@EricStucky it's UTC/GMT -4

Ahh so I just mixed the two of you up somehow :/

ALL TIMEZONE MESSAGES BELOW THIS ONE ARE DIRTY LIES. THE ONE ABOVE IS THE ONE TRUE TIMEZONE MESSAGE (unless I screw it up again shhhhhhh)

@jcprx @Sami @Alex star that please

Hello mysterious star person

yo :)

:)

Man I'm all messed up about timezones wat

including your own apparently lol

well yeah

I have an excuse which is that I've lived in this state for less than two weeks XD

ah you're not originally from minnesota?

No

Hmm this is weird

Apparently I am utc-6 but it is 9:00 here and 2:00 utc ......??????

that is weird

because i'm 2:00am utc right now

hmm can you still unstar that message

it seems like I don't have this worked out yet

somehow

no unfortunately

Good.

that's interesting cause that number's right

it is -5

for you

and mine is right

ahh i found it

actually nvm i got confused for a second

(@Sami @Alex j/k don't star that please)

So this is cool. I got it from the main chat.

"It is an unfortunate aspect of history that we used to ignore half our mathematical talent—I’m glad we no longer do quite that badly." omg

I didn't but I'd definitely consider it.

I would need a research-depth-but-accessible question to focus on, though, and so far I haven't come across all too many of those.

That's probably not true, actually, I would just need to make a serious look back through my JMM book

A complicating factor about doing it next semester is that that is my short break. So the timing would either be really weird or it would just solidly smash five weeks into the after-semester.

(hmm I think I might know what question I'd like to look at XD)

(probably errs too far on the 'accessible' side though :/)

I had given some thought to continuing CRPx's, but I think it would be good if someone on the team had been involved in main. I'm going to push really hard for a UMN team for the CRP next year, so maybe I could pull myself off the team and into an advisory role idk I'm good for that.

@jcprx @AlexClark @SamiBrooker: How are y'all doing project-wise? How is the Wiki treating you? Got plans for the rest of the week?

@EricStucky reading these two blog posts on toric varieties, polytopes, and fans

Is that from Rigorous Trivialities?

no it's from secret blogging seminar

Ah yes. I tried reading them during the main but couldn't focus. I'd be interested in what you have to say about them.

hey, sorry i haven't been around much! i've been back-reading through chat and i'm hoping to maybe try to understand more stuff when i get home today, but i'm not sure at this point what i'm going to look at, or what i'm going to look for. i still don't know exactly what to do with the wiki but i'll try to get a grip on that. sorry i haven't set up my page thing.

@Sami thanks for the update

I don't remember where we were about thinking through PFs, but TG is the next step :P

(actually, they aren't super related, you could switch over to TG if you were bored)

(/frustrated)

i'm sort of playing it by ear for the rest of the week because there are messy personal things going on atm that i'm trying to deal with, and i'm not gonna bring any of my bs into anything here but i'm a little preoccupied, so i might be a little wobbly until i get some stuff sorted out

ahhh okay i'll look at that

Ahh thank you for explaining

yeah, i'm really sorry about that.

math as escapism or whatever, there's always that

if it works