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Matt Davis

@coolpapa22.bsky.social
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Mathematician, educator, knower of things.

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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
In case you haven't been paying attention, this is what fascism looks like.
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Yeah, looking closer, some of the action spaces are dead-on Everdell. Discard cards for points, but only in the final round. A common pool of cards everyone can play from. Blech!
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think Tidewick is maybe Everdell. The 15-space limit, the one-year time span....
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The wikipedia entry for "Glass Ceiling" should just be this story.
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Some Random Susan @anysusan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Sometimes inspiration came from unexpected places. Hamilton would often bring her daughter, Lauren, to the lab with her on nights and weekends. Lauren, then four years old, liked to play astronaut in the team's simulators, and one day, pressing buttons at random, she caused a spectacular software crash. Hamilton investigated and found that Lauren had confused the program by keying in a pre-launch sequence, called P01, "in the middle of the mission," she says.She asked the powers at NASA to let her add a safeguard to prevent that error in a real flight, and they laughed it off as too unlikely. But they let her make a note of it. When an astronaut did make that blooper during the Apollo 8 mission —the first manned flight orbiting the moon—it caused necessary navigational data to vanish, and they called Hamilton in to get it back. "I remember saying to a couple of guys there, 'It's the Lauren bug!' she says, laughing.
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The airplane muzak I am currently listening to has played, in succession, the recent covers of Only Wanna Be With You and I Love You Always Forever. I would prefer to be pandered to with the actual music of my youth, not these grotesque simulacra!
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And no one has even mentioned Tricia Helfer yet?
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I have interesting news for you about Jean-Pierre Serre and Jean-Paul Sartre.
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here's an article about the corequisite model in general, with some links to supporting research. maa.org/math-values/...
maa.org
More Students can Succeed in Calculus: The Case for Calculus Corequisite Support – Mathematical Association of America
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is the genus of a graph, which is about finding a manifold your graph can be embedded in, but I don't think that actually helps with visualization in any way.
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Is this...3D Steampunk Stardew??! I am intrigued.
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Well, humans are sketchy, but HOUSE is full of soft warm things!
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ftr 12/10 and 2/10 DO in fact average to 10/10 if the game is 20 percent base and 80 percent pew-pew tactics. Don't listen to the haters!
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yeah but they invented a whole philosophy so they can feel more smug about it.
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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Erika Ishii's inclusion is not a "controversial announcement". This is elevating weird gamergaters' boring whining as deserving of attention. There's no "sides" to this, there's no "issue": It's a talented performer who's done nothing wrong being hated for who they are.
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We have a right to know!
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Which tour?
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Blue Jean Committee will not be opening for Ed Sheeran on this tour.
A still from the Documentary Now episode "Gentle and Soft". Four men in denim from head to toe stare at the camera.
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
But I would give all the Emmys to Helena....
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
LOOK WHAT THEY TOOK FROM US
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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The weeks after 9/11 were filled with unhinged Islamophobia and any claim that we were completely united explicitly places them on the outside of who you consider to be American
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
But at least we get ice cream on the quad.... :/
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Is this a pitch? Because I'd definitely watch it....
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I think that might be a Dark Crystal character....
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tbf the community sounds *slightly* less toxic than LoL.
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Hell yes. This and the Concerto for Orchestra are my JAM.
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Listen, Crow consumes all forms of media he can *for the express purpose of referencing ill-remembered sitcoms at inappropriate moments*. He's a very particular type of robot.
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Listen, you don't become an EGOT by accident.
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Why does the game not want me to play 9 million cards???
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Clippy: It looks like you're trying to convey character through word choice. Would you like me to interfere with that? Blech!
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
If they're so powerful, why do my meds feel like they do fuck all...🤔
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
And this fucking idiot could actually be respected the way he wants to be by just spending his money to bring food and medicine and education to people who need it, but would rather be up his own ass 24/7.... What a tool.
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
How about the Atomic Bomb Game? senseis.xmp.net?AtomicBombGame
senseis.xmp.net
Atomic Bomb Game at Sensei's Library
Sensei's Library, page: Atomic Bomb Game, keywords: Culture & History. SL is a large WikiWikiWeb about the game of Go (Baduk, Weiqi). It's a collaboration and community site. Everyone can add comments...
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Particularly in a race as culturally loaded as this one was, stated values can differ a lot from what someone does in a private polling booth.
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Huh. What a mystery! :D
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
He could have, but I don't think that team could have added anyone as impactful to their roster to get to a ring next year, so him going somewhere else seemed like the best shot.
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
That player is nearing the end of his career but was still the leading scorer on a decent playoff team. He's moving to another decent playoff team with all the pieces still there - feels like he's trying to get one last ring before he retires and this gives him a good shot.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 21/07/2026
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Landmark Official Dutch Review Recommends Trans Youth Care, Call For Expanding Treatment
The review finds that wait times must be shortened, that few people detransition, and that trans youth care has enormous benefits.
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Absolute chimneys from Simeone there.
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Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This, from food safety attorney Bill Marler, is so much better than anything I've seen from the FDA.
marlerblog.com
Taylor Farms Posted Its Own Recall. It Went to 27 States, Not 5 — and the List Includes Bags Sold in Grocery Stores.
Taylor Farms has posted a recall notice on its own website. As of this morning it is still not on FDA's recalls page, which means the only
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Roll4Rights @roll4rights.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
our charity auction kicks off July 24th at Noon EST and runs until August 1st at 2 PM EST all proceeds benefit the Immigration Law and Justice Network! take a look at the link in our bio to see all our listings! @dropout.tv @samreich.bsky.social @vicmmic.bsky.social @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Put this skeet in the Louvre.
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Is it not well-established that Cars etc. are the generally worst Pixar movies? (Although I'm not holding out much hope for Toy Story 5....)
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
At least you already know how many it should hold....
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Short version: there's a parasite outbreak affecting produce but no one is quite sure where. I'm basically not eating any raw produce unless it's got a thick peel like oranges or bananas - washing is often not enough. Cooking kills the parasite so any cooked veggies are fine.
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Continuing my habit of speaking about the dead as I did when they were alive. Sad to see him go.
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I guess that's fair. Maybe "Intro texts like to pretend ordered bases aren't a thing, but they are often useful" was a better way to say what I meant.
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
But I think bases probably kind of should be tuples for exactly this reason. We usually write them as sets because...????????
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Yeah, this is definitely true. If you put the basis vectors in another order, that corresponds to swapping the rows and columns of the matrix around. Luckily this is equivalent to conjugating by a permutation matrix, so things like eigenvalues, characteristic polynomial, etc. are preserved.
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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 30/11/2023
If we’d speak more ill of the dead, maybe it would remind the living not to be assholes.
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