#Sep 2020 to Feb 2021 Calendar

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[princess-of-the-corner]

Well I went into far too much detail but if I ever write fanfic this the birthdays I use (in order, with like a year in-between Luka and Chloé)

Luka Couffaine Aug 8

Chloé Bourgeois Aug 20

Alix Kubdel Sep 20

Nathaniel Kurtzberg Oct 6

Rose Lavillant Nov 12

Kagami Tsurugi Nov 20

Juleka Couffaine Nov 23

Max Kanté Dec 4

Ivan Bruel Dec 23

Marinette Dupain-Cheng Jan 10

Nino Lahiffe Feb 6

Félix Graham de Vanily Feb 14

Lila Rossi Mar 7

Marc Anciel Apr 2

Mylène Haprèle Apr 16

Lê Chiến Kim May 15

Alya Césaire Jun 19

Sabrina Raincomprix Jul 6 (apparently the second to last day of the school year according to the French school calendar I found online for the 2020-2021 school year)

Adrien Agreste Sep 11 (skipped a grade)

Oh nice.

[sevenfactorial]

Info about applying to PhD programs in pure math

This is... basically what it sounds like. I’m sure a lot of this is applicable to other PhD applications but I’m only very familiar with pure math. This is aimed at current seniors about to apply, but there is a section about prepping for applications in advance.

The highlights:

Recommendation letters are the most important thing. Most schools ask for 3ish. Try to get people who know you well, not just a student in the class. Someone you've conducted research with and one from a different institution are ideal if possible

Ask for rec letters at least a month before the due date is a good rule of thumb.

Research experience is probably the second most important.

Get the opinion of multiple professors who know you in order to build a list of potential schools. Then widdle it down to your will-actually-apply list (probably 8-14 ish). 

My opinion but please apply to at least 3-4 safety/match schools. Even when you're fully qualified, acceptance rates are simply low enough that a bit of bad luck means getting rejected or waitlisted from a few of them.

Most pure math due dates are in early-mid Dec but a few schools are in Nov and some are as late as mid-Jan. 

Schools will generally have their own graduate application portals. Some are better organized than others. Some require you to submit all your material before you can send a request for submitting rec letters so plan accordingly.

Acceptance letters will very slowly start going out in mid-Feb but the vast majority of programs won't send out anything until like, March and not be done until later than that. Accordingly, wait until at least mid-March to begin freaking out if you haven't been accepted anywhere.

You should 100% be expecting a tuition waiver and stipend from a program if you're applying for a PhD.

The rest of the posts is.... ridiculously long so I’m putting it under a cut. I mention things to do in advance to help you decide if grad school is right for you and things that make your application look good, give a full time line of the process, a list of things applications commonly ask for, and some miscellaneous notes. (The points above are repeated in more detail).

In addition, some links to other resources math students may appreciate:

an old post of mine about grad school apps (overlaps a lot and features some ranting from during the application process)

about REUs including my addition specifically about math ones

summer programs for undergrads that aren’t REUs by @counter-example and @jungleuniversity

Tips for prospective grad student visits 

Also about prospective grad student visits by @thisurlhasbeenleftasanexercise

Also for context, I went to a large state school in the US for undergrad. I started as a CS major and added on math as a secondary major after my first year and dropped CS during third year. I’m primarily interested in discrete and algebra, though I have a significant topology background from undergrad too. I got most of my advice from people around the department, as I became pretty involved during my third year. Now, I’m a first year grad student at another large state school in the US, generally considered pretty decent though not a “top math program” at all. Not that much else has happened so far.

Things in advance (aka things to help you decide if grad school is for you and things that look good on an application)

Take the standard classes. For pure math, this is at least one semester of linear alg, abstract alg, and analysis each. Linear and analysis are also good for applied math but I'm not sure what else if anything is considered standard.

Take some grad classes if you have the option. Most people are not ready for this until senior year, but some do manage as juniors. Talk to people who know you well and the prof teaching the class before you do this though.

Try to get involved with research whether this is through independent studies at your home institution, REUs, internships, or other stuff.

Be involved in your department. This helps with getting you more personalized advice for applying.

The rough suggested timeline (assuming junior yr is your second to last year and senior is your last of undergrad)

Junior April: Take the math subject GRE so you can take it again in Sep or Oct if desired (perhaps not applicable atm). The general can be taken kinda whenever; I suggest fall of senior year.

Junior April/May: Start talking to professors/post docs/mentors/etc. about programs you may be interested in. Write/type it down. Don't worry if it gets long, you will shorten again later.

Summer: Do some research if possible; an REU or research at your institution (if an REU, also get your mentor's opinion on potential schools towards the end as well)

Senior Sep: Start whittling down your list. 8-14 seems to be the "normal" range of schools to apply to but some people panic and do more. Remember that asking for waivers is completely acceptable but applying is still just generally expensive (I spent around $800 for 10 schools)

Senior Sep: Apply for the NSF GRFP. You can apply as an undergrad senior and once during your first or second year of grad school if you didn't already get it. The due date is in mid-late OC but ideally you'll have a draft of your essays and ask for rec letters by the end of Sep, if not earlier.

Senior early Nov: Ask for rec letters if you haven't already. The rule of thumb is a month before the due date. Provide them a list of schools you want to apply to including due date and where/how to submit as soon as possible (as well as anything else they request of course; many ask for a resume and a draft of your personal statement).

Senior Dec-Jan: Submit stuff! Pure math programs typically have deadlines in Dec or early Jan. I think the big days are Dec 10th, Dec 15th, and Jan 15th but some are earlier or later. (applied math masters tend to be earlier I think; in Nov). I suggest putting them all into a list or calendar. In addition, some schools won't let letter writers submit until all of your stuff is submitted so start applications early, even if you don't finish them immediately.

Senior Feb: Programs will slowly start sending out offers in early Feb and pick up in mid Feb, but don't fret until AT LEAST the beginning of March! Grad programs are just way too slow at getting out offers for it to be worth worrying until then (and even then, it's definitely not time to panic but mathematicians are frequently anxious people so I get it). Waitlists are slower to come out; usually starting in early March. Also note, there are many programs that don't actually send out replies to everyone unfortunately.

Senior late Feb-early April: prospective student days! They might be online in 2021 unfortunately but try to attend whatever form they're in if you can (only one of my visits during spring 2020 was online since the others happen to be very early and safely beat covid in the US). Be warned, it's very possible to get offers of admissions and to visit very last minute. I do not have advice for how to make that less stressful.

Senior April 15th: Common reply deadline. If you got your offer in the first round or two, this is probably your deadline to accept. In addition, this means more offers will likely come out shortly after once more people have declined. 

Senior summer: graduate. Send a completed, official transcript to your new institution. Check your new email account for stuff you're suppose to do. Some programs have some sort of program during the summer for in-coming students. Most places have graduate student training of some sort for a week or two before semester starts. 

Some common things to be asked for in applications

Not actually a thing asked for but many graduate schools have their own portal for which you will have to make an account to submit an application. A few use a common system that kinda sort shares a database of accounts? Some are fine and some massively suck.

Personal Statement/Statement of Purpose: Occasionally called something else and once in a while actually separate things; will usually have a prompt of wildly differing specificity. Sometimes, the prompts come from the department itself and sometimes from the university's graduate school. I suggest having one or two "base" essays then tweaking them for each school. Sometimes a word/page limit is specified but if it's not, around 2 pages/1000 words is pretty reasonable.

Transcript. Some accept unofficial but some require official but generally not an unsealed one. I ordered myself one official transcript and sent it to multiple schools instead of paying for them to be sent to each school during the application process.

Resume or CV: Most ask for either a CV or is fine with either, in which case I give them my CV. I sent more or less the same one everywhere.

Some other notes

Yes, ask for application waivers. Just be polite about it.

Your goals for your essays are primarily to show that you're interested in math and math research and are capable of like…. writing things that make sense

Do not start out an essay with either "I loved math since I was little" or "I actually didn't like math when I was young" or any variations of those. (I had one essay that started with a mildly humourous anecdote from undergrad combinatorics and another that talked about how my undergrad department has greatly affected me).

You should 100% expect to get a tuition waiver and living stipend as part of a TA fellowship (or more rarely, an research fellowship) as part of your offer of acceptance for a math PhD program (pure or applied). Health insurance is also frequently part of the package. This is not true of masters programs unfortunately.

How schools do waitlists depend wildly though most don't have super long ones like prestigious undergrads do. If you're still interested in a place you're waitlisted at, follow their instructions to confirm your placement on the waitlist then wait until April before following up again, expressing your continued interest and asking for an update. You might even want to wait until around the common deadline, April 15th. The number of people who declined before April is just really really low so nothing really happens until then.

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19 Aug 2019: Google’s green dot and Facebook’s privacy cafe.

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Google’s green dot: making Nest cameras more private

Google sent an email to customers of its Nest camera explaining that a software update would prevent them from turning off the status light on their camera. “You would always see a clear visual indicator when your Nest cameras are on and sending video and audio to Google” they said. 

It’s a bit uncomfortable not knowing if the house you’re in contains videos, microphones and other sensors that are watching you. So a change that will clearly improve privacy should be a Good Thing, but it has been controversial. Some customers say the light prevents a specific user need (homeowners who fear criminals will take cctv systems unless they’re hidden, parents who want to use them as baby monitors, etc, and there’s now a petition). One obvious reading of this is that the customer’s interests aren’t necessarily the same as those of people who might be in the camera’s field of vision.

The other thing that might be alarming customers is the idea that you buy a product which works a certain way, but the manufacturer later changes how it works with a software update. Once software eats physical products, they’re permanently a bit malleable. People are used to websites and software changing over time, but they aren’t yet used to thinking about physical objects as changeable software services that they’re merely renting access to.

Google’s note says that some cameras will indicate that they’re watching with a green light, others a blue light, and others will use a blinky light. Maybe a new language would help. If sensors and devices that collected data and sent it to some other place were required to indicate that in a consistent way. You still wouldn’t know whether you could fully trust the “purple light” (for example), nor what happened to the video when it got sent to wherever.

Questions of privacy and data are never about one camera, or one company or even one individual. They’re usually about multiple devices, services, companies and people with differing roles and interests. Not easy questions.

Facebook privacy cafe

Facebook is opening a pop-up coffee shop in London to give people “privacy check ups”. You would guess that this will be about being careful which third parties you share your data with when you’re on Facebook. But it might not cover how to perma-delete your FB account or send them a GDPR subject access request.

(Previously: students pay for coffee with personal data.)

2030

Yotta walks down the street through an invisible bath of data, network pings and sensor attention that her device describes as an audible crackling in the background like a radiation counter. Her earring buzzes when she turns to face the shop - there’s a brief pause as DuckDuckSocial provides a disposable proxy identity. She won’t get the loyalty points but she has principles. She steps over the threshold of the Whatstagram coffee shop and into quote a safe social space. The crackling thins out - inside the shop Whatstagram blocks some traffic to other platforms.

At the table with friends, their devices all flash purple LEDs • to indicate personal data being gathered by the network. She know her devices will try resist the sensors, offering deepfaked data. But you never know if it works. 

“If this shop worked like Whatstagram actually does, they’d give you this free coffee and a cookie, and then very closely watch how you behaved, who you spoke to, taking lots of notes, follow you to the bathroom, and continue when you walked off down the street.”

“Yeah yeah Yotta, but the coffee is good.”

“I know.”

Livestreamed funerals

Livestreamed funerals: “nearly 20 percent of US funeral homes now offer the service—a big number in an industry resistant to change—in response to demand from clients. Tech-savvy entrepreneurs offer livestreaming as a service to hesitant funeral directors” 

Internet fridges

At last, you think, a genuine use for an internet fridge! Infuriated by her daughter’s obsession with social media, a mother confiscates her internet devices, resulting in the teen tweeting from gaming boxes and eventually from a smart fridge. Funny story. Though maybe it was a Twitter joke, or just a guerrilla marketing campaign (the fridge manufacturer claims not). Whether it is true or not, you can expect to see people emergency-tweeting from their fridges in a movie plot in 2021. 

Two more marketing stories for a world in which true and fake are smooshing into each other: a depressing article on how to piggyback your marketing onto news stories. A vision for “synthetic media” - computer-generated content.

(Elsewhere in marketing, Facebook will be rebranding Instagram and WhatsApp as “by Facebook”, though these days you wonder if rebranding FB “Newsfeed by Whatstagram” could have been worked.)

Tracking the tracking

The last newsletter was looking for a user-friendly tool that you could give a web address to and get back a list of third party tracking things running on that site. A beloved reader writes: “PrivacyBadger will almost do what you want with trackers: it’s a browser extension built by the EFF that will show (and block) trackers when you visit a page”.

Co-op Digital news

Service mapping to make friends and influence stakeholders.

Most opened newsletter in the last month: small baskets at Amazon Go stores. Most clicked story: what’s on the Alan Turing banknote?

Events

Public events:

Ladies that UX - Tue 20 Aug 6.30pm at Federation House.

Manchester WordPress user group - Wed 21 Aug 6.30pm at Federation House.

What is responsible tech? - Thu 22 Aug 6pm at Federation House.

'Disability Confident' Celebrating diversity at work - Fri 13 Sep 8am at 151 Deansgate.

ODI’s Strategic data skills - Mon 16 Sep 8.30am online course (needs 3-5 hours/week)

Mind the Product - MTP Engage - Fri 7 Feb 2020 - you can get early bird tickets now. 

Internal events:

Delivery community of practice - Mon 19 Aug 1.30pm at Fed House.

What has the web team been up to? Playback - Tue 20 Aug 1pm at Fed House 5th floor.

Health team show & tell - Tue 20 Aug 2.30pm at Fed house 5th floor.

UX future vision wrap up show & tell - Wed 21 Aug 11am at Fed house 5th floor.

Engineering community of practice - Wed 21 Aug 1.30pm at Fed House Defiant.

CRM and data ecosystem show & tell - Wed 21 Aug 3pm at Angel Square 13th floor breakout area.

Membership show & tell - Fri 23 Aug 3pm at Fed House 6th floor kitchen.

More events at Federation House - and you can contact the events team at  federation.events@coopdigital.co.uk. And TechNW has a useful calendar of events happening in the North West. 

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[devilgate]

Starting the Year (and a Brief Look Back)

<div><p>2022. That's a lot of 2s. Though just wait till the 2nd of February.</p> <p>Happy New Year to one and all. Who knows what 2022 will bring, but let's hope it's at least some relief from the difficulties of 2020 and 2021. But the coronavirus doesn't care about calendars, and neither does viral evolution.</p> <p>Anyway, I posted 143 times in 2021, which is broadly in line with recent years. Here's the breakdown, because why not?</p> <table> <thead> <tr> <th>Month</th> <th>Posts</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>Jan</td> <td>22</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Feb</td> <td>12</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Mar</td> <td>17</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Apr</td> <td>14</td> </tr> <tr> <td>May</td> <td>10</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Jun</td> <td>11</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Jul</td> <td>12</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Aug</td> <td>6</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Sep</td> <td>14</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Oct</td> <td>6</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Nov</td> <td>8</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Dec</td> <td>11</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p><a href="https://devilgate.org/blog/2021/01/01/blog-stats-2020/">2020's stats</a>, and <a href="https://devilgate.org/blog/2020/01/01/2019-in-bloggery/">2019's</a>.</p></div>

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How do you know if your ex secretly wants you back?

How do you know if your ex secretly wants you back?

18 signs they want you back 1) They stay in touch. ... 2) They're jealous. ... 3) They open up about their feelings. ... 4) They want to know about your dating life. ... 5) They want you to know about their dating life. ... 6) They're still protecting you. ... 7) They often reminisce on the 'good old times' with you. ... 8) They follow your social media. More items... • Sep 24, 2020 how to get your ex boyfriend back if he still loves you

How do you know if he doesn't love you anymore?

Another one of the signs he doesn't love you anymore is that he does not want to be involved in your life. Whenever you want to talk to him, he says he's busy and when he does, he doesn't even give you attention; he avoids your eyes, probably picks up his phone while you “rant and ramble”. Feb 5, 2021 how to get your narcissistic ex boyfriend back https://www.google.com/calendar/event?eid=anF2NDhrM3IxcDRicWI4dHVnMmNvZGsyOGcgZ2VrbGQ0cjNmZWE5MDM5OWpvM2tkOWtpc3NAZw https://www.pinterest.com/pin/673358581784767105/