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Matt Mack

@matthras

Hard-of-hearing neurospicy chronically online mathematician, cellist with a giant backlog of games & books. [email protected]; https://t.co/T3xjYMLD4T

Melbourne, Australia Katılım Nisan 2009
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Matt Mack@matthras·
Alright folks, those of you who've seen me posting #TSPart every now and then, here's the Python code to do it! After a lot of slaving away and fretting over small details and making sure it's beginner friendly, I'm finally comfortable to advertise it! github.com/matthras/tsp-a…
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My oddly specific superpower of connecting oddly specific people strikes once again. Welp, time to facilitate this one!
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A rough week has been healed by catch ups and conversations with good people today 😊
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Mildly wondering if the next generation (and younger) would understand the phrase "nails on a chalkboard", been thinking about using that phrase in a future talk for postgrad students but just realised my age and how less prevalent blackboards are these days 😅
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Cartoons Hate Her!
Cartoons Hate Her!@CartoonsHateHer·
For years, people conflated "privileged" straight white men (finance bros, frat bros) with the manosphere and misogyny, but the reality is that today's online manosphere is all a game of class and status--for men who were born with neither. Link in replies.
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Simon Kuestenmacher
Simon Kuestenmacher@simongerman600·
Louis Theroux’s documentary on the manosphere has many viewers asking why young men would follow influencers like Andrew Tate. But simply mocking these personalities misses the bigger story. From a demographic perspective, the rise of the manosphere coincides with a growing number of young men who feel disconnected from work, relationships and traditional paths to adulthood. When old playbooks stop working, alternative identities emerge. In my latest column I argue that if we want fewer young men drawn to angry online echo chambers, society needs to offer them something better to aim for: thenewdaily.com.au/life/social-me…
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Some applied maths talks I've been to have centred around a theory called GSPT where a main mechanism is applying inverse transformations, colloqually called "blowing up". Imagine if two mathematicians were having a conversation about this on a plane 😅😂
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DrVenom
DrVenom@DrVenomous13·
To me, this and the one with the autistic kids are among the episodes that best capture the essence of Gregory House. He is his own flavor of the Tortured Genius archetype. A Tortured Healer. He can heal anything and anyone but himself. That is his tragedy.
out of context house m.d.@telyhouse

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I'm hoping I fixed my thesis-writing mental block by finally getting offline LaTeX to work on my locked down university-supplied laptop. It meant I had to install portable versions of MiKTeX and StrawberryPerl and configure settings in VS Code. I just can't use Overleaf, sorry.
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Threads has been really nice for me to keep up with the chatter + speculation + insights following The Pitt episodes, especially since how the algorithm is much more obvious in recommending similar topics and therefore easier to manipulate. Mmmmm goss 😋
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Matt Mack@matthras·
Working through an ethics application for the first time and my brain is seizing up at having to provide descriptions in "plain/accessible" language. I know I can do this, just my usual "brain overthinking the first time I do anything new" feelings, bleh.
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There's a guy at another campus that has various mathematically patterned shirts ALL HANDMADE BY HIS MOTHER/PARTNER(?) and if that isn't going to make me master sewing and making my own purely out of (playful) spite and jealousy, nothing will 😤
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There's a really nice anime this season "The Invisible Man and His Soon-To-Be Wife" (who is blind) that also has other species races. On top of a typical love story it explores day-to-day scenarios where species (racial) differences can cause conflict and misunderstandings.
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Matt Mack@matthras·
I thought I was slightly crazy for doing white rice/brown rice/chickpea mix for my meal prep then I saw an Instagram reel of a Korean mother who includes (hydrated) chia seeds and like 4 different types of beans and various other things. I should emulate this.
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Matt Mack@matthras·
I've noticed this in general with groups of passive people. It's so /weird/, and since taking initiative for these things I've noticed more people have appreciated it than not. That said I have had scenarios where someone legitimately took offence.
Kpaxs@Kpaxs

I call it the "Refrigerator Principle" Most organizational dysfunction exists because everyone assumes someone else has the authority to fix it, and the fastest path forward is often just pretending you have that authority and dealing with forgiveness rather than permission.

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Matt Mack@matthras·
I didn't need to burn two hours this morning trying to debone a whole chicken (for the first time!) but I'm glad that particular piece of whimsy has been satisfied and is now hopefully out of my psyche. 🙃
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