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9:24 AM

To add a bit more context:

"the picture of his": did you look up the name to determine that this user is male? Or is this an instance of the implicit gender biases we all carry, where we simply assume that people discussing mathematics are male? It's worth paying attention to such things, because implicit bias in mathematics really harms women who want to participate. — Greg Martin yesterday

@GregMartin No, I didn't. I don't know the language the name is written in (do you?). The "implicit bias" is just the common default English construct. If you have a valid reason to suspect that the user in question is female, I'll be happy to change the pronoun. — fedja 21 hours ago

@GregMartin I will just add to the previous comment that in this specific case both the photo in the user's profile and the user's website found after searching for this specific name suggest that this is indeed a masculine given name. (Although I understand that when in doubt it is better to use gender neutral language.) — Martin Sleziak 18 hours ago

@MartinSleziak (and others). 5 seconds after I clicked on the CV on that website I've got the "Microsoft critical alert" scam message. May be a pure coincidence, of course, but I'd rather report it here :-) — fedja 16 hours ago

@მამუკაჯიბლაძე This is completely unrelated to this question, but I wanted to find a place where I can ping you. A user pointed out in comments some possible problems with your website - so I thought it might be reasonable to let you know. All comment are copied here, the last comment from fedja is relevant to your website. (Please, ping me either here or in chat after you see this - so that I can removed this comment.) — Martin Sleziak 20 secs ago

The whole thing was a bit mysterious.

When I went to the linked website and clicked on CV, sometimes nothing happend and sometimes a new popup window (with address beginning with get.mirando.de) started opening - which I immediately closed.

N. Maneesh

10:13 AM

A: A proof that the Cantor set is Perfect

Let $x\in \Delta$, For any $\epsilon>0$, consider $(x-\epsilon,x+\epsilon)$ Using archemedean propery, $\exists N\in \mathbb N: \frac{1}{3^N}<\epsilon$. Let $\frac{M}{3^N}=\max \{\frac{m}{3^N}:\frac{m}{3^N}<x \space \text{and} \space m\in \mathbb N\}$. So $x\in [\frac{M}{3^N},\frac{M+1}{3^N}]\sub...

Is my proof correct?

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Martin Sleziak

2:32 PM

@MartinSleziak sigh... was not aware of this but am not surprised, given the spamflood I get at my jib@rmi.ge email account. I will forward this info to our IT guy but there is little hope - our institute cannot pay him any decent amount, so he mostly works elsewhere. — მამუკა ჯიბლაძე 34 secs ago

მამუკა ჯიბლაძე

@MartinSleziak And, thanks for notifying!

Martin Sleziak

No problem. I suppose the comment on meta is no longer needed, so I am deleting mine.

მამუკა ჯიბლაძე

Will delete mine too, OK

Martin Sleziak

@მამუკაჯიბლაძე There is at least some evidence that there is some problem. (Although the description in fedja's comment is different from what I experienced. And this happens only sometimes to me, not every time I opened that website.)

Maybe you can check for yourself, whether the same thing happens.

Juan Perez

Hola

Martin Sleziak

2:36 PM

To be honest, I have no idea what can cause such behavior. (I do not see anything suspicious when looking at the source of the website.)

Especially the fact that the website behaves sometimes normally and sometimes like this seems quite strange.

I do not recall whether in those instances when the popup window opened I accessed the site from the results of Google search or from the link in the comments. (And I am not sure whether something like that could matter.)

7 hours later…

მამუკა ჯიბლაძე

9:40 PM

@MartinSleziak On chrome (latest build, windows 10) I get a popup window (although I have popups blocked) with the address get.mirando.de/material/15586239/4763/… in it. Seemingly it asks for age verification although it is hard to see anything as it keeps flashing various requests or announcements. I did not touch it, just closed that window.

Martin Sleziak

I see. So we can consider it tested by several users.

I have posted an answer to your post on meta. (As some time past and nobody posted anything.)

I'd guess that most activity on meta will now be related to the new site ~~design~~ theme.

some time passed - sorry for the typo

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