Christian Lawson-Perfect @christianp@mathstodon.xyz

You, a tech startup with millions in angel finance: made an app to turn handwritten maths into TeX.

Me, just the worst kind of smart alec: convinced a pen #plotter to turn TeX into handwritten maths

It feels like every other number I come across is divisible by two.
Really makes you think.

Back in the office for only the second time since lockdown. My desk calendar is frozen in time, a little inadvertent monument to covid.

I've just found my old mathsjam ideas file, and it had a link to Gurmeet's Delightful Puzzles page: https://gurmeet.net/puzzles/
They are indeed delightful!

New meme format.
https://somethingorotherwhatever.com/didnt-graduate-texts-generator/

UK maths pals: The Man Who Knew Infinity, the Ramanujan biopic, is on iPlayer for the next 25 days
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0011wzr

#NowListening to this joyful nonsense by Alice Babs: Puerto Rico
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDXu63l4JMM

I just misread "thanks for any insights" as "thanks for my insights" and now I have a new email signature

Made it! The tunnels felt much shorter than I expected.

Got the kinesiology tape in the way, and also popped into wilkos to get some trouser clips and a phone holder for my handlebar. Resisted the temptation to pop into Maccy D's, but might not on the way back!

This morning's plan: 🚴 through the Tyne pedestrian tunnel, stopping at Boots on the way to pick up some tape for my shoulders

Tired: hurricane season

Wired: Hot ∇×(𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫)

Big up to my university reporting an increase in our "research power" as a percentage to 3 significant figures, based on the #REF.

As someone said elsewhere: a happy pretending metrics matter day to you all!