January 2012
3 posts
A new blog format
It’s 2012, and that means it’s time for another blog format change!
I’ve decided in more recent times to start eschewing cloud services in favor
of remote solutions more directly under my control. Moving this blog to a
new format and off of
Tumblr, is one small step. (The occasional server
problems at Tumblr and my need to tinker with things served to catalyze
this particular...
Carolyn Maloney parroting Elsevier lines →
Michael Eisen shows that Rep. Carolyn Maloney has entire sentences and phrases identical to blog comments written by an Elsevier VP for Global Corporate Relations:
The comments on my blog were clearly Reller – his writing was natural and engaged directly with what other people were saying, so I’m sure he wasn’t just spouting prepared text. There are only two viable explanations for how...
Pre-rigor to Rigor to Post-Rigor
I just read this blog post by Terrence Tao, in which he talks about the three stages of mathematical education — pre-rigor, rigor, and post-rigor:
It is of course vitally important that you know how to think rigorously, as this gives you the discipline to avoid many common errors and purge many misconceptions. Unfortunately, this has the unintended consequence that “fuzzier” or...