Physicist ♻ into high school teacher. ♥️ #ComplexSystems. 🖕 #Misinformation. I steal quotes to make memes. #ADHD. #ResearchBikini 👙. #ToxicGloberGang.

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When #FlatEarth tries to use #maths, but maths slaps #FlatEarth in the face.
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Martin Brundle: "Don't push me mate, I'm nearly famous." We must protect MB at all costs, the man is a living legend. 😂 #MonacoGP
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A Aliança Racista de Berga, en un mes es queden sense local i el propietari hi ha posat aquests cartells
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Me too!
It's June 2026 and I'm alive and well
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Fácil, hago cruzfit.
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Two math olympiad champions wrote a training manual in 1993 on two old Macintosh computers, and every American kid who has won a major math competition in the last decade learned to think from it. Their names are Sandor Lehoczky and Richard Rusczyk. The book is called The Art of Problem Solving. Most people in math know it as AoPS. Since 2015, every single member of the US International Math Olympiad team has been an AoPS student. Not most of them. Every one. That statistic sounds impossible until you understand what the book actually does. Lehoczky and Rusczyk were not professors. They were competitors. Lehoczky earned the sole perfect AIME score in 1990 and led the national first place team. Rusczyk was a USA Mathematical Olympiad winner and a perfect AIME scorer in 1989. They had both survived the same brutal selection process the book was designed to train students for. And the first thing they decided was that almost every existing math textbook was teaching the wrong thing. School math gives you formulas. You memorize them. You apply them. You pass the test. Then you sit down in front of a real competition problem and the formula does not apply, and you have nothing underneath it. That is the gap. The gap is not knowledge. It is thinking. The entire premise of AoPS is that problem-solving is a transferable skill, not a bag of memorized tricks. A student who genuinely understands why a technique works can adapt it, combine it with something else, and deploy it in a context they have never seen before. A student who only memorized the technique freezes the moment the problem looks different. The book teaches the difference between a formula and a method. A formula tells you what to compute. A method tells you how to see. The students who win olympiads are not the ones who know more formulas. They are the ones who have trained themselves to look at an unfamiliar problem and recognize its structure. To see that this problem is secretly asking the same question as a problem they solved three weeks ago, just dressed differently. Rusczyk calls this "learning to read the problem." Not reading the words. Reading what the problem is actually asking underneath the words. The second thing they built into the book is tolerance for being stuck. Most students treat confusion as a signal to stop. The book treats confusion as the starting point. Every chapter pushes students past the point where the obvious approach runs out. That moment of running out is not failure. That is where the actual thinking begins. Lehoczky once described it this way. If you can solve a problem quickly, you are not learning. You are performing. Learning only happens when you are past the edge of what you already know. The book was written on old Macintosh computers in 1993. Rusczyk launched the AoPS website in 2003. Today the community has over one million users. Thousands of students enroll in AoPS online courses every year. Most winners of every major American math competition are AoPS alumni. A platform built by two kids who were good at math competitions has become the infrastructure that produces the next generation of mathematicians, engineers, and scientists who are good at thinking. The formulas you memorized in school will eventually be obsolete. The thinking you trained will not. What is one problem in your life right now that you have been avoiding because you do not yet know the right formula to solve it?
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⭕️La Pena de Muerte está vigente en 27 de los 50 estados de EEUU. ⭕️El matrimonio infantil es legal en 33 de los 50 estados de EEUU. ⭕️La posesión de armas es legal en 50 de los 50 estados de EEUU. Este país NO es ejemplo de NADA.
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RT @IkerMoran_: Muy bueno esto. Ojalá en la educación pública los mismos ratios que la policía cuando desahucia a personas de su casa https…
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Avui a l'Alt Empordà és bona idea recuperar l'ús de les mascaretes. Menys partícules de plàstic cremat als pulmons.
Un incendi a l'abocador manté els Bombers treballant a Pedret i Marzà diaridegirona.cat/alt-empord…
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El Congreso ha aprobado la reforma que reduce el copago de los medicamentos. Sólo VOX ha votado en contra. Su "sentido común" es que te jodas y pagues más. VIVA ESPAÑA.
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Fachas manifestándose en contra de una dictadura que no existe, luciendo carteles de una dictadura que existió durante 40 años. El chiste se cuenta solo.
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Two-factor authentication
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Que pasa Marçal. No vas seguir informant, perquè va ser una iaia que va morir de un infart i ja no podies fer demagogia racista barata?
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