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Steven Clontz

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Mathematician, professor, puzzler, cat juggler Pronouns he/him Website clontz.org Puzzle PBaiReGOVANeLpNFrFGBfVkyRgGREf https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4938-4274 (Views expressed are my own and do not represent my employer or any organization.)

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Steven Clontz@clontz.org · 18h ago

Is overleaf getting thirsty?... (Can't help myself: PreTeXt.Plus previews compile in your own web browser when using Chrome, so no timeout limits apply!)

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Steven Clontz@clontz.org · 4d ago

Really great workshop just now on "Making Your LaTeX Accessible (Really!)" (spoiler alert: you write LaTeX-style PreTeXt in PreTeXt.Plus ) I forgot to let y'all know it was happening but good news, we're doing it again on Monday: pretext.plus/announcement...

PreTeXt.Plus | Free Virtual Workshops: Introduction to PreTeXt; Making Your LaTeX Accessible (really!)

With the Fall term fast approaching, we want to help you get started with using PreTeXt to create accessible course materials. In the coming weeks, we will offer two varieties of free, online workshops:

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Steven Clontz@clontz.org · 5d ago

Explicitly appealing to the properites of a transitive partial order in our department by-laws is my crowning achievement in campus politics. They fully promoted and gave me tenure for this one thing I think.

Screenshot: Section 3. For the purposes of these by-laws, comparison of faculty rank is defined as follows, where “A < B” is used to indicate that B is of higher rank than A. (a directed graph defining Instructor < Senior Instructor < Associate Professor of Instruction < Associate Professor, Assistant Professor of Instruction < Associate Professor of Instruction < Professor of Instruction, and Assistant Professor < Associate Professor < Professor) Note that this ranking is transitive (e.g. Professor of Instruction is of higher rank than Instructor), but some ranks are incomparable and thus neither is considered to be of higher rank than the other (e.g. Professor of Instruction and Associate Professor are incomparable; Instructor and Assistant Professor are incomparable).
Steven Clontz@clontz.org · 5d ago

I'm pretty sure the only billboards that work are the "Do billboards work? One just did!" billboards, due to the ironic feeling you get from noticing a billboard for once.

Steven Clontz@clontz.org · last wk.

Some girls, want to use an app And other girls want two factor auth before they eat that wrap But there's only one thing that they all want a bunch Cause girls, they wanna have lunch

Raj Patel@rajio.bsky.social · 2w ago

I do not want to download your app. I just want lunch. I do not want to create an account. I just want lunch. I do not want to setup 2FA. I just want lunch. I do not want to 'earn points'. I just want lunch. I do not want to add to my order. I just want lunch. I JUST WANT LUNCH!

Steven Clontz@clontz.org · last wk.

My least favorite flavor of flight disruption is when they update the flight as "boarded/departed" while we all stand here at the gate without even an agent to talk to.

ꭓle Ormsby 𓆙@e-infinity.space · 2w ago

You know those viral fb posts that reduce to order of operations quibbling? Please deploy this associahedron-based interactive viewer in order to subvert those threads with interesting mathematics: kyleormsby.github.io/parse-explor... 🧮

parse tree for 9-3-3/3said trees arranged in the pentagonal associahedronparse trees for 6-9+7*7^23d associahedron view of those parsings
ꭓle Ormsby 𓆙@e-infinity.space · 2w ago

Resolving ambiguity in order of operations is easy: simply enumerate all possible parsings of a given expression, compute each value, and then average. E.g., for 9-3-3÷3, ((9−3)−3)÷3 = 1 (9−(3−3))÷3 = 3 (9−3)−(3÷3) = 5 9−(3−(3÷3)) = 7 9−((3−3)÷3) = 9 so 9-3-3÷3 = (1+3+5+7+9)/5 = 5. Voilà! 🧮