textbook choices on record is the bookstore order. The department collects syllabi, but they aren't centralized beyond that, and they make no effort t
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by markgall 6y ago
I do it every day. Another tip maybe not mentioned yet is to make sure you get it good and hot before you put in the egg. I usually leave it on the burner for five minutes or so to preheat.
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by markgall 6y ago
Although Kenji: "Whenever someone asks me why their cast iron seasoning is weak or flaky, I ask if they followed that popular (but wrong!) flaxseed seasoning guide [i.e. the linked article]. The answer has been yes 100% of the time.&q
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by markgall 6y ago
Agreed. This article started a fad when it came out 10 years ago, and now everybody agrees flaxseed oil is a bad choice, "science-based" as this may claim to be.
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by markgall 6y ago
This paper has been criticized in many places, because the way it's set up of course Word will win. People had to do things like very specific figure placement that is difficult in LaTeX. But in reality, most people just accept how La
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by markgall 6y ago
I don't really believe this. Fund some open access initiatives or something and your money will go a lot further. The vast majority just don't have a use case where "LaTeX-2030" is going to help, and this wouldn't
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by markgall 6y ago
This example is made even sillier when one realizes that that "complex" and "symplectic" actually mean the same thing, but the former is Latin and the latter is Greek. It is essentially the same "everyday" des
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by markgall 6y ago
I agree that this article is basically preposterous. But there is a grain of truth in it. The foundations of algebraic geometry were basically rewritten in the 1960s by Alexander Grothendieck, perhaps the greatest mathematician of the 20th
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by markgall 7y ago
To add to the list of state-specific complaints: there is no chance that the best hike in PA is in Delaware Water Gap. Maybe that should win the category of "best hike within 2 hours of NYC", but all the nicer parts of the state
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by markgall 11y ago
A lot of people didn't believe it when it came out either; various debunkings of this were posted back at the time. The task was to reproduce a (formatted) page as quickly as possible -- obviously not what LaTeX is designed for.
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by markgall 11y ago
Yeah, LaTeX pretty much covers this out of the box. Throw in bibtex and git and the bibliographic stuff and collaboration is done too, and probably done better. I guess this misses "cut-and-paste is replaced with drop-n-drag", b