Evidence

“We should really remove that sign around the corner if we want this to work.”

One Trick Pony

For an extra fee, we will go to one higher order in our solution.

Programming Workflow

“I’m getting closer. What happens if I do this-?”

Error!

“Okay, maybe not that.”

Not Injective

We need to expose students to more than just the typical academic career path.

Competition

I’ve always found it tragic how research papers have to dress up what can be simple notions into some which are incredibly complex. At its core, the problem lies with finding good notation to express a given question or problem. Without this, the reader has to translate from opaque notation to the simple but informal arguments, which are easier to understand.

Pattern Recognition

I’ve always found these sentences in mathematics to be so lyrical. They almost want you to complete them in this way, even when we can get a little carried away.

Tip of the Iceberg

“Can you teach me everything you know?”

“Uh…that was it.”

Framing

If only I could make a “bubble of sound” around me…

Toy Model Regression

“Next: I can write a series of papers doing progressively more complicated perturbations and expansions.”

Numerical Instability

That platform is only balancing because I’ve had to tune the mass of that left sphere perfectly. It practically took a neural network to figure out the right mass.