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Mariah ☀️ Knowles
@snotskie.com
my pronouns are a religious experience 🐈🐈🐈 | the Platonic ideal of a trans woman | AI ethics, open pedagogy, ttrpgs | phd

https://snotskie.com/

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1798-4830

formerly @snotskie@queer.party, @snotskie@birdsite
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the body doesn't keep the score all my gamified wellness apps do
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smoothed analysis is dead. i gave a eulogy
Optimal Smoothed Analysis of the Simplex Method
YouTube video by FOCS 2025
youtu.be
December 9, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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[New Blog Post] Why Sell Lifetime Plans, in a Default Subscription World?

pketh.org/lifetime-pla...
December 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Remember your favorite creator possibly might be struggling with imposter syndrome and doubt and this timeline sucks.. so if you find yourself thinking “wow I really relate to this persons work” or that persons work gives you joy, you should probably tell them. It’s a hard time to be a creative.
November 26, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Looking for inspiration for your #FOCS2025 pre-recorded talk? Check out this video youtu.be/Ygu5m-yPFhg
Producing recorded research talks
YouTube video by EATCS
youtu.be
November 15, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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If you are a researcher who happens to know other researchers who study Reddit/use Reddit data, I beg of you to please send them this paper.

dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Remember the Human: A Systematic Review of Ethical Considerations in Reddit Research | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Reddit is one of the world's most prominent social media platforms, and also a valuable source of data for internet researchers. However, working with this kind of data also presents novel ethical com...
dl.acm.org
November 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
mon nouveau vinyle de KYO est arrivé -- très vite !
November 5, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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It took me about three months to get here but...

Here's a 🪶 for (nearly) every species of bird, with colors extracted from wikipedia descriptions.

10,151 species.

#dataviz #birds #data
November 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
genuinely liked Ice Cube's movie
October 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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The simplex algorithm is super efficient. 80 years of experience says it runs in linear time. Nobody can explain _why_ it is so fast.

We invented a new algorithm analysis framework to find out.
Beyond Smoothed Analysis: Analyzing the Simplex Method by the Book
Narrowing the gap between theory and practice is a longstanding goal of the algorithm analysis community. To further progress our understanding of how algorithms work in practice, we propose a new alg...
arxiv.org
October 27, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Some content is so relevant to my interests that it causes my brain to glitch.

youtu.be/GWXCCBsOMSg?...
Coding Trance Music (Full Narrated)
YouTube video by Switch Angel
youtu.be
October 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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October 3, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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September 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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September 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
yall remember CSS triangles?
September 3, 2025 at 1:54 AM
a third of Lex posts in Denver are people who just landed for a conference asking what the vibes are

anyway the answer i got was gay and haunted
August 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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August 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
the body doesn't keep the score all my gamified wellness apps do
July 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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June 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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can't believe i'm living that transgender life invented by lady gaga
June 16, 2025 at 10:34 PM
should i get back into clojure?
June 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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In another of my semi-regular posts, for those who have recently gotten reviewer comments on qualitative studies (eg, #cscw2025) & want to know how to respond, check out this document that currently has 13 types of critiques of qual methods and ideas for responding.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Reviewer Critiques (Qualitative Methods) and How to Respond to Them
Reviewer Critiques (Qualitative Methods) and How to Respond to Them Author: Jessica Vitak (+ anyone who adds to the document) About This Document (and a disclaimer) Reviewing is a highly subjective pr...
docs.google.com
June 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM
weird move for a library to only have bathrooms for men
June 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
where's the plums in the fridge remix for today?
June 6, 2025 at 1:55 AM