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@doboprobodyne one tiny problem with the "type equations at the speed of thought" -- most #mathematicians can *already* type equations and such at the speed of thought, because TeX notation is so deeply ingrained in their brains/fingers. For example, if I'm thinking of

\[ \int_0^{2\pi} \sin^2(x)\, dx \]

then I just automatically type

\int_0^{2\pi} \sin^2(x)\,mathrm{d}x

without really thinking about it, and I don't have to take my hands off my keyboard.

That said, it looks like a fun little device, especially if it's QMK compatible.

As a mathematically not-so-sophisticated #EE/#CS bloke, I sometimes wonder whether those bona fide #mathematicians and #physicists (or those EE/CS folks who had attained such heights of mathematical sophistication) view me as a "maths carpenter".

Oh hey, hang on there. There's nothing wrong with being a carpenter or a mason or a farmer; these callings predate mathematics and physics by several millennia. They kick-started the human civilisation, and they continue to grow it.

Still, I wonder....

So good to see liberal America standing up to the Trumpian threat today. A strange thing happened to me as I followed the topical posts.

Each time I saw the #HandsOff hashtag, what my brain read instead was #Hausdorff, for Felix Hausdorff, the eminent mathematician.

To my shame, I knew nothing about Felix Hausdorff the man. To me as a former Berliner and an emigree to England, Hausdorff sounded like an East Prussian landed-gentry name, I expected a Junker. Wrong. Today I learnt that Felix Hausdorff was in fact Jewish. He, his wife and his sister in law escaped the death camps by suicide, in 1942. (His daughter Lenore survived.) I never knew.

So there really is a hidden connection between today's encouraging #HandsOff news and Felix Hausdorff, the great thinker who was exposed to the same evil of unchecked state power that threatens us today, and against which today's protests took a stance.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_

en.m.wikipedia.orgFelix Hausdorff - Wikipedia

Happy birthday to one of greatest #mathematicians of all time Emmy Noether (1882-1935), here with her eponymous theorem, the backbone of modern physics. Noether’s theorem links any symmetry of a system with a conservation law. In my portrait, I chose to depict a young Emmy in front of a blackboard with a more simple formulation of her theorem and three specific applications of it, shown schematically, 🧵1/

Happy #Nowruz to all who celebrate. Makes much more sense to me to celebrate the #NewYear at the beginning of spring on an astronomically significant day rather than on some odd, astronomically insignificant day in mid-winter. I mean, what’s up with that anyway? So to celebrate Nowruz, which BTW is observed by an enormous population including in Iran, Central and South Asia, I’m posting a short video memorial to one of the greatest #mathematicians ever, who happened to be an #Iranian woman, Maryam Mirzakhani. The first woman to win the Field’s Prize, math’s equivalent to the Nobel, Mirzakhani broke barriers and forever changed her chosen field. A Harvard graduate and former professor at both Princeton and Stanford, she deserves more attention than she gets. Regrettably, she died far too young at 40. May the new year bring us more genius minds like hers. #math #mathematics #STEM #WomenInSTEM #science

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Someone's in a bad way today and has spent the day watching game shows. 😞

Which makes me think, while I was unable to avoid for a while:

#GameShow for #mathematicians. Instead of points, contestants get one of an increasingly complex series of equations. At the end the winner is decided by a race to evaluate the sum of all the equations they have won, excluding contestants with no equations won. So the real test is deciding when to stop giving correct answers and start playing for laughs.

“Currently years into the development of the #TopologicalQubit, the journey began with a single question, “Could a topological qubit be achieved”?

Working with theory as a starting point, #Microsoft brought together #mathematicians, #ComputerScientists, #physicists, and #engineers to explore possible approaches.

These experts collaborated, discussed methods, and completed countless equations to take the first steps on the path toward realizing a topological #qubit.”

<azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog>

Microsoft Azure Quantum Blog · Developing a topological qubit - Microsoft Azure Quantum BlogLearn what's involved in the journey to create a topological qubit, including different stages of development, first-of-their-kind fabrication approaches, and an overview of the many fields of knowledge that come together to make this vision a reality.

I am extraordinarily fortunate to work with #Moodle in my job for @catalysteu I am additionally fortunate to have been working on the #STACK #maths #question type for much of the last year. #math is too important to be left just to #mathematicians

I have collaborated on a blog post that covers STACK and our STACK hosting service which you can read here.

catalyst-eu.net/blog/2025/01/3

Moodle and the STACK software are available under the #GPL license.

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