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RIP big dog

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I found some graphs at the Murakami exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

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101 Dalmatians I can draw this cartoon for you if you like, for a small fee. www.worldofmoose.com/products/101...

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Cutting $20 billion to NIH over 25 years may save $500 billion on paper, but it’d end up costing $8.2 trillion in lost human health. But NIH isn't the only thing being cut. The budget also slashes all NSF-funded science by 73 percent. NASA faces “the biggest single-year cut to NASA in history."

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I learned from her Patreon that Vi Hart has just deleted her 1.5M-subscriber YouTube channel. The worsening of YT’s policies for creators finally reached her breaking point. To help herd folks to her videos’ new home, here’s a link to an early favorite of mine. vimeo.com/showcase/116...

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Ok. Then let it die. Because theft is theft. And even worse if you’re profiting from the crime.

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Talk to your kids about GenAI, because they’re probably not hearing anything negative about it. They have no idea it’s for losers who don’t mind destroying the earth because they can’t come up with their own words

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#MathSky there's a new online open-access (and free) journal for mathematics and fiber arts: Interlace. Now accepting manuscripts! Editors-in-Chief: sarah-marie belcastro and Carolyn Yackel. 🧶 www.interlace-journal.org

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Sweet Truchet post from James Propp! mathenchant.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/m... #mathart #tiling

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In Dürer’s Knots, Susan Dackerman offers an important new examination of Islamic themes in the art of Albrecht Dürer. Explore a free sample of this important book and save 50% with code BLOOM50: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #Dürer #ArtHistory

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The #grandmother 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

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Not many people know this, but the song 8675309 is actually threatening people who live in the zip code 75309

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Math joke (read it). (This joke was circulating about a decade ago. I don't know who to credit with the original.)

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The new pope has a BS in mathematics from Villanova, which explains how he was so successful at becoming the largest cardinal.

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Bleak. nymag.com/intelligence...

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This train journey I’ve been experimenting with Truchet-Like tiles for representing base 10 numbers. Fun squiggles :)

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A partial open knight's tour of a 21x21 board. Done in collaboration with my amazing research student Duy Le.

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A partial open knight's tour of a 21x21 board. Done in collaboration with my amazing research student Duy Le.

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“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

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A partial open knight's tour of a 21x21 board. Done in collaboration with my amazing research student Duy Le.

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I designed some LEGO Truchet tilings in BrickLink's Studio and then bought the pieces and made some art for me and my friends.

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Sol LeWitt Arcs, Circles, Grids, 1972 This one is new to me. I like the fact that although it appears as a complex interference pattern of lines and geometric shapes it retains a monolithic quality.

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50% off through the end of May with code BLOOM50 press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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What they call pedants (people who can’t resist correcting you’re spelling and grammer) in five different countries…. 5. Comma fucker (Finland) 4. Little dot shitter (Switzerland) 3. Whittler of woodchips (Norway) 2. Counter of peas (Germany) 1. Sodomizer of flies (France)

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This year's #MathArtMarch was beautiful in so many ways. I made some art and when I fell off, the rest of the community carried the flame and I got to see so much joyful nerdy creativity - I'm smiling writing this post! Here's a Padlet to collect future prompt ideas 💗 padlet.com/ayliean/math...

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On a recent flight my seatmates learned I was a writer and asked my opinion on AI. They didn't understand genAI is based on work stolen from authors, and they DEFINITELY didn't know about the energy costs. Both shocked them. People just don't know.

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Info on its energy gobbling should be in every news story about AI. It is newsworthy. It is inseparable from the tech itself.

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Stop using AI. Yes, even just for fun. AI is built on STOLEN images and text. That’s right: by using it, you’re stealing from your friends. There is NOT ethical generative AI. Bonus bullshit: it is HORRENOUS for the environment. (Yes, even the cutesy profile photo cartoon things.)

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Behold Tia Keobounpheng’s gorgeous geometric art ... ... crafted from thousand of colored threads woven through precision-drilled holes in wood panels Item #1 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter -- free to read/subscribe here: buttondown.com/clivethompso...

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good advice for writing or mathing. austinkleon.com/2021/09/28/a... Thanks @austinkleon.bsky.social

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Just stumbled on this on YouTube: "Math Encounters: “Mathemagic with a Deck of Cards" (via @momath.bsky.social back in May 2020). www.youtube.com/watch?v=26LV... Introduced by mathematician and magician Matt Baker of @Gatech, it features me teaching several mathematical card effects.

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Day 31: The #MathArtMarch prompt is "change". Inspired by Bob Bosch’s (@baabbbaash.bsky.social) work in Opt Art, this piece uses linear optimization to depict Katherine Johnson and Maryam Mirzakhani in a lenticular dice mosaic. This work is part of honors work with Anna Hugo.

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Ayliean MacDonald's #MathArtMarch Day 31: Change I had some change in the form of pennies from Barbados, so I arranged them into what I think is the smallest 3-regular penny graph. Each penny touches exactly three others.

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In each piece the number of black stones is equal to the number of white stones. And neither has more than four in a row of the same color (horizontally, vertically, diagonally).

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Ayliean MacDonald's #MathArtMarch Day 30: Game "Still Life with Glider" A Conway Game-of-Life still life (stable pattern) that's about to be demolished by the glider lurking in the bottom right corner. From my book Opt Art: From Mathematical Optimization to Visual Design (PUP, 2019).

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Day 30: The #MathArtMarch prompt is "game". Take a stippling of an image, create a boundary (minus one edge so it isn't a circuit), then make a minimal spanning tree of the remaining nodes. Remove another edge elsewhere on the boundary and you have a maze. Fun work with @baabbbaash.bsky.social

RIP big dog

I found some graphs at the Murakami exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

101 Dalmatians I can draw this cartoon for you if you like, for a small fee. www.worldofmoose.com/products/101...

Cutting $20 billion to NIH over 25 years may save $500 billion on paper, but it’d end up costing $8.2 trillion in lost human health. But NIH isn't the only thing being cut. The budget also slashes all NSF-funded science by 73 percent. NASA faces “the biggest single-year cut to NASA in history."

I learned from her Patreon that Vi Hart has just deleted her 1.5M-subscriber YouTube channel. The worsening of YT’s policies for creators finally reached her breaking point. To help herd folks to her videos’ new home, here’s a link to an early favorite of mine. vimeo.com/showcase/116...

Ok. Then let it die. Because theft is theft. And even worse if you’re profiting from the crime.

Talk to your kids about GenAI, because they’re probably not hearing anything negative about it. They have no idea it’s for losers who don’t mind destroying the earth because they can’t come up with their own words

#MathSky there's a new online open-access (and free) journal for mathematics and fiber arts: Interlace. Now accepting manuscripts! Editors-in-Chief: sarah-marie belcastro and Carolyn Yackel. 🧶 www.interlace-journal.org

Sweet Truchet post from James Propp! mathenchant.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/m... #mathart #tiling

In Dürer’s Knots, Susan Dackerman offers an important new examination of Islamic themes in the art of Albrecht Dürer. Explore a free sample of this important book and save 50% with code BLOOM50: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #Dürer #ArtHistory

The #grandmother 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Not many people know this, but the song 8675309 is actually threatening people who live in the zip code 75309

Math joke (read it). (This joke was circulating about a decade ago. I don't know who to credit with the original.)

The new pope has a BS in mathematics from Villanova, which explains how he was so successful at becoming the largest cardinal.

Bleak. nymag.com/intelligence...

This train journey I’ve been experimenting with Truchet-Like tiles for representing base 10 numbers. Fun squiggles :)

A partial open knight's tour of a 21x21 board. Done in collaboration with my amazing research student Duy Le.

A partial open knight's tour of a 21x21 board. Done in collaboration with my amazing research student Duy Le.

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

A partial open knight's tour of a 21x21 board. Done in collaboration with my amazing research student Duy Le.

I designed some LEGO Truchet tilings in BrickLink's Studio and then bought the pieces and made some art for me and my friends.

Sol LeWitt Arcs, Circles, Grids, 1972 This one is new to me. I like the fact that although it appears as a complex interference pattern of lines and geometric shapes it retains a monolithic quality.

50% off through the end of May with code BLOOM50 press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

What they call pedants (people who can’t resist correcting you’re spelling and grammer) in five different countries…. 5. Comma fucker (Finland) 4. Little dot shitter (Switzerland) 3. Whittler of woodchips (Norway) 2. Counter of peas (Germany) 1. Sodomizer of flies (France)

This year's #MathArtMarch was beautiful in so many ways. I made some art and when I fell off, the rest of the community carried the flame and I got to see so much joyful nerdy creativity - I'm smiling writing this post! Here's a Padlet to collect future prompt ideas 💗 padlet.com/ayliean/math...

On a recent flight my seatmates learned I was a writer and asked my opinion on AI. They didn't understand genAI is based on work stolen from authors, and they DEFINITELY didn't know about the energy costs. Both shocked them. People just don't know.

Info on its energy gobbling should be in every news story about AI. It is newsworthy. It is inseparable from the tech itself.

Stop using AI. Yes, even just for fun. AI is built on STOLEN images and text. That’s right: by using it, you’re stealing from your friends. There is NOT ethical generative AI. Bonus bullshit: it is HORRENOUS for the environment. (Yes, even the cutesy profile photo cartoon things.)

Behold Tia Keobounpheng’s gorgeous geometric art ... ... crafted from thousand of colored threads woven through precision-drilled holes in wood panels Item #1 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter -- free to read/subscribe here: buttondown.com/clivethompso...

good advice for writing or mathing. austinkleon.com/2021/09/28/a... Thanks @austinkleon.bsky.social

Just stumbled on this on YouTube: "Math Encounters: “Mathemagic with a Deck of Cards" (via @momath.bsky.social back in May 2020). www.youtube.com/watch?v=26LV... Introduced by mathematician and magician Matt Baker of @Gatech, it features me teaching several mathematical card effects.

Day 31: The #MathArtMarch prompt is "change". Inspired by Bob Bosch’s (@baabbbaash.bsky.social) work in Opt Art, this piece uses linear optimization to depict Katherine Johnson and Maryam Mirzakhani in a lenticular dice mosaic. This work is part of honors work with Anna Hugo.

Ayliean MacDonald's #MathArtMarch Day 31: Change I had some change in the form of pennies from Barbados, so I arranged them into what I think is the smallest 3-regular penny graph. Each penny touches exactly three others.

In each piece the number of black stones is equal to the number of white stones. And neither has more than four in a row of the same color (horizontally, vertically, diagonally).

Ayliean MacDonald's #MathArtMarch Day 30: Game "Still Life with Glider" A Conway Game-of-Life still life (stable pattern) that's about to be demolished by the glider lurking in the bottom right corner. From my book Opt Art: From Mathematical Optimization to Visual Design (PUP, 2019).

Day 30: The #MathArtMarch prompt is "game". Take a stippling of an image, create a boundary (minus one edge so it isn't a circuit), then make a minimal spanning tree of the remaining nodes. Remove another edge elsewhere on the boundary and you have a maze. Fun work with @baabbbaash.bsky.social

Ayliean MacDonald's #MathArtMarch Day 30: Game Is this how you play Go?

Love this whole thread.

This is lovely! What would happen if you used a different lattice?