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I guess it might actually be pretty cool. Professional mathematician and fellow wordpress.com blogger Terrance Tao has a really cool post summarizing a talk from the 2006 ICE about the marriage of knot theory and dynamical systems. Specifically, he talks about the use of limits of knots (whatever that means…) as a way [...]
It’s happening again. In spite of myself, in spite of being sleep deprived, hooked on caffeine, overworked, and thoroughly overwhelmed, I’m getting excited about learning. All of my senior friends are turning in their theses (the ones that have them, anyway) and I’m feeling really inspired. Even though I’m probably at least [...]
Someone at WordPress.com apparently knows what’s what…you can now use to enter pretty math directly within posts. So, for example, here’s the definition of the entropy of a partition, that I had to on my own computer and then upload for an earlier post:
and here’s the code:
$latex \displaystyle H(\gamma) = -\sum_{i=1}^k \mu(A_i)\log\mu(A_i)$
Although you’d have good reason to doubt it. I’ve been engrossed in typical start of semester insanity, including two almost-all-nighters in as many weeks and my first tutorial meeting today. Speaking of teh tutorial meeting, it was absolutely wonderful, and all of my fretting over the last few days about writing [...]
Jue’s got a neat post today about an experience in a bio lecture that got him thinking about emergence again, and what he wrote certainly helped clarify some of the thoughts that have been swirling around in my head for the last few weeks. He talks about emergence as it relates to the alluring [...]
I spent the better part of this evening reading bits and pieces of Second Nature, the book about neuroscience and epistemology I mentioned earlier (and found out about here) and Gödel, Escher, Bach and drinking the last of my delicious delicious Darjeeling tea. The rest of the day was spent mostly in the LEGO [...]
We’re starting to get to the end of our book for my math tutorial and that means that this past week was a sort of “go back through and do all the problems we skipped in old chapters because they were too tricky.” It’s really cool to go back and review all the material [...]
Yes, it is November! I am a little batty due to not getting a lot of sleep recently and having a paper due tomorrow (of all days!)
This past weekend New England reasserted itself, complete with with cold, biting, steady rain on Sunday that caught us all off guard. Honestly, I’m glad to [...]
To my immense, nerd-y delight I discovered today that Audacity (the cool and free audio editing software) will calculate the Fourier Transform of any passage of sound you give it, which is something I’ve always wanted to be able to do to music ever since seeing an awesome video giving a real-time graph of the [...]
This afternoon was passed in the ever-delightful Tunnel City, taking shelter from the oh-so-typically-new-england-fall chilly, raining weather. I went there specifically to get a jump start on my math tutorial problem set, which has reliably been the bane of my mid-week existence since the beginning of the semester, but ended up running into Alex, [...]
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