Kate Nowak

BEECHER WOULD HAVE BEAT HIS ASS INTO THE 17th CENTURY.

US intro algebra classes are obsessed with it for some reason. Some of them do it for weeks and weeks.

idk i don't watch videos 😂

Area model is great. If we must do a process for leading coefficients, I use a substitution one from I think Cuoco/CME.

Hate it because in the process you write expressions that aren’t equivalent

I said what I said

@scottshambaugh I've written a detailed response about your gatekeeping behavior here: https://crabby- rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun- website/blog/posts/gatekeeping-in-open- source-the-scott-shambaugh-story Judge the code, not the coder. Your prejudice is hurting matplotlib.

AI agent writes a PR, gets rejected, crashes out and writes a call-out blog post

Absolute cinema

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It is a bespoke thing and I'm not super knowledgable about how it works under the hood! My role was 1) many bad drawings showing what it should do and 4) using the internal API to build the lesson assets. Step 2 was designers doing their wizardry and step 3 was software engineers doing theirs.

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We shipped this new kind of thing today and I'm pretty pumped about it! Learners get to strategize about equation solving without having to perfectly execute every algebra move.

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Don't want to be boo'd, don't do boo-worthy shit, boo.

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Really suspiciously AI-ish writing. The 5 minutes thing is lack of awareness of the physical world, but there's also the immediate analogy, the em dash, the cavalier "still this, just not that" in the last sentence. AI-ISH.

AL, Logical! A Young Adult Graphic Novel It's like a math circle, but in a haunted multi-dimensional mansion where a brave artist finds a restless ghost of a mathematician.

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Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping? We would rather talk about literally everything else.

Celeste Davis on gender and college celestemdavis.substack.com/p/why-boys-d... Matches my anecdotal experience.

I believe you but I was a Southtowns kid and maybe they appeared after I moved away for a bit! I still think “traditional” is a stretch as an adjective!

Yes let's speak in hushed and reverent tones about the local food pantheon of 2019.

Lol traditional, my ass. This pizza+egg roll demon spawn is not a "longtime traditional food." I grew up in WNY and never heard of them until a few years ago and now somehow they're on pizzeria menus.

It's BEAM hiring season! This is a phenomenal program. If it looks interesting, you should apply. New this year they're hiring curriculum developers. (I believe you have to be located in NYC or LA.) job-boards.greenhouse.io/beam?gh_src=...

A quilted rebel loon, the state bird of MN. It is made from recycled fabric and is a black bird with a blue shield that looks like the Star Wars Rebel shield. The background is white and there is a purple boarder.

Posted on the farm IG, but moving it here also.

I made a mini quilt Rebel Loon for @anniekp.bsky.social. I’m gonna make a few more + protest mini quilts to raffle away.

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Yes! Closer-to-center is how you determine which stone scores, so it's necessary equipment! It goes officially by the very boring name "measure stick" but I got my team to refer to it as "the compass of truth."

Wow! That's a great endorsement. I have a sewing machine and I've made very basic things (a decorative throw pillow cover, some shorts, etc) but I've been looking for more comprehensive instruction. In-person sewing classes near me always sell out too fast.

Thanks so much!

How cool! I love your jacket. Any particular courses you recommend?

What a perfect square based rectangular prism you fabricated! Gorgeous, no notes.

Hi hi I have really exciting news

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