Spencer Bagley

Ok good point! I was trying to think about function transformations more broadly as other examples but couldn't convince myself that students see them as operations on functions. Composition is a good shout though!

This pulls together so many threads that I have been thinking about around teaching for so many years. In particular it completely explains my whole shit about the difference between grading and assessment.

(It is, of course, also everyone's first operator on functions)

I just had this thought and I want to write it down so I can think about it more later:
I think one reason why people learning calculus abuse derivative notation so much is that most familiar operations (on numbers) are binary but the derivative operator is unary.

You ever start reading a book and just immediately go "well this is going to change the way I think about things forever"? Well anyway I just started C. Thi Nguyen's book The Score @add-hawk.bsky.social

I was literally just thinking this, lol.

In your defense that is still a pretty good bit

I had to throw my hands up and walk away and be like "I gotta go," and she's calling after me like "he didn't get hurt!" Motherfucker, I gotta *go*, or I will be saying things that we'll both regret

Mind you that this is *after* she was complaining about the traffic calming devices the mayor has been installing and I told her how much safer they make my daily bike-to-work commute. Wild things to be saying to your neighbor who just told you he is a bicyclist!!!!

Neighbor lady complaining to me about how a bicyclist ran into her car. "They need to learn to watch where they're going." The only way I can figure out that it could have happened is that she overtook him and then turned in front of him. "He was going really fast!" Bitch how fast were *you* going?

*deep sigh* I know I am going to regret asking when in three weeks I am deeply absorbed by this game, but: What actually is Slay the Spire

Man we're to the reunion now and get this fucking guy off my television

Obviously the broader culture is not in a good place but it's heartening that television keeps returning to one of the eternal storytelling themes: Padma Lakshmi imperiously striding into the room and demanding that you make her a delicious treat.

HAHA GIRL BYE

i'm taking a brave stance that may get me canceled: there is no reason for the pervert glasses to exist

Girl, why is Natalie Traitors always wearing a leather dress that looks like she made it herself while she was on Survivor

brb getting an eyebrow pencil

Bribing myself with marshmallows to finish this FUCKING grading that has been on my plate for WEEKS

You are welcome to communicate your concerns about this to the Vice President of Student Affairs; if I were you I'd skip the Dean of Students, who I am pretty sure fought tooth and nail to avoid this

"But if these people mean you harm, then a student organization doesn't matter, they would do it anyway." Great so should we make it *easier* for them? Should we give them official permission and a budget? Should we throw them a parade

"Well these students don't seem to me like they intend anybody harm" You credulous white asshole, of course they wouldn't seem like that to YOU. Do you know who they *do* seem like that to? All your minoritized colleagues, including me. So thanks for that!

"Oh I knew [Nuyorican woman colleague] was in the national media but I didn't know she got death threats" my guy why are you acting brand new; what in the fuck did you think would happen after she made the national media

"ooh I didn't know what Turning Point was, what's Professor Watchlist, I've never heard of that" Motherfucker, maybe those were questions you should have asked *before* signing on the dotted line

www.youtube.com/watch?v=36pJ...

HELL YEAH

(Ok but may I suggest the intake fans bc the usb-c port is just not designed for efficient fluid transfer)

Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic

(The drunk driving one is actually a really good parallel for the stupid reasons this shit got approved, thank you for this example which I am putting in my pocket for when I meet with our VPSA who ultimately made the call)

Meeting tomorrow with the Benedict Arnold ass who agreed to be their faculty advisor. Genuinely not sure what I'm going to say.