Notices by Blake C. Stacey (bstacey@icosahedron.website), page 14

@DJWalnut @mcmansionhell If anyone came up to me in the coffeeshop and told me I was cute, I'd think back over the rate at which I have been called "cute", tally up two instances over five years, and conclude they were trying to scam a latte out of me.

Then I'd probably buy them a latte anyway, because I'm a softie and nobody deserves to be *that* desperate.

In happier* news, I was revisiting a paper my group put out last month (https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.08762) and saw how to upgrade a conjecture to a theorem.

*than whatever else is going on, probably

@elomatreb @grainloom

🎶 Take a word like "minimum"
To choose a random word
For anyone to say he cannot read *that* is absurd 🎶

https://archive.org/details/lehrer 05:38

@gcupc @Guinevere My impression of the Wikipedia behind-the-scenes is that it's full of people who think they can solve all problems of pedagogy and epistemology if they can only deploy enough acronyms.

@maloki Sure thing!

OK, so a while back, I got so peeved about a single sentence in a Wikipedia article that I wrote 25 pages about it and got the resulting essay published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.2409

As a result, sometimes people tell me about odd things they notice about Wikipedia pages. This week's instalment: the attempt to delete the article on sealioning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Sealioning

@maloki I'm in a better position to contribute than I was before, at least as far as kicking in a little funds for hosting and suchlike.

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@lela_unicorn Hello!

(@gdkar sent me.)

@Dialectrical @twsh ... Most of my reading for my job is journal articles, with a few textbooks and monographs thrown in. A primary function of note-taking is to be able to locate the one bit in a paper that is relevant to what we work on, amid all the rest of it that isn't.

@Dialectrical @twsh That's pretty much how I do it, too. Also, I write a fair number of short documents intended for sharing within my research group, and each of those has a bibliography.

@envgen This is like when the fictitious towns inserted into maps to catch plagiarists become real place names because somebody looked on that map to find a name for their highwayside store....