Random recent posts
A random selection of recent posts from around the mathematical blogosphere.
- In the war on data, even the CIA isn't safeWest Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
- John Haugeland on the failure of micro-worldsThe Universe of Discourse
- Fibonacci number certificatesJohn D. Cook
- Postdoc position in algebraic geometryPieter Belmans
- “Statistics is widely understood to provide a body of techniques for ‘modeling data.'”Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- A quick midweek film review by Bob ChipmanWest Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
- Differential Logic • OverviewInquiry Into Inquiry
- Spooky action nearby: Entangling logical qubits without physical operationsQuantum Frontiers
- IPAM industrial short course in generative AI algorithms – deadline for applications closing soonWhat's new
- IPAM industrial short course in generative AI algorithms – deadline for applications closing soonWhat's new
- One of Earth’s Most Abundant Organisms Is Surprisingly Fragile, The MicrobiologistSimons Foundation
- Monday Morning Math: David Blackwell360
- Elon doesn't think things throughWest Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
- Gemini had the fucking GALL to get in my email and summarize a 3-line email, taking up more space…Thales’ circles
- Transforming K–5 Math Education with AI: What Educators Can ExpectDr. Nicki's Guided Math Blog
- The time I didn’t meet Jeffrey EpsteinShtetl-Optimized
- To Those Who Ask "What's the name of your book, again?"Journal of Humanistic Mathematics
- Tesla to transition out of the making of real things in order to focus on vaporwareWest Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
- AI Skeptics Podcast: All Buzzwords Mean Surveillance (with Sherry Wong)mathbabe
- The myth of wage compensation for hazardous work rears its ugly head: This NYT article has been engineered to annoy economist Peter Dorman.Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- LightOnOCR: A 1B End-to-End Multilingual Vision-Language Model for State-of-the-Art OCRNuit Blanche
- Is Greenland as big as Africa?More or Less
- Being unhappy with accessible SVGs: text elementsPeter Krautzberger
- A crowdsourced repository for optimization constants?What's new
- Reading Numbers Like PoetryIntersections -- Poetry with Mathematics
- This paper in Management Science has been cited more than 6,000 times. Wall Street executives, top government officials, and even a former U.S. Vice President have all referenced it. It’s fatally flawed, and the scholarly community refuses to do anything about it.Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Geometry Problems of the Day (Geometry Regents, June 2025 Part I)(x, why?)
- Sigmas and StudentJohn D. Cook
- Two workflow challenges from 2012 that were solved as a byproduct of something elseStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- I didn't expect to be recommending a nearly hour long video essay on Hopalong Cassidy...West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
- On my way to SingaporeFreakonometrics