Matthew Leingang

Fall returns to the midlantic region

47th first day of school. About to preach the good news of the fundamental theorem of calculus to 200 students. Wish me luck!

September is the cruelest month.

Me today (but I fixed it using some of the same tips suggested upthread): bsky.app/profile/matt...

Yes, that's exactly what happened. I had tried it with "&..." as it literally appeared in the quoted post.

"Old Google" search for "seven letter word for flightless bird". The top link is to a page which suggests (correctly) PENGUIN and OSTRICH. Below that is the same (incorrect) AI overview.

Thanks. I tried what you suggested and it sort of worked. It still provided an AI overview, but below a much better pre-AI result:

Google results page for the query "seven letter word for flightless bird". The AI overview suggests RHEAS or EMU, neither of which have seven letters. It also mentions ostriches and penguins, but claims they don't match the letter count. Meanwhile, on the right, two articles found with pre-AI Google are listed. One mentions OSTRICH in its summary and another has a picture of a PENGUIN. Both of those are seven letter words for a kind of flightless bird.

AI is making us dumb

Aestivation - Wikipedia

Yesterday I wondered “What is hibernation called if it happens during the summer instead of the winter?” The answer is “estivation.” I hope all my academic friends have had a good one. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aestiva...

I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus

He’s saying now his military occupation of DC is so successful that crime has disappeared. In two weeks he will say it’s still an emergency so he has to maintain it

Trump is good at finding the weak points where laws require virtuous behavior and unraveling them. As long as SCOTUS maintains that only the president can say what’s an “emergency” or “cause” for firing, he’ll claim the right to do whatever he wants.

I know this is a fool’s errand, but I’m wondering what he means by this. People say “10 times less than” when they mean “1/10 of”. Is that what he thinks he is saying?

It gives you some shortcuts to nice formatting too. I gave in and am happy about the decision

But he told us where we stand!

Texas v. Johnson enters the chat en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_v...

If you use spreadsheets like databases, where every tab is a table, the first row has all the column names, and every row after the first is a record, then you’re mostly there. Google Tables allows you to put as many of those on a tab as you want. You get another way to reference data ranges too

Hard agree. But I wouldn’t consider MetLife Stadium and its environs as representative

From my Union County perspective, it seems that service on the Raritan Valley line has gotten slightly better but the Morris & Essex has gotten significantly worse in the past 10 years. Which surprises me since property values along the M&E are much higher.

I set up some GitHub workflows for my PreTeXt course today. I have a private repo that includes exercise solutions, a public one without them, and a workflow that copies the private one to the public one, stripping out solutions. Now I can deploy from the public repo without publishing solutions 🎉

Make a band food:

4 Naan Blondes

New PreTeXt feature: Handouts!

If you use guided notes in your teaching, or just want to make accessible versions of the printouts you bring to class, you can now author these in #PreTeXt and print directly from the browser (or save as PDF to annotate on a tablet).
mathtech.org/2025/08/17/h...

Corruption is a tax

I would say so. There are some recurring characters from the original, but any relevant backstory gets filled in by flashback. Wikipedia’s synopsis is probably all you need to know about the original series.

(But it is a good watch if you have the time)

I mean, not even Jets fans like the Jets

Increase a band

Here’s one where both bands are real: U2 -> Us3

Injury Cab For Cutie

Take out the battery and figure it out in the morning

The Maimers

Gust

The treatment