Thanks, Josh.

Yes, arctan. Shockingly slow convergence!

But still a “that’s neat” problem.

Genuinely feel like what works somewhere probably won’t work here because reasons.

But what didn’t work elsewhere won’t be on my “try this instead!” list

Someone better organized than me should pull together an MAA Mathfest session for next cycle — with a forgiving peer group who wants to know what *hasn’t* worked at your campus 💡

I’m happy to give you a 10 min Zoom call to let you know what I know, and if it would be useful I would be happy to share a better polished version with your committee of folks

“All I know is I know nothing” but also no one I’ve talked to has figured it out either 🤔

Comforting to know I’m not the only one struggling with all this. I could give a two-hour talk tomorrow on “Things we’ve tried that haven’t worked”

sigh

Happy Friday to everyone except the textbook company rep who sent me five emails this week the last one starting with “[Name], are you even getting my emails?! I would love to chat but you haven’t replied…”

I went to a reaccreditation conference over the summer months and felt the same. Now wondering if they supplied double caff’d coffee as a sneaky buy-in strategy. (If so, yikes it worked?!)

@johnestesmath.bsky.social has been doing some stuff

you can change the URL to whatever. width=2.0 is preferred printing size, given in inches; should be same as height.

I think we have the same Lodge

I’ve never worn regalia! But if it were in my office and I were cold I might wear it.

I keep telling him he should 😆 He keeps saying no. But next weekend’s 8K will be our 8th race together in 2023! 🏃‍♀️ 🏃‍♂️
I’m keeping a running tally, I’m ahead of him by 6.5 minutes 🤪

Have an 8K race next weekend. And training for a half marathon in January! 😱

Maybe 40 mi/month which isn’t a lot for some folks — but it’s a lot for me. 🙂