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Daniel Litt

@littmath.bsky.social

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Assistant professor (of mathematics) at the University of Toronto. Algebraic geometry, number theory, forever distracted and confused, etc. He/him.

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Daniel Litt @littmath.bsky.social · Jan 24

I want to explain in down-to-earth terms what this paper is about, since it ultimately boils down to what I think are some really concrete and fundamental questions. 1/n

arxiv math.AG @arxiv-math-ag.bsky.social · Jan 24

Yeuk Hay Joshua Lam, Daniel Litt
Algebraicity and integrality of solutions to differential equations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13175

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Daniel Litt @littmath.bsky.social · 4d

are you serious

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Daniel Litt @littmath.bsky.social · 14d

Inspired by an actual response I got from an author to a complaint I made about their paper on the other site.

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Daniel Litt @littmath.bsky.social · 14d

Oh, you have criticisms of my paper? Surely you noticed the part of the paper where we already rebutted your critique, by writing “Possible criticisms: the methodology of this paper is bad. We are aware of this.”

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Daniel Litt @littmath.bsky.social · 29d

website where you can report people inappropriately celebrating political violence

Daniel Litt @littmath.bsky.social · 29d

pretty bleak

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Daniel Litt @littmath.bsky.social · Sep 14

airport bird!!!

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Daniel Litt @littmath.bsky.social · Sep 14

it’s time for universities to return to their core mission (acting as the settings of novels by middle-aged professors about the midlife crises of middle-aged professors)

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Daniel Litt @littmath.bsky.social · Sep 14

it’s time for universities to return to their core mission (an escalating series of pranks played by a trouble-making fraternity on the straight-edge dean who will stop at nothing to shut them down)

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Daniel Litt @littmath.bsky.social · Sep 13

Awesome, thanks!

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Daniel Litt @littmath.bsky.social · Sep 13

Not yet but planning to!

Daniel Litt @littmath.bsky.social · Sep 13

Sounds great, would be very interested in tracking this down if you can remember more detail!

Daniel Litt @littmath.bsky.social · Sep 13

Enjoy the conference!

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Leigh Caldwell @cognomist.bsky.social · Sep 13

they have a great 4-lecture mini-course about local systems on algebraic variables. highly recommended that you attend. will cure depression, life changing

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Daniel Litt @littmath.bsky.social · Sep 13

Going to Padua next week to give a 4-lecture mini-course on “Local Systems on Algebraic Varieties.” Apparently the university is quite old—if anyone knows any math- or science-related sights there that I should check out, please let me know.

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · Sep 10

Have you in your field seen a lot of LLM-assisted papers on the ArXiV claiming to solve an open problem?

I hear @littmath.bsky.social report a lot of "proofs" of the Hodge conjecture, but I haven't heard anyone about other open problems. Have you heard about YM mass gap? Riemann hypothesis? P=NP?

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Daniel Litt @littmath.bsky.social · Sep 3

this is actually how i disambiguate you from Evil Sridhar

Daniel Litt @littmath.bsky.social · Aug 23

back on the good stuff (geodesic dome tourism)

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Daniel Litt @littmath.bsky.social · Jul 27

I am also going only for this week (for similar reasons) :)

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Daniel Litt @littmath.bsky.social · Jul 27

Heading to Fort Collins for the once-a-decade algebraic geometry summer research institute. Please say hi if you’re around! (And come to my talk tomorrow on “p-curvature and non-abelian cohomology”!)

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Daniel Litt @littmath.bsky.social · Jul 25

I'm having trouble finding the preview feature. Has this been implemented yet?

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Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · Jul 24

I've been working on a new tool, Refine, to make scholars more productive. If you're interested in being among the very first to try the beta, please read on.

Refine leverages the best current AI models to draw your attention to potential errors and clarity issues in research paper drafts.

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Daniel Litt @littmath.bsky.social · Jul 25

right, I was thinking that would be the climax, with two versions (how Grothendieck saw it, and what I think is the more accurate version)

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Daniel Litt @littmath.bsky.social · Jul 25

current plan (which I will probably never execute on) is to switch back and forth between his early and late career, like Oppenheimer. first is meeting Schwartz, then Vietnam, then probably some childhood stuff

Daniel Litt @littmath.bsky.social · Jul 25

obviously subject to change since I started writing it 20 minutes ago, but it's narrated by Serre, and it opens with him writing one of his last letters to Grothendieck

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Daniel Litt @littmath.bsky.social · Jul 25

ok somebody stop me, the first page now exists

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