Poll.
1. Should I write another academic paper?

If YES should it be about
2a) the collapse of the knowledge commons
2b) data, consent and privacy in digital learning

3. NO. Don't bother, academic publishing is a busted flush, at least in education and humanities

(caveat: this post got zero reactions in bsky, which was a litmus test on engagement)

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Rhizome Function Anagram Random Generator

preprint | https://zenodo.org/records/21551292

doi | https://orcid.org/0009-0009-5144-3278

Herein are described principles and a scheme of random number generation styled as, pangrandomonium, or ‘pangrand’. Pangrand is a anagrammatic random number generator that uses rhizome functions as chaotic indexing and shuffling instructions to reorder and sum perfect pangrams. Brief descriptions are given for the principles of pangram summing and rhizome indexing functions, Source code of the random number generator is included herewith. The source code is attached to the PDF file.

Sections:

1. Pangrams (Holoalphabetic arrays) ;
2. Rhizome Functions ;
3. Rhizome Hardness Problems ;
4. Random Generator Methods ;
5. Errata ;
6. Source Code.

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A student who puts their name in the file name of a PDF they send me instead of just calling it thesis.pdf is clearly a genius and I almost don't need to read the thesis. 😛

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