Katie | 34 | Ohio | Math nerd, metalhead, enjoys folk music, plays video games, watches some anime, obsessed with Digimon | Awkward as fuck | She/her | Queer/Bi
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idk if this is an usamerican thing or not but it always blows my mind as a small european country resident that yall have many names and types of apples???? what do you mean its not just red yellow or green??? why is it so complicated??? who is granny smith????
okay so APPEARANTLY this is just an iceland thing? i looked it up and we dont grow apples here commercially. we get them imported and there's such few options that the stores rarely bother to name them. thats why, culturally, we just call them by colors.
i feel like we all learned something today. i learned that im hungry for apples with names and you learned that iceland is 3 apples tall. the world continues to surprise and enlighten
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: HOME OF THE HONEYCRISPPPPP. EVERYONE SAY THANK YOU UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOR ALL OF THE HONEYCRISPPPPP. OKAY NOW THAT THAT'S OUT OF THE WAY,
The reason apples are so complicated is because apple genetics are really unpredictable so if you grow an apple tree from seed, there's a really good chance you're gonna end up with something nasty. So, to make sure you get something that doesn't taste like garbage, apple trees are mostly propagated by graft. You like what a tree is making? You take a graft of that tree. The wide variety of apple characteristics and the fact that most apples are grown as clones means apple varieties lend themselves to creative & specialized cultivation and patenting of results. So there are many varieties and they have fun names.
I'm curious what your three Icelandic apple varieties are. If they're imported I suspect they're found globally in large numbers, so they probably have specific names. Probably not honeycrisp tho, because those are not great for transport. Sorry about that.
This is also why more and better apple varieties are being made over time as we get better at engineering agriculture, and why a lot of apple varieties come from universities. As I was already not normal about, Honeycrisp was developed at the University of Minnesota and released in 1991. Snap Dragon was developed at Cornell University and released in 2013. Cosmic Crisp was developed at Washington State University and released in 2019. Golden Delicious, Granny Smith, and Red Delicious are much older varieties. Most people prefer the newer varieties that were cultivated with university and government level research.
given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that
This includes not working for free. Shift is over and work is left to do? Leave it for the next person who is paid to take care of it. Is that you and it'll sit all weekend? Well, they should hire someone else to help with the workload. They don't pay you to worry about that.
I see this with coworkers who will stay 30 min past their shift because they don't want to leave unfinished tasks for the next person. We are chronically understaffed and the employer is not inclined to change this fact if the work is still getting done and service isn't impacted.
The Leiden Declaration is not just for mathematicians
Recently some leading mathematicians have been studying the use, impact, and risks of using artificial intelligence in mathematical research and institutions.
They have now published the Leiden Declaration to articulate their concerns and to make recommendations.
I learned about this today from the New York Times, and you can learn a lot by reading their article. But you can learn more by reading the Declaration.
I feel that the Declaration is directly relevant not only to the mathematical community, but also, in reality, to all of us who regard thinking as an integral part of what we do. And that, in the end, is really all of us.
I strongly suggest that you study the Declaration and adopt its recommendations.
Here is my own take on the recommendations...
Provide disclosure and references for your own uses of artificial intelligence.
Invest all the work needed to rigorously vet any result that you have obtained through artificial intelligence.
Shoot down any crap work that you have identified. Don't make it personal, but don't be gentle.
Uphold the highest values of your chosen field of work. Both science and the arts are things that we do just out of curiosity, or to express ourselves, or because we just have to. In other words, these activities are ends in themselves. They are among the highest and most wonderful things that we, as a species, have done. Forcefully combat efforts to prioritize commercial, political, and military uses of artificial intelligence over more important reasons to use it.
Do everything you can to ensure that everyone who could benefit from using artificial intelligence, can use it. In a democratic world, anyone with a smartphone or computer should be able to find, afford, and use all the compute they need.
I have become convinced, through my own use of artificial intelligence for music composition and software development, that it has enormous, world-changing potential to amplify the scope, speed, and even depth of what scientists, artists, and indeed all of us can do.
Don't let selfish interests hoard or abuse this power.
Among the potential threats that the Leiden Declaration authors articulate are accuracy and reliability: Journal editors are already complaining about a flood of plausible seeming A.I.- generated papers and proofs that have turned out to be incorrect, and in ways that are difficult for mathematicians to discern.
Perhaps most pointedly, the authors raise the question of whether the many A.I. companies tackling mathematics — major players such as OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic, or start-ups such as Harmonic, Math, Inc. and Axiom Math — are keeping the field’s best interests in mind. “Technology companies’ involvement in research,” they write, “raises the risk that research questions are prioritized and incentivized because of their amenability to A.I. methods and models, rather than their deeper significance to understanding.” In turn, they point out, this disadvantages researchers who choose not to use the technology, and those who do not have access to it.
and...
OCHIGAME Mathematics is a rich form of cultural expression with an ancient history, and I am not worried that any technology will ever render it obsolete. Its most precious aspects, such as the collective quest to understand beautifully intricate ideas, and to explore the limits of the human imagination, cannot ever be automated. What I am worried about is that a handful of corporations are mobilizing their vast financial resources to impose an impoverished view of mathematics so forcefully — at a moment when scientific research is already under political attack — that they may well end up destroying the social institutions that allow mathematics to flourish. What could be futile about resisting that?
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