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Obvious in hindsight, and after isolating it, but this took a while for my student to find. Floating point numbers are not your friend.

Many of you have probably heard that my good friend and longtime collaborator Steve Parker has passed away. He was a great teacher at the U of Utah and there is a scholarship in his honor you can donate to. ustarter.utah.edu/o/university-o…

Not worried about Skynet yet:

Questions to ask undergrads: Why are presentation slides called "slides"? To call someone, why do we "dial" their number? When we end a call, why do we "hang up"? Why does 💾 mean to save my file? Why do we say "rewind" to go backwards in a video?

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My daughter is taking intro to computer science from one of the pioneering greats of computer graphics, Andy Van Dam. I asked her to get my copy of "Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice" signed, purchased when I was an undergrad.😀 @peter_shirley Rajesh Sharma

ChatGPT really wants a car. 😂

A silly twist on asking ChatGPT Monty Hall look-alike problems. Daniel Litt

Random wild fact: You can find the Delaunay triangulation from the convex hull. Given a set of points, "lift" them onto a hyperparaboloid of one extra dimension. Find the convex hull of the lifted points. Project the hull back down. It's the Delaunay triangulation. That is wild!

I don't have any opinion on whether or not the indirect rate is bloated, but doing it like this, rather than some phased approach after careful analysis, is bound to create chaos: nsf.gov/policies/docum…

Somewhat amusing ChatGPT-o3 code.

That's 12 times the proposed National Science Foundation budget.

And allowing the best and brightest from all over the world to work together, regardless of race, gender, religion, whatever. (But if actually like MS Teams I might hold that against you.)

I've been using ChatGPT to help learn basic QM. So far, I've found it to be very helpful, and I'm impressed. Here is a chat I had with it about the time-independent Schrodinger equation: chatgpt.com/share/6837384e…