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Blake Stacey is a physics boffin and science-fiction writer who wandered the Earth and eventually settled in the nation-state of Denial.

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Overheard on the Way to Coffee This Morning

Category: Mathematics

Q. Given two probability distribution functions, what is the Kolmogorov–Smirnoff test for comparing them? A. How many shots of vodka you have to take for them to look alike....

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Book Giveaway: The Monty Hall Problem

Category: Bibliophilia

I just noticed on my blag sidebar that the ScienceBorg Collective is offering ten free copies of Jason Rosenhouse's much-lauded book, The Monty Hall Problem (2009). Ten winners will be chosen, one each day for ten days, and the urn...

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Behind One Door Is an Award. . . .

Category: Bibliophilia

Huzzahs are in order for SciBling Jason Rosenhouse, whose entertaining and informative book The Monty Hall Problem: The Remarkable Story of Math's Most Contentious Brainteaser (2009) made Amazon.com's annual list of the ten best science books. Not bad for a...

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ScienceOnlineAgain 2010

Category: Popularization

Happy news: ScienceOnline2010, the fourth annual conference on science and the Web, will be held on January 15-17th, 2010 in the Research Triangle Park area (the exact location to be announced). Please join us for this three-day event to explore...

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How We (Don't) Write Mathematics on the Web

Category: Software

I often joke that the technology for typesetting equations on the Web is of all-consuming interest to about twelve people. This is, of course, the kind of joke I make out of bitterness: it's a joyous day indeed when I...

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Not the Raptor Post I Was Expecting to Write

Today's xkcd was insufficiently nerdy for me. Yes, that's right. In order to make the comic adequately reflect what I do on a daily basis, I have at least to modify the temperature conversion chart:...

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Prealgebra/Algebra I Bingo

Category: Mathematics

How does one make grading papers a survivable ordeal? Why, the same way one handles a "scientific" talk by a creationist: by playing Bingo, of course. From 3σ → Left: (Click to embiggen.)...

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Anti-Nostalgia

Category: Mathematics

America's Finest News Source reminds me of how atypical a student I really was: In addition to its poor timing, students expressed outrage Friday over the length of the math assignment, which some estimated would take fucking forever to complete,...

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A Victory of Dubious Merit

In keeping with my "too busy procrastinating to be anything other than frivolous" theme:...

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Cinematic Combinatorics

The ups and downs of trilogies.

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