I was in mesoamerica--most likely Guatemala in a large dark stone grey temple. I was surrounded by natives examining and cataloguing Maya ruins. Tablets adorned with hieroglyphics and illiustrating an ancienty society now long gone graced the eyes of each individual in the temple. My tabet was instantly decipherable to me. It foretold the current ( Read more... )

I've been having a lot of dreams about living in Japan lately. Nothing too special or out of the ordinary, Just me going about every day life in Tokyo. For example, last night I rode the subway to the fish market and bought sushi. 

Today I listened to a song on the way to work that made me in spite of the gloomy weather:
Shintaro Sakamoto - You Can Be a Robot Too

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Images begin with a group walking in an empty city lit by the orange light of the streetlights. The group continues nonchalantly across the avenues as a light drizzle emanates from the sky. Perhaps slight inebriation of each other’s company ( Read more... )

It has always been a dream / goal of mine to be published in some sort of way or another. Particularly wrt mathematics. I just recieved word from the referee that my joint paper with a colleague of mine has been accepted for publication in an international mathematics journal.

Dear Professors Dinh and Donzella:

I am the handling editor for your ( Read more... )

The separation of subject and object is far more interesting than that of body and mind.

Recently, my grant was accepted to study an open mathematical problem I've been working on over the summer.

The world is my chalkboard and I have only begun to fill it with theorems.

Allegedly the internet (and moreover (as recent days suggest) social network sites) provide a means or medium (ideally) to form an isomorphism (ie a structure preserving one to one correspondence relation) between reality and electronic means of communication. However, this correspondence is seemingly an illusion to a myriad of distractions of ( Read more... )