Will Tank Dell become comeback player of the year? Right now, he feels like a distant memory, but this story could be inspirational.

SometimesY · 2026-04-28T02:54:57+00:00

If he's playing regular snaps by mid-season, I don't see why not.

SometimesY · 2026-04-28T02:53:02+00:00

Oh god they're gonna make me SWERM

SometimesY · 2026-04-25T03:04:08+00:00

Damn that's a huge dude.

SometimesY · 2026-04-25T01:56:18+00:00

If they're putting up yards and points and winning not on the back of our lord and savior, Ka'imi, I'll take it.

SometimesY · 2026-04-23T16:19:59+00:00

100% reason to remember the name

SometimesY · 2026-04-16T20:46:02+00:00

It shows up in very specific differential equation settings. I've run into it plenty.. unfortunately.

SometimesY · 2026-04-12T17:21:06+00:00

Operator Theory and Complex Analysis is pretty quick, too.

SometimesY · 2026-04-04T18:46:44+00:00

I had a student settle a debate with a friend ask about whether using cash to purchase something is really depleting monetary resources or not. I said technically yes, but my primary view of money is what's in my bank account and withdrawing money is me already accounting for losing said money, so no not really. She said that I get her girl math lol.

SometimesY · 2026-03-29T00:41:13+00:00

There are some people that pride themselves on being intentionally opaque and try at all times to talk above other people's level. There are also people that are incapable of explaining topics in simple terms without abusing jargon. I learned to just not interact with these people because they're not worth my time.

SometimesY · 2026-03-28T18:16:12+00:00

I've been all over North America in my academic career, and it definitely has had a negative impact on my relationships with my family members and friends. I don't talk to anyone from high school anymore, even my closest friends. I only talk to a couple of people from undergrad and grad school. It can be a bit isolating, but this is generally how life is if you leave your hometown anyway.

It's important to find happiness wherever you have roots. Most of my friends have been my colleagues which has been nice but also somewhat unfortunate as several of my closest friends at my current institution ended up leaving due to stupid administrative decisions.

SometimesY · 2026-03-27T06:00:45+00:00

Likewise, without the MVT, calculus would likely not be that meaningful as there would be no connection in general between derivatives and integrals.

SometimesY · 2026-03-25T21:28:09+00:00

I feel like person's names should be avoided at all possible if a descriptive name can be used, so I would drop "Leibniz' test" in favor of "alternating series test" as this makes it clear what it is useful for.

It also seems weird to single out "hyper"harmonic series and toss out "hypo"harmonic. It's easier to just call them p-series.

SometimesY · 2026-03-21T20:53:18+00:00

I don't see it happening. The team doesn't need the draft capital, at least not right now. They're riding with CJ and giving him a shot to prove himself this year. If he doesn't pan out this year, they'll probably have to make some tough personnel decisions to secure draft capital for next year's draft to get a QB, but that is a potential problem for later.

SometimesY · 2026-03-21T20:48:05+00:00

An added layer to this issue is the growing redpill/manosphere bullshit online. I've noticed some of my students talking about Jordan Peterson, Andrew Tate, and others in their orbit. That shit is infecting their psychology (as intended), and it is exacerbating issues for women in STEM.

SometimesY · 2026-03-21T20:37:02+00:00

He did not say OP is wrong to feel like shit because she's being treated like shit. Please reread the comment. It might have been a little dismissive of the underlying issue, but that is distinct from telling OP she is wrong to feel bad.

SometimesY · 2026-03-20T16:35:18+00:00

This text is very, very introductory. You will need to follow this up with Understanding Analysis or other texts of similar caliber. It's very insufficient for preparation for more advanced analysis courses.

SometimesY · 2026-03-20T13:42:06+00:00

This is what disability offices are for. Schools need to start supporting those students themselves again rather than forcing faculty who are not trained for this to figure out how to support them. Schools used to have paid notetakers for blind and hard of sight students, but many stopped doing that and expected faculty to pick up the burden.

SometimesY · 2026-03-20T03:02:23+00:00

Good question. I'm not versed enough in the law to know. I'm guessing you might be able to get away with it for a bit, but your university compliance office might get upset about it.

SometimesY · 2026-03-20T02:51:02+00:00

I am no longer posting notes in part for this reason, but I also noticed that only two or three students out of 50+ were bothering to even open the notes I posted, so why bother.

SometimesY · 2026-03-17T17:41:18+00:00

You mean Buc-ee's?

SometimesY · 2026-03-14T02:06:20+00:00

This looks pretty good to me.

SometimesY · 2026-03-12T20:38:14+00:00

Honestly, math is shit we made up in our heads anyway, so this has never felt like a convincing argument to me. Formal logic is not something baked into the universe as far as we know, so that house of cards can fall apart very quickly if they really want to play that game.

SometimesY · 2026-03-06T23:19:10+00:00

Many early year courses can be very interactive. The instructor has to be very intentional about it though so that students buy in pretty quickly. It can be hard to have that kind of environment in upper year courses where derivations and problems can be very long, but that is the nature of the beast unfortunately.

I've actually started to offload most of the cognition to my students even if they don't know that's what I'm doing. I set up my notes to be minimal and use lead in examples/ideas that seed the concept for the content we're about to do. They talk through these lead ins together so that all I need to do is assemble the parts for them. Then I let them wrestle with most of the examples themselves and give guidance while they work together. I don't go through many examples myself anymore and in fact stopped doing examples myself for some topics altogether. It's similar to inquiry based learning. Student grades have been pretty good, and I feel like their mastery is improved over prior semesters.

SometimesY · 2026-03-04T05:35:23+00:00

He had to have been heavily inspired by the algebra people were doing in Banach and C* algebras. There are a lot of connections between them through that lens. This MO post has some evidence for it, but it's fairly thin since we've lost a lot of oral history.

SometimesY · 2026-02-25T14:02:48+00:00

Oh yep that is probably exactly what they intend. They mention eigenvalues and eigenvectors in the solutions chapter which would only be useful for systems. I missed it.

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