That was as empty of a threat in 2024 as the “I’ll lock her up” promise in 2016. (Fauci, on the other hand, was legitimately at risk.)

Nah, they’re in for a surprise attack there. Defense won’t hold.

I’ll say it now. They won’t get close. Ever.

Well that explains the attendance in my class this afternoon. 🤦‍♂️

Thanks Joel! I just submitted what I think is a nearly finalized draft, but I’ve heard that it takes up to a year from that point. So maybe later 2027, if there aren’t any surprises? I’m new to this. Not really sure how it all works.

Great! Feel free to reach out (by email) if you have any questions. Btw, I was also a bioinformatics postdoc once. :-)

Most of the 600+ images in the entire book are on my slides here: math.clemson.edu/~macaule/vi… I do need to update them, though, as there are some new ones that I haven’t incorporated, and some others that I need to fix.

I don’t know how one would do that, but I’m open to ideas from anyone who knows more about it than I do!

It still has to go through the formal review and copy editing process, and those take a while. So maybe sometime in late 2027, assuming no issues? Not really sure. I’m brand new to all of this!

I *do* want materials to be widely accessible, so while I can’t post the pdf for copyright purposes, I have most of the 600+ visuals across nearly 100 pages of slides on my website. I also have a bunch of YouTube videos as well. Great for self-study! math.clemson.edu/~macaule/vi…

I’ve had a stable draft for about 2 years, but kept going back and making changes, including a major overhaul of the last chapter. The last 5% really does take a ridiculously disproportionate amount of work. Table of Contents: math.clemson.edu/~macaule/vi…

💥 Some personal news 💥 #VisualAlgebra is finally DONE! I just sent off an 820-page pdf to the editor. Almost exactly 7 years after I started. The zip file that contains the 100+ plain text LaTeX files and nothing else is a whopping 5.4 MB. Now onward to Volume 2!

Driving voter turnout among independent voters, which are majorly skewing D this year will likely help Talarico and other candidates more than just an endorsement. I’m sure it was calculated.

I think the general timeline from final-ish draft submission to publication is under a year. So I’d guess late 2027?? But I’m new to all of this, so I could be very wrong.

Oh cool, please invite her on the show, @hawkblogger! She seems to still be in college studying statistics. I bet she’d accept and it could be mutually beneficial.

I have not, but I’ll into that after I have the finalized draft finally sent off (should be before the end of the month).

Certainly not all. I read the letters a few of them wrote and they believed in you, as did I. You wouldn’t be at one of the top universities in Canada, where you’re doing great, if they didn’t! But yeah, you’ll always encounter “that type,” unfortunately. I hear ya.

I agree with all of this…except using PDE instead of PDEs for the plural. Unacceptable. 😂

I’ve got over 600 figures in my Visual Algebra book. Don’t know how to do interactive elements, but happy to connect with someone who does…

This must be a new 2026 edition! Last year the word was “woke”.