Nick Straka

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Nick Straka

Nick Straka

@strakamath

I try to teach math. PhD candidate at Texas Tech.

Katılım Mart 2012
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Fermat's Library
Fermat's Library@fermatslibrary·
Oppenheimer on higher education
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Steven Strogatz
Steven Strogatz@stevenstrogatz·
Temple Grandin has a piece in ⁦@TheAtlantic⁩ called “Against Algebra.” Since everyone is going to be discussing it in the next few days, I guess you should read it. It’s full of both interesting ideas and exasperatingly wrong ones. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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Differential Eqns
Differential Eqns@diff_eq·
If a linear ODE has complex eigenvalues, solutions oscillate. If real parts are negative, oscillations decay exponentially.
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Nick Straka@strakamath·
Life begins at conception and ends in an elementary school classroom.
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203 Shout Out
203 Shout Out@203ShoutOut·
D203 board members, Superintendent Dan Bridges, and all the teachers and staff, it's another tough day but you made the right call keeping the layered mitigation plan. Parents appreciate it as we all navigate through this week.
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Nick Straka@strakamath·
Happy 2022nd birthday Earth 🌍
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Is there an inverse relationship between how knowledgeable and analytical someone thinks they are and how knowledgeable and analytical they objectively are? Serious question, can't find any good research on this.
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Nick Straka@strakamath·
@madsreda 100% but orange also acceptable for social studies
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Fermat's Library
Fermat's Library@fermatslibrary·
Ramanujan discovered the following identity in the beginning of the 20th century
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Fermat's Library
Fermat's Library@fermatslibrary·
The Von Neumann Randomness Extractor: How do you construct an unbiased coin from a biased one?
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Rachel Fruin
Rachel Fruin@RachelFruin·
@strakamath @RobPorterNCHS I was thinking c by c(sqrt{2}) which is the same depending on which side you label as c. Thanks for your response!
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Fermat's Library
Fermat's Library@fermatslibrary·
Here's an interesting integral involving the Golden ratio ϕ
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Analysis Fact
Analysis Fact@AnalysisFact·
Result by Bernoulli, 1697.
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