Geoff Svacha @[email protected]

protector of free inquiry. adventurer in physics, math, biology, programming, education, outreach, and data science.

[Geoff Svacha @[email protected] @dudeyo]

@RobJHeaton Thank you for the chuckles... perfectly wrapped: "I scrolled around the HTML and reflected that this had been both the most and least productive flight of my life."

[Geoff Svacha @[email protected] @dudeyo]

@pcho is this good?
> I was 95% accurate!
🟩⬜️✅🟩✅✅✅🟩
Can you do better?
https://t.co/xGaMWSBF40

[Andrew Kadel @[email protected] @FrKadel]

My daughter, who's had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen.

[Daniel Litt @littmath]

Was just asked, as part of submitting a recommendation letter for a student applying to grad school, if the student "exhibits common sense." Given that they're applying to grad school, the answer should be obvious...

[Nadieh Bremer @NadiehBremer]

If you've enjoyed Avatar: The Last Airbender (it's still on my "to watch list - someday...") you'll probably thoroughly enjoy this #dataviz dashboard by @pradeep_zen - Elegant design, fun facts, ample annotations and fun tidbits

https://t.co/haqTp9H2ZT

via @infobeautyaward

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

If founders don’t sleep, bad stuff happens, in 4 studies:
1) Lack of 💤makes you generate worse ideas
2) Lack of 💤 makes you think the bad ideas you develop are good
3) Getting 💤 boosts your mood, upping the mood of your startup
4) Lack of 💤 lowers your entrepreneurial ability

[charlos @loscharlos]

“It’s Really, Really Worth Trying to Avoid Getting COVID Multiple Times”

“A new study found people are more likely to develop #LongCovid or other serious health problems if they’re infected more than once.” https://t.co/prNd1vilV0

[Dan Meyer @ddmeyer]

Confession: I have no idea what to do with edtech data dashboards like these.

Do you use them? How do they help you make teaching decisions?

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

They Want to Kill Libraries https://t.co/kvxaZIy3Dn

[Peter Sobot @psobot]

I often tell colleagues that the fastest way to be a really great engineer is not to grind leetcode or to learn a new framework, but to make your written communication clearer. Everything else follows.

This article does a really great job explaining why:
https://t.co/TrnUWEMOFB

[Zach Groshell @MrZachG]

Teaching is so weird because nobody seems to want to talk about how to explain things... which seems like it'd be something we'd talk a whole lot about. There are a few things I've learned from research into clarity of explanations that I wish I'd been taught earlier 1/

[Geoff Svacha @[email protected] @dudeyo]

@this_hits_home It’s a cardigan I’m working on for the toddler :)

[What's on Netflix @whatonnetflix]

Ada Twist, Scientist (Season 3) hits Netflix on September 12th!

[Geoff Svacha @[email protected] @dudeyo]

@AllenDowney Mode Analytics tutorial:
https://t.co/iCTpNSqkbK

Select Star SQL:
https://t.co/B0CD0QYad4

[Alex Kontorovich @AlexKontorovich]

I *love* Rich Schwartz's book that he wrote for his daughter Lily: https://t.co/2yJcifLG21

"This book is all business. If you repeatedly get the right answer, you know how to do it. Once you really know *how*, you will be able to figure out *why*."

Are there others like it?

[rachel binx @rachelbinx]

☁️ new project https://t.co/ZVxJcra9fc

over the past two years I've spent a lot more time looking at the clouds — this project is my love letter to the stratosphere

[Carol Ferris @Zengist]

Jibaro from Love Death and Robots season 3 is probably the best thing I’ve seen this year.
It’s not just good, it’s something I’ve never ever seen in my life before, it’s completely original and unique, like I’m so gagged