Re: "Getting to experience life" is not a benefit to animals

On Thu, 22 Jun 2023 03:56:08 -0700 (PDT), Rupert <[email protected]>
wrote:

>On Thursday, June 22, 2023 at 12:27:05?PM UTC+2, Derek wrote:
>> Good work!
>
>I appreciate the thoughts, Derek. 

I'm glad I saw an opportunity to write them down, because you really are
living the dream doing what you do and being able to make contributions to
it for others to gain by. You're naturally gifted, but that doesn't mean you
haven't had to work very hard and make a lot of sacrifices to honour that
gift. 

>It will be a bit of a "lifestyle change", as my mum put it, 

Ha ha! She knows her boy. Up until now, more or less, you've no one but
yourself to motivate you, and while it has to be said you've done well to do
as well as you've done so far, being motivated by external influences such
as a boss or time-constraints will be a "lifestyle change" indeed. Good
luck.

>and I certainly hope I can maintain enough energy to not only make a good impression with my performance at the new job but also get done everything that I want to get done with the other stuff, but I'm definitely still in the early stages of feeling excited about the new situation, so let's hope that the energy levels from that can stay sustainable over the long term. I'm not exactly clear at this stage how much room the contract will leave to take a bit of time off at Christmas but we will probably go ahead and visit my parents in Sydney regardless. It will be Dad's 70th birthday a couple of days before Christmas.

Excellent! I hope he's in rude health. He'll be very glad to see you.

>
>There are three maths projects in the pipeline of a pretty "big" nature and the first one I was thinking of going public with sometime soon would be an attempted demonstration of inconsistency of Reinhardt cardinals with ZF (yes, that big idea I had back in December 2017, but tidied up so as to actually work properly this time), 

That old chestnut. Sometimes, when Belinda catches me during moments of
distrait, she'll ask, "Penny..." or she's straight out with, "What're you
thinking about?" I've often wondered, in that same situation, does Mari stop
unnoticed at the doorway and quietly step back out of sight, trying to
remember which floorboard creaked so as not to be caught out trying to
escape a wheels within wheels conversation? 

>and if all goes well then as of say August or September I will make that one public on a certain platform where colleagues will provide informal "pre-peer-review", which if favourable will increase the chances that a top journal will have a serious look at it for actual peer review. Must proceed with extreme caution of course, to make sure that there are no mistakes. It would be totally reasonable for Jon to sarcastically express skepticism that any of these "big ideas" will come good... but since I think they hold water... I do what I do, because that's just what you do. In any case, no matter what happens here, it's obviously totally fair to call the Philosophia Mathematica publication and the interest it generated a definite win.

I wish you all the best mate. I'm certain you'll get there later if not
sooner, because people like you never give up.