Matt Enlow

Astounding

I don't think insurance companies are eager to implement AI voice agents to "staff" their customer service lines, because they might wind up being inadvertently helpful

I can't believe I'm just figuring out now that the ASCII alphabets starting at A=65 and a=97 MAKES SENSE, because
65 = 01000001₂
97 = 01100001₂
I've done a lot of (very simple) programming, and I've always had to look those numbers up because I could never remember them. 🤦

Your periodic reminder

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Excellent

Me: Hey Self, remember that stretch of a few weeks when we meditated for 10-15 minutes a day every day, and how it somewhat mollified your #ADHD symptoms, and how nice that felt?
Me: Yeah. That was pretty cool.
Me: Yeah.
Me: *continues to never do it again*
😑😑😑

They had better pronounce it "go dot"

What in San Dimas is going on here

Right now I’m picturing… hm… If you started in Room X, picked a door to go through, and then always took the first door to your right, you’d go through 9 different rooms before returning to X. Because 10x108 = 3x360.

NB: “infinite” implies it’s not just twelve rooms forming a dodecahedron

Another wondering-prompt I just gave myself:

An infinite set of regular-pentagonal rooms, each connected to five others, one door on each side

The answer to the unit square question is on the boring side, but nudge one of the four vertices even just a little bit, and it becomes far from boring!

How do I come up with "original" (as in, new-to-me) math problems?

It always starts with wondering.

Like: What if a set 𝑆 ∈ ℝ² had the property that if points A and B are in 𝑆, then so is the midpoint of segment AB?

Then I just start wondering things about 𝑆.

Curiosity is such a powerful engine.

#TryMathsLive is amazing, and more mathematicians and math educators should participate!

The "most people" graph shows constant growth towards 100% completion of a task, where it remains after that. The "me" graph shows asymptotic growth toward that same 100% goal.

Applies to many tasks, such as:
- putting away groceries
- folding and putting away clean laundry
- cleaning the kitchen
- cleaning pretty much any room in the house
#ADHD

No, no, you've got it. I guess I'm just not clear where the 3/8 is coming from.

Don't A going to B and A going to C both yield a crease that divides the square in half?

Square ABCD is to be folded once so that point A lies somewhere on segment BC, then unfolded, leaving a crease. That crease will divide the square into two pieces.

What proportion of the square's area consists of points that are guaranteed to be on the same piece as A?

Here's 9 consecutive primes that end in a '1':

36539311
36539381
36539401
36539411
36539431
36539441
36539471
36539491
36539501

Are there arbitrarily long runs of consecutive primes that end in a '1'?
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Take the infinite sequence of primes, and reduce them all modulo some integer m>2.

Are there runs of identical terms of arbitrary length in this new sequence?

For example, is there a run of 100 consecutive primes that are all congruent to each other mod 67?

My conjecture: 🤷‍♂️ Sure!

Rectangular piece of paper ABCD has a perimeter of 44 units.

If you fold the rectangle once so that point A lands on the midpoint of BC, then the perimeter of the resulting polygon (considering only the exterior outline) is 39 units.

How long is the crease?

#iTeachMath #MathSky

don’t forget then beating yourself up for not being able to do something so simple
#ADHD

Reached peak Gen X Dad this morning, driving my teenagers to day camp, blasting & jamming out to "Kyrie" by Mr. Mister, while said teenagers, resigned to their fate, sat silent and sullen in the back seat

Discussion & Resources | Mathematics for Human Flourishing 100 open-ended discussion questions plus additional resources for each chapter.

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Three math ed ideas that have stuck with me and guided me for years:

Dan Meyer: If [math idea] is the aspirin, how do we create the headache?

Francis Su #1: Whom do we allow to see the "secret menu" of math?

Francis Su #2: Does your math class feel like domination, or freedom?

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Is it possible to start with a polygon, fold it completely over a single crease, and have the new polygon that its outline forms have a perimeter greater than its original perimeter?
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