χle Ormsby
@motivickyle.bsky.social
Numbers and shapes at Reed College. Mathematician, parent, spouse, runner, 𝔣𝔯𝔞𝔨𝔱𝔲𝔯 enthusiast. He or they.
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I've never been interested in solving precisely stated hard problems. To me, the interesting part of math is finding beautiful structures that help us understand reality better - and clearly explaining them, so more people can use them.
If AI can ever do that, I'll enjoy talking to it.
(2/n)
If AI can ever do that, I'll enjoy talking to it.
(2/n)
December 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
I've never been interested in solving precisely stated hard problems. To me, the interesting part of math is finding beautiful structures that help us understand reality better - and clearly explaining them, so more people can use them.
If AI can ever do that, I'll enjoy talking to it.
(2/n)
If AI can ever do that, I'll enjoy talking to it.
(2/n)
Hell yeah Ursula K LeGuin exhibit at Oregon Contemporary.
December 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Hell yeah Ursula K LeGuin exhibit at Oregon Contemporary.
Is "Mane Attraction" a better name for a horse, or a hair salon?
December 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Is "Mane Attraction" a better name for a horse, or a hair salon?
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Indefinite Hyperbolic Numerals
forty-leven
squillion
umpteen
steen
umpty
umpty-ump
umpty-steen
zillion
skillion
jillion
gillion
bazillion
umptillion
kazillion
gazillion
kajillion
gajillion
bajillion
Collected by Stephen Chrisomalis
www.futilitycloset.com/2025/12/05/e...
forty-leven
squillion
umpteen
steen
umpty
umpty-ump
umpty-steen
zillion
skillion
jillion
gillion
bazillion
umptillion
kazillion
gazillion
kajillion
gajillion
bajillion
Collected by Stephen Chrisomalis
www.futilitycloset.com/2025/12/05/e...
Extra Large - Futility Closet
Which is bigger, a jillion or a zillion? No one’s quite sure, though we all use these terms pretty readily. In 2016 Wayne State University linguistic anthropologist Stephen Chrisomalis cataloged the f...
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December 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Indefinite Hyperbolic Numerals
forty-leven
squillion
umpteen
steen
umpty
umpty-ump
umpty-steen
zillion
skillion
jillion
gillion
bazillion
umptillion
kazillion
gazillion
kajillion
gajillion
bajillion
Collected by Stephen Chrisomalis
www.futilitycloset.com/2025/12/05/e...
forty-leven
squillion
umpteen
steen
umpty
umpty-ump
umpty-steen
zillion
skillion
jillion
gillion
bazillion
umptillion
kazillion
gazillion
kajillion
gajillion
bajillion
Collected by Stephen Chrisomalis
www.futilitycloset.com/2025/12/05/e...
People are posting positive male role models and I'd like to nominate Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka, but he didn't even set his Oompa-Loompa slaves free in his last will and testament, so I can't.
December 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
People are posting positive male role models and I'd like to nominate Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka, but he didn't even set his Oompa-Loompa slaves free in his last will and testament, so I can't.
This diagram should win some kind of prize for mathematical illustration. From arxiv.org/abs/2305.08471. 🧮
![Figure 6. The quotientope lattice for n = 4: all quotientopes ordered by inclusion (which corresponds to refinement of the lattice congruences). We only consider lattice congruences whose fan
is essential. We have highlighted the cube (green), Loday’s associahedron [Lod04] (blue), another
one of Hohlweg–Lange’s associahedra [HL07] (purple), the diagonal rectangulation polytope [LR12]
(orange), and the permutahedron (red). Adapted from [PS19, Fig. 9].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ysaiuavm2f7d4th42c4valhw/bafkreihhvpykoeyxb23bilkfhitiivpaitjc5ueb22r3lqu4y57gt7calm@jpeg)
December 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM
This diagram should win some kind of prize for mathematical illustration. From arxiv.org/abs/2305.08471. 🧮
Ten Thousand Years of Solitude
@zachweinersmith.bsky.social poses a fun activity: add “hundred” to a book title.
A Tale of Two Hundred Cities
Lord of the Hundred Flies
The Hundred Brothers Karamazov
A Hundred Hundred Years of Solitude
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A Tale of Two Hundred Cities
Lord of the Hundred Flies
The Hundred Brothers Karamazov
A Hundred Hundred Years of Solitude
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Hundred
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Hundred
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December 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Ten Thousand Years of Solitude
um... my math-art collaboration just received a $30k grant? 😮
December 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
um... my math-art collaboration just received a $30k grant? 😮
Whenever we encounter donation requests from well-funded institutions I've already paid for services (looking at you, University of Chicago), my son and I enact Shevek's imitation of a "beggarman" from The Dispossessed: "Money... give me money...!"
December 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Whenever we encounter donation requests from well-funded institutions I've already paid for services (looking at you, University of Chicago), my son and I enact Shevek's imitation of a "beggarman" from The Dispossessed: "Money... give me money...!"
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y'all I was approved for extra time accommodations today and it was super easy! I just lived with undiagnosed ADHD for 30 years, dropped out of school twice, suffered a lot of academic trauma, spent untold amounts on mental health treatment, and then took 16 months to fill out the paperwork!
December 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
y'all I was approved for extra time accommodations today and it was super easy! I just lived with undiagnosed ADHD for 30 years, dropped out of school twice, suffered a lot of academic trauma, spent untold amounts on mental health treatment, and then took 16 months to fill out the paperwork!
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I'd rather say
"The group of all rotations of a ball in space, known to mathematicians as SO(3), is itself a ball with each point on its surface glued to the opposite point."
If you're gonna scare people, I feel you might as well scare them with a puzzle they can actually chew on.
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"The group of all rotations of a ball in space, known to mathematicians as SO(3), is itself a ball with each point on its surface glued to the opposite point."
If you're gonna scare people, I feel you might as well scare them with a puzzle they can actually chew on.
(5/n)
December 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I'd rather say
"The group of all rotations of a ball in space, known to mathematicians as SO(3), is itself a ball with each point on its surface glued to the opposite point."
If you're gonna scare people, I feel you might as well scare them with a puzzle they can actually chew on.
(5/n)
"The group of all rotations of a ball in space, known to mathematicians as SO(3), is itself a ball with each point on its surface glued to the opposite point."
If you're gonna scare people, I feel you might as well scare them with a puzzle they can actually chew on.
(5/n)
After staring at this plot for too long, I have convinced myself that
log(x) = lim_{m→0} (xᵐ-1)/m
is not such a bad definition of the natural logarithm. www.desmos.com/calculator/b...
log(x) = lim_{m→0} (xᵐ-1)/m
is not such a bad definition of the natural logarithm. www.desmos.com/calculator/b...
December 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
After staring at this plot for too long, I have convinced myself that
log(x) = lim_{m→0} (xᵐ-1)/m
is not such a bad definition of the natural logarithm. www.desmos.com/calculator/b...
log(x) = lim_{m→0} (xᵐ-1)/m
is not such a bad definition of the natural logarithm. www.desmos.com/calculator/b...
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I would kill for this.
December 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I would kill for this.
The negative of G is H because GH is (often) silent.
last night my daughter asked whether there were negative letters, like negative numbers. what a good fuckin question
December 5, 2025 at 3:22 AM
The negative of G is H because GH is (often) silent.
Just splurged on a huge air fryer / toaster oven / dehydrator. What should I air fry first?
December 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Just splurged on a huge air fryer / toaster oven / dehydrator. What should I air fry first?
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“Is this some sort of divine creation by the mathematical gods, or is there a deeper
reason why 𝑀𝑔 exists?”
Charming images from this article by Jarod Alper
www.ams.org/journals/not...
reason why 𝑀𝑔 exists?”
Charming images from this article by Jarod Alper
www.ams.org/journals/not...
December 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
“Is this some sort of divine creation by the mathematical gods, or is there a deeper
reason why 𝑀𝑔 exists?”
Charming images from this article by Jarod Alper
www.ams.org/journals/not...
reason why 𝑀𝑔 exists?”
Charming images from this article by Jarod Alper
www.ams.org/journals/not...
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Note how beautiful illustrations made by an actual (maths) artist are! The author is chessapig on tuiter, also known as Elliot Kienzle
chessapig.github.io
chessapig.github.io
December 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Note how beautiful illustrations made by an actual (maths) artist are! The author is chessapig on tuiter, also known as Elliot Kienzle
chessapig.github.io
chessapig.github.io
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in the uk is it called meths
December 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
in the uk is it called meths
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Woman or gender minority curious about the mathematics of waves? 🌊👋
Keen to spend a life-changing week at Princeton IAS this May, for a lecture series on "Waves, Wave Packets, and Their Interactions"?
Good news! Apply by ⏰ Feb 6 for the Women and Mathematics program! www.ias.edu/math/wam/wam...
Keen to spend a life-changing week at Princeton IAS this May, for a lecture series on "Waves, Wave Packets, and Their Interactions"?
Good news! Apply by ⏰ Feb 6 for the Women and Mathematics program! www.ias.edu/math/wam/wam...
WAM 2026
Waves, Wave Packets, and Their InteractionsMay 17-22, 2026Uhlenbeck Lecture Course:Lecturer: Monica Visan, UCLATerng Lecture Course:Lecturer: Dominique Maldague, Cambridge University and UCLA
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December 3, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Woman or gender minority curious about the mathematics of waves? 🌊👋
Keen to spend a life-changing week at Princeton IAS this May, for a lecture series on "Waves, Wave Packets, and Their Interactions"?
Good news! Apply by ⏰ Feb 6 for the Women and Mathematics program! www.ias.edu/math/wam/wam...
Keen to spend a life-changing week at Princeton IAS this May, for a lecture series on "Waves, Wave Packets, and Their Interactions"?
Good news! Apply by ⏰ Feb 6 for the Women and Mathematics program! www.ias.edu/math/wam/wam...
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Thanks @graveolens.bsky.social. It's taken two and a half years to get to this point. I'll make a post about it once we add a few more examples.
arxiv.org/abs/2512.04078
/Permutation Flows I: Triangulations of Flow Polytopes (Research Announcement)/
Rafael S. González D'León, Christopher R. H. Hanusa (@mathzorro.bsky.social ), Martha Yip
/Permutation Flows I: Triangulations of Flow Polytopes (Research Announcement)/
Rafael S. González D'León, Christopher R. H. Hanusa (@mathzorro.bsky.social ), Martha Yip
Permutation Flows I: Triangulations of Flow Polytopes (Research Announcement)
We introduce a new broadly unifying family of combinatorial objects, which we call permutation flows, associated to an acyclic directed graph $G$ together with a framing $F$. This new family is combin...
arxiv.org
December 4, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Thanks @graveolens.bsky.social. It's taken two and a half years to get to this point. I'll make a post about it once we add a few more examples.
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
(And yes, the Gene Wilder one. Now I hate you for even having to ask.)
(And yes, the Gene Wilder one. Now I hate you for even having to ask.)
Ok, I have to ask. What's a movie that if someone doesn't like you'll hate them?
December 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
(And yes, the Gene Wilder one. Now I hate you for even having to ask.)
(And yes, the Gene Wilder one. Now I hate you for even having to ask.)
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It fits right in there.
www.desmos.com/calculator/q...
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Desmos | Graphing Calculator
www.desmos.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:40 AM
It fits right in there.
www.desmos.com/calculator/q...
www.desmos.com/calculator/q...
Why did the author's novel being with a period?
Why did the felon’s prison term begin with their release?
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Their sentence was commuted.
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Their sentence was commuted.
December 4, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Why did the author's novel being with a period?
Pediatric dentists made a very good choice in dropping the appellation 'pedodontist'.
December 4, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Pediatric dentists made a very good choice in dropping the appellation 'pedodontist'.
Why did the felon’s prison term begin with their release?
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Their sentence was commuted.
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Their sentence was commuted.
December 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Why did the felon’s prison term begin with their release?
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Their sentence was commuted.
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Their sentence was commuted.