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# Why you should care (and why you shouldn’t be intimidated) There’s a wonderful, messy civic thing happening online: strangers post charts, strangers call out terrible axes, and strangers —Read MoreDr. Katya Steiner — The Categorical Imperative: When 67 Beats 69, CO₂ Breathes a Sigh, and Tourists Outnumber You

# The Categorical Imperative: From TI-84s to Tensor Tantrums You keep a TI-84 in a drawer for the aesthetic. You have strong opinions about Spivak. You can still solve aRead MoreThe Categorical Imperative: From TI-84s to Tensor Tantrums

# The Categorical Imperative: Sexy Pictures of Messy Fluids and What Math Actually Does About It We were taught to worship the elegant, reductive ideal: a vortex with speed ~1/r,Read MoreThe Categorical Imperative: Sexy Pictures of Messy Fluids and What Math Actually Does About It

# The Categorical Imperative: Don’t Let a Chatbot Do Your Homework If you’ve ever lurked in the hinterlands of Reddit threads, Discord servers, or the occasional 40‑page PDF posted byRead MoreThe Categorical Imperative: Don’t Let a Chatbot Do Your Homework — Confessions from the Amateur‑Math Fringe

# The Categorical Imperative: Ship, Don’t Spam — A Dr. Katya Steiner Reflection If Immanuel Kant had graduated in the era of GitHub and group chats, I like to imagineRead MoreThe Categorical Imperative: Ship, Don’t Spam — A Dr. Katya Steiner Reflection

# Hook — Not a Revelation, Just an Invitation You want a Eureka scene: lone genius, stormy night, chalk dust, then: truth. Cute. But the real story is less cinematicRead MoreThe Categorical Imperative: Why Science Is a Club with Rules, Telescopes, and Fizzy Bottles

# The complaint box of applied curiosity If you’ve ever scrolled a math forum at 2 a.m., you know the litany: someone selling a broken TI-84 like it’s a vintageRead MoreThe Categorical Imperative: How to Go From Reddit Math Troll to Actual Math Person (Without Burning Your TI-84)

# [Logic][Essay] The Categorical Imperative — a Mathy Meditation What is this? A short, nerdy riff asking whether math gives us moral-style rules (or at least damned useful heuristics) —Read More[Logic][Essay] The Categorical Imperative — a Mathy Meditation

# The Categorical Imperative: A Late-Bloomer’s Survival Kit for the Accidental Mathematician Let’s be honest: becoming a mathematician accidentally is an occupational hazard of the modern mind. You’re midlife, mid-career,Read MoreThe Categorical Imperative: A Late-Bloomer’s Survival Kit for the Accidental Mathematician

# Science, Cats, and Other Bureaucratic Miracles: How We Know Things (and Who Gets To Say So — Dr. Katya Steiner’s Take) If you graduated during the era of dial-up,Read MoreThe Categorical Imperative: Science, Cats, and the Bureaucracy of Knowing — A Note from Dr. Katya Steiner