Random recent posts
A random selection of recent posts from around the mathematical blogosphere.
- New paper: Brauer groups of resolved quiver moduli via gerbesPieter Belmans
- Task Design for Achieving Implicitly Stated GoalsMegan Hayes-Golding
- NRL Predictions for Round 19Stats Chat
- AFL Predictions for Week 19Stats Chat
- AI doomsters and Dial F for FrankensteinWest Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
- This is such a delightful opening paragraph for a paper.Thales’ circles
- Sea DragonThales’ circles
- Does additional data always reduce posterior variance?John D. Cook
- Spectral integrals and a first taste of functional calculusOpen System – Ark's blog
- Algebra Problems of the Day (Algebra Regents, June 2026 Parts III and IV)(x, why?)
- UtopiaImpossible world site blog
- “It really seems like anyone with some renders and a white paper written by someone being gassed up by an overly agreeable AI can get VC funding these days,”West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
- Aperiodical News Roundup – June 2026The Aperiodical
- Who you gonna believe: Grok or the docs?John D. Cook
- The Anthropic Principle in Statistics and Science (my talk this Mon 29 June, 4:20pm London time)Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- End of term…Mathematics, Learning and Technology
- Bayesian Workflow exists as a physical book!Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Writing down harmonic numbersJohn D. Cook
- Supplement that alphabetized display with another graph showing the states in a more informative order.Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- How Tall Is The Man PuzzleMind Your Decisions
- Algebra Problems of the Day (Algebra Regents, January 2026 Parts III and IV)(x, why?)
- Getting justice can require a lot of effort, and usually at some point we’ll just give up, which is what the cheaters rely on.Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Consecutive Pythagorean triangle sidesJohn D. Cook
- NBC Blue was known for playing the uncensored version of Fibber McGee and Molly*West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
- “Howard Lutnick gives top Cantor Fitzgerald jobs to his sons Brandon and Kyle” is a very clean example of meritocracy.Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Survey Statistics: perfect collinearity in the sample but not in the populationStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Letter From the PresidentSimons Foundation
- Mathematicians and String Theorists Push Each Other’s Fields ForwardSimons Foundation
- My response to the White House executive order on QCShtetl-Optimized
- AFL Predictions for Week 17Stats Chat
- Golems, auditors, and AIStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science