Sunday, February 01, 2015

in which a conjecture has been a theorem for (at least) three days.

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wow; i just learned about this today. Isoperimetric domains in homogeneous three-manifolds and the isoperimetric constant of the Heisenb...
Saturday, January 24, 2015

exposure: what does maths look like, to non-mathematicians?

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sometimes i wonder if the general public expects maths professors to do scholarly research in the same frequency (or smaller) as literature ...
Saturday, January 17, 2015

setting traps, of the non-lethal kind ..

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one of the most frustrating tasks is writing the problem set for the first homework assignment: there's usually very little content fro...
Saturday, January 10, 2015

in which, this semester, i must hide my heretic ways.

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so i just wrote my first lecture of 2015 .. and it reads like algebra, if only because it's supposed to read that way. it's a first...
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Friday, October 03, 2014

on fabricating data (but in a good way)

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yes, it's been a while; no, i'm no happier; yes, I still wonder if i'm cut out for the academic life... ... but let's set...
Wednesday, July 30, 2014

ARR, MoAR!... in which i don't know what to say ..

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.. except that something has to change; this shouldn't happen in a country that calls itself a democracy. Urban teachers have a kind o...
Monday, July 28, 2014

ARR, MoAR!... a digital version of synesthesia?

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as the washingtonpost calls it: " paris with an echo "

idle movements.

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Wednesday, July 23, 2014

ARR, MoAR!.. on the downside of passion.

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this article is about how programming, despite the call to arms about learning how to code, is a low-status job. when i read this post, tho...
Tuesday, July 22, 2014

ARR, MoAR!.. on risk-aversion.

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from "Don't Send Your Kid to the Ivy League " @NewRepublic: So extreme are the admission standards now that kids who manage t...