@SarcasmProf No, it's not ridiculous. If profs call each other by their first names in front of students, it will increase the likelihood that the students will address the profs by their first names.
Where across a circle could one place a pair of orthogonal lines so that the sum of the two shaded areas shown is as small as possible? (What is that smallest value?)
@AlexKontorovich I'm unfamiliar with the Numbers app.
A good Googling strategy can be to add "reddit" to your query. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a cluster of Numbers fans on reddit 😅
I’ve reduced my usage to once a week, mainly spreading negative news about EM. I block all the corporate advertisers I see.
I’ll use #Mastodon to pursue my hobbies, and maybe #Post for news.
#ElonTheSnowflake#ElonMuskIsARussianAsset
We're pretty good at solving hard problems while sleeping or while doing something else. But for that effect to kick in, you need to have spent a while banging your head at the problem first. It's only payback for prior effort.
@KavalAuthorActs Wayne’s World
Fight Club
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
The Matrix
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Star Trek (2009)
2001: A Space Odyssey
House of Games
Airplane!
A teacher can only do so much to make the links between new ideas and students' existing knowledge explicit to them.
Ultimately…
These links need to be made in the *minds of our students*, not just in the words of the teacher.
HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS
William Kingdon Clifford
The fact that Clifford algebra (geometric algebra) is not deeply embedded in the current curriculum is an accident of history.
Clifford wrote two papers on the topic shortly before his early death in 1879 at the age of 33.
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