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Steven Clontz

@clontz.org

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Mathematician, professor, puzzler Pronouns he/him Website clontz.org Puzzle PBaiReGOVANeLpNFrFGBfVkyRgGREf https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4938-4274

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Steven Clontz @clontz.org · Jan 31

I'm not sure how you believe in the above verses, as I do, and don't believe that all humans are, as those created in the image of God, worth ultimate love and protection, regardless of gender, race, or origin.

Steven Clontz @clontz.org · 4h

Reviewer, NSF Panel, 20xx

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 13h

Two frames from The Good Place:

“Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place
because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.”

Steven Clontz @clontz.org · 1d

Jessica made us "mac and cheese" tonight!

Star noodles in a Parmesan sauce with steak bites

Steven Clontz @clontz.org · 1d

General topology checking in, just one referee here typically

Steven Clontz @clontz.org · 1d

Honestly it's up there with Walt Disney World painting things "Go Away Green" and "Blend in Blue" to distract my attention until I think about it.

Steven Clontz @clontz.org · 1d

Like Graveler or Golem? Or is there some new regional form I'm not familiar with from the newer games?

Or maybe it's this monstrosity?

Human size Geodude mascot. Its legs are the same as the "transparent" background in an image editor.

Steven Clontz @clontz.org · 1d

wat

Steven Clontz @clontz.org · 1d

but really, excuse me, did they even play the games smh

Onix, a part ground type, somehow being harmed by an electric type attack in the anime.

Steven Clontz @clontz.org · 1d

Them (mouth breather): onix is the real best genwun rock type

Me (an intellectual): sorry kid, in the anime Brock's Onix somehow got toasted by Pikachu's Thundershock, a move he should be 100% immune to. 👎

Steven Clontz @clontz.org · 1d

This is really good

Grant Sanderson @3blue1brown.com · 1d

Ever since I made a video about Fourier Transforms, one of the most requested topics on the channel has been its close cousin, the Laplace Transform.

I've been having a lot of fun animating a mini-series about this topic, and the main part is now out.

youtu.be/j0wJBEZdwLs

But what is a Laplace Transform?

YouTube video by 3Blue1Brown

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 2d

If this reminds you of an extremely famous book you might have read in high school… yes.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 3d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

Steven Clontz @clontz.org · 2d

1, 14, ..., 7734, ..., 5138008, ....

Steven Clontz @clontz.org · 3d

a man and a woman are sitting at a table with the words " those were the days " on the bottom

Alt: All in the family intro: a man and a woman are singing at a piano with the words " those were the days " on the bottom

media.tenor.com

Steven Clontz @clontz.org · 3d

smh we have AI-generated deepfakes of dead celebrities eating Big Macs and folks are still out there putting `username at email dot org` on their websites like an email scraper can't figure that out lol

Steven Clontz @clontz.org · 3d

Due to *motions around* those answers are mostly "it depends", particularly with regards to funding. We have an organizer meeting soon and I'll pass on the desire for AIM to try and nail down the new normal.

Steven Clontz @clontz.org · 3d

Thank you for adding #MathSky to all my posts today because I am inept with hashtags (and even screwed up my own handle on that last one lol)

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MathTech.org @mathtech.org · 3d

In today's blog post, @StevenClontz shares his passion for getting mathematicians (and other mathy academic types) up and running using GitHub tools that only require a web browser.

mathtech.org/2025/10/10/g...

Getting Started with GitHub

This post is supported by National Science Foundation award #2449139. While anyone in the mathematical sciences should have no trouble engaging in the development of software supporting math-relate...

Steven Clontz @clontz.org · 3d

Yeah exactly - you want to show the potential for at least that scale, but 40 different people don't need to sign on to your proposal before submitting.

Steven Clontz @clontz.org · 3d

My experience so far is that ARCs can be lots of different things, and AIM supports their ARCs in different ways, so it's tough to specify further than the description that's there.

Is there something you want to know?

Steven Clontz @clontz.org · 3d

Two weeks isn't enough time to form a research community, but if you have one already, the proposal is very easy — just 2-3 pages! I think we wrote ours over just a couple of meetings last year.

But yes, the deadline for most AIM opportunities is November 1 each year!

Steven Clontz @clontz.org · 3d

Did you know @code4math.org is an AIM Research Community (ARC)? ARCs are collaborative efforts involving at least 40 people, organized around a particular area of mathematics research.

Proposals for new ARCs are now open and due November 1! Visit aimath.org/programs/researchcommunities for more!

AIM Research Communities | American Inst. of Mathematics

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5d

Donald Trump is breaching the Constitution and breaking the law.

A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections.

We need to stand up together and speak up.

Steven Clontz @clontz.org · 5d

Don't ask me to teach your students a computer thing or we might end up just making a web app in 50 minutes.

flask-demo-wktn.onrender.com

flask-demo-wktn.onrender.com

Steven Clontz @clontz.org · 5d

A recording is now available on our @code4math.org Zulip (must be logged in)! code4math.zulipchat.com#narrow/chann...

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MathTech.org @mathtech.org · 6d

Here @tienchihmath.bsky.social shares with us how he uses programming and randomization in his OER statistics materials, powered by SageCell.SageMath.org!

mathtech.org/2025/10/01/r...

True Randomization in an Introductory Statistics course

For about a decade now, I’ve been teaching on and off some form of introductory statistics for a wide variety of students across different institutions. This is an immensely popular course at the und...