Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Boycotting a Coin Over a "Missing" Oxford Comma

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Perhaps Philip Pullman is overreacting in his boycott of a coin over a missing Oxford comma , but this does pull at my heart strings. :) (...
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Monday, January 27, 2020

"Quantifying “Political Islands” with Persistent Homology"

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Here is a new expository article (in SIAM News ) by my Ph.D. student Michelle Feng and me about our work on spatial topological data analysi...
Saturday, January 25, 2020

New 2020 Baseball Hall of Famers

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I am a bit late with this post, as I have been traveling and very busy during the past few days. Anyway, the new Major League Baseball Hal...
Wednesday, January 22, 2020

What Happens in Kuala Lumpur Stays in Kuala Lumpur

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I just arrived in Kuala Lumpur for a friend's wedding! I am very tired. :)
Saturday, January 18, 2020

Quote of the Conference: Geodesic Spaces of Normal Shrinkage

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"I call it 'geodesic spaces of normal shrinkage', in honor of George Costanza." This may be the quote of the conference ...
Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Depeche Mode is in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame!

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Depeche Mode has been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame! Yay! Also: It's about time!
Tuesday, January 14, 2020

What Happens at the Joint Mathematics Meetings Stays at the Joint Mathematics Meetings (2020 Edition)

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I am heading over to the Joint Mathematics Meetings ! I am looking forward to spending less time horizontal than was the case at my last JMM...

Love Will Tear Us Apart: Geographic Edition

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Make elevation maps of any location in the world in the style of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures album cover (i.e. a ridgeline map) htt...
Monday, January 06, 2020

(Alignment Chart)^2

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Today's XKCD has an (Alignment Chart)^2 ! I approve!
Wednesday, January 01, 2020

A Band Called "f(x)"

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I know nothing about the band — and K-Pop isn't exactly my style anyway — but I definitely like the band's name !
Tuesday, December 31, 2019

The End of a Decade, with a Fair Starting Day

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I'll let you know when my decade ends. To do that, I'll first need to figure out when it started. ;) Now, which starting point w...

Tales from the ArXiv: How Many Updates is the Record?

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Well, the answer to the question that I posed two years ago was apparently "yes", but the authors did eventually stop uploading up...
Saturday, December 28, 2019

Social Seismology: The Chutzpah Scale

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Personally, I think that we should measure chutzpah in a manner that is analogous to how we measure earthquakes. Example usage: "Social...
Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Emoji Differential Equations: Dreidels as Euler Angles

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Here is my latest set of emoji differential equations. And in case you want a holiday-themed system of emoji differential equations, here a...
Saturday, December 21, 2019

The Three Alternative Branches of Government

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Parabolic, Elliptic, and Hyperbolic. Fun Fact: The "Hyperbolic Branch" of government has plenty of shocks. :) Bonus (for devotees ...

Really?

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Every answer can result in a new question. — Yiddish proverb — Yiddish Proverbs (@YiddishProverbs) December 22, 2019
Thursday, December 19, 2019

TMNTing Wikipedia Pages: A Twitter Account

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This is the right type of Twitter account. ;) Pseudo-random number sampling https://t.co/bTMMPJhmlL pic.twitter.com/Sh8cScM65b — Wiki Titl...
Tuesday, December 17, 2019

"A Two-Patch Epidemic Model with Nonlinear Relapse"

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Another of my papers came out in final form today. Here are some details. Title: A Two-Patch Epidemic Model with Nonlinear Relapse Aut...
Monday, December 16, 2019

What Happens in Vancouver Stays in Vancouver (2019 Edition)

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Today I'll be flying to Vancouver for a few days to visit a friend who I haven't seen in three years. Uncharacteristically for me, I...
Saturday, December 14, 2019

Agent-Based Models with Emoji

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This app lets one simulate cellular automata with emoji! This may inspire some snark. Possibly. I forgot about this thing! So much fun. H...