Willie WY Wong

Mathematician (math.ap/dg/ca, gr-qc), cook, jazz 🎷 aficionado. AsscProf @michiganstateu 🇹🇼 (he/him)

[Willie WY Wong @_qnlw]

Seeing that the 10th anniversary of https://t.co/A9KbArFtlp is upon us, I was urged to add a cash prize to a solution of this problem.

To make it inflation protected: the prize will be 24 bottles/cans of beer from a widely distributed Michigan Craft Brewery, or cash equivalent.

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@BarbaraFantechi To be fair: that question is optional (quite a few letter writers just ignored it) and insofar as fake answers go, the guy can always just write "among research students I mentored" (the question asked about what the comparison group is, not expecting a numeric answer.)

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Pet peeve: don't rank your student as "within the top 5%" when your sample size is 10. You are basically saying your student is only half a person.

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@MathMatize Wait, that video only proves it for ℤ_2 actions.

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@BarbaraFantechi To curtail your misplaced envy:

Certainly my students have also maths writing problems. It is just that they usually have **much more** English writing problems. 😭

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A note of clarification: my wife has been thoroughly unimpressed and wanting to call another ISP the whole time. I was the obstinate mule who refused to yield until I saw that absurd number.

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Welp, the customer portal now gives an estimated time to completion of about 975 years (yes, the page shows expected completion in year 3000).

In the interest of my next 30 generations of progeny having internet access, I asked my wife to call another ISP.

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A PSA if you are thinking about getting @metronetfiber : We called to set up service, was assured that it will be done in 2 weeks or less. A guy came out soon after, ran into some problems, gave up, and said we will be contacted.

It has been 6 weeks, still no internet. (1/2)

[PHD Comics @PHDcomics]

How Profs spend their time

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@Quasilocal No, because for me it ain't a lie.

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@Shrektifiable Not me, but could've been.

I recently walked into a screen door at my sister's wedding, only 5 minutes after watching my nephew do the same at the same screen door.

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Throughout they never initiated contact with us to provide us any update. We have to call, wait on hold, to find out that yet again, nothing is happening.

The most that happened was a supposed "ticket" got opened in their system.

Customer service? I think not. (2/2)

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A PSA if you are thinking about getting @metronetfiber : We called to set up service, was assured that it will be done in 2 weeks or less. A guy came out soon after, ran into some problems, gave up, and said we will be contacted.

It has been 6 weeks, still no internet. (1/2)

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Did people (especially those who liked the post) know https://t.co/AEuzXRGoMc ?

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If it weren't for the obvious copyright concerns, I would totally make a LaTeX package to push for this (IMHO much better) notation choice.

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@mathforge @Quasilocal Are Pokemon sprites in emojimath? I doubt it.

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If it weren't for the obvious copyright concerns, I would totally make a LaTeX package to push for this (IMHO much better) notation choice.

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@Dirque_L She's not wrong: vim is a perfectly good reference manager.

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Okay, superglue is not supposed to react with latex, right? I am going to assume that the rather violent exothermic reaction that fused two of the fingers (of the glove) is because I had some contaminant on the glove. (I stripped it off as soon as I felt heat.)

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@BarbaraFantechi Some of us wear the chalk marks on our suit jackets with PRIDE! 😅