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Matias Koivurova
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Husband, father of two, and a smashing cat servant from 🇫🇮

PhD, Docent, Asst. Prof., working on light, relativity and quantum 🧪💡

Climate change is real
Vaccines work
Earth is not flat
Trump is a dangerous dumbass
Elon too
That's probably my least woke opinion.
November 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Quantum random number generator.
November 14, 2025 at 11:10 AM
The guy was high as fuck when he wrote that, I'm sure.
November 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
DUND?
November 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Reposted by Matias Koivurova
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
On the interview with Goodman: "The purpose is not to learn words," he said. "The purpose is to make sense."

How the hell are you supposed to make sense of the whole if you don't understand the parts??
November 12, 2025 at 5:12 AM
It is only a matter of time until he bans her. Which will be hilarious.
November 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Wtf, still no sight of snow here 😳
November 11, 2025 at 5:54 AM
The guy has been sleeping like 4 hours a night for decades. At this point he's a walking and talking full body stimulant.
November 10, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Sounds reasonable, the idea is to make it as accessible as possible anyways. It doesn't really help if we just regurgitate a bunch of equations with little real-world connection 😄
November 9, 2025 at 6:21 AM
If by advanced you mean correct... (I'm just teasing 😜)

But on a serious note, you are of course welcome to join the bandwagon! But if you want to pass, then it would be super helpful if you could describe the difficulties you or others have had with the topic.
November 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Pounds as in weight, or pounds as in money?
November 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
November 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
They take a ball, dissect it, and use the pieces to build two balls that are identical to the original.

They even invert balls without cutting them.

What is up with their balls??
November 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Indeed, a spinor is more like square root of a vector 🙃
November 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Thanks! Let's see if this ever produces anything worthwhile 😄
November 5, 2025 at 11:27 AM
There's an xkcd for everything! But I would rather walk through a swamp with skis on than introduce new competing standards in coherence 😄
November 5, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Beware the Poe's law!

But seriously though, it might be a good idea. These ideas are not articulated clearly enough, especially in teaching.
November 5, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I'm knee deep in projects at the moment, but damn this is tempting...

Eh, what the hell, let's do it! You can reach me at firstname.lastname@uef.fi
November 5, 2025 at 8:56 AM