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benjamin dickman

@benjamindickman.bsky.social
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Math Educator 🪄♾️ Brookline to Nanjing to NYC to DC Amherst College BA Fulbright Program x2 (🇨🇳+🇵🇭) Teachers College, Columbia University PhD past BU Wheelock (postdoc, Math Edu) cocreated original word game: #FiddleBrix tinyurl.com/bmdmaths

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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 9h
same Wed #2solve! 🧱🪑♀️ – one letter
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
same Tue solve #2solve! spotted mercifully fast for such long words
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ruffly "represent" Mon #2solve (one of many: the first I spotted!) 01000110 01001100 01001111 01010101 01001110 01000011 01001001 01000101 01010010 00100000 01010010 01000101 01000111 01001001 01000110 01010100 01000101 01000100
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
quick Sun #2solve when the cheese is too rubbery 01000011 01000001 01001100 01011010 01001111 01001110 01000101 01010011 00100000 01010011 01010001 01010101 01000101 01000001 01001011 01011001 00100000
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
same minimal Sat #2solve, Victor Hugo?
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
looks like a bazillion #2solve possibilities for Wed the first I found: wandering analysis (peripatetic?) 01010010 01001111 01010110 01000101 00100000 01000101 01011000 01010000 01001100 01001001 01000011 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110 00100000
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Same Tue solve #2solve, shellfish still movin'
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
3,4,5 force 2 and 6... so you're a multiple of 3×4×5 = 60 appears to me unlikely you're ≥120 sixty it is! 🥳
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
TBD but I'd say... give it a year
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
happy belated!!
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
a spry 40 over here 🌱
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
iktr ‼️
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
great account 👍🏻
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
(idk these ppl!) "...a group of 24 mathematicians met... to grapple with the changing landscape for math PhD programs in the age of AI. We produced recommendations given in the report below. We hope they serve as a starting point for discussions in each department about how to evolve their program"
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
ziwe & b/w two ferns, for online idk, scrubs? clone high? all of adult swim? [space ghost coast to coast?! sealab 2021? harvey birdman?...]
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
hoping v much to reach that one!!
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
just 55 (1+2+...+10 = 1²+...+5²) years until the date is 09/27/81 = 3² / 3³ / 3⁴ not sure if i will be alive (age 95) not sure humans will be alive but the time will come! #iTeachMath ♾️
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Same Sun #2solve Cam'ron flop
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/aimathphd_su...
cmsa.fas.harvard.edu
Summit on PhD Math Education in the Age of AI - CMSA
On September 17–18, 2026 a group of 24 mathematicians met at Harvard to grapple with the changing landscape for mathematics PhD programs in the age of AI. We produced recommendations given […]
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
FYSA (might be up your alley?) mathoverflow.net/questions/51...
mathoverflow.net
Six circles in a rectangle: show that two lengths are equal, using pure geometry
The diagram shows a rectangle, six circles, and a red line segment joining the centres of two circles. Wherever things look tangent, they are tangent. (The tangencies imply that there are three pai...
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
same bad egg Sat #2solve
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thu #2solve! neckwear narration 01001100 01001111 01000011 01001011 01000101 01010100 01010011 00100000 01010011 01010100 01001111 01010010 01011001 01000010 01001111 01000001 01010010 01000100
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
amplifying boosting promoting etc! #iTeachMath #MathSky
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ayyyyyyy i mean, the hashtags alone merit a look!!
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🎁 article! cc: #iTeachMath
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
same Wed #2solve 🤠🫁 been waiting a long time to use word one!
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
& a new entry! evolvingparenting.substack.com/p/q-and-a-hi...
evolvingparenting.substack.com
Q and A: High Conflict Daughters and Family Time
How to plan for a family vacation when your adult children have a high conflict relationship
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
direct link: evolvingparenting.substack.com/p/q-and-a-to...
evolvingparenting.substack.com
Q and A: Tough Conversations
Tough Conversations: How an when to re-engage after being asked to back off?
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
my mom has a substack about parenting when kids are grown ups. if your kids are adults, or if your parents could benefit from clinician/practitioner insights, here is an indirect link and then a direct one! Indirect 🔗: lnkd.in/p/ev7ujjdy
lnkd.in
Evolving Together: Parent and Adult Child Connection | Drs. Rauch and Macht-Greenberg | Substack | Benjamin Dickman
of course i am going to boost my mom's post (‼️) about her collaboration on parenting when kids are grownups, too. the specific description is: "Practical insights from clinicians for parents navigati...
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
one more of the same Tue solve #2solve 🦟🪤🪩 Couldn't use either of: 01000101 01001100 01000101 01000011 01010100 01010010 01001111 01010000 01001100 01000001 01010100 01000101 00100000 01010000 01001100 01000101 01010100 01001000 01001111 01010010 01000001 00100000
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
yes, appreciated !
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm not sure what this comment means! Can you rephrase?
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
not sure how much of this [by Po-Shen Loh but in Terry Tao's blog] is new or couldn't be inferred(ish) from Francis Su's M4HF. and/but! i like this line: > Driving a car faster than you can run is fine. But not faster than you can steer. terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/19/w... #iTeachMath #MathSky
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Why Do We Need Human Mathematicians Anymore?
[This is a guest post by Po-Shen Loh, crossposted from his blog, where an illustrated version appears. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. &#8212…
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sun insta #2solve, planter spacer 01000110 01001100 01001111 01010111 01000101 01010010 01010000 01001111 01010100 01010011 00100000 01010011 01001000 01001001 01001101
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
same Sat #2solve, just a pair of descriptors for me
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my alma mater (Amherst College) is celebrating 50 years of coed grads; assembled among their materials is a brief profile of Mary Catherine Bateson, whose book on Composing A Life 📚 I couldn't recommend more highly! www.amherst.edu/news/magazin...
amherst.edu
Catherine Bateson | The Women of Amherst from A to Z | Catherine Bateson | Amherst College
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🫡 (check the back-issues, too, if you haven't read this newsletter before... lots of mathy policy crossover content that I haven't seen similarly curated elsewhere)
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
... I've had to read up on this work (Melencolia). I think he'd be proud 🥲
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
newest MOTHERFUNCTOR!: newsletter.motherfunctor.co/archive/forc... @courtneygibbons.phd closes w: > Anyway, if you're not on Bluesky, you've missed some incredible content (Excellent summary of & commentary on math × AI shenanigans of late...) cc #iTeachMath ♾️ #MathSky 🧮
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Forcing Solutions?
Forced Navier-Stokes, and the unforced errors of a doom-mongering corporation spending millions to beat mathematicians to the math. (Wherein I tell you how I really feel!)
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
heretical
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
^getting to the bottom line
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
finally! a rational, real, wholesome, possibly natural (altho not integral?) thread 🧵 addressing denominators
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"making it positively wholesome"
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
that's what I'm saying re: making wholesome 🆚 naturalizing altho, on second or third thought, this process never results in a denominator of 0 ... so perhaps the naming convention needn't be concerned w such an outcome? 🤔
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
what's the reconsideration? as in, aren't the whole numbers 0 and positive integers? i assume that's the same set, for you, as N (it is for me!)
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Zeeplussing the denominator yeah hmm it's definitely not "integrating" ...
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
ok I will start 🫡 (but with the -ize spelling)
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
haven't seen that conjugation of real for this process! ofc, if it's rationalized i.e. in Q, then it'll be real i.e. in R, too
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
same bro light Wed #2solve
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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Maybe rationalizing a denominator of 1 + i + √2 ?? (can you predict the denominator in advance?) www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=rati...
wolframalpha.com
rationalize 1/(1 + i + √2) - Wolfram|Alpha
Wolfram|Alpha brings expert-level knowledge and capabilities to the broadest possible range of people—spanning all professions and education levels.
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