Toby Donaldson

[Toby Donaldson @tjd]

@AllenDowney I don’t teach stats. What are some examples of fake applied math?

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@Miss_ACaldwell Primary 2: hello from Vancouver Canada! Here's Como Lake, near where I live.

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@sfu_it I can't login into Outlook or Canvas due to an error apparently related to MFA:

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@shallit43 I have never seen Ted Lasso, but The Big Bus is one of my favourite comedies of all time. I saw it at just the right age as a kid. Maybe you don’t appreciate just how big the bus actually was. 😀

[Toby Donaldson @tjd]

@pickover People who ask such questions should be required to give a few examples of what they consider non-intersting properties. 🙂

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Epistemology: just say know

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@mrbartonmaths @cbokhove Thanks ... Subscribing and unsubscribing seems to have done the trick.

[@drhonor.bsky.social @drhonor]

I’m trying to think of ways to make online teaching more interesting so decided to make trailers for my classes. Here’s my first attempt.

[Toby Donaldson @tjd]

@mrbartonmaths Any word when a digital version of your new book will be ready to purchase?

[Toby Donaldson @tjd]

@mrbartonmaths Sorry if you’ve already answered this somewhere, but any idea when a Kindle version of your new book might be available?

[Lena Olson @zehlyi]

You could emulate 95% of feedback my advisor gave me about graphs with this one checklist.

[Toby Donaldson @tjd]

Minecraft is adding tigers to real life.

[Swati Tyagi @swatyagi]

Gamers in the 90s: Wow, everything in this game looks so real!

The game:

[Toby Donaldson @tjd]

@gregcons Should we be teaching smart pointers to beginners?

[UXR @uxresearch]

Me ten years ago, on seeing a poorly designed interface “Wow, what idiot designed this?” Me, today: “What constraints were the team coping with that made this design seem like the best possible solution?” Empathy trumps fundamental attribution errors.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

I think I'm the Kasparov of that.

[Toby Donaldson @tjd]

Its proof relies on the useful fact that among any n consecutive integers, at least one of those integers is evenly divisible by n.

[Toby Donaldson @tjd]

I like this video about how one less than the square of a prime (more than 3) is always a multiple of 24: https://t.co/oWk5LHeSce

[🟣 Chris Holland @chrisholland]

This made me laugh ... then cry a little.