James Cleveland-Tran
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Math Educator, Writer, Wonderer #MTBoS, he/him/his Into making math games and political change
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But ending up with a bunch of different school rosters in different municipalities isn’t the same as a centralized big list.
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We did a fun problem today. Suppose you have this Pairwise Matrix. (How to read: each cell shows how many points the row player gets against the column player. So in a match of A vs B, A gets 54 points and B gets 51, so A wins.)

Can you seed an 8-player bracket such that A will win? What about C?
Photo of data table which can also be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pflkRhCslWUs1MfpabUb0lhLer6Or7UVFaap1EsHwVs/edit?gid=0#gid=0 Empty 8-player tournament bracket
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you have to tell people what you want them to do. stop whining that "no one cares" about x, y, z.
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THREAD. Did you know that at about 1/3 of all stranger homicides in the U.S. are perpetrated by police? But there's something hidden here that is important to understand in this authoritarian moment.
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Definitely bring snacks and more than snacks.. The train will have a cafe car that let’s you get something more substantial but they may sell out of that thing you want, so nest to not rely on it.
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Of course, it’s hard to say without knowing the thickness of the crust, as it’s not actually linear, but in my experience smaller pizzas also tend to have thicker crusts too.
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Wrong, the 6” slice gives you more crust, which is worse.
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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
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The real tragedy of AI is now the phrase “pics or it didn’t happen” is useless.
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The traditional fifth anniversary gift is wood, so Dũng got me a board game that is 100% wood - even the box.
The game Hexapolis, in a wooden hex box with stacks of wooden hex pieces. Our finished game state, with Dũng’s piece on a tall 4 tower surrounded by walls, with various other connected hexes. Dũng crossed arms visible in the background.
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I mean, a BEC is for sure better on a roll, but it’s not my bagel order. Then I like bacon and cream cheese on sesame.
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I think it’s more accurate as an oblique asymptote.
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What greater feeling is there for a teacher than to be completely caught up on their grading? (I’m sure there are others, but it’s the one I am feeling now and it’s great.)
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I literally almost just slipped on a banana peel, like some kind of cartoon.
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The fact that Wikipedia uses the same Tennessee Capital example for all voting methods is really not good. Like, I get why they do, but because that example has a Condorcet winner, it's not very good at explaining how Condorcet methods work.
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Oh, interesting one! Might be trickier this early in the year, but it could still work.
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I'm currently working on a new geometry game and could use some brainstorming help. Suppose I wanted a list of properties some shapes have that others don't, like "Has a right angle" or "Has a pair of congruent sides." What might be some interesting other properties?
#MTBoS #iTeachMath
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The classic swap to 40% of 45, which is 2/5s, so two 9s, so 18.
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Well, you can have verse novels, like the Black Flamingo.
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Yeah, in the history of the calculator we switched from relays to vacuum tubes for this exact reason.