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# The Categorical Imperative: Math, Meritocracy, and Other Fictions You love math. The world, bless it, is fallibly in love with metrics: GPAs, citation counts, grant boxes ticked, the numberRead MoreThe Categorical Imperative: Math, Meritocracy, and Other Fictions

# Pretty Pictures, Practical Science: What Fancy Figures Don’t Tell You About Vortices, Wakes, and Electron Spokes — The Categorical Imperative We love a good figure. A heat map withRead MorePretty Pictures, Practical Science: What Fancy Figures Don’t Tell You About Vortices, Wakes, and Electron Spokes — The Categorical Imperative (Dr. Katya Steiner)

## If you think theyre divorced, meet split custody If you think science and philosophy are divorced, youve met their awkward split custody arrangement: the grant office has the equipment,Read MoreWhen Wizards Became Logicians: Brains, Blocks and Bureaucracy (A Note from Dr. Katya Steiner)

# The Categorical Imperative: Rediscovering Math Without Tears (Or Shame) You’re adulting. You’ve endured terrible playlists, questionable lattes, and a boss who promised “upward mobility” and delivered email chains instead.Read MoreThe Categorical Imperative: Rediscovering Math Without Tears (Or Shame)

# The Categorical Imperative (Applied): An ML Grad’s Guide to Selling Yourself Without Being a Tool You graduated. You can recite a loss function between mouthfuls of celebratory cake, andRead MoreThe Categorical Imperative (Applied): An ML Grad’s Guide to Selling Yourself Without Being a Tool

# You loved the idea of logic in college. You also loved late-night metaphysics and terrible indie films. That’s fine — they can coexist. You remember the warm glow ofRead MoreDr. Katya Steiner — The Categorical Imperative: Logic for People Who Survived College (A Practical Map, No New-Age Buzzwords)

# The Categorical Imperative: Speak Up, But Not Like That If you’ve ever tried to ask a linguist a question and gotten a reply that felt like being handed anRead MoreThe Categorical Imperative: Speak Up, But Not Like That (A Mathematician’s Field Guide to Asking Linguists)

# The Categorical Imperative: Why Sexy Plots of Invisible Chaos Matter Hook: You’ve scrolled past them—the impossibly crisp heat map, the vortex photo that looks like a planet-forming nebula, theRead MoreThe Categorical Imperative: Why Sexy Plots of Invisible Chaos Matter

# If You Must Invent a Number, At Least Explain It: The Categorical Imperative You scroll a forum and there it is: a proud post that births a new numberRead MoreIf You Must Invent a Number, At Least Explain It: The Categorical Imperative — Dr. Katya Steiner

# The Categorical Imperative: Stop Treating Math Like a Meme (and Post Like a Grown-Up) If the internet has taught us anything, it’s that people will gleefully build castles outRead MoreThe Categorical Imperative: Stop Treating Math Like a Meme (and Post Like a Grown-Up)