admm @admm@qoto.org

I asked #ChatGPT to “give me a prompt for DALL-E that incorporates fractals and rainbows.” I fed the results into #MidjourneyAI

I asked my 7yo whether 21 is a triangular number to keep him quiet for a bit. He came back with: “I’ve got a theorem in my head that I’ve proved to be true by looking at a few ones in my head.” (He got the word ‘theorem’ from a book.)

His idea was that every triangular number has the same no. of dots across the bottom as up the sides. I helped him rephrase this as ‘every triangular number can be drawn as an equilateral triangle’. This is of course trivial, but he’s enormously excited. #tmwyk

“Silicon Valley’s culture of “move fast and break things” meant business leaders were less concerned with reliability and more focused on game-changing discoveries.”

Why it always has to be “Either-Or”? What happened with “And”?

#ChangeManagement #sixsigma
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/whatever-happened-to-six-sigma

One of the things that I really like about #mastodon is how helpful fellow users are on the site. As someone who has never used #mastodon before I have had teething problems along the way but I know there will always be someone there to help if I become stranded.

@academicaunties @academicchatter @ram846 I was not invited to any fancy Christmas party, but my problem is that in 12 years my family still doesn't understand what I do and what a person does in a university.

.@academicaunties unlocked me a memory. At the time my cousin was struggling at middle school math and my mum suggested my uncle at the dinner table to contact me.
I heard later in the kitchen that my uncle told my mother that she doesn't need my help, since I'm still at the university after 15 years I apparently don't know what does it take to succeed academically.

I'm a professor.

@academicchatter

(Friends: My reach on Mastodon is very limited. Please boost this if you think one of your followers may be able to help me.)

C'mon, #quantumphysics #quantum #quantummechanics peeps. QUTO only works if you share what you know. please help me out here!

How can one efficiently normalize a multi-fermion wave function composed of a determinant of single particle orbitals which are not orthogonal to each other?

Pong is 50 years old today.

Little known fact: Pong has no code. Pong doesn't even have a microprocessor. Al Alcorn hardwired the game with transistor-to-transistor logic. (See Henry Lowood: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5223982)

Why we Squash Commits for our Pull Request

Article: https://lupyuen.github.io/articles/pr?9#squash-the-commits

While following a lot of people can populate your Home feed significantly, sometimes people (like me) end up boosting a lot and that can unexpectedly hinder your own experience.

So if you like someone's specific posts and don't want to follow their boosts, you can go to their profile under the [...] button, and select the "Hide boosts from account" button.

There is no algorithm on Mastodon. You have ownership and control over every filtering decision instead of some robot.

#TwitterMigration

Playing with Hilbert curve prompts #generativeart

Leaded gasoline was such a disaster. Just awful

(data from the US)

https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2118631119

I'm no Stephen Hawking, but I think what happens is that they cancel each other out.

I'm #3dprinting several sets of nontransitive dice for the middle school math club I volunteer for. Looking forward to seeing what they think.

There's nontransitive dice, as well as "go first" dice; any other mathematically interesting dice I can make and talk about with middle schoolers?

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nontransitive+dice

A group at Johns Hopkins has created a scrollable, interactive map of the entire universe, from here to the cosmic microwave background.
Extraordinary discoveries at your fingertips for free, unimaginable when I was a kid. https://mapoftheuniverse.net/ #astronomy #space #exploration

log😅=💧log😄

Thank you @jnhlnd for pointing that out! #mathsjoke

From Chaos to Order. Hi-res bit art on #c64.
#retrocomputing #commodore64 #c #programming #bitart

“Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.” — Marcus Aurelius #Quotes #Stoic

"a class-action lawsuit filed against GitHub Copilot, its parent company Microsoft, and OpenAI claims open-source software piracy and violations of open-source licenses"

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-code-generation-ownership

Time algebra in #elixir https://kipcole9.github.io/tempo/2021-01-04-its-about-time/