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Speaking of which, this is my favorites skits from Matt's Youtube channel https://youtu.be/Bcr9-93wXng (Stand-up comedy about Equations That Correspond to Vortex Motions (aka "smoke rings”).).
Given we've got Matt Parker and Excel on the front page at the same time, it feels like I have to recommend this video of both:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBX2QQHlQ_I

It's daring, but comes nowhere near the great spreadsheet comics of the past.
Enjoyed this! Except the advertisement for his book in the middle of the show.
I do enjoy his geeky humour, and the rest of the Festival of Spoken nerd's (@fotsn), and actually went to see him and others just a couple of weeks ago at @AEOUD.

It was also the day before he posted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSSsZLTMDq0 which explains how I was the 'Thirty-seventh' commentator - though you'll have to sort by newest comments and go down to at least the first couple of hundred comments to get that joke :)

Hello everyone. Didn’t expect to see myself here. I was so startled I made an account.

Ah… you’ll probably enjoy my new book about maths mistakes. Check if your favourite programming error is in there!

http://wwwh.umble-pi.com

Did you use a "maths mistake" in HN to get yourself here? ;-)
that url is dangerous.

it uses a strategy which is mainly utilized by phishing websites to mask the legitimacy of a fqdn. Its also http, so easily modified by hostile parties.

imo a very poor idea considering how you ultimately end up on a shop. i know its just a 301 redirect vhost, but nonetheless...

Hi Matt, great to see you here, I enjoyed your performance at freenode.live last year in Bristol.
Thanks! I enjoyed that evening in the museum. My spherical camera is still working as well.
wait... you are on freenode irc network too or just attending the freenode.live event?
Sadly I was only hanging out at the live event (as the so-called “entertainment”).
I swear everyone who advertises here says the same thing.

"Hello everyone. Didn’t expect to see myself here."

followed by you can get my product here.

You're probably thinking it's a bit suspicious seeing that the account was made 62 minutes after the post was submitted. It could be that the user just browses HN regularly, saw this post about him, and wanted to separate his comment histories from his main account.
Yes: I normally lurk on HN. But people started messaging me when this reached the top, of course. I can confirm I don’t know or have any connection with the OP.
I can share how it happened. I logged into HN today to read more about the Apple/Amazon/China news, then almost spat out my coffee when I saw Matt was #1 on Hacker News. I went to high school & university with Matt, so it felt really surreal, and I immediately tweeted Matt to tell him:

https://twitter.com/syneryder/status/1048507531352571904

I can confirm all of this is true. I mean, I don’t know how close SyneRyder was to spitting out coffee (or even if they were drinking coffee? how deep does this go?) but everything else is a fact.
That is a great observation. It reminds me of when I was recording my latest DVD special, also available on download and floppy disk.

http://festivalofthespokennerd.com/dvd

> That is a great observation.

I couldn't agree more.

> It reminds me of when I was recording my latest DVD special, also available on download and floppy disk. http://festivalofthespokennerd.com/dvd

Looks like I'm going to finish my christmas shopping early boys. Are the floppy disks 3 1/2 or 5 1/4?

They are 3½. We’re not monsters.
720KB LD I would hope. You need to maximise compatibility! Not all of us can afford those new fangled HD or ED drives!
Hi Matt! Great to see you're doing so well!

(Fellow UWA alum and Slime Volleyball ex-World-Champion here. :D )

Hello! It’s been a long time since playing slime volleyball on translucent iMacs.
Didn't expect to see you posting here either. Anyway, thanks for teaching me what a sausage catastrophe is!
Does it cover the Parker Square?
Matt, what are your top recommended intro to proofs books for math beginners?
For a modern popular math book I would recommend The Man Who Loved Only Numbers (by Paul Hoffman) about the life Paul Erdős. Is a great intro to the life of a working mathematician and a bit about proof.

The classic text is How To Solve It (by Georg Pólya). A bit antiquated but still good.

Beyond that: find an introductory text book to a subject and start trying the worked examples!

Isn't that a bit misleading because Erdos was a famously unusual mathematician personality/lifestyle? I think focusing on Erdos as an intro fetishizes mathematicians/mathematics.
Good point but the book is very clear about how unusual Erdős was and talks about the lives of more normal mathematicians he worked with.
You'd recommend Polya over "How to Prove It" by Velleman? Polya's seems more about general problem-solving techniques, versus proofs.
If you like nerd humor, you'll also like Standup Economist (standupeconomist.com)
I'm not into math at all, stumbled upon his stuff a year ago, ended up marathoning his entire Youtube channel. Great presenter and entertainer.