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I went to The Gauntlet and the Garden to see Dimension 20 at Madison Square Garden and it was truly an incredible time! It had everything, Lou stone cold stunnering Murph, Brennan kissing Murph, more Murph stuff, it was a blast! #Dimension20

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Someone sent me this problem the other day and I'm obsessed with the potential for variation here. What would you do? #ITeachMath

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Look at this crystalline structure! My kids noticed it on our walk today!

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The math here was fun, but so was figuring out how to print the files! I've completed "Restroom Redoubt" - Day 14 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/14

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The more we learn, the more concerning this company becomes.

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I love when being a mathematician is just a cheat code. Easy day easy life. I just completed "Claw Contraption" - Day 13 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/13

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I started off by being an idiot and then I think I was actually quite clever! I just completed "Plutonian Pebbles" - Day 11 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/11

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Do I use DFS in my daily life? No I do not. Am I glad I know how to do it? Yes I am. I've completed "Hoof It" - Day 10 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/10

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This is what life looks like these days, cute kiddos and a beautiful place to live!

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It’s all that I’ve been posting about, but I wanted to give a huge thanks to @was.tl who runs #adventofcode. I’ve had so much fun since 2019 playing along, and he does a ton of work! It’s been somewhat of a rough year and I hope you know you’re very appreciated!

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Unsure why I found today so straightforward, but this is most definitely my best placement in a long time (partly because I’m usually not up this late) I've completed "Resonant Collinearity" - Day 8 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/8

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Recursion makes me feel like an absolute genius. I just completed "Bridge Repair" - Day 7 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/7

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I didn't use an elegant solution to Part 2, I just simulated all possible locations for the guard and checked for a loop. This is not a good solution, it did work tho! (It only took 8 seconds!) I've completed "Guard Gallivant" - Day 6 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/6

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Fun expansion of rules into a tree and then a little bit of brute force just for fun! I just completed "Print Queue" - Day 5 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/5

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I should probably learn how numpy works? Instead I did this heinous figuring out of how to roll my own diagonals and anti-diagonals, which was not the most effective approach. I just completed "Ceres Search" - Day 4 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/4

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My kiddo brought this home and I’m just incredibly interested in how it tastes but also it might murder my tastebuds. What do we think chat, to eat or not to eat?

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I had to learn regex for this one, which honestly I should have done before anyways. I've completed "Mull It Over" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/3

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I just completed "Red-Nosed Reports" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/2 I brute forced this one a little bit, there's a more elegant way to think about Part 2 (one where you don't just check all the conditions) but I do think my solution is fairly elegant.

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Every year I start this challenge, and every year I don't make it to the end. But, it improves my coding skills a little every year and that's a big deal! I've completed "Historian Hysteria" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/1

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"But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything." Charles Darwin, whose “On the Origin of Species” was published #OTD in 1859, understood impostor syndrome and what it was like to have a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. He also had abysmal penmanship.

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On Thursday at 7pm I learned my buddy’s groomsman had dropped out for his Saturday wedding. Turns out I fit in the suit pretty well for it being someone else’s!

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D&D Combinatorics xkcd.com/3015

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I'm having a stroke. You guys gotta read this. Please.

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What good math problems could we create from this data? Seems like a rich place to start! #ITeachMath♾️

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My first published crossword is out today! Loved making this grid and looking forward to bigger and better aspirations!

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Laurie Berkner stans have waited for this day for forever.

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The unexpected highlight of today is an incredibly fun time coaching 3rds squash! It’s a new role to me and I’m loving it. The rough moment is that I have calc BC tests to grade by tomorrow and I’m critically low on spoons. #EDS #EDUSky

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You can tell it’s finals week when the linear algebra brain dump starts. #iteachmah

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I spent much of my day unraveling student misconceptions about what function notation means (lots of folx thinking it was f times x, instead of understanding the role the input plays in function definition.) Any #iteachmath #MTBoS folks have good insight into how they’ve tackled this problem?

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I’ve been trying to build writing into Calc BC this year, following success with Multivariable Calculus. Check out this assignment where Gru from Despicable Me requests my students’ assistance in stealing the moon. #iteachmath #MTBoS 1/2 docs.google.com/file/d/16CLI...

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