Matt Mack
@matthras
Hard-of-hearing neurospicy chronically online mathematician, cellist with a giant backlog of games & books. [email protected]; http://matthras.bsky.social
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Alright folks, those of you who've seen me posting #TSPart every now and then, here's the Python code to do it! After a lot of slaving away and fretting over small details and making sure it's beginner friendly, I'm finally comfortable to advertise it! github.com/matthras/tsp-a…
Someone please tell me why ALL the opportunities are rolling in now when I'm like super busy and starting to feel the end-of-year burnout creeping in 😭 "When it rain, it pours" ringing true here, grrrr.
Unlikely my partner will be a mathematician for me to take advantage of this but ya never know 🙃
I understand why my work laptop has a program on it that forces me to take a break from it but there are moments where I do take a break but my brain has forgotten what I was doing so now it takes longer to resume the task arrrrrrrrrrrrgh /flails
Mamdani has the classic skill of a thirty-something brown man knowing how to flatter elders without capitulating to their beliefs It comes from years of engaging diplomatically with toxic aunties & uncles to retain familial relations. This is why Trump responded positively
It took me like two weeks from the start of seemingly random angry feelings I'd been having to finally having a breakthrough on realising where it was coming from. It was about 3-4 levels deep inside my psyche, ugh. Taking tips on making emotional work easier.
Was looking for various theses to figure out the overall structure for mine. Randomly stumbled across a mathematical biology PhD thesis of someone who'd done 5 papers. Took me a while to recalibrate myself and acknowledge I probably won't be /that/ productive for my PhD 😅
idk why I'm lining up this obviously-going-to-be-a-tearjerker-of-a-movie to watch tonight: "Big World" (2014), Chinese movie about a man with cerebral palsy. If I don't post further tonight I'll probably be curled up in bed in emotional pain 🙃 imdb.com/title/tt304765…
This morning I was helping a (neurodivergent) friend calm down from someone else spreading lies about him. This afternoon my (also neurodivergent) housemate is doing his 6 month PhD confirmation talk, but I also know he's quietly freaking out about other things. Hmm. 😵💫
Yesterday I learnt that mathematical (computational?) neuroscience builds off non-linear dynamical systems via this Reddit thread (which as of writing has two resource/expert recommendations), fascinating! reddit.com/r/mathematics/…
So if you don't know me, I'm hard-of-hearing and can only hear out of my left ear with a hearing aid, and for academic talks I use Google's Live Transcribe on my phone. How does this impact where I choose to sit for academic talks? Here's a blog post! matthras.com/2025/11/16/whe…
If anyone can provide insight on how diVine can ban/prevent AI-generated videos on a technical/code/metadata level I'd love to know because I don't know enough on that front. Any solution I can think of is easily circumvented/bypassed.
This week's moment that made me feel old: Watching "Man vs. Bee" and realising there're kids today who haven't seen the original Mr. Bean nor the Mr. Bean movies. I do wonder if I'd enjoy it more if I didn't recognise all the recycled bits 🤔
First time coming into work and seeing two fire engines right outside my building 😳. Thankfully the building affected was the one on the opposite side of the walk way 😅 That'll be one heck of a hump day for the week!
I'm really appreciating that I'm learning data cleaning + stats + machine learning stuff through my PhD by analysing clinical data but it's also really affirming my "I really couldn't be a generic data scientist unless the data is relevant to something I care about" 😅
Interesting paper: Researchers wondered if it's possible to predict "Eureka!" moments based on observable behaviour (on a blackboard), so they recorded mathematicians working on Putnam problems. tl;dr: Definitely some hints! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
Today I fell down the rabbit hole of data imputation and got annoyed at "just wanting to replace missing values but the guides/tutorials seem to be doing a whole lot more that I probably should care about but don't" grrrrrr. Definitely a me problem, I imagine!
Today I drove to work because I wanted to drop by an electronics store a suburb away to grab a couple of things. Then I walked home because I wanted to do a bit of shopping on the way back. /facepalm Thankfully it's only a 10 minute walk.
I'm enjoying the biostats stuff but I'm so annoyed at how my brain goes blank in terms of figuring out what's useful for my biology supervisors. I don't know /how/ to think about what's useful for them, how they interpret charts/graphs, and I feel so stuuuuuuupid about it /flails
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