Saturday, August 31, 2019

What Happens in Beijing Stays in Beijing

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I am off to China for the first time since 2010, and this time I'll be visiting Beijing.
Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Quiz: Guess the Paper Topic from the Last Line of the Abstract

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Here is the last line of a recent paper's abstract: Moreover, this work presents a new and computationally non-expensive method to accou...
Monday, August 26, 2019

RIP KFOG 104.5

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It was announced today that KFOG 104.5 is soon going to stop playing its brand of music and will instead simulcast from its sister sports ...
Sunday, August 25, 2019

Emoji Expression

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I think that I was pretty clever with this one. :) I hope that some of you will be able to figure out the song. Using emoji: Relationshi...
Tuesday, August 20, 2019

Very Cool Artwork of Light and Shadow

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Kumi Yamashita's art with light and shadow is very cool! The unique light and shadow installations of artist Kumi Yamashita are usuall...
Friday, August 16, 2019

Cicadas and Amusing Lab Hijinks

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I am amused! A few weeks ago I left a cicada shell on my colleague’s desk to scare her. Today I came in to find this on my desk - our full ...
Thursday, August 15, 2019

Trying to Trademark the Word "The"

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THE Ohio State University is apparently trying to trademark the word "the" . Oy vey. I love University of Michigan's respon...
Wednesday, August 14, 2019

List: "Critically Acclaimed Horror Film of the 2010s or Your Ph.D. Program"

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Well, this list is both amusing and cynical (with several loud rings of truth, unfortunately). (Tip of the cap to Suzanne Sindi .)
Tuesday, August 13, 2019

New XKCD: How Many Coins for a Cinnamon Roll?

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The latest xkcd is great!
Monday, August 12, 2019

What Happens at WorldCon Stays at WorldCon

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I am heading over to Dublin for this year's WorldCon ! My schedule is below. I'll be presenting a few mathematical and science t...
Saturday, August 10, 2019

One of my Favorite Oxonian Ironies: 5 Years Ago Today

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Oxford is a place of ironies — that's one of its great charms — and one of my favorite ones occurred 5 years ago today. On that day, an ...
Thursday, August 08, 2019

Tales from the ArXiv: An 81-Panel Figure

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Oy vey. This figure is from this paper .
Friday, August 02, 2019

Critical-Failure Dice

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I need to get myself some of these critical-failure dice , which replace the "1" (for critical misses, of course) in the 20-sided ...
Thursday, August 01, 2019

Gerrymandering Fonts

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If the exact intersection of your interests is graphic design and a deeply abiding hatred of partisan gerrymandering, then have I got the fo...
Wednesday, July 31, 2019

UCLA's New Undergraduate Major in "Data Theory"

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At @UCLA (joint between the Math & Stats departments), I helped design a brand new, very exciting Data Theory undergraduate major. Cour...
Tuesday, July 30, 2019

"Callin' Oates"

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You can call the phone number in this picture to get your Hall & Oates fix (in an emergency, of course). Oh, wow! P.S. I called the ...
Sunday, July 28, 2019

Wikipedia Page: List of Obsolete Units of Measurement

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There is a Wikipedia page that gives a list of obselete units of measurement . (Tip of the cap to John Dudley .)

Tales from the ArXiv: Everybody Loves Coupled Oscillators (and the Michigan Rag)

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If this were my study and I were giving a talk about it, Michigan J. Frog would surely make an appearance. New on arXiv: "Interaction...
Friday, July 26, 2019

The Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI) Refrigerator is Tweeting Again

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It's baaaaaack: the MBI refrigerator is up and tweeting again .
Saturday, July 20, 2019

Illustration of a Queuing System

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I am amused. :) Note their little diplomas and numbering. (From Kleinrock, 1967) pic.twitter.com/EwYSHsUYNz — Rachel Traylor (@Mathpocalyps...