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Hamster Serenade @hamsterserenade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

classmate: "how are you doing" me: "I'm in grad school" classmate: "fair"

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Hamster Serenade @hamsterserenade.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

path of least resistance? no thank you i will be taking the path of maximum resistance

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Hamster Serenade @hamsterserenade.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

you cannot convince me lemons belong in savoury dishes

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Hamster Serenade @hamsterserenade.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

me, allergic to following recipes: do you have a recipe for that

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Joshua Bowman @thalesdisciple.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Working on an A.I. policy for my calculus classes. Decided to be upfront about the current situation with LLMs and to give a heartfelt explanation for why the course still matters.

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Artificial Intelligence, or "A.l.," Is a broad term used to refer to several different kinds of technologies. The kind most relevant to this class are Large Language Models (LLMs), which use mathematics to analyze large amounts of human-produced text and then generate new text that simulates what a human might write in response to prompts or questions. Some examples of LLMs are OpenAl's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and Google's Gemini.

Current LLMs can provide a solution to any calculus problem I give you. So why should we work on them, you might ask? Here's the thing: for the most part, the problems were already solved anyway. Calculus as a subject is nearly 400 years old. It has reached into virtually every modern scientific and economic field. And while I would like to believe that I have crafted a few new problems with some small amount of originality tailored to this class, for the most part I have curated a collection of exercises drawn from my years of teaching calculus. Those exercises come from textbooks, workshops, friends, and other fields of study, as well as my own invention.
And they nearly all have known solutions, often with fairly standard approaches.
Before A.I. became widely available, you could find those solutions in another textbook, or from a friend's notes, or through a repository on the internet.

The point of this class is not necessarily to solve problems that have never been solved before. It is for you to develop habits of thinking that are used by mathematicians, scientists, and policymakers-to develop a sort of mental toolbox that can be applied to new problems. If along the way you happen to find a new way of solving one of the class exercises, that's great! I am constantly learning new things from my students. But you will be bereft of discovery if you rely on a LLM for solutions to the calculus problems before you. Here I mean the discovery of having your own realizations, crystallizing your own internal understanding, claiming the knowledge in a way that cannot be taken away from you.
That ownership is what I want for you, and that is what the course is built around.

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Hamster Serenade @hamsterserenade.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

please stop adding pickles to everything and expecting me to be excited about it

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Hamster Serenade @hamsterserenade.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

thinking once again about the time I asked someone in Belgrade how to pay the bus fare and they thought for a while and then said "I'm not sure actually, I have never paid for it"

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Hamster Serenade @hamsterserenade.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

"the city has no wildlife" "pigeons are vermin" "city life is monotonous" ok well every time I see a new pattern on a pigeon I take a photo and name the pattern and tell all my friends so all of those are false actually

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Hamster Serenade @hamsterserenade.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

so far the worst thing about my parents visiting me in my own apartment is that someone can hear me singing my little song about making breakfast

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly (@ wildheartrescue on TT)

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Hamster Serenade @hamsterserenade.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

today I had my hood up and the tunnel vision meant I couldn't see the crate. bad omen

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Hamster Serenade @hamsterserenade.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

bad news: theres a fair bit of litter on my street good news: there's a crate that's labeled in french on one side and english on the other and the wind flips it a lot so every day I walk past it and if it's french side up I whisper "honhonhon"

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Hamster Serenade @hamsterserenade.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

TTC be like "attn all passengers attn all passengers we have fucked up again, please hold for details"

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Hamster Serenade @hamsterserenade.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

"you'll be fish food" "actually, "fish" refers to the clade osteichthyes in which all species have a calcified aka "bony" skeleton whereas -" [I am eaten by a shark]

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Hamster Serenade @hamsterserenade.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

today my cat has: - purred madly as she looks up adoringly at me from where she has draped herself over my arm - slapped me in the face - made a noise like a slide whistle - screamed (repeatedly)

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Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I keep hearing that the Epstein files are so big if we held everyone accountable everything would collapse. And no it wouldn’t. These rich guys don’t do any actual work. They aren’t actually important or useful they are just rich.

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Hamster Serenade @hamsterserenade.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

things we should have hand gestures to communicate: - I want to say hello to your dog but not to you - please say hello to my dog but not to me - I like your gender - your fly is down things we have hand gestures to communicate: - six seveeeennn

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

bad people can and often do make good art. attacking the art as retroactively subpar to free yourself of moral dilemma and give yourself permission to not care means you're innately equating quality of art as representative of moral virtue (it's not) which is how you get purity culture

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Hamster Serenade @hamsterserenade.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I've been practicing greeting old men with a solemn nod. you can pry a smile out of my cold dead body

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Astrid (yeehaw) 🤠🌈 ✨ @ansitru.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Fuck AI. 🫳 🎤

A pixel art illustration of beads and sequins. The text in the middle reads "genAI is for losers".

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Hamster Serenade @hamsterserenade.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

why is cheddar the default cheese when there are so many better options

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Hamster Serenade @hamsterserenade.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

few things as satisfying as giving good scritches to a cat

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でんか @k-hermit.com · 12/01/2026

This bobtail squid burrowing into the sand is already adorable, but please watch till the very end! It sticks out its little arms and earnestly sprinkles sand over itself 🦑𓂃◌𓈒𓐍

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Hamster Serenade @hamsterserenade.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I would use elit3 haxxorz skills primarily to play ABBA at inopportune times and places

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Hamster Serenade @hamsterserenade.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

annual reminder: The Sound od Music is not a Christmas movie, and My Favourite Things has no place in Christmas music. proof 1: Captain von Trapp, "It's too early for blueberries" proof 2: the Anschluss was signed in March

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Hamster Serenade @hamsterserenade.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

"for some reason I thought I could do that" -> "I had major hubris" "lol that was a dumb decision" -> "oh no, I have shown hubris"

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Hamster Serenade @hamsterserenade.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

a major personal accomplishment this year has been to incorporate the word "hubris" into my regular vocabulary

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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Hey everyone going WELL TIME TO PLAY MORE FORTNITE TO HUNT DOWN PEOPLE WEARING HARRY POTTER STUFF No. Stop playing Fortnite. They're partnering with Rowling and Harry Potter in 2025, with full knowledge of what that decision means. Stop supporting them. Stop playing the game.

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Hamster Serenade @hamsterserenade.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

"your monthly banking statement is ready" take it back

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Hamster Serenade @hamsterserenade.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

gonna set some kind of record for level of codependency between a human and a cat

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Hamster Serenade @hamsterserenade.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

don't forget costume fees! rehearsal fees! cost of makeup! shoes! transport costs! incredible racket 10/10

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Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629 @feralrobots.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?! & more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Figure 1 from a paper published in Nature (linked in post). The figure purports to be an infographic depiction of the "Overall working of the framework" for 'explainably' diagnosing autism spectrum disorder. The infographic is plainly nonsense, containing many spelling errors, nonsense words, meaningless images and graphs. Clearly created using generative AI and (crucially) NEVER CHECKED AT ANY STEP OF THE WRITING OR PUBLICATION PROCESS.

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The Cat Hive @thecathive.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

BLACK FRIDAY SALE! 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ Everything in store is 15% off with coupon code BLACKFRIDAY thecatpod.xyz/discount/BLA...

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modmad @modmad.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

THEY ADDED NEW GARBAGE reblog to save a life

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Hamster Serenade @hamsterserenade.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

finally determined that lunchtime on a Wednesday is the lowest traffic time at the grocery store so I can wander around dazedly reading every single cream cheese package like it's my first day on planet earth

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Felipe Gaona @felipegaonar.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

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Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally

A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...

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Hamster Serenade @hamsterserenade.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

tl;dr yes but only if you have a cat

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Hamster Serenade @hamsterserenade.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Life in Grad School: Is There More To It Than Just Pasta? An Op-Ed

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Hamster Serenade @hamsterserenade.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

cat who knows NOTHING about any drool stains

close up of the head of a sleeping black cat

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Hamster Serenade @hamsterserenade.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

unfortunately not me but my god I'd do it at least once

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Let me be very clear. It is not enough that RFK Jr. was forced to admit today that no causal relationship between Tylenol and autism has been shown. We know that while disinformation spreads like wildfire on social media, corrections most often die on the vine.

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Hamster Serenade @hamsterserenade.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

the tragedy of today's breakfast - put ziploc bag down ln hot burner - fumbled two slices of bread in a row into the gap between counter and stove - burned toast

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Hamster Serenade @hamsterserenade.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

what would you do if your initials were PBJ

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 17/10/2025

white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Hamster Serenade @hamsterserenade.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

please don't mistake this for me being potentially a cool prof. I just like memes. I would also give oral exams and tell students that if they don't want to be there then they should leave and stop affecting their peers ability to get a good education

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Hamster Serenade @hamsterserenade.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

me: why are these items in a stack such that their identities cannot be discerned? me: wait I know someone who does this me: [eyes narrow dramatically] mother...

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Hamster Serenade @hamsterserenade.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

mother: what should I do with these items? me: lay them out on the table to take up as much space and be as visible as possible, so I am most likely to remember to deal with them mother: [visible pain]

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