Joshua Bowman

I especially like this observation: “The dream of a digital tutor is it gives you precisely what you need to learn at a given moment. I don’t believe in “precisely.” I think there are a lot of things you’re ready to learn at any given time, & beyond a point it doesn’t really matter what you study.”

Practice Software is Struggling Why whole-group teaching is easier than individual practice

Wrote a post about pedagogy for all the math freaks out there. pershmail.substack.com/p/practice-s...

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A giant wooden hand reaches through a doorway

A giant wooden troll is seated on the floor. Her head is tilted and still touches the ceiling. A huge tongue extends from her mouth and down her belly

Lulu the troll fills an entire room

A selfie with Lulu

Went to Solvang for a family vacation this week. Visited Lulu the Troll, a new installation by Danish artist Thomas Dambo at the California Nature Art Museum. Impressive, and made from recycled and discarded materials!

A giant wooden hand reaches through a doorway

A giant wooden troll is seated on the floor. Her head is tilted and still touches the ceiling. A huge tongue extends from her mouth and down her belly

Lulu the troll fills an entire room

A selfie with Lulu

Went to Solvang for a family vacation this week. Visited Lulu the Troll, a new installation by Danish artist Thomas Dambo at the California Nature Art Museum. Impressive, and made from recycled and discarded materials!

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is rosy pink, the other is a peach-colour baby. Rose is looking at Peach gently, while baby Peach looks back at her with full toddler defiance. Rose: Okay sweetie, could you please get in the car for me? Peach: No. Looking sick of the situation, Rose begins to forcibly drag Peach into the car as gently as she can, while Peach fights back, dragging on the ground. Rose: Can you please not act like you are getting kidnapped. Peach: This is an insult to my autonomy! Meanwhile, Blue and Green are sitting in Blue's car, watching the situation. Rose, off-panel: There are people waiting for this parking spot. Peach, also out of view: Death before dishonour! Blue: We should just find another spot. Green: No, I want to see who wins.

Now I realize why the new version is counting three b’s in blueberry instead of two: the previous version got excoriated for counting two r’s in strawberry instead of three, and the system overcorrected (i.e., it read the internet as saying “if you think there’s 2 of something, there’s actually 3”).

A "Japanese" clock drawn in calligraphy with 12 at the right and going counterclockwise, with roman numerals represented by similar japanese kanji or kana

We have to remember that the 12-hour, roman numeral analog clock is not universal. For example, Japanese is written top-to-bottom, right-to-left, and uses kanji, so their clock looks like this.

Here we go again.

Because it needs to be said: Don't use ChatGPT to dunk on ChatGPT. Make it none of your fucking business. Don't run some prompts up laugh at it or check out the new model.

Do not give them air.

Suffocate it out of viability.

Do not use ChatGPT.

What a surprise to see a quilt I sewed twenty years ago show up here in my newsfeed.

Hey kids, was Rolf your favorite character in The Sound of Music?

Galois [mathematical reverie broken as he is handed a pistol at dawn]: Wait. What? No — I said dual!

Hi everyone, I wrote a thing! It was harder than any research article I've ever written. 😅 #MathSky

Haven’t read the piece, but the answer is Golden.

Since its syllabus writing time, what are our favorite articles about the issues with things like ChatGPT? (Ethical, environmental, brain rot etc)

My philosophy and experience with students is that they can almost always do incredibly difficult work, but if you ever waste their time with soul-killing meaningless work, you have essentially poisoned the well when it comes to getting them to spend any additional effort on your class.

Standing up for the smallest of minorities is important because when you accept the premise that one group are expendable because small or ‘insignificant’, you have accepted the idea of the expendability of human life in general, and the enemy will use your acquiescence to pick off yet more.

YouTube video by Alvaro Lozano-Robledo Sketching the graph of a hyperbolic paraboloid #math #calculus #multivariablecalculus #graph #stem

And here is the same video but on YouTube:

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The graph of a hyperbolic paraboloid.

A sketch of the graph of a hyperbolic paraboloid 🤩 (z = x^2 - y^2)

Thank you for making it! I’m looking forward to adding it to my office.

A framed print of Alexander’s Horned Sphere illustrated with a starry sky background and a wild landscape foreground

Got my print of the Alexander Horned Sphere illustrated by @acidlich.bsky.social!

Has anyone told @darthbluesky.bsky.social?

Went to see Superman with @hannahnpbowman.com, daughter, and father-in-law. Big two hours of fun. Earnest story with plenty of silliness. For parents: some parts were a little scary for 7yo, but by the end of the movie she was glad to have seen it.

Frog and Toad gaze at their own reflections in a mirror. Toad holds in his hands a book titled "Fairy Tales." From "Dragons and Giants" In *Frog and Toad Together*

Frog and Toad looked into a mirror.

“We look brave,” said Frog.

“Yes, but are we?” asked Toad.

Evaluating Student Evaluations of Teaching: a Review of Measurement and Equity Bias in SETs and Recommendations for Ethical Reform - Journal of Academic Ethics Student evaluations of teaching are ubiquitous in the academe as a metric for assessing teaching and frequently used in critical personnel decisions. Yet, there is ample evidence documenting both meas...

Kreitzer and Sweet-Cushman have a great summary of the research here. I am not joking in the least when I say it's easier to detect instructor gender than teaching or learning in evals. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

You can tell a lot about someone from their taste in music. For example, what kind of music they like to listen to

The predictions were scary for a few hours there, and it wasn’t clear what the news would be when we woke up.

Grateful that last night‘s tsunami appears to have passed with minimal damage.

I was taught that children are innocent and should never be harmed. Hadn't expected this to become an extreme position in my lifetime.

(Trans children have a right to medical care, just like all other children; either statement is extreme in the USA).

What Does the Bible Say About Prisons? Here are 10 Bible passages that help us wrestle with questions of mass incarceration, criminalization, and violence.

"We can honor God’s identification with those who are criminalized and imprisoned when we commit ourselves to abolition." sojo.net/articles/wha...