Friday, June 28, 2019

"Multivariate Spatiotemporal Hawkes Processes and Network Reconstruction"

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A new paper of mine just came out in final form. Here are some details. Title: Multivariate Spatiotemporal Hawkes Processes and Network ...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Settlers of Combinatorics

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And it's still the case that nobody will want your damn sheep! Want to play every possible game configuration in (Settlers of) Catan? ...
Tuesday, June 25, 2019

"Nonlinear Excitations in Magnetic Lattices with Long-Range Interactions"

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A paper of mine appeared in final form a few days ago. Here are the details. Title: Nonlinear Excitations in Magnetic Lattices with Long...
Monday, June 24, 2019

The Fastest E-Mailer in the West

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I sometimes respond to e-mails before they're event sent. :P If you know me personally and you write to me by e-mail, and I do not res...
Thursday, June 20, 2019

Digital Archæoludology: Studying Ancient Games with Machine Learning

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Digital Archæoludology is a new field that concerns the computational study of ancient game using tools like machine learning. Very cool! ...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019

My Six-Word Horror Story

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"Microsoft Word format required for submissions." #SixWordHorror #SixWordHorrorStory https://t.co/NQ19cnvWio — Mason Porter (@ma...
Monday, June 17, 2019

The First Hipster?

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Monk-dude with cool glasses gazing at the world around him while his fellow monks sing songs - manuscript datable to 1325-1350, which makes ...
Sunday, June 16, 2019

Jenny's Constant

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How did I not know this? There is a Jenny's constant (for real!)! As quoted in the above entry in the Online Encyclopedia of Integer ...

UCLA's 2019 Mathematics Commencement Ceremony

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As you can see from the short video below, this is how we do things in the UCLA mathematics commencement ceremony. (I am the one in bright...
Friday, June 14, 2019

Hidden Giant Art in the Wilderness of Copenhagen

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This hidden giant art (and its implementation) is so awesome! (Tip of the cap to Christopher Dempsey.)

My 2011 D & D Character Sheet (According to my Students)

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In 2011, I was honored and flattered when some of my @SomervilleOx students made a D & D character sheet for me: https://t.co/JOlvWpRI2...

A Colorful Visual Illusion

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All the balls are the same color — and that color is *brown*! pic.twitter.com/JriPXHnNYR — Chaz Firestone (@chazfirestone) June 14, 2019 (...

Spot-On SMBC Comic about Scientific "Findings"

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The comic-strip author this one . Mouseover text: "Somewhere, there's a scientist reading this, wonder[ing] why I made a comic wi...
Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Introductory Paragraph from a Book on Type Theory: A Wild Adventure

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Now I want to start an actual scientific paper in this style. :P Wow, this intro to type theory book doesn’t mess around. pic.twitter.com/E...
Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Tales from the ArXiv: "Bourgeois Functions"

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The snippet below, from this new paper makes me wonder about a rigorous definition of a "bourgeois function"... 🤔
Monday, June 10, 2019

Awesome Talks by My Students and Postdoc at the Snowbird Conference!

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Awesome talks by my students & postdocs at #SIAMDS19 ! Heather Brooks ( @HZinnbrooks ): https://t.co/SDWGU4tTeR Michelle Feng ( @mic...
Sunday, June 09, 2019

20th Anniversary of Bobby Valentine's Dugout Disguise

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Twenty years ago today, Bobby Valentine pulled his famous stunt . I remember watching this game on television. It was awesome when Ichiro ...
Saturday, June 08, 2019

Typograms

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Very nice! A typogram is a word or a series of words written and disposed in such a manner that they illustrates what they mean. Artist Aar...
Friday, June 07, 2019

Amazing Sculptures from Tightly-Rolled Newspapers

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These are incredible! Japanese Artist Tightly Rolls Newspaper To Create Incredibly Realistic Animal Sculptures https://t.co/wgxGL3848A — Ar...

35th Anniversary of the Release of Tetris

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Happy 35th anniversary, Tetris! #Today in 1984, #Tetris was first released https://t.co/GONHKVxEOx #HappyBirthdayTetris pic.twitter.com...