Paul Rowe
@pauldrowe.bsky.social
Applied logician. Polyglot. Interested in curiosity, not dogma.
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It's always important to read what the graph axes say
October 1, 2026 at 10:27 PM
It's always important to read what the graph axes say
For anybody interested in philosophy and its history, this is podcast is for you. If podcasts aren’t your thing, he has been publishing book versions of the series. They are wonderful overviews and intros to philosophical texts. And the no gaps approach is real but not unreasonable.
As of today the original #HoPWAG series has reached 500 episodes! Thanks to all who have listened and the many who have supported the series over the years, not least all the interview guests.
#philsky #podcast #philosophy
#philsky #podcast #philosophy
September 29, 2026 at 1:50 AM
For anybody interested in philosophy and its history, this is podcast is for you. If podcasts aren’t your thing, he has been publishing book versions of the series. They are wonderful overviews and intros to philosophical texts. And the no gaps approach is real but not unreasonable.
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September 28, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Having Monday trash pickup is incredible privilege because you have all of Sunday to decide when to put trash out. It’s a privilege I waste almost every week 😔
September 28, 2026 at 2:19 AM
Having Monday trash pickup is incredible privilege because you have all of Sunday to decide when to put trash out. It’s a privilege I waste almost every week 😔
At 45k followers I will do the same. (Probably* just repost @lastpositivist.bsky.social ‘s post).
* This is not probable. I will never reach this many followers.
* This is not probable. I will never reach this many followers.
At 45k followers I will reveal exactly what terminology correctly carves AI at its joints.
September 25, 2026 at 1:53 AM
At 45k followers I will do the same. (Probably* just repost @lastpositivist.bsky.social ‘s post).
* This is not probable. I will never reach this many followers.
* This is not probable. I will never reach this many followers.
I believe we can prove the NY Times SpellingBee game wrong, BlueSky! We just have to reply and quote with pictures of all your pets’ boopable noses.
September 24, 2026 at 1:54 PM
I believe we can prove the NY Times SpellingBee game wrong, BlueSky! We just have to reply and quote with pictures of all your pets’ boopable noses.
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Hey so
Nobody actually knows exactly WHY the great stock market crash of 1929 happened, leading to the Great Depression
But most folks agree "Low level participants started betting with borrowed money" probably didn't help matters
Nobody actually knows exactly WHY the great stock market crash of 1929 happened, leading to the Great Depression
But most folks agree "Low level participants started betting with borrowed money" probably didn't help matters
September 23, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Hey so
Nobody actually knows exactly WHY the great stock market crash of 1929 happened, leading to the Great Depression
But most folks agree "Low level participants started betting with borrowed money" probably didn't help matters
Nobody actually knows exactly WHY the great stock market crash of 1929 happened, leading to the Great Depression
But most folks agree "Low level participants started betting with borrowed money" probably didn't help matters
I saw this and thought “You mean third quarter.” Checked bio and … “Ohhh of course”
First quarter Moon, September 19th 2026. #astrophotography
September 20, 2026 at 12:23 PM
I saw this and thought “You mean third quarter.” Checked bio and … “Ohhh of course”
New phone: yay!
Having to do a phone transfer: boo!
Having to do a phone transfer: boo!
September 19, 2026 at 1:24 AM
New phone: yay!
Having to do a phone transfer: boo!
Having to do a phone transfer: boo!
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Trouble is, everyone wants to build the Terminator, and no one wants to build WALL-E.
September 18, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Trouble is, everyone wants to build the Terminator, and no one wants to build WALL-E.
My running joke about Ed Sheeran is that he is the best song writer since the Beatles.
This is from the film Yesterday where he challenges the protagonist to a fast song writing contest and he loses to the protagonist “writing” The Long and Winding Road.
This is from the film Yesterday where he challenges the protagonist to a fast song writing contest and he loses to the protagonist “writing” The Long and Winding Road.
September 16, 2026 at 12:36 AM
My running joke about Ed Sheeran is that he is the best song writer since the Beatles.
This is from the film Yesterday where he challenges the protagonist to a fast song writing contest and he loses to the protagonist “writing” The Long and Winding Road.
This is from the film Yesterday where he challenges the protagonist to a fast song writing contest and he loses to the protagonist “writing” The Long and Winding Road.
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The class that meets right before mine in my classroom is Intro to AI.
It’s followed by The American Revolution.
I love the weirdness of that.
It’s followed by The American Revolution.
I love the weirdness of that.
September 16, 2026 at 12:03 AM
The class that meets right before mine in my classroom is Intro to AI.
It’s followed by The American Revolution.
I love the weirdness of that.
It’s followed by The American Revolution.
I love the weirdness of that.
I often feel conflicted by art from the 1920s. This is no exception. I like the forward facing eye projected from the (sideways) figure. The angles evoke Cezanne (good), but overall effect is somehow … I don’t know.
If this speaks to you, I’d love to hear why and learn.
If this speaks to you, I’d love to hear why and learn.
Man in a Tower by André Masson, 1924
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137779
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137779
September 15, 2026 at 12:49 AM
I often feel conflicted by art from the 1920s. This is no exception. I like the forward facing eye projected from the (sideways) figure. The angles evoke Cezanne (good), but overall effect is somehow … I don’t know.
If this speaks to you, I’d love to hear why and learn.
If this speaks to you, I’d love to hear why and learn.
“Cooking pasta is easy. I promise.”
September 13, 2026 at 11:42 PM
“Cooking pasta is easy. I promise.”
I’m disappointed. Not surprised, but disappointed. It was even my first guess and would be a pangram. 😢
September 11, 2026 at 1:11 PM
I’m disappointed. Not surprised, but disappointed. It was even my first guess and would be a pangram. 😢
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this is perhaps the most useful thing that LLMs and GenAI have done: to provoke people into articulating (over again) that even the 'hardest' of 'hard sciences' are human endeavours, with human meaning, and concerned with human understanding of the significance of the world we all inhabit
“Mathematics only makes sense as a gift economy. It has no trade secrets. Substituting a monetizable ersatz culture for the one evolved through historical experience is a particularly insidious form of knowledge collapse.”
Mathematician Michael Harris on the AI companies coming for math:
Mathematician Michael Harris on the AI companies coming for math:
Knowledge Collapse
AI companies are racing to mechanize mathematics. Where does that leave human understanding?
www.bostonreview.net
September 9, 2026 at 11:58 AM
this is perhaps the most useful thing that LLMs and GenAI have done: to provoke people into articulating (over again) that even the 'hardest' of 'hard sciences' are human endeavours, with human meaning, and concerned with human understanding of the significance of the world we all inhabit
It may be able to solve millennium problems, but can it *pose* them???
Rumors are swirling that one of the AI labs has discovered and solved an eighth Millennium Prize problem.
September 10, 2026 at 8:19 PM
It may be able to solve millennium problems, but can it *pose* them???
“You’d got a letter, and you’d got a letter, and you’d got a letter, and you’d got a letter.”
“Get on with it!!”
“Get on with it!!”
August 27, 2026 at 1:15 AM
“You’d got a letter, and you’d got a letter, and you’d got a letter, and you’d got a letter.”
“Get on with it!!”
“Get on with it!!”
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With the start of the semester just a week away, here’s what I decided to say to my upper division math course about how AI will or won’t change what they’re learning…
francissu.substack.com/p/the-enduri...
francissu.substack.com/p/the-enduri...
The Enduring Value of Math, in an Age of AI
Thoughts I’ll share at the start of my upper division math course
francissu.substack.com
August 20, 2026 at 5:35 PM
With the start of the semester just a week away, here’s what I decided to say to my upper division math course about how AI will or won’t change what they’re learning…
francissu.substack.com/p/the-enduri...
francissu.substack.com/p/the-enduri...
I didn’t know De Niro’s father was Ludwig Wittgenstein!!
August 17, 2026 at 5:22 PM
I didn’t know De Niro’s father was Ludwig Wittgenstein!!
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Game of Life on Penrose tiles
August 15, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Game of Life on Penrose tiles
No cheating post your lock screen.
August 7, 2026 at 1:31 PM
No cheating post your lock screen.
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You know those viral fb posts that reduce to order of operations quibbling? Please deploy this associahedron-based interactive viewer in order to subvert those threads with interesting mathematics: kyleormsby.github.io/parse-explor... 🧮
August 4, 2026 at 2:14 PM
You know those viral fb posts that reduce to order of operations quibbling? Please deploy this associahedron-based interactive viewer in order to subvert those threads with interesting mathematics: kyleormsby.github.io/parse-explor... 🧮