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   myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 06:41:26 JST myrmepropagandist

   Listen I know we need a lot of variables in math. A single alphabet won’t due. So capital and lower case letters can be different variables. I can even roll with the idea that letters of the same case in different *typefaces* can be distinct— but, I still find the abusive use of C in Hoggs Mathematical Statistics a little extreme… we couldn’t get more distinct typefaces? How many students have cried because you did this, Hogg? (i otherwise love this textbook it’s so much fun) /math rant

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 06:41:08 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

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     • James Dreben :mw:
     • Mina

     @mina

     Torturing LLMs. Love it. 😂

     @Jdreben @futurebird

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     Mina (mina@berlin.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 06:41:10 JST Mina

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     • James Dreben :mw:

     @Jdreben

     I asked ChatGPT to write down (in LaTeX) the modular forms' proof of the Riemann Hypothesis.

     Would you believe it?

     It actually admitted that it couldn't.

     @futurebird

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     James Dreben :mw: (jdreben@mastodon.world)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 06:41:11 JST James Dreben :mw:

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     @futurebird Yes!

     Especially with ChatGPT these days, I imagine students can ask an LLM in natural language to produce LaTeX.

     You’re probably already aware of it but just in case you are not, I’ve heard good things about Typst.

     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 repeated this.
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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 06:41:13 JST myrmepropagandist

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     • Matthias Flor
     • Adriano
     • nev
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     • Mina

     @degreesOfFreedom @mina @mattflor @nev @adriano

     It takes like 12 min to learn LaTeX IDK what the big deal is. “I need to learn LaTeX” they say. “ok let’s do it right now at the bus stop” I say. Then the excuses start. My students can all use it and I just gave them an example to modify.

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     Degrees of Freedom (degreesoffreedom@denton.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 06:41:15 JST Degrees of Freedom

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     • Matthias Flor
     • Adriano
     • nev
     • Mina

     @futurebird @mina @mattflor @nev @adriano Seriously? I have known math grad students and physics PhDs who refuse to learn LaTeX.

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 06:41:17 JST myrmepropagandist

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     • Matthias Flor
     • Adriano
     • nev
     • Mina

     @mina @mattflor @nev @adriano

     I’ve been trying to get K12 teachers to learn LaTeX all my life and it’s like pulling teeth out of the mouth of a dog that’s trying to bite you… with a spoon covered in vaseline… in the dark … in the trunk of a NYC taxicab… doing a getaway run from a bank heist.

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     Mina (mina@berlin.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 06:41:18 JST Mina

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     • Matthias Flor
     • Adriano
     • nev

     @futurebird

     Is it really that bad?

     As LaTeX user, I have no idea.

     @mattflor @nev @adriano

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 06:41:19 JST myrmepropagandist

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     • Matthias Flor
     • Adriano
     • nev

     @mattflor @nev @adriano Including the “equation editor” hateful thing that it is. (I’m an expert user of that kludge of a formatting software and I have deep emotional issues about how I feel about the equation editor and what it has done to my life.)

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     Matthias Flor (mattflor@mastodon.green)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 06:41:21 JST Matthias Flor

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     • Adriano
     • nev

     @nev @adriano @futurebird
     Also, what a nerve wrecking thought to use MS Word as an IDE 😬

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     Matthias Flor (mattflor@mastodon.green)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 06:41:22 JST Matthias Flor

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     • Adriano
     • nev

     @nev @adriano @futurebird Love the idea! I wonder what role would Comic Sans play? 🤔

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     Adriano (adriano@lile.cl)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 06:41:24 JST Adriano

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     @futurebird as a programmer, every one of my cells screams against this.

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     nev (nev@bananachips.club)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 06:41:24 JST nev

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     • Adriano

     @adriano @futurebird imagine a programming language where what font you used made a difference. Like if you said something was a string by putting it in Times New Roman.

     Of course, this means you would pretty much have to use tabs not spaces. This is a plus imho