Christian Lawson-Perfect @christianp@mathstodon.xyz

@nimius thanks, I hadn't seen that. So it sits in between the keyboard and whatever field you're typing into? I think this solves a different problem to the one I'm thinking about: since it just produces unicode characters, it'd be limited to single-line expressions. I'd like to be able to produce all sorts of math typesetting: arrays, systems of equations, proper fractions.

@mathr yes, that's a good point, and that thought crossed my mind when I wrote the bit about how \over is more like how mathematicians speak. I think there's a big overlap! Generic speech recognition software would probably do similar things with inserting unpredictable punctuation or messing with spacing

I've done some thinking about how you type mathematical notation on a mobile device, where you basically only have the alphabet and a couple of punctuation characters available on the keyboard.

Your thoughts, please!

https://checkmyworking.com/posts/2022/05/thinking-about-typing-mathematical-notation-on-a-phone/

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

@pkra oh right, forgot about those

@pkra good idea! done

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

@esoterica this might be my favourite paper title of all

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!