Ivan Travkin

I'm focused on digitally mediated learning, math lecturer at Sakhalin State University and amateur programmer.

[Ivan Travkin @iwannt]

In creative knowledge society:
to teach is to reduce complexity.

Моя формула учителя (2):
Обучать — помогать обуздать неопределенность.

[Ivan Travkin @iwannt]

Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary

[Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpacheco]

Fellow professors:

we're in the midst of a fucking pandemic.

If you're increasing the amount of work your students are doing "to ensure rigour and maintain high standards of quality" I think you're doing it mightily wrong.

Priorities have shifted, as has the global order.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Turns out that gun is for the toilet paper

[Felix Rieseberg @felixrieseberg]

I put Windows 95 into an Electron app that now runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux. It's a terrible idea that works shockingly well. I'm so sorry.

Go grab it here: https://t.co/MIoFpezuFi

[Andrey G Sidenko @agsidenko]

Российские школьники завоевали больше всего золотых медалей на Европейской олимпиаде по информатике https://t.co/5t05gKrpHz

[Ivan Travkin @iwannt]

Что у них там происходит? Сколько можно издеваться над чёрными?

[Ian Blake @IanJDBlake]

Is video better than reading for learning? Not according to an MIT study: "The following differences were not found to be statistically different based on the number of study participants tested." https://t.co/4qrCNVhaVC @WillWorkLearn

[Ivan Travkin @iwannt]

@hjarche I never sell my old phones because I’m not sure I can totally erase all of my data. So...

[math prof @mathematicsprof]

Prof: How would you solve y” + y = x^2
Student: Method of Undetermined Coefficients
Prof: How would you solve y” + y = sec x
Student: Variation of Parameters
Prof: How would you solve y” + y^2 = 0
Student: Wolframalpha

[southpaw @nycsouthpaw]

A male US officer falsely told a 10-year-old she could see her mother for an hour at 6:00p. The child was held in a windowless, constantly lit facility where she couldn’t determine the time of day. When she asked the officer for the time, he said he wasn’t permitted to tell her.

[Ivan Travkin @iwannt]

@agsidenko знаю, что можно распутаться, остальное — технические подробности :)

[math prof @mathematicsprof]

If you don't know anything about the Monte Carlo method, here is a very nice, easy to understand introduction by the Russian/Lithuanian mathematician/engineer Ilya Sobel. https://t.co/aQnJYs9d05

[Ivan Travkin @iwannt]

@mathematicsprof i’ve read it in russian :)

[vinton g cerf @vgcerf]

Simple flowchart:

[Vincent Brunssen @vbrunssen]

Collaboration through open source makes the sum greater than the parts. @christo4ferris #Blockchain #OpenSource #OSCON #IBMCode

[Gerd Leonhard @gleonhard]

my film Technology vs Humanity - The Future is already here. A film by Futurist Gerd Leonhard https://t.co/vprVH1gtEs great background footage from #barcelona #techvshuman

[Victor Volchek @vvn33]

https://t.co/MWd2PbgHv7

Вот тут набрали на целый сайт с тоннами инфы по истории отечественных информационных технологий и вычислительной техники. А в универах это даже не преподают

[Prosthetic Knowledge @prostheticknowl]

AWAKEN AKIRA
Motion Graphics short from @Ashthorp and XiaoLin Zeng is a labour of love tribute to the legendary anime
https://t.co/KyHKTNiC8S