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@joshgrant.online

I love big ideas and math and stuff. Mostly harmless. Also @joshin4colours elsewhere. Toronto. Ontario. Banner photo: "The Beyond", Georgia O'Keefe, 1972 Link in Bio: joshgrant.online

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A reminder, because it is almost that time of year: More children are killed by cars on Halloween than any other day of the year, by far. www.vox.com/future-perfe... If you're a parent, I hope you'll do what you can to keep kids safe. If you're driving on Saturday, PLEASE exercise extra caution.

*reading the IPO documents* ok risk factors...fire...brimstone...plague...locusts...seems like standard stuff. Now let's see what the ARR portion says...

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Just a regular reminder to please support your local bookstore, café, theatre, bakery, and library. Without us, they can't survive. Without them, neither can we.

I'm an outsider when it comes to the Mathematics Community. No PhD, not in academia, never been published. I do have a couple of math degrees and think math is pretty rad so there's that.

Plus, if you even know a smidge of the history of math, then the question of "Should we take the time and effort to learn/teach math?" has a resounding "Yes"

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“If AI continues to improve at present rate, then in a few years, there’ll be nothing human mathematicians can do that AI can’t do better” can professors please stop spreading doom. It affects undergrads & isn’t the whole point to keep future generations inspired & enthusiastic so fields dont die??

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Anyway Toronto please *violent hacking coughs* Toronto please vote today, I really wanted to do GOTV canvassing but *30-second string of doubled-over coughs* anyway this election is super important, Chou is significantly threatened and her opponent looks worse than just going back to John Tory

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Replying to @ngttg.bsky.social

Year of Space Facts: Week 43/52 🔭🧪🛰 The sky is blue during the day, sunsets are reddish—on Earth. On Mars, it is the opposite! Earth's atmosphere is mostly gas, and the color is driven by Rayleigh scattering. On Mars, there is more dust and less gas, causing Mie scattering instead. 📸 NASA/JPL

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The colors at sunrise were *insane* this morning. The sky, the fall colors at Promontory Point, the lake...Sheesh! Sure picked a good morning to wake up early

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I remember the first time I saw someone point out that if one company does layoffs, others follow simply because it's something they all want to do all the time (because employees are expensive) and they think others doing it gives them cover to get away with it That pattern has never failed me

Nathan Grayson@nathangrayson.bsky.social

sad news to start the week: layoffs have hit sucker punch

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cyberpunk thriller where a team is hired to kill an AI CEO decades after his death

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

A recent securities filing spotlighted what triggered Mark Zuckerberg’s months-long power battle with board directors at Meta — a fight that sparked not-so-veiled threats from Zuckerberg and led board members to contemplate quitting.

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Olivia Chow is #9 on the ballot! double check before marking it down, don’t feel rushed 🫡 #topoli

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News: Rest of World, the nonprofit newsroom focused on the impact of technology outside the West founded by Sophie Schmidt, tells donors in an email it will “cease publishing as a standalone entity” at the end of January.

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I think the lesson from Lula is not never talk about the opposition; it's articulate a positive vision that's basically, We Can Just Do Things. That's why Mamdani-ism is so popular - voters have an intrinsic sense that their electeds have agency they're not using

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It's municipal election day in Ontario! Head to your municipality's website for the most accurate voting information.

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Replying to @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social

The only poll that matters is in the field today, folks, and voting starts at 10AM. Vote for mayor, councillor, and (yes, still) school trustee.* *except in communities where these offices have already been acclaimed

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Replying to @fasterandworse.com

prototyping isn't about *the prototype*, it's about the shit you have to go through to create a prototype that works