Principal engineer at desmos.com, geometry enthusiast, and hobbyist powerlifter.
Joined June 2013
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Jason Merrill retweeted
21 Nov 2022
β‘2D to Simulate 3D: Made that legendary Rubik's Cube even easier to Understand β‘
The legendary Rubik's Cube made even easier to understand
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Desmos Studio is hiring! πππ We are looking for people to join us in our mission to help everyone learn math, love math, and grow with math. Learn more about our openings for a UI / Visual Designer and a Community Manager here: desmos.rippling-ats.com/
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3 Nov 2022
We learned today that WebKit/Safari has special behavior for desmos.com hard coded in. Guess weβre in the big leagues!
github.com/WebKit/WebKit/bloβ¦
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13 Sep 2022
In case I have any followers that work on Webkit: there's a bug that shipped w/ Safari 16 that affects some very basic uses of canvas. I don't see a great way to work around this systematically.
bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgiβ¦
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Jason Merrill retweeted
Holy hell, it actually happened: California just eliminated minimum parking requirements for new housing projects within a half mile of public transit stops *statewide*!
A truly incredible day for housing and climate policy in the world's 5th largest economy!
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Jason Merrill retweeted
15 Jul 2022
We launched Cuttle Pro! π
Be one of the first and help us make the best design tool for makers!
Early adopter promo price expires in 7 days...
cuttle.xyz/pricing
ALT A promo for Cuttle Pro. $12 crossed out, $10 / month. Promotional price until July 22, 2022. Billed Yearly. Personal or commercial use. Unlimited projects. Folders to organize projects. Upload your own fonts (coming soon). Import JPG and PNG images (coming soon). Upgrade to Pro. Cardstock torus sculptures on a cutting mat in the background.
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Jason Merrill retweeted
30 Jun 2022
From 152,000 lines to 29,000: @RonAvitzur spent the last 18 months porting the famous Pacific Tech Graphing Calculator from C to Swift and wrote about the journey: swift.org/blog/graphing-calcβ¦
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Jason Merrill retweeted
20 Jun 2022
Haha this math joke is hilarious π
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Jason Merrill retweeted
6 Jun 2022
Accessibility is not just about the end result, but about the experience. If I can get it done, but itβs 10X more frustrating and takes 10X longer for me as a blind user, itβs not truly accessible. Ultimately, #a11y is about equity of opportunity as well as experience.
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Jason Merrill retweeted
28 May 2022
If you were in any doubt about the idea that girls avoid physics because they βdonβt like hard mathsβ you should read this exceptional response.
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I'd like to share a lil project that beth johnson and I have cooked up! It's up and running at pattern-machine.com
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Jason Merrill retweeted
6 Apr 2022
Iβve always wished I had the courage to use this, from Lev Landau, βExcuse the delay, due to my extreme antipathy to the epistolary art.β
books.google.com/books?id=baβ¦
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10 Mar 2022
Surprisingly engrossing video about Maineβs Waste to Energy (garbage incinerator) facility: youtu.be/pGM4qCe751I
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Jason Merrill retweeted
7 Mar 2022
It was a fascinating challenge explaining Mirzakhani's math in this sensitive and touching documentary about her extraordinary life. If you haven't seen it yet, check your tv listings!
5 Mar 2022
Don't miss SECRETS OF THE SURFACE @SecretsMathFilm during #WomensHistoryMonth! Airing on public television stations via @Ampublictv on more than 120 stations via @PBS World Channel. Check local listings and our airdates page: buff.ly/3gNZTpf buff.ly/35RnBOR @KTVU
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1 Mar 2022
It's bewildering that there is so little public funding available to develop and maintain infrastructure that is useful to many researchers compared to the funding that is available to individual researchers to do their own research.
28 Feb 2022
New blog post: fredrikj.net/blog/2022/02/lo⦠I discuss the current state and long-term development plans (features, maintenance, funding) of some free software projects that I help maintain or depend on (mpmath, FLINT, Arb, Calcium, Fungrim, MPFR, GMP).
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Jason Merrill retweeted
28 Feb 2022
New blog post: fredrikj.net/blog/2022/02/lo⦠I discuss the current state and long-term development plans (features, maintenance, funding) of some free software projects that I help maintain or depend on (mpmath, FLINT, Arb, Calcium, Fungrim, MPFR, GMP).
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28 Feb 2022
β is not a Real number, but some explanations for why not claim too much.
ββ is not real because β-β is indeterminate,β but 0 is Real even though 0/0 is indeterminate.
ββ can only be approached as a limitβ, but β2 is also only approached as a limit (of rationals).
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28 Feb 2022
Itβs hard to correctly say why β is not real without either bringing up the definition of a field (axiomatic approach), or the concept of convergence of sequences (constructive approach).
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28 Feb 2022
But students probably do need to know that β is not Real before theyβre ready for these other concepts. Tricky!
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