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Spencer Bagley @sbagley.bsky.social · 1h

You know it!

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Spencer Bagley @sbagley.bsky.social · 2h

I want to go up for promotion but that means I have to update my cv

a woman wearing sunglasses and a pink fur coat is looking at the camera .

Alt: Emma Roberts in huge sunglasses and a pink fur coat doing a little "ugh I don't want to" dance

media.tenor.com

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Douglas Reyes-Ceroñ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 14h

the cameras cutting to A-Rod and Jeter as they do this is cinema

James G @orth.ca · 14h

Vladdy: "DAAAAAA YANKEES LOSE!"

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Spencer Bagley @sbagley.bsky.social · 15h

Amazing basketball

Spencer Bagley @sbagley.bsky.social · 15h

MVP called game

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Spencer Bagley @sbagley.bsky.social · 19h

Hurricane and Tooele are good for this

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 21h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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LuUuUuUuke Knox 👻 @lukeknox.me · 21h

automatic retweet for me, every time

Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 1d

This captures the vibe of how I feel trying to get through most days...

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subvariety sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 1d

from now on I'm just going to truncate the taylor series for sin at the first term. sin(x) = 0 for all x. this approximation

- is efficient to compute
- has bounded error
- has excellent analytic properties
- has very high accuracy for small values, which occur frequently in applications

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Spencer Bagley @sbagley.bsky.social · 22h

Pritzker: "Oh I wish a bitch would"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pritzker: "This guy is unhinged. He's insecure. He's a wannabe dictator. And there's one thing I really want to say to Donald Trump. If you come for my people, you come through me. So come and get me."

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23h

Ham sandwiches!

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 1d

A federal grand jury has refused to indict a Chicago couple arrested during a violent protest outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview last month, a rare move that prompted prosecutors to abruptly drop the case.

Charges dropped against couple in Broadview immigration protest after federal grand jury refuses to indict

A federal grand jury has refused to indict a Chicago couple arrested during a violent protest outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview last month, a rare move that…

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Spencer Bagley @sbagley.bsky.social · 22h

Exactly the word that I was trying to remember, thank u
bsky.app/profile/teac...

teacherbowtie.bsky.social @teacherbowtie.bsky.social · 1d

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anamorp...

Is it this?

I remember reading something recently about how in some sports they are now added digitally to look 'wrong' from a particular camera angle, and therefore more realistic.

Anamorphosis - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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Spencer Bagley @sbagley.bsky.social · 1d

OKay, you know this thing where you can take like a rectangular ad, and foreshorten it in an appropriate way, and paint it on like a sports field, so that when the camera sees it, it looks normal? What the fuck is this called? I can't google it for shit.

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 1d

*waves hands generally at a rich professional network of scholars that I might not otherwise have met*

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Spencer Bagley @sbagley.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, sure, you just put a tall pointy square-based pyramid and stack it on top of a short squat one.

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Emily Pitts Donahoe @empittsdonahoe.bsky.social · 1d

Only one week left to apply for the Center for Grading Reform's Alternative Grading Institute! This two-day, hands-on, virtual experience offers opportunities to connect grading with your values and design an alt grading system for one of your courses. www.centerforgradingreform.org/alternative-...

Alternative Grading Institute

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Spencer Bagley @sbagley.bsky.social · 1d

Can you just, take a cube and dent one of the corners in? I am having real trouble visualizing this, lol.

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Spencer Bagley @sbagley.bsky.social · 1d

I tried to stick a tall pointy tetrahedron on top of a short squat one but that only has 5 vertices.

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Spencer Bagley @sbagley.bsky.social · 1d

Is 6 faces 8 vertices enough room to build a concave polyhedron? Bc I feel like concave ones are the weirdos that mess up my intuition.

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Spencer Bagley @sbagley.bsky.social · 1d

Ok so immediately a cube fits this description but does every such polyhedron have to be "basically" a cube? What exactly do I mean when I say "basically"?