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The Future of Mathematics Symposium

1d ago · 7 min read · I attended Day 1 of the Future of Mathematics Symposium at Stanford last Friday May 1. I was unable to attend in person on the second day but watched the Day 2 lectures on YouTube. It was a fun, star-

Claude Code has a sense of humor

2d ago · 6 min read · I enjoy working with Claude Code, and find it to be a pleasant and articulate conversation partner. Among its (his?) many talents are its being very good at reading my intent based on sometimes incomp

Don't watch AI work

4d ago · 2 min read · Since the beginning of 2026 I've been reading lots of tips about how to increase your productivity when using Claude Code and other agentic coding assistants: skills, hooks, parallel sessions etc - gr

What makes famous math problems hard (and why you should still work on them)

4d ago · 10 min read · In my career as a research mathematician, I've always enjoyed working on "ordinary" research problems - the sort of problems that advance the state of knowledge in my field, are interesting to think a

Be nice to your AI agent

4d ago · 8 min read · I was watching my wife talk to Claude Code the other day and noticed that she asked it to "please" do something. This caught my attention because in my own sessions I've made a point to not use the wo