I started this blog in September 2007 shortly after I began my current post-doctoral appointment. I wanted an outlet for research-related writing that lies somewhere between my notebooks and published papers.
That means you will find expositions, book reviews, commentary on conferences, lists, and the odd bit of self-promotion.
If you are looking for a place to dive in, you could start with my most popular posts. These are:
Gun Deaths vs. Gun Ownership – Looking at some data on gun-related deaths and gun ownership worldwide in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting.
Behold! Jensen’s Inequality – Unsatisfied with the very algebraic and formal proofs of Jensen’s inequality, I present a diagram that gives a graphical intuition for the result.
Warning! High Dimensions Ahead – A very counter-intuitive result that highlights the danger of reasoning about higher dimensional space by analogy with lower dimensional ones.
Prediction and the Axiom of Choice – Some thoughts on Hardin and Taylor’s paper “A Peculiar Connection Between the Axiom of Choice and Predicting the Future”
The Mathematical Grue – Doing mathematics sometimes feels like playing a piece of interactive fiction.
The posts in the blog are written in a hybrid of Markdown (for text) and LaTeX (for equations) and converted into HTML by Pandoc as part of the Hakyll engine.
My entire site is managed this way and there are more details about the design and technology I use at the main site’s colophon.
Unless specified otherwise, all design and content within this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.