Mathematics Instructor at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College |University of Mississippi Alum | @mgcccbulldogs

Gulfport, MS
Joined May 2018
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Richard Feynman stood at a Cornell blackboard in 1964 and explained the problem every AI lab is fighting in 2026. The BBC filmed it. Almost nobody watches it. The lecture is about why nature only answers in mathematics. Every team forcing language models to reason is hitting the wall he mapped 62 years ago. He was 46. The Nobel Prize came 11 months later. The footage survived on film reels and now sits free on YouTube with fewer views than a keyboard unboxing. Watch the blackboard section near the middle. He takes 1 of Kepler's laws and rebuilds it from nothing, with notation a 12-year-old can follow. No slides. No jargon. 1 piece of chalk. An ML engineer I know paused it 4 times and made his whole team watch it before standup. You're 62 years late. The lecture is still free.
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Hitting a baseball is the hardest thing to do in sports. Round ball. Round bat. The margin for error is insanely small. Understanding how your barrel moves throughout the entire arc of the swing is important.
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The network of every home run in major league baseball history - in which two players are connected if one of them hit a home run off the other. youtu.be/LtJxJqAqt0Q?si=Wh18…
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ln|x|??? How did you get in here?
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Our favourite Maths Teacher!🧛‍♀️👻🎃 Powered by @Desmos & inspired by the brilliant @iquilezles #Halloween #Desmos #Halloween2025 #Desmos3D
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Let's get hype with a first look to some of the "BIG CITY GREENS" merchandise from @toddlandstore. Wave 1 includes shirts, pins and stickers with original artwork by Chris Houghton, Raj Brueggemann, Kristen Gish, Kiana Khansmith and more. toddland.com/collections/cus… #BigCityGreens
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If High Point makes a long run in the NCAA tournament my daughter has a heck of a shot at a top bracket
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Let the madness begin! March MATHness site is updated with data for the men's and women's brackets! marchmathness.davidson.edu/
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Here's a preview of my @DavidsonCollege honors student's (inspired by @baabbaash work) lenticular dice mosaic of Katherine Johnson & Maryam Mirzakhani. Our piece will hang next month on Mercer Island in a math & art exhibit hosted by the Seattle Universal Math Museum (SUMM).
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Hey!! Did you know about the curvature of conic sections? 🥞🥯🥞 bit.ly/3fmtMu4 #math #science #iteachmath #mtbos #visualization #elearning #geometry
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Snow in South Mississippi
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True meanings of sine, cosine, and tangent in the context of a right triangle. For student resources, see description within featured video link here: youtube.com/shorts/PzJWUtNJF…. @geogebra #MTBoS #ITeachMath
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Why would Georgia go for two at 17-6
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Our next president may win the Electoral College without winning the popular vote. How low of a popular vote could a candidate win? Linear programming helps answer the question and can be shared with inquiring students as we consider our coming results. mathvalues.org/masterblog/ho…
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If your heading at ATL for @MathAMATYC I would love to have you in my session #amatyc
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On our blog, we chat with math popularizers Tim Chartier & Amy Langville about NONSTANDARD NOTEBOOK, their new note/book that shows how the rules of math & the rules of a notebook can spark creativity: buff.ly/3Ae7avD @timchartier #MathArt
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My math journal with mathy lined pages is out TODAY! Check out the "Nonstandard Notebook: Mathematically Ruled Pages for Unruly Thoughts" co-authored with Amy Langville and a forward by @benorlin. Unleash your creativity with unruly pages! amazon.com/Nonstandard-Noteb…
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Came home from a hard softball practice … and now there’s a snake in my garage … and i don’t know where it went. I’ll be selling my house tomorrow
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