Random recent posts
A random selection of recent posts from around the mathematical blogosphere.
- Mean distance to the sunJohn D. Cook
- The improvement in political analysis in the past 25 years, as demonstrated by excellent demonstrations of statistical workflow from Elliott Morris, Nate Silver, and Eli Mckown-DawsonStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Fractional rings of tangent spheres11011110
- Three Generations in E7The n-Category Café
- Frequentism for Bayesians: He wants to teach frequentist methods to engineering students with a strong Bayesian backgroundStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- “How Can America Be So Miserable When It’s So Rich?”Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Η παγίδα των απολύσεων λόγω AI (The AI Layoff Trap)Μαθη...μαγικά
- On This Day in Math - August 16Pat'sBlog
- Fabian Franklin's Beautiful Proof of the Pentagonal TheoremPat'sBlog
- On This Day in Math - August 15Pat'sBlog
- Watch: Fields Medalist Terence Tao on Artificial Intelligence and Why We Do MathSimons Foundation
- Lots of detail on the continuing “Q collar” scandal and why we should probably be doing more coverage of that sort of science-adjacent medical scams and less on repulsively self-promoting but ultimately less harmful academic grifters.Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- LLMs are not nothing.West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
- Oughtred vs. Delamain – a dispute over teaching methods and who invented the circular slide rule.The Renaissance Mathematicus
- Bayesian computation meeting in France in May, 2027Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Exam Results 2026Mathematics, Learning and Technology
- Not another Cushing post, but Cushing-relevantWest Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
- Information = Comprehension × Extension • Comment 5Inquiry Into Inquiry
- Learning from historical mistakesJohn D. Cook
- Math Concepts With Funny NamesComputational Complexity
- DNA and Bessel functionsJohn D. Cook
- “Sane-washing”Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Alternative Fields Medal, awarded August 2026Joel David Hamkins
- Snapshots from ICM2026Combinatorics and more
- When we went to Mexico City (Part 1)JD2718
- this time i’m really gonna do itThales’ circles
- From the series “Somnium” by Laurent Millet (2014) Laurent Millet (b 1968) is a French artist, who…Thales’ circles
- Carnival of Maths 253The Aperiodical
- “In that era, undergrad males at Madison and elsewhere, had to take ROTC classes, and he kept intentionally failing them because he was very leftwing politically.”Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- One of the great things about living in the 2020s is all of the fascinating ethical problems to discussWest Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
- Information = Comprehension × Extension • Comment 1Inquiry Into Inquiry