Quomodocumque
My plan to fix Harvard’s grading system
As an old calculus professor of mine used to say
Waiting for Godot (Gen-X rewrite)
Yankees Outright Yanquiel Fernandez
Luck or loveliness
Now pitching, Cadeler Wellvich
George Birkhoff, faces made of lines
What’s the entropy of a random integer?
It’s a good old-fashioned Wisconsin booger-freezer out there!
Dick Gross
If one is not to make a mess of life
The encylopedia of triangle centers
Bruhat intervals that are large hypercubes
I’m holding out for the trigonometry of happiness
Dyadiku
Reaching the masses (not a Marxist post)
Black Box Coat Factory
Chowder was the national soup
Merry Jewish Christmas!
Self-portrait with about one quarter of Richard Serra’s sculpture Equal
Rusczyk wins a Bezos
The American people have just one fixed idea
Save my life, I’m going down for the last time
I said to myself, sit down
How I know zombies aren’t real
Pete Alonso is an Oriole
One more on sphere packing/cap set/Turan
Larry Agran is the Paul Soglin of Irvine, CA
So disappointing
Another example: sets of arcs and loops with bounded intersection
“That’s an excellent question!”
Random Americans, ethnic stereotypes, and large language models
“Not Vegan”
Mathgiving
I wrote about John von Neumann for the Free Press
Sphere packing, cap set, and the Turán problem are all the same thing
Madison West JV girls basketball: Regents 45, LaFollette Lancers 37
Let us now praise United Airlines
I reviewed a book about the math foundations crisis for the New York Times
The golden age of not hitting triples
Triple chai
International Conference on Ancient Magic
A favorite tactic of the self-identified iconoclast
MacArthur Fellows: Wisconsin and Williams
This condition of ill-training
Taylor Swift and Stephanie Burt, or: Life of a Harvard English Professor
Claudia Prieto, “Tus Ojos”
To The Best of our Knowledge is finished
I gave a talk about machine learning and math
Social media hiatus
Chadeish yameinu
Global epistasis emerges from a generic model of a complex trait (or: random walks on a hypercube with reweighting)
Pre-covers
Mura Yakerson interviewed me
Klartag improves the sphere-packing constant