April 2009
24 posts
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On products of harmonic forms →
D. Kotschick
indefensible: When I hear an atheist complain about discrimination, I picture Carl Lewis writing an angry letter about how he can’t enter the Paralympics.
johnroderick: It used to be you could only recycle glass, paper, and cans. Now I hardly use my garbage for anything, except asbestos and mercury iodide.
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The Hardy-Littlewood Axioms of Collaboration →
The four rules of one of the most famous mathematical collaborations in history.
Why would you draft a running back when you’ve already signed two this offseason and your defense is atrocious?
AinsleyofAttack: Going out to lunch with my terminally ill mother and my ex-girlfriend. I’m assuming that my gynecologist already had plans for Awkward Day.
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The Biot-Savart operator and electrodynamics on... →
Jason Parsley
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Invisibility and inverse problems →
Allan Greenleaf, Yaroslav Kurylev, Matti Lassas, Gunther Uhlmann
Full-Wave Invisibility of Active Devices at All... →
Allan Greenleaf, Yaroslav Kurylev, Matti Lassas and Gunther Uhlmann
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Maxwell's equations with a polarization... →
Yaroslav Kurylev, Matti Lassas and Erkki Somersalo
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Characterization of Finite Type String Link... →
Jean-Baptiste Meilhan, Akira Yasuhara
hotdogsladies: I have to disagree.
On the web, nothing but ragged-right is ever fully justified.
Anything else makes me feel uncentered.
scottsimpson: Although they have the same physical properties as the female version, manboobs retain almost none of the sexiness. Almost.
Note to self: driving to Long Island is apparently a popular Friday-afternoon activity.
lonelysandwich: Slovenly! THAT’S the word I’ve been trying to look like all day.
colbycosh: NP hed: “High rent, low income driving homelessness: researcher”. Hey guys, set aside some wood type for me, I’m on a big “Water wet” story.
Oh, hello, job application stress. You were temporarily displaced by thesis-finishing stress, but I see you’re back in full force.
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Recently read: Experiences in Translation, by Umberto Eco
This is a compilation of a series of lectures on “Text and Translation” that Eco gave at the University of Toronto. The first half mostly relates some of his experiences, both as a translator and as an author whose books have been translated into lots of languages, while the second half is a theoretical explanation of what...
It only took me 24 hours to come up with a clever response to someone (correctly) pointing out that a question I asked yesterday was stupid.
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robertghrist: at the math gym — doing curls. and divs. and grads.
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Why is mathematics useful? →
Rob Ghrist gives a 60-second lecture (transcript).
You know those pompous jerks who make you call them Doctor So-and-so? That’s now an option for me. Please shoot me if I ever take it.
