Math Misery

wow, what a wild board!

YouTube video by ABC7 ABC7 Chicago meteorologist has hilarious realization that his TV is a touchscreen live on the air

if not the greatest, definitely the cutest

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Goz...

I knew a guy whose go to expression was "and that guy, the brother of Einstein ..."

but my personal favorite is "one snowflake short of a blizzard"

I'm reading a book on mathematics and ...
- it's got my number
- it's quite complex
- it has no equal

a computer that only talks about mouthwash, a gargle language model

I'll be hosting December's Carnival of Maths (#246) at tommaths.blogspot.com.

To do it well, I need YOUR submissions! If you've read, written or created something (in the last month or so) on a mathsy theme, find the link to the submission form here: aperiodical.com/carnival-of-...

#MathsToday

more fodder for @billarama.bsky.social

today is a nice silly date for some number fun

10/10/25

10 = 5*2
25 = 5^2

and if you want to make one of those stupid viral math problems because of ambiguous notation, then resolve this:

5*2/5*2/5^2 = ? Is it 1/25 or 4?

also, 1010 as a base 2 number is 8 + 2 = 10 :)

Data Modeling event in DC called the Washington Copulas

Combinatorics event in Flushing called the New York Stem

Numerical Linear Algebra event in Florida called the Tampa Bay Rayleigh quotients

Computational algebra event in Ontario called the Toronto Maple

Differential equation solvers event in Alberta called the Edmonton Euler Method

An Apollonian geometry event in Wisconsin called The Green Bay Circle Packers

hi! :)

Simulation event in Ohio called The Cleveland Brownian Motion

For me, it was the "undoing of the product rule"

(fg)' = f'g + g'f
so that when I write integrals around everything it's
fg = ∫f'g + ∫g'f and then depending on the problem, it's either a u,v thought or a u, dv thought.

Ah, fair enough.

The natural selection of bad science | Royal Society Open Science Poor research design and data analysis encourage false-positive findings. Such poor methods persist despite perennial calls for improvement, suggesting that they result from something more than just m...

So another example of this perhaps doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Do you feel that some of the aversion about collinearity is a function of which statistical methods were taught / available to the individuals working with the data and the underlying assumptions about those methods?

Brew HaHa! In Wilmington, DE :)

we can do a bunch of inspection. y = 2x^2 + x from the 1st eq. the 2nd eq becomes (2x^2 + x)*x^2 + 7x = 10. by inspection x = 1 solves it and so y = 3. another solution is x = -2 making y = 6. and both give x + y = 4. eq 2 is also y = (10 - 7x)/x^2, so eq 1 and 2 coincide in two spots (1,3), (-2,6)

Enjoy this square rollin' 'round a non-regular pentagon.

Here is another of my favorite triangle things

i enjoy these with the tracer the most!

Enjoy this pentagon rolling around an internal equilateral triangle.

I had a boss who would say "apples and elephants" and that's been my phrase ever since

Do "pineapple" next [unless if you already did it!] :D