Joseph Brennan

@WolframResearch | Optimist

[Joseph Brennan @TheDiractionary]

Some highlights from the first few weeks of fall semester at @uaustinorg

[Joseph Brennan @TheDiractionary]

Joining @uaustinorg to help build the computation-first STEM track, enabled by @WolframResearch. Time to get to work.

[University of Austin (UATX) @uaustinorg]

Welcome Joseph Brennan (@TheDiractionary), Visiting Professor in Applied Mathematics, teaching Differential Equations and Data Wrangling & Visualization.

He's a Senior Technical Consultant at Wolfram Research and trained as an astrophysicist at the University of St Andrews, where he hunted exoplanets by gravitational microlensing.

[University of Austin (UATX) @uaustinorg]

UATX's visiting faculty this fall:

Ryan Bangert (@ryanlbangert)
Joseph Brennan
Hugo Diaz
Jack Henneman (@TheHistoryOfTh2)
Lise Hilboldt
Carola Lofton
Jeff Serra
Dennis Wilkinson
Kathryn Moreland
Neil Rogachevsky (@NeilRogachevsky)

[University of Austin (UATX) @uaustinorg]

Fall courses at UATX:

Acting Studio
American Literature I
Analytical Tools for Economics and Political Science
Applied Engineering
Bible I
Business Foundations for Builders
Comedy
Data Wrangling and Visualization
Differential Equations
Directed Readings in Ancient Greek
Early Modernity
Entrepreneurial Strategy
Epic and Tragedy
Foundations of Microeconomics I
Foundations of Microeconomics II
Foundations of Science II
From Natural Law to Neural Nets
German I
Hegel
Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy
Intellectual Foundations of Economics
Introduction to Political Science
Introduction to Programming
Investigations, Reporting, and Persuasion
K12 Fellowship Practicum
Kant
Latin I
Machine Learning
Neoplatonism and Mysticism
Patristics
Physics II
Plato's Dialogues I
Policy Practicum
Polaris Build
Polaris Frame
Quantitative Reasoning II
Romantic and Victorian Literature
Romanticism and Realism
Statistics
The Founding Before the Founding: How the American Colonies Began
The Founding of Israel
The Renaissance and the Reformation
The Trojan War
The Uses and Abuses of Technology
What is the Left? Contemporary U.S. Politics
Writing and the English Language

[Joseph Brennan @TheDiractionary]

I published a Wolfram Community post diving into the data from a recent bike-packing expedition 🚵‍♂️.
The analysis conducted here was made possible thanks to a paclet I built (StravaLink) now live in the Wolfram Language Paclet Repository: https://t.co/79RCnzhwUC
Check it out here: https://t.co/TrlvYNPVuZ

[Joseph Brennan @TheDiractionary]

From The Diary Of A CEO podcast with @ericweinstein (July 14th 2025)
https://t.co/nLznitvPw5

Steven Bartlett: "What advice would you give the listener, an actionable piece of advice so that they could live a subjectively better life?"

Eric Weinstein:
- "The songs of Tom Lehrer are pretty terrific..." (https://t.co/8HIfBBea9k)
- "...as are the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan" (https://t.co/KEmz2iPMJu)
- "You might want to explore the Azores as well as the
Indonesian Archipelago..."(https://t.co/Pi5sQCQ9qZ, https://t.co/vTBNWi07si)
- "Buy a poster of tropical fruit and make sure that you visit every single one on that poster before it's time for lights out..." (https://t.co/1SCD1nadms)
- "Consider Bach's B minor Mass and the Cello Suites, particularly by Pablo Casals..." (https://t.co/aEXlPMK7oI)
- "...and take a serious listen to Eva Cassidy singing Stormy Monday. And an album called Live from Blues Alley to see if you really know how to feel things...." (https://t.co/7rLwjycXOE)
- "I think Professor Longhair's Big Chief is one of the most brilliant pieces of piano music..." (https://t.co/nu8OgwB01l)
- "...and if you really like that, James Carroll Booker III has an album called The Resurrection of the Bayou Maharaja" (https://t.co/79LVTUhsqx)
- "Seriously think about visiting the island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic..." (https://t.co/DPt9Aa9wVe)
- "Take a look at Curt Jaimungal's channel. He's doing amazing stuff being done by no one else on Earth..." (https://t.co/GN8QlvaLi7)
- "I think that Chris Buck is really amazing. And if you think that Crossroads is good, have a listen to his version of Miss You by the Rolling Stones..." (https://t.co/O8qTR45ZHm)
- "I think that the people making spark amps at Positive Grid and my friends at Neural DSP with the Quad Cortex will blow your mind..." (https://t.co/Qm7i6ORjxT, https://t.co/kkr1amYv81)
- "...Listen for meteor showers. They're announced regularly. Nobody actually does anything about them, and it's worth inconveniencing yourself with people you love and take the dog." (https://t.co/B5RT3HZ9SX)

"Try to keep this thing going"

[Joseph Brennan @TheDiractionary]

🚀Launching my new web app! https://t.co/bFBb6PzQTY
Ever played Scrabble? What if every turn was a bingo?

[Joseph Brennan @TheDiractionary]

Cellular Automata Rule 110 shown for 1,000 steps.