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Chris prior @oneofmanychris.bsky.social · Sep 4

So proud of my fellow nerds 🥲

Ric Crossman @riccrossman.bsky.social · Sep 4

IDFC has something special up for y'all: a post co-written with Dr Andrew Krause on the Newman-Sagan model of interstellar civilisation growth, and applying it to both Starfleet and the Romulan Star Empire before and immediately after first contact. Comes complete with interactive graphical model!

8.1.2 Romulus Wasn't Built In A Day (Bonus Post)

In which two academics expand the boundaries of maths by expanding the boundaries of the Romulan Star Empire.Krause’s KraniumLet's start with an introduction. This post was co-written with Dr Andrew K...

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Chris prior @oneofmanychris.bsky.social · Mar 15

Yet more proof of my, everything is basically a bunch of filaments, theory. Excellent work by all involved.

Alain Goriely @alaingoriely.bsky.social · Mar 15

How fast can you simulate the motion of an elephant trunk?
ULTRA FAST!
doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...

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Chris prior @oneofmanychris.bsky.social · Feb 27

Three excellent people and a great project. You will learn mathematical modelling and how to interact with our experimental colleagues, proper interdisciplinary science. Plus we do excellent cookies at lunch time meetings 😎

Andrew Krause @blindmath.bsky.social · Feb 27

We're advertising a fully-funded PhD project at Durham in understanding microbial ecology from a theoretical and multidisciplinary perspective! More details below. Feel free to email me, Denis Patterson, or @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social. March 31st deadline.

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Metals, Microbes, and Mathematics: Understanding Coexistence with Toxic Nutrients at Durham University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Metals, Microbes, and Mathematics: Understanding Coexistence with Toxic Nutrients at Durham University, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Chris prior @oneofmanychris.bsky.social · Feb 13

I suspect words might be had if this particular copy was found on your bedside table...

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Chris prior @oneofmanychris.bsky.social · Jan 12

Did you notice anything different with our approach to crosses/corners today ?

Chris prior @oneofmanychris.bsky.social · Jan 8

I sense a paper 2 with twist then !

Chris prior @oneofmanychris.bsky.social · Jan 8

Proteins get loads of their writhe from helical coiling, but proteins have lots of non local binding to hold it in place.

Chris prior @oneofmanychris.bsky.social · Jan 8

I'm looking forward to hearing about that. On this paper, my only quick thought is that the one clear way a curve can build up significant writhe, which doesn't have anything to do with knotting, is helical coiling. Is it just that's teens to be prohibited in these in these simulations?

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Chris prior @oneofmanychris.bsky.social · Jan 6

Dragon content represents an excellent first post!

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Chris prior @oneofmanychris.bsky.social · Dec 29

I can't access that link, is it the epple article ?

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Chris prior @oneofmanychris.bsky.social · Dec 15

To be fair since I moved on here from X/twitter I've seen almost non of that and feel alot better about the direction of the team for it. You'd follow someone saying something interesting about tactics and the algorithm would throw ten people just mouthing off about the team. Not here so far...

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Chris prior @oneofmanychris.bsky.social · Dec 8

That's going to be quite an impact case study !

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Chris prior @oneofmanychris.bsky.social · Dec 3

I'm with the physics majors on that, "those? They're just some projects I have on, the go"

Chris prior @oneofmanychris.bsky.social · Dec 1

This got a bit programming specific, but I think there are equivalent issues in most subjects.

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Chris prior @oneofmanychris.bsky.social · Dec 1

I'm sure there will be loads of issues encountered on the way, but I think it's best to start now and get it right, rather than fight the inevitable for years.

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Chris prior @oneofmanychris.bsky.social · Dec 1

So you can focus more on fundamentals.

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Chris prior @oneofmanychris.bsky.social · Dec 1

But then, some things, like say plotting scripts I don't really think are fundamentals, and god knows I've wasted so much time with them over the years, and which cost loads of time in class, can just be llm'd out.

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Chris prior @oneofmanychris.bsky.social · Dec 1

In short I think you can still give them their fundamental principles, just the style needs to change.

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Chris prior @oneofmanychris.bsky.social · Dec 1

In the past we could get away with the less labour intensive (for us) approach. But rather than bullishly stick to that and waste loads of time developing methods to stop students using llm's just accept we need to alter the approach.

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Chris prior @oneofmanychris.bsky.social · Dec 1

With gpt they can nail that without thinking. But if instead you present the code, and ask them what it is calculating, they can't then "cheat" but they still get the same point.

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Chris prior @oneofmanychris.bsky.social · Dec 1

Okay! Well the original notion was don't ban llm's. There are simple points like, e.g right now we would show a student code to add up 1 to 10 with a for loop, then as to modify to only do odd numbers or the square of them. Then turn it in.

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Chris prior @oneofmanychris.bsky.social · Dec 1

So we should teach how to use it practically.

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Chris prior @oneofmanychris.bsky.social · Dec 1

Yeah, but then I guess you need to arrange more complex problems where (you've checked) gpt wouldn't get the whole thing but can construct the constituent elements. I guess what I am saying is that is often likely how it will be used in practice in the "real world"

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Chris prior @oneofmanychris.bsky.social · Dec 1

Basically force them to asses its output to engage with it, rather than keep the current structure where they can just hand in its output without thinking and try to ban it.

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Chris prior @oneofmanychris.bsky.social · Dec 1

We're having this with our first year programming (python) gpt can basically nail all the assignments with little input. The thinking is we should be asking students to critique existing code (point out bugs, discuss efficiency).

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