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To say nothing of Gary Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine
Great baseball names sound just like bad band names! Quiz: which of these are baseball players and which are musical acts? Jumpy Garcia Death to Flying Things Luscious Jackson Todd Van Poppel...
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Math linkdump Nov 11
Tim Gowers destroys and rebuilds mathematical publishing. Mosteller and Youtz randomize Mozart. The Open Graph Archive is trying to generate a community-built, openly accessible library of graphs....
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Miscellaneous linkdump Nov 11
Orioles bring back the cartoon bird! Tom Scocca approves, but grumpily. What word describes my formerly retro hat that is now no longer retro? Old Skull was a punk band of Madison 9-year-olds that...
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Four Tucson notes
As far as I can tell, Cafe Poca Cosa is still the best restaurant in the city. Front page news during our stay: the state has outlawed the Tucson school system’s Mexican American Studies program....
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In like a linkdump
CJ and I dropped in for lunch at Mexican bakery El Bolillo in Monona because it was snowing and we were tired of driving. This turned out to be a good move — it’s a friendly family place and they...
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Several attacks on the previous post
As promised, a few attacks. I’m sure by tomorrow I’ll have thought of several more. Oh, and also, I meant to link to this Crooked Timber thread about Coursera, with a richly combative comment thread....
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August math linkdump
Algebraists eat corn row by row, analysts eat corn circle by circle. Yep, I eat down the rows like a typewriter. Why? Because it is the right way. This short paper by Johan de Jong and Wei Ho...
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Man’s search for meaning
Google autocompletes for “What does it mean when”: what does it mean when you dream about someone what does it mean when your boobs hurt what does it mean when a guy kisses your forehead what does it...
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I know “All About”…
I know “All About…” 1. Baseball 2. space 3. sisters 4. biking 5. books 6. math 7. super man 8. words 9. food 10. winter 11. mysterys 12. This is actually pretty similar to what my list...
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Booklist 2012
Here are the books I read in 2012. 11 Nov 2012: The Passage, by Justin Cronin. 31 Oct 2012: Too Good To Be True, Benjamin Anastas. 22 Oct 2012: vN, Madeline Ashby. 13 Oct 2012: Although Of Course...
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The American universities that sent representatives to the 1900 ICM in Paris
Bryn Mawr California Chicago Clark “Dakota” Northwestern Georgetown Haverford Lehigh Princeton Stanford Texas Interesting list!
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September linkdump
According to Nielsen, nobody watched the Astros play the Indians. The Golden Goose award, a project of Rep. Jim Cooper of Tennessee, honors federally funded research which was apparently without...
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Words that appear exactly 25 times in How Not To Be Wrong
15,18,20, along, Baltimore, calculus, check, completely, drawing, early, economic, else, extra, feel, geometric, holes, John, known, lead, nature, obvious, outcome, particular, pay, precise, principle,...
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Names and words
When you get the copy-edited manuscript of a book back, it comes with a document called “Names and Words,” this is a list of proper names or unusual words in the book which might admit variant spelling...
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HNTBW paperback publicity roundup
Gonna put all this stuff in one post: I was at the Aspen Ideas Festival last week, talking about various aspects of outward-facing math. We taped an episode of Science Friday with Jo Boaler and Steve...
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August 2015 linkdump
There’s a new biography of Grothendieck, this one in French. Any chance it’ll be translated? Let felons vote and let them carry guns — the ultimate left-right compromise reform? Why not? Everybody...
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Booklist 2013
This is not a typo — I was going to post about the books I read in 2015 but realized I’ve fallen out of the habit, and haven’t actually done a roundup since 2012! Here are the books of 2013: 31 Dec...
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Booklist 2016 — the year of translation
This year my reading project was for the majority of the books I read to be translated from a language other than English. Here’s the list: 31 Dec 2016: Troubling Love, by Elena Ferrante (Ann...
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Fitchburg facts
Fitchburg is the only municipality in Wisconsin where Spanish is spoken in more than 20% of households. Fitchburg became a city in 1983, after winning a Wisconsin Supreme Court case about whether...
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I went to California last week to talk math and machine learning with Ben Recht (have you read his awesome blogstravaganza about reinforcement learning and control?) My first time on the brand-new...
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