Ivan Travkin

In creative knowledge society: to teach is to reduce complexity. Моя формула учителя (2): Обучать — помогать обуздать неопределенность.

Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary

Fellow professors: we're in the midst of a fucking pandemic. If you're increasing the amount of work your students are doing "to ensure rigour and maintain high standards of quality" I think you're doing it mightily wrong. Priorities have shifted, as has the global order.

Turns out that gun is for the toilet paper

I put Windows 95 into an Electron app that now runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux. It's a terrible idea that works shockingly well. I'm so sorry. Go grab it here: github.com/felixrieseberg…

Российские школьники завоевали больше всего золотых медалей на Европейской олимпиаде по информатике mel.fm/novosti/607325…

Что у них там происходит? Сколько можно издеваться над чёрными?

Is video better than reading for learning? Not according to an MIT study: "The following differences were not found to be statistically different based on the number of study participants tested." mitili.mit.edu/news/compared-… @WillWorkLearn

@hjarche I never sell my old phones because I’m not sure I can totally erase all of my data. So...

Prof: How would you solve y” + y = x^2 Student: Method of Undetermined Coefficients Prof: How would you solve y” + y = sec x Student: Variation of Parameters Prof: How would you solve y” + y^2 = 0 Student: Wolframalpha

A male US officer falsely told a 10-year-old she could see her mother for an hour at 6:00p. The child was held in a windowless, constantly lit facility where she couldn’t determine the time of day. When she asked the officer for the time, he said he wasn’t permitted to tell her.

@agsidenko знаю, что можно распутаться, остальное — технические подробности :)

Знаете что делать?

If you don't know anything about the Monte Carlo method, here is a very nice, easy to understand introduction by the Russian/Lithuanian mathematician/engineer Ilya Sobel. bit.ly/2uCVVba

@mathematicsprof i’ve read it in russian :)

Simple flowchart:

Collaboration through open source makes the sum greater than the parts. @christo4ferris #Blockchain #OpenSource #OSCON #IBMCode

my film Technology vs Humanity - The Future is already here. A film by Futurist Gerd Leonhard gerd.fm/2zqUb9G great background footage from #barcelona #techvshuman

computer-museum.ru Вот тут набрали на целый сайт с тоннами инфы по истории отечественных информационных технологий и вычислительной техники. А в универах это даже не преподают

AWAKEN AKIRA Motion Graphics short from @Ashthorp and XiaoLin Zeng is a labour of love tribute to the legendary anime prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com/post/173487455…