Aditya Khanna

Combinatorics grad student at Virginia Tech. Likes partitions, math ones not social ones.

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2026-02-17 23:03:34 UTC

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@nprofile…xja6 i thought I recognized Gates's co-author's name. That's the logicomix guy

2026-02-12 23:33:52 UTC

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@nprofile…u3x7 whoa I am really curious about these metaprogramming techniques. Is there a simple example?

2025-12-28 15:48:06 UTC

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@nprofile…8eua lol, I'm curious why it's periodically chunky instead of being more cylindrical. I should just read the article right?

2025-12-24 16:43:44 UTC

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@nprofile…8eua oh that is such a cool explanation of finding the "minimum of a sliding window". Superabundant numbers are defined similarly but the ratio being extremized is related to number of factors.

2025-12-07 16:39:06 UTC

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@nprofile…8eua @nprofile…jng9 I like the music analogy because it also defines the receiving perspective. Music is useless if there are no human ears to fall upon. Similarly, mathematics that hasn't been understood by humans carries little value. You could "create" music through AI, the same way you could "create" proofs, which are just rehashs

2025-12-01 19:38:46 UTC

@nprofile…8eua the lore drop of you carrying around logs and studying Feynman lectures in highschool is crazy! I'm honored to know it now

2025-11-28 01:52:42 UTC

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@nprofile…8eua cannot sponsor visas makes me cry

2025-11-24 16:43:19 UTC

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@nprofile…8eua i only very recently (and embarrassingly) realized that a tensor product of matrix vector spaces A ⊗ B is the space of matrices with size and scalars determined by B and entries determined by A. I knew it algebraically but not with this intuition. Pretty closely related to wreath products of the form S_n wr G.

2025-11-09 17:06:09 UTC

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@nprofile…8eua this has been such a great series, looking forward to more

2025-11-04 19:53:42 UTC

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@nprofile…ztfm omg I'm an absolute sucker for mathematical essays. This collection sounds amazing thank you

2025-11-04 17:37:17 UTC

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@nprofile…ztfm oh damn. Could you link the original article?

2025-10-17 15:38:45 UTC

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@nprofile…l4xy that's indeed a good question. I haven't seen much of those lanterns when I celebrated Diwali in India. I don't think their usage is homogeneous, and honestly anything that emits light and is pretty will be absorbed as a Diwali deco.

2025-09-30 01:46:10 UTC

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@nprofile…fa4k i love this idea so much. I wish more people would advertise positions like this

2025-06-15 11:55:11 UTC

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@nprofile…saev @nprofile…fa4k @nprofile…mqrg @nprofile…6cfc @nprofile…hszg oh that's extremely funny, i would love to use that as a reaction meme

2025-06-14 16:07:46 UTC

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@nprofile…hszg @nprofile…6cfc honestly yes! That's also a good case for why 0^0 is equal to 1 in combinatorics.
The uniform definitions hold well for empty sums, products and sup/inf of empty set. I like thinking about that for fun sometimes

2025-06-02 14:53:26 UTC

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@nprofile…saev that's my favorite theorem (general mod p). It's combinatorial proof with coloring cycles is so pretty

2025-05-31 16:49:49 UTC

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@nprofile…fa4k people I know are receiving emails with some fake DEI explanation (e.g. how working in retinal research is harmful to American health). How are they going to explain cutting this? Why aren't we out on the streets yet.

2025-05-25 16:16:32 UTC

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@nprofile…qmju I should have thought of this when I looked at the data but cutting "$6 per person" down to "$3 per person" is barely a difference. If people want to street interview, they should frame the statistic like this.

2025-05-19 15:56:40 UTC

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@nprofile…fa4k you're such an inspiration of taking simple things and digging in for the interesting stuff! Thanks.

2025-05-09 11:57:56 UTC

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@nprofile…ccu8 I'm so happy to see an observational astronomy channel! So many channels focus on the cosmology aspect and all the telescope/naked eye stuff is left behind.

2025-03-07 12:36:38 UTC

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@nprofile…yu7x I'd take a "show that is actually an ad" for the majorana chip even if it's fake

2025-02-25 19:58:56 UTC

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@nprofile…ucsf yeah, A for Angle :3

2025-02-18 22:06:53 UTC

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@nprofile…cvwk definitely hard in science. Math has done a lot in making itself resilient through Arxiv and an open publishing system.

2025-02-05 03:57:35 UTC

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@nprofile…qmju this looks great, I wish there was one for combinatorics too :(

2025-01-01 16:33:24 UTC

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@nprofile…saev In my view, the counter intuitive part comes in if a person sees infinite series for the first time. An infinite length of object having a finite volume is equally weird as infinitely many terms adding up to a finite number.

2024-12-21 17:46:27 UTC

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@nprofile…fynq actually it's just me with my walking speed skewing the data

2024-12-06 01:38:28 UTC

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@nprofile…qmju I think the "mathematics os what mathematicians do" is a definition that can never convey a layman. It also puts undue weight on the idea of a "mathematician" and seems like it could be weaponized to demean legitimate contributions from people outside the field.
My current working definition is due to Grant Sanderson of 3Blue1Brown - "Mathematics is what we can know precisely". This is a perspective that things have mathematical nature and not limited by an umbrella term.

2024-12-02 20:14:58 UTC

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@nprofile…fa4k i mean of course it makes them worse like practicing any skill makes you better at that and worse at others. If Einstein couldn't do "abstract math", then we wouldn't have concrete stuff today. Another classic example is studying the objects in cryptography.
Still, such a crazy title. Is that the only math paper with the word "enfeeblement" or "trash" in it?

2024-11-25 16:06:04 UTC

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@nprofile…saev NES Tetris uses Fibonacci LFSR apparently. I can't find a Nintendo source, only secondary ones.

2024-11-25 16:01:56 UTC

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@nprofile…saev ohhh Golomb is so important for tetris not only because of his pentominos, but because he also worked on linear shift feedback registers - the randomizer used in Tetris.

2024-11-13 16:09:27 UTC

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@npub1ch8…3ckt that sounds great! On the topic of personal notes, I write them in the manner that if i get a concussion, I can read them and recover all information.

2024-07-06 20:11:09 UTC

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@npub1knz…c73p extremely fair point! That's my go to reaction for these things too! Thanks for stopping me, before I lunged into the guilty pleasure territory

2024-07-06 18:29:17 UTC

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@npub1knz…c73p oh gosh! Link please

2024-06-08 15:10:29 UTC

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@npub1knz…c73p ah still pretty simple and cool

2024-06-08 14:07:19 UTC

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@npub1knz…c73p i had known about d orbitals since high school but never knew their shapes could be described so simply! Never thought of this representation theoretically