Happy 25th birthday to Wikipedia! The closest thing we’ve got to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
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News from work: The Courant Institute is now the Courant Institute School of Mathematics, Computing, and Data Science
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Next time: are the events of losing all three games where the Giants held late leads independent? (5/5)
Bayesian: A rational gambler would expect a Giants win by the leading team to be 96.7/3.3 = 29.03 times more likely than not, and would risk $2903 to win $100. Limited by the wisdom of the gambling crowd. (4/5) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesia...
Frequentist: In all simulations of this game from this point onwards, the leading team wins 96.7% of the time. Limited by the faithfulness of the simulation to reality. (3/5) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequen...
Classical: In the universe of all games where one team holds a 10-point lead with 4 minutes to play, the leading team wins 96.7% of them. Limited by the fact that the number of football games is not fixed. (2/5) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic...
In class today, I used the statement “with 4 minutes to go and a 10-point lead, the probability the Giants will win is 96.9%” to illustrate the three interpretations of probability. (1/5)
Fall returns to the midlantic region
47th first day of school. About to preach the good news of the fundamental theorem of calculus to 200 students. Wish me luck!
September is the cruelest month.
Me today (but I fixed it using some of the same tips suggested upthread): bsky.app/profile/matt...
Yes, that's exactly what happened. I had tried it with "&..." as it literally appeared in the quoted post.
Thanks. I tried what you suggested and it sort of worked. It still provided an AI overview, but below a much better pre-AI result:
AI is making us dumb
Yesterday I wondered “What is hibernation called if it happens during the summer instead of the winter?” The answer is “estivation.” I hope all my academic friends have had a good one. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aestiva...
I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus
He’s saying now his military occupation of DC is so successful that crime has disappeared. In two weeks he will say it’s still an emergency so he has to maintain it
Trump is good at finding the weak points where laws require virtuous behavior and unraveling them. As long as SCOTUS maintains that only the president can say what’s an “emergency” or “cause” for firing, he’ll claim the right to do whatever he wants.
I know this is a fool’s errand, but I’m wondering what he means by this. People say “10 times less than” when they mean “1/10 of”. Is that what he thinks he is saying?
It gives you some shortcuts to nice formatting too. I gave in and am happy about the decision
But he told us where we stand!
If you use spreadsheets like databases, where every tab is a table, the first row has all the column names, and every row after the first is a record, then you’re mostly there. Google Tables allows you to put as many of those on a tab as you want. You get another way to reference data ranges too
Hard agree. But I wouldn’t consider MetLife Stadium and its environs as representative
From my Union County perspective, it seems that service on the Raritan Valley line has gotten slightly better but the Morris & Essex has gotten significantly worse in the past 10 years. Which surprises me since property values along the M&E are much higher.
I set up some GitHub workflows for my PreTeXt course today. I have a private repo that includes exercise solutions, a public one without them, and a workflow that copies the private one to the public one, stripping out solutions. Now I can deploy from the public repo without publishing solutions 🎉
Make a band food:
4 Naan Blondes
New PreTeXt feature: Handouts!
If you use guided notes in your teaching, or just want to make accessible versions of the printouts you bring to class, you can now author these in #PreTeXt and print directly from the browser (or save as PDF to annotate on a tablet).
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Corruption is a tax
