web: http://maxim.ece.illinois.edu substack: https://realizable.substack.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/mraginsky.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/mraginsky.bsky.social/post/3mzjj5xbyfk2gA riff on Boulevardier 2 oz bourbon 1 oz Aperitivo Select 1 oz Oka Kura Sweet Sake Bermutto 0.5 oz spiced cranberry simple syrup04 Nov 2026 23:31 +0000at://did:plc:64gnfkb4vguspilo6hqeaebr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzjj5xbyfk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/mraginsky.bsky.social/post/3mzilemo72k2lgm04 Nov 2026 14:38 +0000at://did:plc:64gnfkb4vguspilo6hqeaebr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzilemo72k2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/mraginsky.bsky.social/post/3mzh6rjwyik24poured a bourbon, watching @lioneltrolling.bsky.social and @jamellebouie.net live on YouTube04 Nov 2026 01:20 +0000at://did:plc:64gnfkb4vguspilo6hqeaebr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzh6rjwyik24https://bsky.app/profile/mraginsky.bsky.social/post/3mz5ch3fwek2xFriday cocktailposting The Pirate Radio 1.5 oz Rhum JM Terroir Volcanique 1 oz Cocchi Americano 0.5 oz Suze 0.5 oz yellow Chartreuse 1 bar spoon Giffard Caribbean Pineapple Liqueur31 Oct 2026 02:59 +0000at://did:plc:64gnfkb4vguspilo6hqeaebr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mz5ch3fwek2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/mraginsky.bsky.social/post/3mz2iozcfwc2gwhat’s the impact factor of the Dario Amodei journal?30 Oct 2026 00:13 +0000at://did:plc:64gnfkb4vguspilo6hqeaebr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mz2iozcfwc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/mraginsky.bsky.social/post/3mz2ddl64622gthis should be fun29 Oct 2026 22:37 +0000at://did:plc:64gnfkb4vguspilo6hqeaebr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mz2ddl64622ghttps://bsky.app/profile/mraginsky.bsky.social/post/3myfqtfdtdc2lit’s always coffee time21 Oct 2026 18:13 +0000at://did:plc:64gnfkb4vguspilo6hqeaebr/app.bsky.feed.post/3myfqtfdtdc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/mraginsky.bsky.social/post/3my3ppjy2ps26Wise words from Richard Sennett's _The Craftsman_: "The enlightened way to use a machine is to judge its powers, fashion its uses, in light of our own limits rather than the machine’s potential. We should not compete against the machine. ...17 Oct 2026 18:26 +0000at://did:plc:64gnfkb4vguspilo6hqeaebr/app.bsky.feed.post/3my3ppjy2ps26https://bsky.app/profile/mraginsky.bsky.social/post/3my3fi4guoc2q17 Oct 2026 15:23 +0000at://did:plc:64gnfkb4vguspilo6hqeaebr/app.bsky.feed.post/3my3fi4guoc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/mraginsky.bsky.social/post/3mxnaxti2cs2fCame across the well-known quote of Oppenheimer in a book: “When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.” That's the way it is with AI now.12 Oct 2026 00:25 +0000at://did:plc:64gnfkb4vguspilo6hqeaebr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxnaxti2cs2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/mraginsky.bsky.social/post/3mxhfz2abvk2iwhere have you gone, Herbert Simon, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you etc etc.09 Oct 2026 16:39 +0000at://did:plc:64gnfkb4vguspilo6hqeaebr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxhfz2abvk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/mraginsky.bsky.social/post/3mxfrahwf3k2xBertolt Brecht, "Stories of Mr. Keuner"09 Oct 2026 00:55 +0000at://did:plc:64gnfkb4vguspilo6hqeaebr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxfrahwf3k2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/mraginsky.bsky.social/post/3mxfj7un2rs26Y’all better be aiming at the good life, with and for others, in just institutions. Just sayin’.08 Oct 2026 22:31 +0000at://did:plc:64gnfkb4vguspilo6hqeaebr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxfj7un2rs26https://bsky.app/profile/mraginsky.bsky.social/post/3mxfd2apen226I need to start carrying Cioran and Eliade in my bag alongside this book, for the full Romanian immersion.08 Oct 2026 20:41 +0000at://did:plc:64gnfkb4vguspilo6hqeaebr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxfd2apen226https://bsky.app/profile/mraginsky.bsky.social/post/3mxfcceg2ts2iQuine's indeterminacy of translation obviously applies to the process of translating mathematical texts to their Lean formalizations. Useful to keep in mind in the context of all the current AI-and-math discourse.08 Oct 2026 20:27 +0000at://did:plc:64gnfkb4vguspilo6hqeaebr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxfcceg2ts2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/mraginsky.bsky.social/post/3mxag5wb7vk27This is a bit all over the place, but: fried longanisa sausage, okra in tomato sauce, dirty rice.06 Oct 2026 21:53 +0000at://did:plc:64gnfkb4vguspilo6hqeaebr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxag5wb7vk27https://bsky.app/profile/mraginsky.bsky.social/post/3mx2m5wfexs2hmy take on AI coming for mathematics [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Oct 2026 14:24 +0000at://did:plc:64gnfkb4vguspilo6hqeaebr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mx2m5wfexs2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/mraginsky.bsky.social/post/3mwyb4cnqck2f“[H]e did not mean to imitate those philanthropic models who make a profit out of poisonous pickles to support themselves while they are exposing adulteration, or hold shares in a gambling-hell that they may have leisure to represent the cause of public morality.” (about Dr Lydgate in _Middlemarch_)03 Oct 2026 16:01 +0000at://did:plc:64gnfkb4vguspilo6hqeaebr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwyb4cnqck2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/mraginsky.bsky.social/post/3mwvrkkhyxs2xRicoeur on reading, very relevant for LLMs that act via the interface of language: "reading ... is at its best a struggle between two strategies, the _strategy of seduction_ pursued by the author in the guise of a more or less trustworthy narrator ... , and the _strategy of suspicion_ pursued ...02 Oct 2026 16:18 +0000at://did:plc:64gnfkb4vguspilo6hqeaebr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwvrkkhyxs2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/mraginsky.bsky.social/post/3mwvpkz2yxk2dYour regular reminder. [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Oct 2026 15:42 +0000at://did:plc:64gnfkb4vguspilo6hqeaebr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwvpkz2yxk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/mraginsky.bsky.social/post/3mwuftasqts2o“All prediction is conservative: it demands that we be as we are in whatever future it constructs.” — Paul Valéry, “Unpredictability” (1944)02 Oct 2026 03:15 +0000at://did:plc:64gnfkb4vguspilo6hqeaebr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwuftasqts2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/mraginsky.bsky.social/post/3mwtnznsawc23trip down memory lane: Pie ’n Burger, Pasadena, CA, 10 years ago01 Oct 2026 20:09 +0000at://did:plc:64gnfkb4vguspilo6hqeaebr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwtnznsawc23https://bsky.app/profile/mraginsky.bsky.social/post/3mwrizizusk2rlfg30 Sep 2026 23:34 +0000at://did:plc:64gnfkb4vguspilo6hqeaebr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwrizizusk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/mraginsky.bsky.social/post/3mwmsexfsb22c“It will perhaps one day be necessary to forbid actually doing what today science fiction is limited to dreaming about. But have not dreams always transgressed into the realm of the forbidden? So let us dream along with Parfit. …29 Sep 2026 02:39 +0000at://did:plc:64gnfkb4vguspilo6hqeaebr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwmsexfsb22chttps://bsky.app/profile/mraginsky.bsky.social/post/3mwhdg55fz22zMaking casarecce con le sarde tonight, paired (appropriately) with a Sardinian white wine.26 Sep 2026 22:27 +0000at://did:plc:64gnfkb4vguspilo6hqeaebr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwhdg55fz22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/mraginsky.bsky.social/post/3mwgxo5h5xc2sI find the "digestion" metaphor (i.e., mathematicians "digesting" AI-generated proofs) vulgar and off-putting. It's a sign of the times, genuine intellectuals like Yuri Manin are being replaced by a new generation whose identity is shaped by narrow professionalization and impoverished imagination.26 Sep 2026 18:57 +0000at://did:plc:64gnfkb4vguspilo6hqeaebr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwgxo5h5xc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/mraginsky.bsky.social/post/3mwezahw2v22gthis week’s Negroni proposition 1oz Roku gin 1oz Oka Kura sweet Japanese Bermutto sake vermouth 1oz Select Aperitivo26 Sep 2026 00:20 +0000at://did:plc:64gnfkb4vguspilo6hqeaebr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwezahw2v22g