like, the way he explains Krull dimension to me is the way I would explain coupling or mixing times to another person. it's wonderful

I think in many cases I would rather do math on a messaging app or over email instead of on a chalkboard, in person. I'm sick like that...

Very nice! That's a classic book

what kind of stochastic do they have you doing? discrete-time Markov chains or more like, Levy processes/continuous-time stuff? so curious :)

impossible reference text. literally impossible to navigate and always the longest inline paragraph proofs

everything is about the tensor product except the tensor product, which is about power

indeed!!

one of the things I've never liked about algebraic topology is how much one you seem to compute hard crunchy things (e.g. homology groups) by drawing loopy pictures. in probability it feels like you tend to understand what's visually going on with hard syntactic calculation, which I much prefer