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Jesse Oldroyd

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Associate professor of mathematics at West Virginia Wesleyan College. My views are my own.

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The obvious solution is to wait nonlinearly.

29.10.2025 22:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If only we could put these on our CVs.

04.09.2025 01:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I love giving this as a homework problem. Itโ€™s a nice derivation.

29.08.2025 00:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I got a chuckle out of Figure 5!

22.08.2025 01:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thereโ€™s always M-x doctor!

18.08.2025 18:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It sounds like a bug!

16.08.2025 05:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Replacing the real numbers sounds like an Archimedean task.

Sorryโ€ฆ

15.08.2025 20:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The humanities, like the sciences, provide valuable tools for engaging and analyzing the world in which we live. To call for their separation is a disservice to our students and is yet another capitulation that will only invite further demands from this administration.

13.08.2025 23:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I went through that airport so often in grad school yet never took advantage of this. Unfortunate.

13.08.2025 23:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sadly, itโ€™s never worked this way for the Mariners.

05.08.2025 03:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Absolutely!

29.07.2025 16:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh dang, this sounds great!

29.07.2025 16:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Only the Riding Mower Megazord can save us.

27.07.2025 20:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Either Euclid is still alive or he was born, wrote the Elements, and died in a single year. Either way, impressive!

27.07.2025 02:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Doing these conversions was a fun way to pass the time whenever I drove the Alcan.

27.07.2025 00:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh, for sure! I just spend a little too much time there occasionally.

22.07.2025 03:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Goal: increase productivity.
Action: include new productivity tools into workflow.
Result: decreased productivity.

I will never learn.

22.07.2025 03:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Be cool, man, be cool!

14.06.2025 16:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thatโ€™s usually what I did. LaTeXiT also has support for macOS services, so you could type LaTeX code in your email, right-click it and then transform it into an appropriate rendered version. At least I think that was what was supposed to happen, as I donโ€™t remember getting that to work on my Mac.

13.06.2025 18:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™ve had limited success on a Mac with LaTeXiT. Sometimes the rendered math doesnโ€™t display where I expect it to however.

I very recently started using Emacs, mu4e and org-msg for exactly this purpose with good results but the setup was by no means easy (at least for me!).

13.06.2025 18:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I finally got #emacs set up with mu4e and org-msg. Hopefully this will make answering questions about math homework by email a lot more manageable this fall. #MathSky

12.06.2025 18:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I read it as โ€œKongtentโ€ and got really hopeful you were talking about Donkey Kong Country for a bit.

06.06.2025 18:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That sounds like what happens to work Iโ€™m too demoralized to do/grade so it goes to the bottom of the pile. โ€œIโ€™m sorry, I havenโ€™t graded your test yet. I disappoofed it.โ€

06.06.2025 13:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The global agenda/capture bindings are a great idea!

02.06.2025 03:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This sounds reasonable to me. If it was someone elseโ€™s work they didnโ€™t cite and not yours, would your feedback be any different?

02.06.2025 02:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
GitHub - bbatsov/prelude: Prelude is an enhanced Emacs 25.1+ distribution that should make your experience with Emacs both more pleasant and more powerful. Prelude is an enhanced Emacs 25.1+ distribution that should make your experience with Emacs both more pleasant and more powerful. - bbatsov/prelude

Iโ€™ve been using github.com/bbatsov/prel... for about a year now, and Iโ€™ve found it to be a sensible starting point for getting back into Emacs. Before this I was primarily using Sublime Text.

29.05.2025 03:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™ve only used subcaption for this purpose. Itโ€™s alright, but I donโ€™t do anything too fancy with it either.

14.05.2025 01:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We could try using the binomial series for a similar approach. Assuming I can do math today, I get
sqrt(221)-14=1-2/15-โ€ฆ
sqrt(3)/2=1-2/16-โ€ฆ

27.11.2024 22:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I like to think Iโ€™m the vacuous member of mine.

27.11.2024 18:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™m nowhere near an Emacs expert, but Iโ€™ve been basing my config on the Prelude starter kit. Itโ€™s not as comprehensive as Doom, but itโ€™s been good so far.

24.11.2024 02:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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