Dear Diary, Why hasn’t anyone noticed my transformation? Isn’t it obvious? It sure feels that way to me. I said I was going to pull myself together and move in a new direction and ...
From The Diaries of An Isosceles Triangle
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To Be Free or To Be Bound: That Is The (Variable’s) Question
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You know what’s confused me for a really long time? Whether standing out from the crowd is a good thing or a bad thing. Or, to make that sentence not so extreme by my use of such polar opposite words that offer no gray area in between to contemplate - let me give you an example...
Sometimes I Feel Like A Logarithm
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Let's begin with this excellent definition of what a logarithm is: Logarithms are mathematical relationships used to compare things that can vary dramatically in scale. I find that the clearest way to explain what a logarithm is to first say what its relationship is to an exponent, because...
Don’t Go Changin’
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I’m going to tell you about one of those words that has a definition that can be ever-so-slightly different depending on not just the context of how it’s being used, or what part of speech is assigned to it (Sometimes it’s a noun! Sometimes it’s an adjective!) but its definition can also be...
Let’s Get Into Harmony
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Who doesn’t like harmony? Like, are there people out there who hear something quantifiably harmonic and they make a face like they just bit into something gross? Is there anyone here who has a misophonia for harmony? Well, I love it, in all the environments and disciplines where it can exist. I...
Go Ahead, Give It A Lil’ Shove
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My favorite word is GO. You can proclaim it like a battle charge as you wage into a space that you’d rather not be in yet you have to be in so let’s get it over with. You can also whisper it to yourself, that final assertion that, hey, stud, you got this. There’s probably a legit million ways you...