Category Archives: meta

Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modeling and Design

Posted on May 13, 2013 by

Wearing my PhD-student hat, I’m helping organize a workshop, FARM, to be held in Boston this September. I thought it worth mentioning since some readers of this blog—especially those interested in the intersection of math, art, and programming—may find it … Continue reading →

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What I Do: Part 0

Posted on October 4, 2012 by

This is the first in a planned series of posts explaining what I do in my “day job” as a computer science PhD student. The idea is to write a series of posts of increasing specificity, but all aimed at … Continue reading →

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How to explain the principle of inclusion-exclusion?

Posted on June 11, 2012 by

I’ve been remiss in finishing my series of posts on a combinatorial proof. I still intend to, but I must confess that part of the reason I haven’t written for a while is that I’m sort of stuck. The next … Continue reading →

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Carnival of Mathematics submissions due in a week

I’ll be hosting the Carnival of Mathematics, and the submission deadline is coming up soon—Tuesday, May 1. Please submit something! It could be something you wrote, or something someone else wrote that you enjoyed. All mathematics ranging from elementary to … Continue reading →

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New Carnival of Mathematics

Posted on April 5, 2012 by

The Carnival of Mathematics has been revived! A big thanks to Mike Croucher of Walking Randomly for organizing it for the past few years, and to Katie Steckles, Christian Perfect, and Peter Rowlett for taking over. The latest edition, carnival … Continue reading →

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Four-figure offer

Posted on December 1, 2011 by

This just arrived in my inbox: My name is Becky Raymond, I’m a Domain Brokerage Consultant working on behalf of the owner of traveled.com to sell this premium asset. While searching online I came across your domain mathlesstraveled.com; since both … Continue reading →

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Old posts fixed

Posted on November 19, 2011 by

When I moved this blog from my own custom WordPress installation to wordpress.com last March, the formatting, , and images on a number of old posts got screwed up. I have finally finished going back through all my old posts … Continue reading →

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Collatz conjecture: an apology

Posted on June 7, 2011 by

In the comments on my previous post about Gerhard Opfer’s proposed proof of the Collatz conjecture, several different people expressed the opinion that my tone was rather arrogant, and I think they have a point. So: I apologize for my … Continue reading →

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Moved to wordpress.com

Posted on March 20, 2011 by

I spoke too soon before — over the past several weeks I’ve continued to have problems with my hosting, so I finally bit the bullet and transferred everything to wordpress.com (the URL of my blog is the same as before … Continue reading →

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My blog is back (hooray!) and a quick puzzle

Posted on February 22, 2011 by

My blog is finally back up after a long hiatus due to hosting problems (not the first time). I’m seriously contemplating moving somewhere more reliable, but it’s hard to come up with a solution that would not (a) invalidate any … Continue reading →

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