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December 2023


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Lessons from the Chicago 7 - If getting elected isn't your first priority, you won't get to achieve your second priority.

Life lessons from starting and feeding sourdough. Also, the opposite of déjà vu, another dress controversy, Duke library leaves basecamp, mowers and blowers, Maggie's link to a frog rescue operation, and Ben and Sebastian announce Kino.

We take last week's ancient exploration of circles and polygons and move to a more modern understanding of limits.

On turning stories about you into stories about us.

December 12, 2023

Lighting menorah candles for this year's celebration. Also, your cat will eat almost anything, jazz music from quantum math, a great five minutes on AI, Penzys About Republicans, Maggie's link to Jet Lag season 8, and Apple open sources AI tools.

We motivate and define what we mean by the limit of a function.

Increasing the things you can influence by looking for alternate strategies.

December 19, 2023

Celebrating the long nights not the short days. Also, prepare your three words, Jonny Ive reads Steve's words, cycling fallacies, a writing secret, Maggie's link to "Dawn of the Nugget", and I've updated my free dough temperature calculator app.

A function is continuous at a point if the limit exists andd the limit equals the actual value. That's (essentially) it!

Thoughts on gathering together.

December 26, 2023

Would you prefer to live back in the 1980s? Also, a (still) moving holiday ad, on keeping secrets, my music app is now updated, a story of a particular sound, nipping things in the bud early, Maggie's link to a classic commercial, and Sandi Metz: Nothing is Something.

We wrap up our discussion of limits and continuity with a look at a jump discontinuity and a removable discontinuity.

There are people who think about the effect of their words and actions on others - and then there are those who don't.


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