Christian Lawson-Perfect @christianp@mathstodon.xyz

the two genders

428. THE GARDENER AND THE COOK. A correspondent, signing himself "Simple Simon," suggested that I should give a special catch puzzle in the issue of _The Weekly Dispatch_ for All Fools' Day, 1900. So I gave the following, and it caused considerable amusement; for out of a very large body of competitors,
many quite expert, not a single person solved it, though it ran for nearly a month.

"The illustration is a fancy sketch of my correspondent, 'Simple Simon,' (1/4)

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What's written: WLOG

My brain: without loss of generality

Also my brain: wuh-log

Related idea:

A browser extension that changes the label for all dropdown menus to "gender"

why the fuck did they call it arson when crime brûlée was right there

"Voilà turns #Jupyter notebooks in standalone web applications."

https://blog.jupyter.org/and-voil%C3%A0-f6a2c08a4a93

@christianp ah, a set of write angles

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I will see myself out now

So apparently I'll be maintaining these two - thanks to the AMS making them public!

https://github.com/AmerMathSoc/mathjax-mathtools

https://github.com/AmerMathSoc/mathjax-xalign

Oh, funny, you can 500 example.com:

https://example.com/lolololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololol

Math communication is difficult and rarely well-done.

#introductions Hello #fediverse ! My name is Zach and I really love #maths #math. I am also passionate about #freesoftware and #decentralisation. I'm #vegetarian, from the #unitedkingdom #uk, and hoping to study #mathematics at #Cambridge #university. I am also #spamming #tags.

Death of Proof (The Pleasures of Failure I): https://theinnerframe.wordpress.com/2018/07/16/death-of-proof-the-pleasures-of-failure-i/

The tale of Horgan's surface, a nonexistent minimal surface whose existence was incorrectly predicted by numerical experiments, named sarcastically after a journalist who incautiously suggested proof was dead. See also http://www.indiana.edu/~minimal/essays/horgan/index.html and https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4133; via Carnival of Mathematics 170, https://mathenchant.wordpress.com/2019/06/06/carnival-of-mathematics-170/