hannabennett.bsky.social
Math, cats, etc.
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Does it have captions? I know someone who recently explained that they’re hard of hearing, and will sometimes do something like this specifically for the captions.
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The only sunblock I’ve ever found for my face that isn’t guaranteed to end up in my eyes is Neutrogena Sport Face. But I think my biggest problem is rubbing my face with my hands. (And it still sometimes ends up in my eyes. Just. Less.)
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I once saw someone define millennials as the group of people old enough to remember 9/11 but too young to remember the challenger explosion, and that was the point where I was finally willing to accept that I was a firmly millennial (started kindergarten the next year).
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Finding more time to actively rest doesn't magically solve everything, but it was definitely a necessary mindset shift when I was at my worst, burnout-wise.
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A thing from Devon Price's Laziness Does Not Exist that really stuck with me was this reframing: when we're exhausted, we're trained to think "I'm not doing enough! I need to find a way to do more!" when the accurate interpretation is "I'm doing too much! I need to find a way to give myself rest!"
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or scheduling regular breaks into your life in the long run.
And "sitting around feeling like you need to/should be doing work but just can't bring yourself to" or "scrolling social media while trying to summon the energy to work" do not count as breaks. You have to be choosing not to work.
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Are we talking, like, short-term needing to find energy to do something now(ish), or sustained energy and will for a longer period of time?
Actually, I think my answer is similar either way: take a break. A quick nap, like set a 5 or 15 min timer, if you need to work right away...
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There was a story a few weeks ago about a bunch of people getting fired for participating in an NSA group chat where some trans employees talked about stuff related to being trans. You can imagine how gross a lot of the headlines are. Here’s a not gross one:
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I want to know more about this table that seats 6-8. What are its dimensions? Is it official Office Furniture, or something you acquired? My office came with a table that barely manages 4, and it makes me sad. I keep thinking about replacing it.
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A couple years ago some Calc I students told me they like quotient rule better than product rule, which surprised me. When I asked why, they explained: because it's easy to know when to use it; just look for the bar indicating division. I wonder if there's something similar happening here?
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I still have the notebooks I used during grad school while figuring out my thesis, and I show them to students who ask this. They’re kind of a chaotic mess of me working through examples, doing the same things over and over, the occasional doodle or me complaining that something didn’t work, etc.
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I don’t think it’s possible to say the “np” combination quickly without closing your lips to create the m sound.
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as long as the endpoints are in the domain, yes.
Endpoints have to be allowed to be global extrema for the statement of the Extreme Value Theorem to work, and the idea that a global extremum might not be a local extremum is just unacceptable to me.
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I think I’m going! It would be great to see both you and Renata!
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If y’all liked Red, White, and Royal Blue, another book with some similar vibes is Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall. Hall has written a lot of really excellent books. Even the ones that didn’t work for me were still like…full of playing with interesting twists on various tropes.
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So, I read a lot of queer romance, and that’s definitely a place to go looking for hope. But I don’t know how your group feels about the genre, particularly if there’s any dislike of explicit sex scenes.
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You must have already read The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics, right? I would need to think about what else I would recommend, but that one's an obvious choice.
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I know I can accomplish things like this with folders and labels and such. But I want something that really does it in a spatial way.
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I’ve had 8 cats in my life and only 1 who hides from strangers. (She loves hanging out when it’s just her people though). Most of the others even greeted strangers at the door. Cats are a lot more social than they’re given credit for.
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I love it so much! And it seems very relevant. As do, more generally, wallpaper patterns.
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When I was working on a talk on wallpaper patterns/groups I discovered that a lot of the photographic examples on wikipedia come from a book from 1856 called "The Grammar of Ornament" by Owen Carter Jones and the book starts with a list of propositions like it's trying to build an abstract theory!
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I haven’t followed up to find out more, but this is certainly believable, and matches student comments. Students also use it to keep track of their grades, make sure assignments have been graded, etc.
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I‘ve been told there’s evidence that the canvas feature that shows students all their assignments for all their classes in one place (assuming they’re posted), sorted by due date, is beneficial to many, and especially to 1st gen & students with certain disabilities (involving executive dysfunction)
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I have no answer on the worrying about kids part—that seems very hard—but yes, absolutely, Xanax can be for crying. For me Xanax breaks the cycle of anxiety -> exhaustion -> worse anxiety -> worse exhaustion, so that I can rest and recover a bit. And crying can be a sign of exhaustion.
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I’ve seen the term hypophantasia, which seems like a good description for my experience.
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If I have to be able to lay out all the pieces I want on the original sheet, then we’re in new territory for me, and I would have to actually think about it instead of spouting facts I happen to know.
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I think that if I have to keep the pieces flat, then the answer is essentially to approximate the a sphere as best I can—the closer the approximation, the better—so there isn’t actually a maximum unless you give constraints about minimal area or side length of the pieces.
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If I’m given full flexibility in how I construct it but I have to fullt contain the water, then this becomes an isoperimetric problem, and the answer is definitely a sphere. If it just has to carry the water, I suspect the answer is a hemisphere but don’t know that for certain.
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Okay, but can I melt it down and reshape it? Can I curve it? Do I have to account for being able to actually cut the pieces I want out of the original shape? (and if so, does it start as a square?) does the water have to be completely enclosed or would a container with an open top suffice?
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My partner says he sees it all like a movie.
I don't really see much but I *do* have a really strong sense of spatial location. I'll be reading and hit a reference to, like, someone being on the narrator's left and be surprised because I imagined them on the other side.
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You can do that with blueprints, but other fun issues can and do appear with those.
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Ideally, no.
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Sure, that’s probably a reasonable description of what I’m looking for.
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Whee! It’s not how I naturally teach or learn, but I know a student who really does seem to learn best this way, so I’m curious to know what’s out there.
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Well how else would you know he’s a cowboy? (He…is a cowboy, right?)
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Oh, wait, in my quick approach I managed to lose track of the constraint that the turning points have the same y-value. Yes, I think you're right that this means that they're always equidistant to the other turning point and that there is then a symmetry.
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no see you have to fit more content into the TTh classes and therefore the content per day rate is higher, making it spikier. (A colleague of mine also pointed that MWF classes are often roughly 2 half hours while TTh would then be 3 half hours (ish), so MWF should be even, TTh odd.)
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I think the answer is yes if and only if those two turning points are equidistant from the third turning point.
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🤷🤷🤷 I dunno, MWF just feel like round soft days to me, which obviously (?) means even, and TTh are…spiky?
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I would not expect to have an opinion about this but also it seems very clear to me that Tuesday and Thursday are odd and the rest are even but also the logic my brain is using involves something like “well of course the week should start on an even day” which feels. Uh. Concerning.
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Was it @hanusadesign.bsky.social ? You and they are both in a math started pack.
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I guess the thing that I would find useful for understanding this is knowing: how do societies that are not organized around white supremacy treat people who would be considered disabled in this society?
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I hate these questions anyway but this one just boggled my mind in a new way. You're not interested in differentiating between the second-best this year (whatever that means) and the *entire rest* of the top quartile?
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Oo! Actually, both our arguments are using things proved by the exterior angle theorem, and you could use that here too. Certainly less obscure than the first thing I thought of!
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There are several arguments in Euclid that are of the "use the forward direction to prove the converse" variety and they definitely tend to make me uncomfortable. It just feels wrong!
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I only have Euclid in my head as well as I do right now because I've been using it in a course, and I did still have to look up the number. It's not exactly one of the most well-known results.