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'Share with me the sun, you forget sometimes it's yours.' I do YIMBY stuff and self study math in my spare time. Currently Studying: Intro to Linear Algebra (Strang) 💡🐦 🧦🦢🥑🦚🔰🏢🏘️🏛️🗽🗳️🐝
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By the time I am done with Stewart's Calculus, I will have done just over 3,600 problems...

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By far the chapter I have spent the most time and paper on - in Stewart's Calculus - is Techniques of Integration. It is a burn out chapter if there ever was one for self-study. #mathsky

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If you’re wondering why I declined to talk to the NYTimes, then you haven’t been following my account for very long. They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net

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Global cement production has slowed / plateaued over the last decade after rapid growth in the 1990s and early 2000s. ourworldindata.org/data-insight...

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It's funny that our conception of royal attire is still tied to the kind of clothes Charles III wore at his coronation when Charles probably just wears a suit 99% of the time. Anyone wearing a gold crown with a suit probably looks like they belong in a party photo booth.

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Political liberalism has a lot of flaws but one of the cool things about it is how it's constructed around the insight that monarchy is a fundamental affront to human dignity 👍

submitted 3 days ago • 34 comments

Really enjoyed my day yesterday at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The entire event was organized by students, and they did an amazing job. Plus I got to speak to a great room full of enthusiastic young people who reminded me that hope is never misguided.

submitted 4 days ago • 23 comments

This is embarrassing in a way that transcends politics. But regardless it was always true that journalists are largely ignorant of the subjects they report on. Expectations there need to increase if we expect quality to improve.

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S2E12 has an insane run of 30 Rock's best lines

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

thank you for asking! if I ran Chuck Schumer's account, I wouldn't say anything unless it contained one of the following: 1. details about how Chuck Schumer is helping 2. details about something the person reading the post could be doing 3. any other kind of helpful information at all

submitted 22 days ago • 59 comments

We won't have a proper #mathsky until everyone starts showing off their collection of Dover or Springer books.

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I think this tracks with my evolution over this argument. From stats > calc to 'well, you need calc if you want actual stats' and now basically below.

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The "calculus vs. statistics" debate is almost always ignorant of the fact that "real statistics" involves calculus. Discrete = intro / algebra-statistics Continuous = calculus-statistics It's not an either/or thing. Now, practically for MOST people: intro stats > calc #iteachmath #mathsky But...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Vichy Twitter is a censorship engine run by a nazi. The best time to stop using it was after Elon Musk bought the site, the second best time is now.

submitted 6 days ago • 25 comments

(explaining bugs bunny to a girl) ok the thing you gotta know about this guy is hes basically never serious. He is always clowning on others

submitted 7 days ago • 141 comments

Spoken like a true dictator.

submitted 7 days ago • 1289 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 7 days ago • 5664 comments

The Cruciferous Cause

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"An appositive aperitif"

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If I learned one thing from Roman history it's that senators, as a rule, are cowards.

submitted 8 days ago • 21 comments

you're currently living through one of the largest positive technological revolutions in modern history - solar and batteries replacing fossil fuels - and you're hearing more about chatbots because the people who run our country make money selling oil

submitted 8 days ago • 15 comments

No one should be resigning, they should refuse to be corrupt until they are fired in the appropriate, legal manner

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This video by @hankgreen.bsky.social covers why the Galilean moons are so amazing. I love Pluto too, but #Io, #Europa, #Ganymede and #Callisto are top tier Solar System objects. 🧪🔭 #Astronomy #Science #Geology #PlanetaryScience #Space Shoutout to the Europa Clipper: science.nasa.gov/mission/euro...

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments