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I write math software for a living. I ride bikes for fun. Both bikes and math are awesome but software is kinda horrible also at @[email protected]
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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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Exciting and practical house designs coming out of Scandinavia

submitted 7 days ago • 52 comments

I feel like I write something every time the DeepMind folks release a result that vaguely overlaps my field. Here's my attempt to put that 4x4 Matrix "algorithm" news from last week into bigger context: www.mapleprimes.com/posts/230205...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

they should call it [prince symbol] max

submitted 15 days ago • 8 comments

People who follow me on Letterboxd will see that sometimes I do terrible things to myself, like how I just watched all the remakes and nominal sequels to Carrie over the last week

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I just registered for The Los Angeles Invitational - I am currently in terrible shape but last year the Triple Scoop was the highlight of my cycling year - www.bikereg.com/the-los-ange...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

You really can do a lot of things with a bachelor's degree in mathematics

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Funny thing: I've discovered I do a weird kind of typo. People often think I'm using audio to text, but I never do. In just the last day I made a typo where I wrote "max" instead of "match" and "list" instead of "least." That is, I frequently make typos where I write out a sound-adjacent word.

submitted 21 days ago • 29 comments

a message to every city council: start making these bollards out of concrete, you cowards

submitted 22 days ago • 22 comments

In addition to growing their own food, sewing their own clothes, and doing their own medical research, everyone should teach their own math classes, make their own TV shows, and maintain their own culturally significant historic sites. Learn some independence!

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I knew that the Liquid Death sparkling water brand was started by Marketing Assholes TM. But they made a unique and delicious take on flavored sparkling water that I loved. But, they couldn't make that business work, so they just said FU to existing fans and turned all their drinks into stevia sodas

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You know, I've tried a lot of off-brand Dr Pepper ripoffs, but the absolute worst has to be Dr. Bronner's.

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

We did it.

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

Because it was a fake job 👍 hope that helps www.wsj.com/articles/the...

submitted 34 days ago • 41 comments

The CEO of John Deere Tractor (one of the biggest ag equipment companies in the world) is also named "John May" and I get a lot of email by not super bright people trying to reach him. This piece of spam seemed especially funny to me this morning.

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Pro-tip to other multi-faith households out there: by judicious application of the icing, you can have both hot cross buns and hot pentacle buns this holiday weekend

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It has been 0 Days since I've had to open a giant Russian tome in aid of fixing a bug in Maple (sadly a PDF, they wouldn't let me take the office copy from Waterloo when I moved to California)

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💡 Did you know? POST-quantum cryptography is significantly more secure than GET-quantum cryptography, where all the quantum information is visible in the URL

submitted 46 days ago • 2 comments

Help my Lowe Life friends rebuild trails in Los Angeles: lowelifes.givingfuel.com/trailfund?mc...

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Seeing lots of misinfo flying around on the left recently. Three different things on bluesky this morning that are either factually wrong or so utterly devoid of context that they might as well be. We're not immune to this, and it's important to read the article and check sources.

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Apparently is Citizen Science Month so I got this badge for maintaining my CoCoRaHS precipitation gauge: dex.cocorahs.org/stations/CA-...

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Ayliean MacDonald's #MathArtMarch Day 29: Unsolved In 2009, god-tier TSP researcher Bill Cook asked me to design the 100,000-city Mona Lisa TSP Challenge. Shortly after, Yuichi Nagata found a tour of length 5,757,191. Is it optimal? We don't know. But we do know that it's within 0.0019% of optimal!

submitted 61 days ago • 2 comments