Christian Lawson-Perfect @christianp@mathstodon.xyz

@pkra in the other direction: assign a UUID to each figure

Dr.-ed again, this time by a colleague rejecting an internal funding application, who should really know better.

So I'm really getting the full academic experience, without a tiresome PhD!

@jsiehler as Siobhan noted!

The "is this prime?" game (https://isthisprime.com/game/) recently passed 3 million attempts, which I might not have noticed if Siobhan Roberts hadn't written this lovely article about it: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/07/18/1029440/prime-number-game/
I like how they embedded the game in the post!

@11011110 thanks! That's already in: https://read.somethingorotherwhatever.com/entry/FusiblenumbersandPeanoArithmetic

Spent a moment making sure https://isthisprime.com/game/ works on tiny viewports. I got a decent score, too!

Preparing a presentation on decolonising the curriculum for tomorrow.

I'm... not speaking from experience, let's say that.

Two gardeners had a duel:
Trial by combat.
Each chose their favourite tool:
Combat by trowel.

I've written on @aperiodical about an integer sequence I sing to my son when he needs to sleep: https://aperiodical.com/2021/07/a-lullaby-sequence/

@pkra my desktop too. It took me a while to work out what it was supposed to be! So some font designer has already dealt with this problem

Thanks to everyone who's written something on WhyStartAt.xyz so far.

I'm gathering ideas and some questions about how the site should be organised, at https://whystartat.xyz/wiki/Whystartatxyz:Organisation

Please add your opinions!

(I suspect this will please @pkra)

I've made a change to LaTeX editing on mathstodon.xyz: unicode equivalents outside maths delimeters are no longer automatically inserted. Instead, when you select a LaTeX autocompletion, if it can be rendered using just unicode, that's inserted instead of the LaTeX code.

For example:
𝑓 : 𝑋→𝑌 = sin(θ²)
was produced by writing
\( f: X \to Y = \sin(\theta^2)
and pressing enter.

@ColinTheMathmo I have now, after leaving it for a while. It turns out that for some reason postgres on my machine is running on a different port to the one mastodon expects

well, today I *was* going to add a nice feature to mathstodon.xyz, but an hour later I can't get my mastodon environment to even connect to the database, so that's not happening