Matt Mack

Excellent resource!

I am looking forward to <math> inclusion as well.

No disagreement with your proposition but in terms of curriculum you're basically describing what happens in a typical applied discipline-specific statistics course. There are parallels you can also make with biostatistics as well and how they've evolved from a traditional statistics course.

A response from "linda.mciver" says "the only relevant question is: might it make your life better by signalling your disability? if the answer is yes (looks like it to me!) then get one." I reply with "I love this perspective, thank you 🙏 For the most part I get by fine (going by past experiences) but there are definitely many small moments where it's like "Okay I just need a little more consideration when you interact with me" and I definitely don't have an issue signalling that." She responds: "yep, I get it! We CAN get by without, so we feel like we SHOULD. But it's also worth bearing in mind that it helps the people we're interacting with, too, because the interaction goes better if we understand each other better. It helps everyone and harms no one!"

Got a lovely response on Threads

Does the majority of people not really noticing/seeing my hearing aid means my hearing loss is an "invisible-enough" disability?

I want to get the sunflower stuff (for e.g. airports) but feel it's a bit disingenuous on my part, so I'm not sure how to think about it.

I, look, I appreciate cheesiness and references but it's gotta be much more subtle than that, come on 😂

Sounds like you're an awesome leader already 🙃

Bariance = biased variance? But it could be biased in other various ways, why this one in particular?!

I skimmed the article for an explicit explanation of the intended etymology but didn't see one.

Of all things I was slightly mad about today was some catering serving up "chicken karaage" that was tough chicken breast pieces (use THIGH, dammit!) in some definitely-not-typical-Japanese-karaage coating (no pepper nor spice).

Anyway, worse things had happened today.

...no wonder I didn't pick up any hints from casual chatter from my Melbourne friends lol 😑

Somehow I missed the memo (again!) that it's a public holiday today.

(For non-Aussies, it's Labour Day and I must admit I don't care enough to even look it up especially after I was mentally preparing myself this morning to blow through work)

The saltiness of analysis, the sweetness of algebra, the umami of algebraic geometry, the bitterness of contradictions, the sourness of dead ends …

Noooo you've reminded me of how mad I am there isn't any better maths themed hoodies (or clothing in general) such that it's made me look into printing my own custom cloth and figuring out how to sew my own 😂

Somehow Asterix comics never attracted me despite enjoying Tintin comics in the same era. Maybe I should give them a spin now. 🤔

But this'll be a good question for me to put to future English+French speakers I meet in future, thank you! 😁

I feel like I'm committing some sort of crime by wearing a t-shirt with one university's brand, but a hoodie with another university's brand 😂 If anything I got both for (mostly) free 🙃

Plus, the hoodie is usually unzipped so people can't see the branding in its open state.

I'm still watching old SBS Iron Chef episodes and I'm wondering if all the (excellent) puns/references were actually in the original Japanese or they really had brilliant localisers that knew where to add some creative flair into the dubbing scripts 🤔

I've definitely come to understand how people find exercise is "addictive" in the sense that something feels wrong when one drops off a regular routine. In the sense that my legs/body starts feeling weird after 2 days of not walking 10-15minutes to work and back. Hmmmmm

Realised last night when I got sucked into a fantasy light novel last night in bed: Maybe I struggle with non-fiction reading because it feels like work and I'm trying too hard to make it feel more like leisure reading? Instead I should treat it more like a "personal work" task.

To any fellow mathematician who has been drawing stuff on whiteboards/chalkboards for a while as part of their teaching and research, I guarantee those are transferrable skills to start doing digital art. No talent need.

Now I'm feeling self-conscious about the tutorials I'm writing in Jupyter notebooks but I can assure you it's all meant to be ran from top to bottom (with no cross-cell dependencies) and any superfluous code has been cleaned up 😅

A lot of internet mathematicians are terrible at discerning/guessing a poster's age and will talk about mathematical topics at their own level instead of adapting. I don't know how to fix/coach that beyond a "Don't do that, here's a better phrasing"

Basically any kind of moderation or "bad guy" that tells people off for not properly communicating.

On /r/math this is somewhat mitigated by the upvote/downvote system, but such a system doesn't exist on Mastodon.

It's funny to me when people apologise for long messages/emails and I always want to be like "m8, I was on the internet before social media ruined it. Gone are the days of PHPBB forums with insane walls of text that I got used to speed-reading. Your meager text patch ain't that."

Bleurghhhhhh.

2) I'd have students implement once on their own as an exercise, have a couple of tests set up to capture edge cases, then the following week introduce the appropriate package (and this opens up an opportunity for students to compare and discover various optimisations in formal packages)

Having read your replies,

1) Assuming course work is more about doing stuff in R and not about mathematical understanding, I'd include the derivation in the notes but not really address it. If it was an algorithms class taught in R then I'd think derivation would be more important to address.

Pitying anyone who walks by my office today as I've emanated various screams and curses while trying to code up the next section of this data analysis bit and the dimensions aren't matching whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy 😭

+1 to that. It's a scenario where I'd be reasonably comfortable with GenAI doing a sloppy and overtuned job because direct keyword searches don't catch subtext posts.

THK. I did beat one or two of Prince Zorn's upgrades but it's definitely worn out my goodwill.

If there's a FINAL final boss I guess it's worth coming back after a break 😅 Some of the achievement names do indicate a few fascinating things I'd love to know at some point!

This is definitely a game I'd get my kids to play if I really wanted something that encouraged persevering through difficult stuff. Hollow Knight really hit that itch for me even though I've been gaming for a long time.
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Just beat the final boss of Hollow Knight. 86% completion, 32.5 hours playtime. I've definitely enjoyed it, but I've had enough of my fill such that trying to hit 100%+ completion (there's an achievement for 112% completion, sheesh) would just unnecessarily burn me out.
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