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Jessamyn Dukes

@rhymeswithspecimen.bsky.social

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👀 award winning matheamtician, PhD student at University of Denver, some finite number of feral raccoons in a trenchcoat

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Jessamyn Dukes @rhymeswithspecimen.bsky.social · 9h

yeah. yep

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 11h

5 ways YOU can use the torment nexus to maximize your workflow

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Jessamyn Dukes @rhymeswithspecimen.bsky.social · 12h

please look at this creature that is in my house

an orange and brown striped cat with white splotches sits on a grey cat tower next to a window

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Jessamyn Dukes @rhymeswithspecimen.bsky.social · 12h

sure are!!

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Jessamyn Dukes @rhymeswithspecimen.bsky.social · 14h

I guess lots of structures don't have particular names for their elements but I'm mad about this one in particular

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Jessamyn Dukes @rhymeswithspecimen.bsky.social · 14h

vector : vector space :: ??? : module

can someone please help me solve this analogy

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Jessamyn Dukes @rhymeswithspecimen.bsky.social · 16h

smh let me pretend it's still the mid-teens in peace

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Jessamyn Dukes @rhymeswithspecimen.bsky.social · 17h

that might be the whole wheel

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 19h

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22h

MIT President Sally Kornbluth just issued a statement to the campus community saying NO to Trump’s authoritarian compact

“And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.”

Dear Madam Secretary,
I write in response to your letter of October 1, inviting MIT to review a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." I acknowledge the vital importance of these matters.
I appreciated the chance to meet with you earlier this year to discuss the priorities we share for American higher education.
As we discussed, the Institute's mission of service to the nation directs us to advance knowledge, educate students and bring knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges. We do that in line with a clear set of values, with excellence above all. Some practical examples:
• MIT prides itself on rewarding merit.
Students, faculty and staff succeed here based on the strength of their talent, ideas and hard work. For instance, the Institute
was the first to reinstate the SAT/ACT requirement after the pandemic. And MIT has never had legacy preferences in admissions.

• MIT opens its doors to the most talented students regardless of their family's finances. Admissions are need-blind. Incoming undergraduates whose families earn less than $200,000 a year pay no tuition. Nearly 88% of our last graduating class left MIT with no debt for their education. We make a wealth of free courses and low-cost certificates available
to any American with an internet
connection. Of the undergraduate degrees we award, 94% are in STEM fields. And in service to the nation, we cap enrollment of international undergraduates at roughly
10%.
• We value free expression, as clearly described in the MIT Statement on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom. We must hear facts and opinions we don't like - and engage respectfully with those with whom we disagree.

These values and other MIT practices meet or exceed many standards outlined in the document you sent. We freely choose these values because they're right, and we live by them because they support our mission - work of immense value to the prosperity, competitiveness, health and security of the United States. And of course, MIT abides by the law.
The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific
funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
In our view, America's leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that tree marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences.
Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.

As you know, MIT's record of service to the nation is long and enduring. Eight decades ago, MIT leaders helped invent a scientific partnership between America's research universities and the
U.S. government that has delivered extraordinary benefits for the American people.
We continue to believe in the power of this partnership to serve the nation.
Sincerely,
Sally Kornbluth
CC
Ms. May Mailman
Mr. Vincent Haley

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 23h

"me me me me me me me me me me me" - birds 🪶

vermillion flycatcher chicks in the nest begging for food as their father flys off

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Jessamyn Dukes @rhymeswithspecimen.bsky.social · 1d

incredible persistence

Jessamyn Dukes @rhymeswithspecimen.bsky.social · 1d

- math professors

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.bsky.social · 1d

Just a Pye in the Pocket.

Pyewacket, a 4 week old black kitten, cozily nestled in the plush pocket of a fleece hoodie with a fluffy pouch designed to hold kittens.

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Jessamyn Dukes @rhymeswithspecimen.bsky.social · 1d

I cleaned mine today and, I can see??? it's incredible

Jessamyn Dukes @rhymeswithspecimen.bsky.social · 1d

you should use as many exclamation marks as your heart desires !!!

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Jessamyn Dukes @rhymeswithspecimen.bsky.social · 1d

don't forget to clean your glasses, too. like really clean them, don't just wipe them on your shirt

Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 1d

Hi! Have you had something high-protein today, drank a glass of water or gone outside? Many things are bad, but you still matter, and are someone worth taking care of. I know how hard you are trying. One thing at a time.

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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 1d

he won the nobel peace prize for keeping a cowcat away from his sister, try again next year everybody else

An orange and white cat looks proud, capable. He is laying on his little paws

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Jessamyn Dukes @rhymeswithspecimen.bsky.social · 1d

people are so, so weird about this

Jessamyn Dukes @rhymeswithspecimen.bsky.social · 1d

love to do nonsense in the morning

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Dragon Moll Z 🎃 @dopestatistics.bsky.social · 1d

Im so glad its friday

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.bsky.social · 1d

Nettle has (appropriately) claimed the Happy & Polly piranha plant cat tree for herself.

Nettle, a 6 week old brown tabby kitten, inside the “mouth” of a pink plush piranha plant-shaped cat tree.

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Bill Shillito @solidangles.bsky.social · 2d

I've been thinking a lot about means recently!

Probably some combination of (1) teaching our data analysis unit in our STEM 101 course at Oglethorpe and (2) all of @howiehua.bsky.social's great posts surrounding Mean Girls Day.

I'd like to show how some of these various means are related.

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A four-panel graphic showing formulas for four types of means. Each panel includes the formula and the name of the mean in bold text below.

Top left (red background): Arithmetic Mean, labeled “AM = (x₁ + ⋯ + xₙ) / n.”

Top right (dark blue): Geometric Mean, labeled “GM = ⁿ√(x₁ ⋅ … ⋅ xₙ).”

Bottom left (purple): Harmonic Mean, labeled “HM = n / (1/x₁ + ⋯ + 1/xₙ).”

Bottom right (dark green): Quadratic Mean, labeled “QM = √((x₁² + ⋯ + xₙ²) / n).”

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Jessamyn Dukes @rhymeswithspecimen.bsky.social · 2d

hello it's me, a neural net,

Jessamyn Dukes @rhymeswithspecimen.bsky.social · 2d

that's called linear algebra