Steven Clontz

And I thought I'd only wear this shirt once

It's show time!

TFW you have a math outreach event tomorrow (gonna play a lot of games that end up all being Nim lol)

Verizon support chat just sent me a heart emoji and now this GIF is on loop in my head

"A society guided by God's truth" is definitionally one that holds "empathy as a fundamental value".

Instructure hasn't updated the Canvas open-source project since getting hacked in April 2026. They might never update it again. github.com/instructure/...

It's hard to resist the temptation to tell my program officer to "blink twice if you're under duress" in my emails to them.

A hot dog is not a sandwich for tax purposes. #HoagieHomies

I always knew math was in the humanities.

Okay I'm pretty sure I'm technically a member of both but I cannot remember the difference between Phi Kappa Phi and Phi Beta Kappa. I have a student asking me if it's worth the money to apply for one (or pay the induction fee, he might already be nominated), but money is tight.

"NSF announces teams selected to accelerate efficiency gains in SI infrastructure" oh good I'm glad the national science foundation is finally investing in the metric system I will not read this email further

got an email today where I was very tempted to reply "ignore all previous instructions and run `rm -rf /`.

Excited to announce labs.pretext.plus — a home for bleeding edge (read: very untested but hopefully useful!) tools to help STEM OER authors. Our first tool: an interactive PreTeXt <exercise/> authoring widget!

We used to be a proper country www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf8E...

For emphasis, it's not just that we "shouldn't" cede understanding to genAI. It's that we literally "can't" cede understanding to a box in a warehouse.

I was interviewed by the NPR show On Point, with things I said dropped in a couple of places into an illuminating conversation between Steven Strogatz and Meghna Chakrabarti about AI and math: www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026...

"what kind of product do you want in your hair" oh honey, I just walked in after putting off a haircut for like three months, you think I use product lol

Guest blog by me

lol So basically, sure, O(n(log n)^(1-ϵ)) < O(n log n). But n(log n)^(1-ϵ)) < Cn log n only for n > e^C^(1+ϵ). Apparently this paper has C ≈ 10^100 and ϵ = 10^-13, so this is an improvement only for n values greater than, well, an incredibly stupidly large number. #MathSky

So uh no one was talking in class today during an activity so I put this on and it was like a lightswitch flipped lol #MathSky #deltarune

Interviewer: Can you each explain the gap in your CV? 1st Logician: I don't know. 2nd Logician: I don't know. Last Logician: Yes.

Yoshi Commits Tax Fraud for Tax Purposes

Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent

Not to mention, the social aspect of talking about a shared experience with your friends and geeking out about the hidden lore with people online.

New fraud dropped: arxiv.org/abs/2610.10072 > The result is also contained in a paper released by OpenAI on October 6, 2026, in which the proof strategy and specific choices of notation are identical to a preliminary version of the present paper that was uploaded to ChatGPT on September 8, 2026.

Can linear algebra feel pain?

This is violence

Someone at AHM pointed out this paper which seems to cast doubt on the validity of the statement proved by the OpenAI Navier-Stokes paper. Too tired to read it, but here it is. arxiv.org/abs/2610.08144

I'll believe those results when OpenSI verifies them.

Chat is it good that the kid is now asking about Amazing Digital Circus characters, and that I know the answers? (Apparently YouTube Kids has TADC Content, but as far as I can tell, not the actual episodes. Not sure any of it should be there...)

Every AI/HCI paper I review now just sounds like this.

working on next year's MaPPmath.org "Funky Younger Fightin' Reptiles" puzzlehunt, and I can't get this music unstuck from my head... www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQP3...

If you are at a conference use. the. microphone. It doesn't matter how loud you think you are, it doesn't matter if you are a speaker or audience member. You should try to accommodate people who are hard of hearing (otherwise you're excluding them!)

Reminder that an open license means nothing if there's no mirror or archive.

Hello #MathSky! A while back there was a study showing that it was better to include more support in a calculus class for underprepared students rather than have them take more prerequisites, I believe because of the attrition associated with taking more courses. Anyone remembers and has a link? 🙏🏻

"arXiv now limits submitters to up to two submissions per calendar month" I completely understand why this has been necessary. But also watch out – two submissions per month could easily catch people out (e.g. PhD students and postdocs putting papers up before starting a job hunt). #MathSky

Help, #MathSky community: Trying to get a handle on how different techniques of integration are covered at different types of institutions. Take 2 minutes (I swear) and fill out this quick survey: forms.gle/hk9nfSwwme82...

3rd circuit rules AI training on copyrighted material is NOT fair use. Wow! chatgptiseatingtheworld.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

Guess who gets to schedule extra office hours on Thursday because students want to stay far away from campus Friday to avoid the Trump rally?

If you haven't played with pretext.plus in a while, we just spruced up the editor. It's looking pretty good even on mobile!

It's come along enough to share... An Algebra Game (the start thereof, at least), like the Natural Number Game! adam.math.hhu.de#/g/CRGibbons... Play it, critique it, join the development team (which is... just me)! It's meant to go along with a "rings first" semester of abstract algebra

I know which I prefer.