Tuesday, January 26, 2021

The Baseball Hall of Fame Throws a Shutout

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There will be no new 2021 Hall of Famers for Major League Baseball . (Curt Schilling would have made it—and his playing career is clearly of...
Sunday, January 24, 2021

"Tunable Eigenvector-Based Centralities for Multiplex and Temporal Networks"

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One of my papers just came out in final form . Here are the details. Title: Tunable Eigenvector-Based Centralities for Multiplex and Temp...
Friday, January 22, 2021

RIP Hank Aaron (1934–2021)

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Baseball has lost yet another giant: Hank Aaron died this morning , becoming the third baseball Hall of Famer to die this year already. (Bas...
Tuesday, January 19, 2021

RIP Don Sutton (1945–2021)

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We have lost yet another Hall-of-Fame Dodger: pitcher Don Sutton has died . (Tip of the cap to Gregg Schneider.)
Friday, January 08, 2021

RIP Tommy Lasorda (1927–2021)

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Dodger great and Hall of Fame manager Tommy Lasorda has died. He died late last night. Tommy was a lifelong Dodger, "bleeding Dodger b...
Sunday, December 27, 2020

Brilliant Headstones

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There are some brilliant epitaphs on these tombstones . I have seen a few of them before (such as "I Told You I Was Sick", which i...
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RIP Phil Niekro (1939–2020)

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The great knuckleballer and Hall of Fame pitcher Phil Niekro died in his sleep last night . Yet another great baseball player has left us ...
Friday, December 18, 2020

Gollum's Cover of "Nothing Compares 2 U"

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This deepfake of Gollum covering the song "Nothing Compares 2 U" is wrong on many, many levels. It's also glorious. Witness...

RIP Peter Neumann (1940–2020)

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This morning, I saw the terrible news that my former Oxford colleague Peter Neumann died today , supposedly due to complications from COVID-...
Wednesday, December 16, 2020

"Inference of Edge Correlations in Multilayer Networks"

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A new paper of mine came out in final form today. Here are some details. Title: Inference of Edge Correlations in Multilayer Networks ...
Sunday, December 13, 2020

The Cleveland Baseball Team

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The Major League Baseball team that is situated in Cleveland will no longer be called the Indians . Finally! This is long past due. Hopefull...

Tales from the ArXiv: "A Nudge Framework"

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A new paper that just appeared on arXiv this evening is called "Steering the aggregative behavior of noncooperative agents: a nudge fra...
Tuesday, December 08, 2020

RIP Jean-Paul Revel (1931–2020)

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Cellular biologist Jean-Paul Revel, who was Caltech's Dean of Students for several years (including during some of my undergraduate time...

What Happens on Zoom Stays on Zoom

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I'm not traveling these days, so I figure this is how this type of post needs to go nowadays.
Wednesday, November 25, 2020

XKCD: Linguists (and Probably How My Coauthors Feel)

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I deeply understand today's XKCD about linguists. Also, given my linguistic tendencies, I think the person in the hole probably has fee...
Sunday, November 22, 2020

A Visual Illusion: Game-and-Watch Style

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Here is a visual illusion (in game-and-watch style) for you. The illusion is of the forward motion. It arises from a border of about 1 pix...
Sunday, November 15, 2020

Revenge of the Oxford Comma: 2020 Edition

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Truth is stranger than fiction. Always. Update your lesson plans, we have a new perfect example for Oxford commas. https://t.co/gm1K8IHkGv...
Thursday, November 12, 2020

2020 Most Valuable Player Awards

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Major League Baseball's 2020 Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards were announced today. José Abreu of the Chicago White Sox has been named ...
Wednesday, November 11, 2020

2020 Cy Young Awards

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Baseball's 2020 Cy Young Awards have now been announced. Unsurprisingly, Shane Bieber of the Cleveland Indians was the unanimous winner ...
Tuesday, November 10, 2020

2020 Managers of the Year

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Baseball's 2020 Managers of the Year have been announced, and both winners are the expected ones: Kevin Cash of the Tampa Bay Rays in t...