I remember when Windows added ads to the start menu. I think apple turned on a default to show ads (at least it can be toggled off for now). I left Linux because of the driver bugs, but Linux is looking pretty good now.

Successfully defended my thesis:
Distribution Programming for Physics-Based Computations

My defense talk is completely hopeless. There is nothing anyone can do for it.

Plotting workflow: prototype in Desmos, use chat to write matplotlib code, and do by-hand checking and tuning.

I want more of this workflow.

Today marks the second time that Faà di Bruno's formula was super useful to me.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fa%C3%A...
It expresses a higher-order derivative of a composition of functions and uses the Bell polynomials. It came up in a distribution theory proof for my dissertation.