Alright, the Summer of Math Exposition π approaches its deadline in a few minutes. Go to some.3b1b.co, sign up as a judge and help rank the over 200 maths explainers we got this year in the upcoming peer-review! And if you encounter my video, give it the highest score!

Sadly I'm not participating in this year's SoME, but I'm signing is as a judge instead! I encourage you to do so too! 🥳 Being a judge in SoME has been very inspiring for me, both as a mathematician, but also as a content creator. It's totally worth it! 🔥

“What’s the biggest number you can think of?” “Infinity!” “Which one?” “What?!” “Well, it all started with a guy named Cantor. …”

MarkovJunior is a probabilistic programming language where programs are combinations of rewrite rules and inference is performed via constraint propagation github.com/mxgmn/MarkovJu…

📚 my strong opinion is that software documentation should be written with a specific textual genre in mind: mystery, horror, romance, religious text, and so on

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Excerpt from a video I just posted on YouTube (about the multilayer perception layers in a transformer, and how LLMs may store facts).

Omar Rizwan I have finally got to a point in my life where I don't need to prove anything by making a website that uses a framework that I need to keep up to date

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Been working on this for 2 months, and it's finally ready to share! This piece not only *describes* how B-trees and database indexes work, but gives you the opportunity to interact with them, reinforcing the concepts, and providing a bit of fun along the way. Link in thread.

📢New #MathArt Interview out in the online journal "Between Science & Art"! Milena Damrau and I are talking to #math #artist Kevin Walker about how he draws inspiration from nature for his mathematical art. Find the full interview here: between-science-and-art.com/kevin-walker-m…

We're excited to launch season 8 of the Mathematical Objects podcast with this fascinating chat we had with Adam Townsend about measurement and low bridge signs! All episodes and subscription links: aperiodical.com/podcasts/mathe… aperiodical.com/2024/09/mathem…

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A couple of months ago I did a Numberphile video about the little known origin of the multiplication symbol. If you missed it and are curious, here's a link: numberphile.com/videos/the-big…

There is a selection bias in college-level mathematics education: We believe that the status quo works well because it works for the top students (who go on to do PhDs, etc.). Yet it often works poorly for students in the “middle of the class.”

More constructively, a few good visuals go a long way to helping “the rest of the class” understand at least a bit better. There is great wisdom to the adage “a picture is worth a thousand words.” I don't claim to have all the answers, but here are a few small things that help.

Thing 4. Use some damn visuals. It is often said that “a picture is not a proof.” Many mathematicians are paranoid about drawing specific examples, because they may betray the general meaning. Folks: it. will. help. your. students.