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Rowan Brad Quni

The "Mathematical Tricks" Postulate: 20th-century #physics often prioritized post-hoc #math constructs to fit data/resolve paradoxes, reversing scientific inquiry (theory before observation). This made math formalism an end, allowing "tricks" (like early quantization) to obscure deeper physical reality, potentially as systemic intellectual fraud.

qnfo.org/releases/2025/Mathema

QNFOMathematical Tricks Postulate - QNFOThe “Mathematical Tricks” Postulate 1. Introduction: The Cracks in the Foundation of Modern Physics 1.1. The Postulate of Mathematical Artifice: Challenging Physics’ Foundational Integrity The standa…
#science#research#academia
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Charlotte Aten

I saw today that my CoCalc (cocalc.com/) license was about to renew. I've been meaning to move to a more #SelfHosting or #P2P paradigm, so this was good timing for me to cancel. I left this message when doing so:

"I want to support Sage, and I like using CoCalc, but I don't want to put money towards a service that supports Microsoft, Amazon, or OpenAI in any way. I didn't care so much about this before, and I even log in to CoCalc with a GitHub account, but I'm tired of having my work scraped for profit by people who donate to fascists who are destroying my nation. I would consider returning if all ties to these corporations were cut and cloud computing services came from responsible companies, perhaps in the EU."

I'm pretty sure I already have backups of everything I want from GitHub, so I can be done with them too. I should have quit when Microsoft first arrived. My plan is to switch to Radicle (radicle.xyz/) rather than another centralized service. I'll be sure to post about how that goes.

cocalc.comCollaborative Calculation and Data ScienceCoCalc landing pages and documentation
#Sage#math#SageMath
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Jules

"FOR pairs of lips to kiss maybe
Involves no trigonometry.
'Tis not so when four circles kiss
Each one the other three.
To bring this off the four must be
As three in one or one in three.
If one in three, beyond a doubt
Each gets three kisses from without.
If three in one, then is that one
Thrice kissed internally."

#Math #Poetry

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Jules

"Four circles to the kissing come.
The smaller are the benter.
The bend is just the inverse of
The distance from the centre.
Though their intrigue left Euclid dumb
There's now no need for rule of thumb.
Since zero bend's a dead straight line
And concave bends have minus sign,
The sum of the squares of all jour bends
Is half the square of their sum."

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#Math#Poetry
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Jules

"To out spherical affairs
An oscular surveyor
Might find the task laborious,
The sphere is much the gayer,
And now besides the pair of pairs
A fifth sphere in the kissing shares.
Yet, signs and zero as before,
For each to kiss the other four
The square of the sum of all five bends
Is thrice the sum of their squares."

F. Soddy (1936)

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#Math#Poetry
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If America became fully fascist(which it likely will), how long will it last? Well, let's do a little chronology and math. Here are the number of years all the previous fascist nations of the last century lasted:

Italy: 21
Germany: 12
Spain: 36
Portugal: 41
Hungary: 0.5
Romania: 4
Slovakia: 6
Croatia: 4

If we use the mean formula (sum of numbers in set/number of units in set), we get an average of ≈15.6 years. So, expect around 16 years of American fascism.

#fascism#USPolitics#history
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Christian Testa

I’d like to start a conversation about the #accessibility of math. Someday I aspire to be a professor, and I want to be inclusive to students of a wide range of backgrounds and experiences, but math (esp. advanced math) is full of details that make it very hard for anyone with dyslexia, dysgraphia, challenges with attention span, etc.

I know there’s some things I can do like providing notes / slides in advance so people don’t have to rely on my blackboard handwriting, and providing learning materials in multiple modalities, but what else is needed to make #math a more welcoming subject for students with what I think have traditionally been stigmatized as “learning difficulties”?

The world has spent a long time trying to force everyone to fit their expectations (“sit down, be quiet” ad nauseum) but I dream of a future where the classroom is more genuinely accepting and welcoming to people who experience the world differently than those who fit the mold we’re culturally conditioned to believe is “normal” or neurotypical.

Here’s a specific to get the conversation going: Is web-based math (MathJax / MathML) any better for screen readers than math PDFs? Do any screen readers even work with more advanced math at all??

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