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Matt Mack @matthras

Hard-of-hearing neurospicy chronically online mathematician, cellist with a giant backlog of games & books. matthras@aus.social; matthras.bsky.social

Joined April 2009
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Matt Mack@matthras
10 Jul 2020
Alright folks, those of you who've seen me posting #TSPart every now and then, here's the Python code to do it! After a lot of slaving away and fretting over small details and making sure it's beginner friendly, I'm finally comfortable to advertise it! github.com/matthras/tsp-art-…
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Watched first episode of Teach You a Lesson, Korean TV series about supervisors who go into problem (high?) schools to punish students & parents who "cross the line". It's definitely satisfying /something/ inside me 😅
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Current First-World Problem: One of my supervisors recommended a podcast for me to listen to, except that I don't usually listen to podcasts, and they're only on Apple/Spotify so I have to use a different website to download/extract the mp3s and transcribe them. 1/2
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Never mind my ever-so-persistent existential brainworm about podcasts/presentations: "Do people actually retain any information from podcasts? Because I sure don't, most of it is just pleasant background noise to keep my brain occupied." 2/2
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Successfully nerd-sniped a fellow mathematician into playing today's Doctordle. He figured out the right "thing that is happening" but the name eluded him. Can you imagine two mathematicians at a lunch table flexing their better-than-average medical knowledge? 😆
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Bunch of students studying for exams today had a baby rabbit with them and I got to hold it 🥹 "I can feel my entire nervous system calming down" 😆
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Finding Doctordle a little too much fun to play daily. Definitely recommend for those who enjoy "Guess the medical diagnosis". I do allow myself to look up unknown medical terminology, so that I'm also learning what the words mean. Today's one was very unexpected for me though!
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Four years ago someone randomly reached out to me on Facebook looking for local hard-of-hearing community. Unfortunately I wasn't able to help them. Last night they reached out and invited me to join a group chat of similar hard-of-hearing adults. Funny how these things work 😊
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Today's Minor Win: Replaced the showerhead with probably the most exxy one from Bunnings. Today I'm grateful to whatever institution/organisation/ruling decreed that showerheads should be something that a normal person can easily unscrew, and screw on a new one 🙏
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I think I've figured out my major block on making videos and it's basically because I've never really storyboarded/planned one out in larger detail. Ideally I'd just turn on the camera and yap, but future projects definitely require some planning, so will try that today.
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Was in a bad mood this morning. Went shopping to also walk it off. Figure I could make myself some creamy chicken & sweet corn soup. Reader, someone had cleared out all the creamed corn cans at the local supermarket. 🙄
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You'd think after so much maths teaching I'd be comfortable teaching non-maths stuff that's "basic knowledge" to me but is probably completely new to others, but nooooooo my anxieties are flaring up again /flails
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Today feels like an 'eat myself into an afternoon food coma nap' day and I'm tempted to do it with KFC. Doesn't help that I'm doing a talk tomorrow of which I have all the ideas but still need to write them all into the slides asd;lfkajsd;flakj
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Me because I'm deaf in my right ear and hearing from my left even with a hearing aid does get tiring at times 🙃
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Jun 3
What has EARS but does NOT listen ??
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I know an Alexander who goes by Xan. Thought that was pretty awesome of him to break the mold like that.
mollie writes stuff@vuse_lover
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Met a guy recently named Jonathan who goes by Nathan. I didn’t even know you could do that
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If there's anything I've appreciated within last few weeks of my PhD research it's doing pen & paper maths again (but on my iPad with ALL the pretty colours!). It's the perfect amount of isolated/calming/curl-up-into-a-ball-on-the-couch-and-get-lost-in-my-thoughts.
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Shamelessly asking free Claude to generate nonsense datasets with weird stipulations because how else? Latest prompt: "Give me a dataset that represents a noisy linechart indicating "number of browser tabs open over time". It should be bimodal, and have one or two sharp drops."
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Once again, cursing past me for creating more work for current me even though it's all for good causes. grumblegrumble Really is impossible to predict how much time I need to allocate to certain tasks until I've done said task a few times.
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May 31
mathematicians love putting "an introduction to" in the title of a textbook that contains the most fucked up and domain specific information possible
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I'm so stuuuuuuuuuuuuupid why didn't I think to look up past PhD/MPhil theses to get a better idea of how to structure my thesis /facepalm /flails Lovely how my brain throws up mental roadblocks that I'm unable to put words to until a supervisor suggests it.
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Making yet another random attempt to curate an environment (separate from my other ones) so that I can actually make a reasonable attempt to get through my backlog of physical books. Bed definitely doesn't work. It's crazy how difficult my brain is making this out to be, ugh.
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