Justin Curry
@currying.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Math and Statistics at UAlbany
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
Sadly, winning an election has always been more important to the Dems. We are terrible governors and this is why the Rs have been so frighteningly good at breaking things. I don’t think the Dems could do the same if they tried.
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Sadly, winning an election has always been more important to the Dems. We are terrible governors and this is why the Rs have been so frighteningly good at breaking things. I don’t think the Dems could do the same if they tried.
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No health care, no deal.
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
No health care, no deal.
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arxiv.org/abs/2511.01272
/Design and Fabrication of Origami-Inspired Knitted Fabrics for Soft Robotics/
Sehui Jeong, Magaly C. Aviles, Athena X. Naylor, Cynthia Sung, Allison M. Okamura
/Design and Fabrication of Origami-Inspired Knitted Fabrics for Soft Robotics/
Sehui Jeong, Magaly C. Aviles, Athena X. Naylor, Cynthia Sung, Allison M. Okamura
November 10, 2025 at 2:50 AM
arxiv.org/abs/2511.01272
/Design and Fabrication of Origami-Inspired Knitted Fabrics for Soft Robotics/
Sehui Jeong, Magaly C. Aviles, Athena X. Naylor, Cynthia Sung, Allison M. Okamura
/Design and Fabrication of Origami-Inspired Knitted Fabrics for Soft Robotics/
Sehui Jeong, Magaly C. Aviles, Athena X. Naylor, Cynthia Sung, Allison M. Okamura
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Why can't we just say 0/0=1?
I showed one way why this would break math. What's another way?
I showed one way why this would break math. What's another way?
November 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Why can't we just say 0/0=1?
I showed one way why this would break math. What's another way?
I showed one way why this would break math. What's another way?
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Meet Sayan Mukherjee
YouTube video by Rhodes Information Initiative at Duke
youtu.be
April 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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So Mac Lane and Eilenberg invented category theory so they could prove the universal coefficient theorem, which they discovered because Saunders showed an algebra computation to Sammy and Sammy went "Huh. That's how I compute the complement of the p-adic solenoid inside a 3-sphere."
![From p.1 of https://math.jhu.edu/~eriehl/context.pdf:
In 1941, Saunders Mac Lane gave a lecture at the University of Michigan in which
he computed for a prime p that Ext(Z[
1
p
]/Z, Z) Zp, the group of p-adic integers, where
Z[
1
p
]/Z is the Prüfer p-group. When he explained this result to Samuel Eilenberg, who had
missed the lecture, Eilenberg recognized the calculation as the homology of the 3-sphere
complement of the p-adic solenoid, a space formed as the infinite intersection of a sequence
of solid tori, each wound around p times inside the preceding torus. In teasing apart this
connection, the pair of them discovered what is now known as the universal coefficient
theorem in algebraic topology, which relates the homology H∗ and cohomology groups H
∗
associated to a space X via a group extension [ML05]:
(1.0.1) 0 → Ext(Hn−1(X),G) → H
n
(X,G) → Hom(Hn(X),G) → 0 .
To obtain a more general form of the universal coefficient theorem, Eilenberg and Mac
Lane needed to show that certain isomorphisms of abelian groups expressed by this group
extension extend to spaces constructed via direct or inverse limits. And indeed this is the
case, precisely because the homomorphisms in the diagram (1.0.1) are natural with respect
to continuous maps between topological spaces.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ysaiuavm2f7d4th42c4valhw/bafkreidx34fck7zb2vcc6roymvmpf5pjxf3dplzd6idmys7z5m4c5eyq7m@jpeg)
March 21, 2025 at 3:46 AM
So Mac Lane and Eilenberg invented category theory so they could prove the universal coefficient theorem, which they discovered because Saunders showed an algebra computation to Sammy and Sammy went "Huh. That's how I compute the complement of the p-adic solenoid inside a 3-sphere."
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I just shared a new article, "The State of Reasoning Models", where I am exploring 12 new research articles on improving the reasoning capabilities of LLMs (all published after the release of DeepSeek R1): magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/state-of-l...
Happy reading!
Happy reading!
The State of LLM Reasoning Models
Part 1: Inference-Time Compute Scaling Methods
magazine.sebastianraschka.com
March 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I just shared a new article, "The State of Reasoning Models", where I am exploring 12 new research articles on improving the reasoning capabilities of LLMs (all published after the release of DeepSeek R1): magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/state-of-l...
Happy reading!
Happy reading!
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LLMs may be good for something new. Some of them are good at “fast thinking” that sets up “slow thinking” by combinatorial optimization. This flavor of “coherence” has deep roots in cognitive science. We made an algorithmic benchmark: o1, Sonnet, and QwQ do very well—apparently superhuman, even.
Neurosymbolic artificial intelligence via large language models and coherence-driven inference
We devise an algorithm to generate sets of propositions that objectively instantiate graphs that support coherence-driven inference. We then benchmark the ability of large language models (LLMs) to re...
arxiv.org
February 20, 2025 at 10:29 AM
LLMs may be good for something new. Some of them are good at “fast thinking” that sets up “slow thinking” by combinatorial optimization. This flavor of “coherence” has deep roots in cognitive science. We made an algorithmic benchmark: o1, Sonnet, and QwQ do very well—apparently superhuman, even.
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Maybe a hot take, but what about the following advice to the next gen:
Don't get an AI degree; the curriculum will be outdated before you graduate. Instead, study math, stats, or physics as your foundation, and stay current with AI through code-focused books, blogs, and papers.
Don't get an AI degree; the curriculum will be outdated before you graduate. Instead, study math, stats, or physics as your foundation, and stay current with AI through code-focused books, blogs, and papers.
February 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Maybe a hot take, but what about the following advice to the next gen:
Don't get an AI degree; the curriculum will be outdated before you graduate. Instead, study math, stats, or physics as your foundation, and stay current with AI through code-focused books, blogs, and papers.
Don't get an AI degree; the curriculum will be outdated before you graduate. Instead, study math, stats, or physics as your foundation, and stay current with AI through code-focused books, blogs, and papers.
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“The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity.”
― Jacob Burckhardt
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Made with #python #mlx #matplotlib
#particlelenia #alife
― Jacob Burckhardt
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Made with #python #mlx #matplotlib
#particlelenia #alife
January 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
“The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity.”
― Jacob Burckhardt
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Made with #python #mlx #matplotlib
#particlelenia #alife
― Jacob Burckhardt
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Made with #python #mlx #matplotlib
#particlelenia #alife
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January 1, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.
December 31, 2024 at 12:21 PM
31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.
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Today at Grading for Growth: A guest post from two Dutch faculty on how they're using alternative grading in probability and statistics.
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gradingforgrowth.com...
Alternative grading in probability and statistics
How we used competency-based grading for 300 computer science students at a Dutch university
gradingforgrowth.com
December 16, 2024 at 2:06 PM
Today at Grading for Growth: A guest post from two Dutch faculty on how they're using alternative grading in probability and statistics.
gradingforgrowth.com...
gradingforgrowth.com...
Random autumn snapshots
December 6, 2024 at 3:22 AM
Random autumn snapshots
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my younger brother is at the point of his undergraduate math degree (taking galois theory) where he no longer believes in the reality of the irrationals. they grow up so fast!
December 1, 2024 at 5:43 AM
my younger brother is at the point of his undergraduate math degree (taking galois theory) where he no longer believes in the reality of the irrationals. they grow up so fast!
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Are you interested in Root responses to climate change? Read our latest synthesis article about tropical root responses to global changes led by Daniella Yaffar and Laynara Lugli @laylugli.bsky.social on Global Change Biology. #fineroots #tropicalroots onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Tropical root responses to global changes: A synthesis
Responses of roots can reveal the strategies and vulnerabilities of tropical ecosystems facing present and future global changes. This analysis of 266 root trait observations from 93 studies across 2...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 28, 2024 at 5:32 PM
Are you interested in Root responses to climate change? Read our latest synthesis article about tropical root responses to global changes led by Daniella Yaffar and Laynara Lugli @laylugli.bsky.social on Global Change Biology. #fineroots #tropicalroots onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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November 28, 2024 at 9:57 PM
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I'm thankful for the #MathSky community developing here! Here are some random Catalan-Truchet-Tantrix-inspired patterns as a token of appreciation.
November 28, 2024 at 5:57 PM
I'm thankful for the #MathSky community developing here! Here are some random Catalan-Truchet-Tantrix-inspired patterns as a token of appreciation.
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I should've introduced myself on my first day in my first posting. I'm an industrial engineer turned software programmer turned environmental urban planner turned statistician with an interest in information geometry. Spent some time on AI and machine learning. I'm a forever-learning person.
November 28, 2024 at 6:17 AM
I should've introduced myself on my first day in my first posting. I'm an industrial engineer turned software programmer turned environmental urban planner turned statistician with an interest in information geometry. Spent some time on AI and machine learning. I'm a forever-learning person.
Yes!
I’m proving a lot of theorems using a sorta custom string diagram language, but they’re not going in the paper. I’m wondering if I should write a second paper using them? 🤔
November 26, 2024 at 11:04 PM
Yes!