Jomel M.

interests: math&science, teaching, young adult fiction, memes, moba

[Jomel M. @oeaoa]

These days, students have become so accustomed to using AI for writing reports that reading sentences with grammatical errors is a breath of fresh air...

[Bonnie ✮ @Babybonnieee]

Hardest thing for me to grasp as an adult is you have to keep showing up no matter how you feel. You gotta do this shit sad, do it heartbroken, do it grieving, do it tired. Life doesn’t care, it waits for nobody, you just have to keep going

[Jomel M. @oeaoa]

finally recovered my twitter account...yay!

[Jomel M. @oeaoa]

was looking to watch feel-good Christmas movies last night and ended up picking Last Christmas (2019) and gosh, the heartbreak I felt after watching the movie! HAHA This movie needs a disclaimer that it will shatter your heart into pieces!!! #LastChristmas #EmiliaClarke

[Robbie Meriales @RobbieMeriales]

I saw this table circulating, representing the difference in the confidential funds of the successive vice presidents.

THIS TABLE IS WRONG.

🧵 1/2

[Jomel M. @oeaoa]

me: likes giving tests, a big fan of assessment as learning
also me: doesn't like writing tests, hates checking papers 😂

[Jomel M. @oeaoa]

Former International Math Olympiad (IMO) silver medalist and US IMO coach @PoShenLoh visited PSHS Iloilo last Thursday to give a talk on making Math more engaging for everyone. Poshen is the lead developer of NOVID, a contact tracing app designed to help slow the spread of COVID.

[Morbid Knowledge @MorbidKnowledge]

In 2005, a six-month-old kitten named Oscar was adopted by a nursing home in the US to be raised as a therapy cat. However, the workers noticed something peculiar about him.

While Oscar usually preferred to be alone, he occasionally crawled into a resident's bed and snuggled beside them.

The eerie thing about this is that the resident that Oscar would cuddle with would usually die within hours.

Initially, the staff didn't think much of it, but after this happened 20 times, they started to believe that Oscar knew when someone was close to passing away, and so when they noticed the cat next to a resident, they would call their loved ones to warn them.

Researchers speculate that Oscar could smell biochemicals released by dying cells and so chose to comfort lonely residents.

On one occasion, the staff was convinced that a resident was about to pass away, but Oscar refused to sit with them. Instead, he chose another resident who looked healthier, and that person passed away first.

Oscar died in 2022, and over the course of his life he accurately predicted over 100 deaths.

[Andrzej Kukla @Mathinity_]

In calculus we are often interested in checking whether a certain series converges or diverges. One of the most interesting ways is the Cauchy Condensation Test.

Its name is quite literal.

In this thread we prove it and then put it to use in a quite fun problem. Enjoy! [1/6]

[fonso @fonzilog]

'langga' is top tier term of endearment

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

When octopuses are stressed, they generally don't want to be seen much.

[Jomel M. @oeaoa]

Finally got to finish reading #SatansHarvest , a 1990 book based on one of the cases of Ed & Lorraine Warren from The Conjuring Universe. Now I am excited to watch The Nun II. 😀

[fonso @fonzilog]

found another use for my candle warmer 👌

[Gerard de la Peña @gerarddelapena]

Curious as to how the Metro Manila Subway Project is going? Eto po, mahaba-haba na ang hukay. Excavation/boring between Valenzuela and Quirino Highway Stations are expected to be completed by December 2023 or January 2024.

[Matt Henderson @matthen2]

to tell if a maze is solvable, just hang it by its corners! The first maze stays in one piece, so there is no path from the entrance at the top to the exit at the bottom. The second maze splits apart along the solution.

[Benjamin Perry @FaithfullyBP]

Want to hear something amazing about crying?

Emotional tears have higher protein concentration than irritant tears, which makes them fall down your cheeks more slowly—increasing the chance they’ll be seen and solicit care.

In literal ways, your body is built for community.

[Jomel M. @oeaoa]

Preach ‼️‼️‼️

[Sonny Africa @sonnyafrica]

K-12 didn’t and won’t ever work to give jobs.

It’s the economy that isn’t creating enough jobs because obsolete neoliberal policies stunt domestic agri and industry.

Our youth are just made to compete with each other for the few jobs available according to who’s most educated.

[Jomel M. @oeaoa]

I believe it does, too. My take on this is that the additional 2 years that is SHS isn’t really necessary if the student decides to go to uni. It does help, for example, that STEM students are introduced to calculus before they go to uni, but the curriculum inserts so many (2/n)

[Jomel M. @oeaoa]

So much has been said about the k-to-12 program these past few days. Does it actually prepare graduates for employment after SHS? If they take the TVL or ABM track, I believe it does. Does it prepare graduates for higher education? If the curriculum is properly executed, (1/n)