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Shared by Dima Pasechnik 🇺🇦 🇳🇱 on 2025-01-29 at 19:51 (original by Cerveaux Non Disponibles)

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Written by Dima Pasechnik 🇺🇦 🇳🇱 on 2025-01-23 at 17:50

Led by Donkeys projected a nice video "Heil Tesla" on the wall of Berlin's Tesla factory

https://bsky.app/profile/ledbydonkeys.org/post/3lgg4jex5ck2c

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Written by Dima Pasechnik 🇺🇦 🇳🇱 on 2025-01-18 at 01:18

adventures in maths publishing in commercial journals, part N+1

We wrote https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.18897 - it went through few journals before being taken up by De Gruyter's Special Matrices. (Some) reviews were quite helpful, we improved the text, got some new cute things in along the way. Submitting final version was, however, problematic. They have a LaTeX style file which was last touched in 2017, and it requires LaTeX from 2014 (sic!). After a bit of struggle I gave up and told the journal that they'll need to fix it themselves (after all, they have hefty APCs, all paid by my ex-employer).

Proofs arrived, and, lo and behold, they apparently converted it to Word and then to PDF, rendering all the nice TeX typesetting into crap. I told the editor that this won't do, they have to do it properly (e.g. hiring someone to fix the style file...) #LaTeX

here's an example of their so-called typesetting

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Written by Dima Pasechnik 🇺🇦 🇳🇱 on 2025-01-12 at 01:33

Opened the issue to remove a link to twitter/X on SciPy.org website, and got confronted by people who run SciPy's #twitter account - talking about "neutrality", importance of being apolitical, and how bad Mastodon and Bluesky are doing... 🤮

Laurels of running a science column in a modern Völkischer Beobachter are apparently too nice to part with.

https://github.com/scipy/scipy.org/issues/600

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Written by Dima Pasechnik 🇺🇦 🇳🇱 on 2025-01-09 at 16:45

Where can I find a recently updated list of science orgs, universities, science related software projects, etc. which left #twitter ?

Related to https://github.com/sagemath/website/pull/487

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Written by Dima Pasechnik 🇺🇦 🇳🇱 on 2024-12-09 at 04:16

status update: apologies for neglecting this space since late Oct. The excuse: we have moved across the pond (I misspelled it "pont", which (pontus, to be precise) is a Greek word for sea coast)) to the shore of Lake Michigan, to work at Northwestern University, in Greater Chicago.

Main reasons:

• NHS won't treat well most acute health problems of our son
• the state of education for kids like him in UK is really of collapse
• I won't need to claim my somewhat shaky rights for making my job open-ended, with possible fun things such as Employment Tribunal etc

Needless to say, of the 1st 5 weeks, most of the time went into dealing with various bureaucracy (formsss!!! and yes, Social Security Numbers office misspelt my name on the card, and the university tax office put down our citizenships as UK (wrong), etc etc) and, hmm, hardware issues: while most of our possessions are making it over on a ship, I spent time getting and assembling the minimal furniture (yes, we actually bought a house, as rental options are somewhat miserable here), fixing heating (the company who did it needed 10 days, including 5 preliminary visits and aborted attempts).

And new school and doctors for the kid, health insurance, bicycle tire punctures, the bank which is obsessed with security and blocks my card now and then, etc etc.

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Written by Dima Pasechnik 🇺🇦 🇳🇱 on 2024-10-26 at 22:45

Bye bye Amazon Prime, Bezos sucks too much to touch you. #spineless_bezos

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Written by Dima Pasechnik 🇺🇦 🇳🇱 on 2024-10-20 at 20:52

Greetings from Edinburgh. I'll spend a week at ICMS working with two colleagues from France/Canada.

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Written by Dima Pasechnik 🇺🇦 🇳🇱 on 2024-10-15 at 08:16

@christianp it seems that https://mathstodon.xyz/home/ is gone in the web interface? After the upgrade to 4.3 it's forwarded to desk/... with many useless columns (on a desktop/laptop).

Any plans to fix this? Or perhaps there is another way to get what home/ was providing?

[#]mastodon43 #mastodon

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Written by Dima Pasechnik 🇺🇦 🇳🇱 on 2024-09-23 at 16:59

approaching 80mm of rain in the past 24h here. Heaviest rainfall in 56 years, they say.

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Written by Dima Pasechnik 🇺🇦 🇳🇱 on 2024-09-19 at 10:39

GAP the computer algebra system holds a new logo contest:

https://www.gap-system.org/logo/

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Written by Dima Pasechnik 🇺🇦 🇳🇱 on 2024-09-05 at 18:59

In passing I mentioned in a paper

that #ProofAssistant with good certified computer algebra capabilities is not available, nor will be any time soon. And, well, I'm told by a referee either to remove this claim, or provide a reference.

Does anyone know what to cite here?

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Written by Dima Pasechnik 🇺🇦 🇳🇱 on 2024-09-03 at 12:16

Reviewer#4: the comment made in the responses to the referees, ... is offensive ...

me: dear R#4, you called our paper "a half-baked MSc project"

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Shared by Dima Pasechnik 🇺🇦 🇳🇱 on 2024-09-03 at 10:31 (original by ploum)

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