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matthewconroy

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I'm a mathematics teaching professor in Seattle. I taught discrete modeling for a bunch of years, but I'm back teaching calculus currently. I spend a lot of time making sound and visual art, often algorithmically.

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WillardHerman, to random
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Skill in art is overrated.

matthewconroy,
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@WillardHerman I'd be interested in hearing your particular reasoning behind this claim. Cheers!

bit101, to random
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Building on my wireframe 3d library... 3d text. The nice thing is I can just pass it the string "hello" and get this object that I can render.

Yes, re-doing stuff I did 20 years ago. But I like to thing a little better this time. A little.

the word "hello" rendered in white 3d wireframe lines, rotating in space.

matthewconroy,
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@bit101 Reminds me of Battlezone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_(1980_video_game)

voiceofunreason, to random
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Shout out to fall-2023 @voiceofunreason for investing in waterproof shoes, good socks and an effective rain poncho so spring-2024 @voiceofunreason can continue to go on his lunch-time mental-health walks in very wet Portland weather without increasing his misery.

matthewconroy,
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@voiceofunreason Sounds great. What kind of shoes did you get?

lislegaard, to foss
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Is there a free software that is good for designing zines?

I know there is the scissers and Xerox method but I was more thinking to do a computer design and having it printed in a shop.

So something where I could add all the elements, sort them in the correct layout for printing and export pdf and correct colors and all that stuff.

I know there are zinemakers in on Fedi.

Any tips?

matthewconroy,
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@lislegaard I've used LaTeX for the two zines I've made and it's worked well. I used pdfbook2 to get the page ordering right. https://github.com/jenom/pdfbook2

paul_griffin, to random
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I've arrived once again at that extremely stressful (for me, anyway) step of transferring layers onto lino accurately before the much more fun step of carving can begin.

I've tried so many different ways of doing this, and carbon paper has been by far the most consistent for me. I just wish it wasn't also the most menial and time consuming...

matthewconroy,
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@paul_griffin That is my least favorite part, too.

lo, to genart
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Animated truchet tiling

video/mp4

matthewconroy,
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@lo Really, really nice!

Stratski, to BelieveInFilm Dutch
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Pic of the day: Polaroid Image 2 and Impossible PZ 600 Silver Shade film (expired and very overexposed).

matthewconroy,
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@Stratski Beautiful!

eeen, to photography
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Street photography

matthewconroy,
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@eeen Excellent!

rbmath, to random

I had a student today joke? Threaten? Make a comment about stabbing someone in my family. Like... My first instinct is to dismiss this, but it bothers me... I forwarded it to admin, they kinda threw it back at me to make a decision on it. I didn't respond to that.

matthewconroy,
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@rbmath That sounds hard.

matthewconroy,
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@rbmath Oh, that's unfortunate. What kind of decision do they want you to make? If a student did that to me, I would at least want some higher-up (a dean maybe? or some campus safety person?) to communicate with the student about how to interact properly with people, and definitely someone to assess the situation from a mental health point of view. Is anyone offering to do that for you? Depending on the phrasing and context, I might demand that the student be removed from my class. I have no tolerance these days for mean-spiritedness, but, then, I'm a nervous wreck.

DaveSeidel, to RadioControl

Just playing around with oscillator syncing and my new reverb. Some serious low freqs here, best played on a good speaker system with a subwoofer, or at least headphones.

https://soundcloud.com/mysterybear/sync-study

#drone #deep #modular

matthewconroy,
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@DaveSeidel Excellent on my headphones.

bit101, to random
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The cost to fix my broken USB port would be just about the same as to buy a brand new, upgraded version of the Thinkpad I bought a year and a half ago.

matthewconroy,
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@bit101 Boo.

matthewconroy,
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@bit101 That sucks. Stuff ought to be fixable.

ipxfong, to random
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On a positive technical note. After enduring the horror of an HP inkjet printer, I bought a Brother color laser printer. It continues to work flawlessly with all my devices. I don't have a Brother app, they don't have any of my personal information. After a year of use I finally had to get some new toner. It was $50 for a full set with an extra black cartridge. You can get generic toner for even cheaper and it works fine because there's no DRM. Brother, I love you!

matthewconroy,
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@ipxfong I'm glad to hear yet more positive stories of Brother printers. I have a very old HP laser printer (2001?) that works perfectly with no shenanigans, but I've been using a lot more recently and it's nice to know Brother is out there if I need to replace it. Cheers!

phonner, to ukteachers
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Texas will use AI to grade free response questions on standardized exams for reading, writing, science, and social studies this year.

"For $50, students and their parents can request a rescore if they think the computer .. got it wrong."

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/09/staar-artificial-intelligence-computer-grading-texas/

matthewconroy,
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@phonner This is disgusting.

matthewconroy, to random
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For decades, I've experienced pain in my teeth after warming up inside after being out in the cold for a while (e.g., 30 minute walk). (The "cold" doesn't even have to be very cold: low 50s F can do it to me.) The pain can be pretty severe, and last for hours. I've mentioned it to numerous dentists, but none have had anything helpful to say. Today, I finally found a paper describing the phenomenon. It's nice to know people know it's a thing, at least. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5736355/

matthewconroy,
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@alisynthesis My current dentist is fantastic; I've not had a chance to discuss this phenomenon with them. Cheers!

average_ebiker, to cycling

It's been 18 months since I got an e-bike and I just recently purchased my first "acoustic bike" - a 1986 Shogun road bike from a neighbor on Craigslist!

I had a great time doing the lake Washington loop yesterday but I totally wasn't expecting the 520 bridge to be closed...

Ended up having to extend my ride to i90 - it was the longest bike ride of my life!

Feeling very accomplished with myself but mostly just sore beyond belief

My road bike against the "Leaving Seattle" sign on the burke gillman trail
My bike at the intersection of 5th ave and S King street in the CID
My road bike on the Elliot bay trail with the Puget sound in yje background

matthewconroy,
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@average_ebiker Ha! I did the same thing yesterday! That's awesome that it was your longest ride ever: congratulations!

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    matthewconroy,
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    @thorn I see it. Hello!

    18+ garland, to random
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    Rainy afternoon platelet donation. The couch in the donor center was so warm and comfortable, I had a hard time staying awake!

    matthewconroy,
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    @garland Thank you for donating!

    matthewconroy, (edited ) to random
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    Another ride to the Seattle waterfront. What big boats they have there! Plus, pilings!

    matthewconroy, to photography
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    Today's pencil caterpillar.

    matthewconroy, to transit
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    Another weekend ride around the north end of Lake Washington. This time the 520 trail was open, so no added kilometers for me. A good ride! (Though they are small in the photo, the cormorants look great.)

    matthewconroy, (edited ) to ilaughed
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    I just released a new video piece. I called it INK because there's a lot of ink in the video and "Ink" looks so small. Sounds composed with Csound using a python script I wrote to analyze the individual frames of the video. I hope you like it!
    https://vimeo.com/932750036

    matthewconroy, (edited ) to transit
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    Another weekend ride around part of Lake Washington. This time, I was surprised to find the 520 bridge closed to bikes, so I had to extend the ride about 50%, making it the longest ride I've done in a while. Strava says I burned 1338 calories! (The picture looks very similar to the one I took last weekend, but if you look closely you'll see the cormorants are all facing the opposite direction.)

    matthewconroy, to random
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    I saw an unusual thing today. When I walk to campus, there is a point where I take a short, secluded path. Usually I see nobody on this path, but today I saw three people (young people, quite likely students) standing on the grass beside the path. There is a light pole along the path, and they were clustered around it. When I first saw them, I saw a large dark lump on the ground at their feet, and I thought someone might be having a medical problem. As I got closer, I saw that this was just a pile of their backpacks, and they were facing the pole, bending forward a bit, in something like a praying fashion. When I reached them, I saw that there was a cellphone standing on the base of the light pole; the cellphone showed a man's face speaking. It was as though they were getting guidance or instruction from the man on the phone. I don't remember hearing any words; everything was rather quiet. It all seemed quite curious: why would they be doing this in this odd place?

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