Last week Matt Parker had me join one of his 'Evening of Unnecessary Detail' events in New York. I invited 🎵 Tim Blais 👨🏻‍🔬 to come down and we had a bit too much fun writing a parody of 'Ain't No Sunshine' about the twin prime conjecture.

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nice argument, unfortunately i have drawn myself as the clever brown pi and you as the befuddled blue pi

When I did the lockdown math lectures, I was working with some friends who put together a tool (Itempool) to do the live polling and organize question banks, which I've enjoyed using since in live talks. Sadly, they've now shut that down.

For anyone out there who was using it,

I was curious how DALL-E might render a pi creature, and its true preferences for tau were revealed. And on today of all days!

(Then again, maybe it's on me for the typo)

The Matt Parker pi day video this year was truly something to behold. I think I was smiling cheek-to-cheek the whole time.

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This Numberphile podcast with Christopher Havens, who started the Prison Mathematics Project, is an especially good one.

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I like what they're doing, and just made a contribution to their winter fundraiser, and thought I'd briefly signal to boost it here for anyone

If you're attending the JMM this week and have any interest in meeting up, let me know!

Product idea: An app/website that's identical to YouTube in every way, except without any shorts.

Following up on the recent video about the refractive index, here's a video answering a few viewer questions.

How the refractive index can be less than 1? What's going on with birefringence? And more

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I realized recently I didn't know why prisms work. Like, why does light slow down? And why would that depend on color?

It turns out, answering the first question with enough detail automatically answers the second, and it's completely delightful.

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This was a fun conversation, thanks Dwarkesh Patel!

We've now wrapped up the third Summer of Math Exposition!

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Unexpected YouTube growth hack: Have ChatGPT analyze your thumbnail incorrectly and tweet about it.