Computer Scientist. Assistant professor interested in counting and reasoning under uncertainty. Feminist. Trekkie. Traveller. LaTeX enthusiast.
"Clearly not very smart" - a former colleague
"Exceptional in every way. 10/10" - one of my former students
Stunned, dumbfounded, gobsmacked, flabbergasted
I'm at Parkland College (for a few decades) helping folks navigate developmental courses/placements (but fighting the "hey, 5% of these folks could pass college so we should just get rid of developmental teaching" trends) dreaming of structured paths for building understanding *and* fluency instead of "I don't have time to teach you, here's a calculator."
See https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jvTlNmNI7nC9xMrVp2cc3d5RjWnpho0exwA_t86eWbI/edit?usp=sharing
Programming languages, finitely-presented monoids, horses
Retired physicist, after a career in machine learning & stats mostly for cancer drug discovery. Now blogging about stats in the news.
Avatar: convergence basins in the complex plane of Newton's algorithm searching for the cube roots of unity. (After a NYT column by @stevenstrogatz, long ago.)
Header: Quote from GK Chesterton, London Daily News, 1905-Aug-16 on epistemic humility and the ability to say "I am wrong" as the foundation of idealism.
Working with maths and data | Using #Rstats, #Python | Studied maths & stats at the #OpenUniversity | #datadon | reading and watching lots including #SciFi | enjoy #Hiking #TrailRunning | he/him
How does the brain work? Someday, we'll figure it out.
Group Leader, MRC LMB, and Professor, University of Cambridge, UK.
#neuroscience #Drosophila #ScientificPublishing #academia #TrakEM2 #FijiSc #CATMAID #connectomics #connectome #vEM #iNaturalist #entomology
Born at 335 ppm.
Brains, signal processing, software and entomology: there will be bugs.
A trans woman who is very good at quantum.
I am a science fiction writer and computer programmer.
Latest novel: MORPHOTROPHIC.
Latest collection: SLEEP AND THE SOUL.
Web site: gregegan.net
Computer Scientist, husband, father and comedian (he/him)
Mathematician, robot fan, auntie and unstoppable thingdoer from Manchester. She/her
Part-time mathematician and programmer, interested in cellular automata and a lot of other stuff.
Header picture: https://ruhr.social/@Hagukh/109848628707963930
Profile picture: https://showyourstripes.info/s/europe/germany/hamburg
Maths etc.
I'm a mathematical physicist who likes explaining stuff. I'm the Maxwell Fellow of Public Engagement at the School of Mathematics and the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh.
Check out my blog Azimuth! I'm also a member of the n-Category Café, a group blog on math with an emphasis on category theory. I also have a YouTube channel, full of talks about math, physics and the future.
maths. robots. and lots of fun
🇧🇪, 🇪🇺, MSc @ Umons, external consultant @ European Commission, STEM lover, serial photographer, great musicologist, combo breaker, perpetual student. Keywords: piano, nature, bike, swimming
I'm a philomath (many interests; call it polymath-wanna-be) professional computer programmer in Silicon Valley, specializing in operating systems, languages/compilers, sometimes AI, usually non-traditional parallel software and hardware architectures.
Also:
#computer_science #unicode #unix #linux #bsd
#compilers
#operating_systems
#GOF_AI
#cognitive_science
#linguistics
#physics
#mathematics
Ex-springboard diver; scuba diver; free diver
Ars longa, vita brevis.
That's all folks...
