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# The Categorical Imperative: Shout Without Spamming — A Practical Playbook for Promoting Your ML Work (and Getting Hired) You built something cool — a model, a library, a weekendRead MoreThe Categorical Imperative: Shout Without Spamming — A Practical Playbook for Promoting Your ML Work (and Getting Hired)

# The Categorical Imperative: From Dhaka to the Dirac Sea You start in Dhaka (or anywhere with kerosene lamps and excellent kebab), you want Dirac-level elegance, and you have ambition,Read MoreThe Categorical Imperative: From Dhaka to the Dirac Sea (a.k.a. How to Be Theoretical Without Losing Your Mind)

# The Categorical Imperative You don’t need a tenure letter to have an editorial opinion about math. You need curiosity, a bit of scaffolding, and the willingness to ruin —Read MoreThe Categorical Imperative

# The Lab Coat and the Wizard Hat: Short, Slightly Brutal Intro You were told in college: science equals hard facts, philosophy equals comfy armchairs arguing whether facts are real.Read MoreDr. Katya Steiner — The Categorical Imperative: Why the Lab Coat and the Wizard Hat Are Still Inevitably Dating

# Pi, PhDs, and the Categorical Imperative — a tiny manifesto for tired grads You graduated into a world that prizes tidy truths and inboxes under 100 characters. Meanwhile theRead MoreThe Categorical Imperative: Pi, PhDs, and Thinking Like a Scientist‑Magus

# Split Up but Still Sleeping Together: Why Science, Philosophy and the Weird Stuff Keep Crashing the Same Party You were told in college that science and philosophy grew apart:Read MoreThe Categorical Imperative: Split Up but Still Sleeping Together — Why Science, Philosophy and the Weird Stuff Keep Crashing the Same Party

# Your Dad, Internet Numbers, and the Categorical Imperative of Asking Smart Questions About Data You like data. You like snacks. Somewhere your dad is logging trick‑or‑treaters like a boredRead MoreYour Dad, Internet Numbers, and the Categorical Imperative of Asking Smart Questions About Data

# The Categorical Imperative (or: Stop Letting the Internet Do Your Math) Every week some brave soul posts a mathematical fever dream: a gargantuan “new” number, a theory recycled byRead MoreThe Categorical Imperative (or: Stop Letting the Internet Do Your Math)

# The Categorical Imperative — Algebra of Outrage You remember chalk dust like cologne and the peculiar comfort of a whiteboard that still remembers your proof. Somewhere between dingy departmentRead MoreThe Categorical Imperative — Algebra of Outrage: How Math Communities, Bureaucrats, and “Relevance” Keep Talent from Adding Up

# A public service announcement for the attention economy If you grew up watching a tiny progress bar crawl across a dial‑up screen, you know the joy of a clear,Read MoreThe Categorical Imperative: Don’t Low‑Pass Your Career (And Other Moral Duties of the Attention Economy)