the grad school archive transfer of tweets has now ended. elong mush can now delete my account in peace.

Say what you will about abstract algebra, nothing gets me higher than coming up with a sexy proof by contradiction.

Vince: I just have this feeling like "Something is different, different is bad!" That Republican, reptilian brain kind of thing.

Nicolas: so from there we need to prove--or at least, we need to talk loudly about...

Prof, writing a spontaneous sentence on the board: Huh, I don't think this is gonna turn out to be true... I'll just put a "Does .... ?" on it and let you think about it.

Watching amateur stand-up at open mic as a grad student is great, because it's so nice to know what all the answers are gonna be for once.