Donovan Young

Interested in all things mathematical. Contributor to @chalkdust magazine. Teacher.

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2026-05-12 06:25:44 UTC

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the right direction is so much better tho guys. Seriously.

2026-05-12 05:55:55 UTC

@npub1nf4…nqe4 looks up your street:
[2605.08224] Uniqueness on a Continuum: Quantifying Tonal Ambiguity Using Information Theory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08224

2026-05-07 15:27:46 UTC

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I feel somehow they must be. Its interesting his many roads there are that lead to the Gaussian!

2026-05-07 12:12:17 UTC

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that sample variance and sample mean being statistically independent can be taken to be a defining feature of the normal distribution.

2024-12-07 16:35:33 UTC

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Simpsons vibes!

2024-12-07 15:51:57 UTC

Help me identify this shape. We have a cookie cutter which makes these. I can't tell what it's supposed to be. #baking
https://media.mathstodon.xyz/media_attachments/files/113/612/334/255/600/715/original/c339c72cd0d7aeec.jpg

2024-09-04 15:47:11 UTC

@npub1nf4…nqe4 this looks like it might interest you: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.14551

2022-12-25 18:10:35 UTC

After @npub1nf4…nqe4 discussed the connection of triangles to elliptic functions, I wondered: what's the space of all triangles (up to similarity)? Here's a nice way to visualise it as a region in the plane defined by two of the angles. The \( \theta_1 \leftrightarrow \theta_2 \) and \( \theta_1 \leftrightarrow \pi - \theta_1 - \theta_2 \) symmetry defines the boundaries. What should we choose to be the metric on this space? #triangles #similarity #teaching
https://media.mathstodon.xyz/media_attachments/files/109/575/600/478/312/810/original/e0d4e247ff020cc5.jpeg
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