Quomodocumque
Memorial Day
Is there a higher Belyi theorem?
Brewers 5, Cubs 2
Wittgensteinian aphorism (after six hours spent in the company of college undergraduates)
Roger Brown on “Ms.”
“My hatred of you has turned to pity”
Blank life
Ellenberg-Li-Shusterman
Alices
Minor Epiphany Concerning the World Columbian Exposition of 1894 and John Hughes
Brewers 8, Red Sox 6
Armiversary
The College Boy and His Problems
Curse of the Badgerino
Sad Badgers
In which my daughter invents science
The Irrational Decision
In which I flex music knowledge for my daughter
The ex-prospect who only hit homers
Two small appreciations of the culture of France
Networking and granfallooning
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