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Academia vs Industry: an Updated Opinion
2009-12-23 22:02:53
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One thing that continually amazes me is the amount of email I get from readers of this blog asking for career advice. I usually try to just politely decline; I don't think I'm particularly qualified to give per...
Friday Random Ten, 12/18
2009-12-19 01:47:46
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1. Naftule's Dream, "Speed Klez": Naftule's Dream is a brilliant progressive klezmer band. I happen to love klezmer, but I think that anyone into jazzy prog rock would also enjoy them. They're terrific.
2. O...
ID Garbage: CSI as Non-Computability
2009-12-14 15:43:48
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An alert reader pointed me at a recent post over at Uncommon Descent by a guy who calls himself "niwrad", which argues (among other things) that life is non-computable. In fact, it basically tries to use comput...
Another Cantor Crank: Representation vs. Enumeration
2009-12-09 20:36:07
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I've been getting lots of mail from readers about a new article on Google's Knol about Cantor's diagonalization. I actually wrote about the authors argument once before about a year ago.
But the Knol article g...
What is math?
2009-12-07 18:21:11
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I've got a bunch of stuff queued up to be posted over the next couple of days. It's been the sort of week where I've gotten lots of interesting links from readers, but I haven't had time to finish anything!
I ...
I've got a bunch of stuff queued up to be posted over the next couple of days. It's been the sort of week where I've gotten lots of interesting links from readers, but I haven't had time to finish anything!
I ...
Advanced Haskell Data Structures: Red-Black Trees
2009-12-01 01:09:59
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So, we've built up some pretty nifty binary trees - we can use the binary tree both as the basis of an implementation of a set, or as an implementation of a dictionary. But our implementation has had one major ...
So, we've built up some pretty nifty binary trees - we can use the binary tree both as the basis of an implementation of a set, or as an implementation of a dictionary. But our implementation has had one major ...
A Special Midweek Recipe: Ad-Libbed Cranberry Chutney
2009-11-26 22:45:38
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It's not saturday, but I've got a recipe that I needed to write down before I forget it, so you're getting an extra bonus.
I usually make a simple cranberry relish for thanksgiving. But it needs to be made a c...
Creating User-Defined Types in Haskell
2009-11-23 14:55:45
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* (This is an edited repost of one of the posts from the earlier version of my Haskell tutorial.)
* (This file is a literate haskell script. If you save it as a file whose name ends in ".lhs", it's actually l...
The Balance of Screening Tests
2009-11-19 20:51:28
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As you've no doubt heard by now, there's been a new recommendation issues which proposes changing the breast-cancer screening protocol for women under 50, by eliminating mammograms for women who don't have sign...
Shameful Innumeracy in the New York Times
2009-11-17 18:08:14
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I've been writing this blog for a long time - nearly four years. You'd think that after all of the bad math I've written about, I must have reached the point where I wouldn't be surprised at the sheer innumerac...
