I've gotten complaints from a bunch of commenters about problems with comments getting thrown into the moderation queue by the spam filter. Things with too many links, or with certain text properties, were getting caught even though they are clearly not spam.
In order to get around this, I've re-enable typekey authentication. You don't have to login via typekey to post comments - it's entirely voluntary. But you're welcome to if you want, and if you do, your posts will be almost guaranteed to get posted without being pushed into the mod queue. (If you write a post containing links to viagra-selling websites, you'll still get trapped by the spamfilter. But anything less egregious than that should go right through.
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I don't see the TypeKey link. Isn't it supposed to appear under "Post a Comment"?
Aha, now it shows up (on a different computer). Either it was just re-enabled, or I've got my Adblock settings really screwed up.
OK, testing out this TypeKey thing. Hmmm, what's a highly link-laden yet legitimate comment I can post? Aha! My hypothetical table of contents for Good Math, Bad Math the book:
Introduction
Probability and Innumeracy
1. Mean, Median and Mode
2. Normal Distributions
3. Standard Deviation
4. Margin of Error
5. Messing with Big Numbers
6. Bayes' Theorem
7. Election Fraud?
8. HIV/AIDS Denialism
9. PEAR: The Bad Math of Paranormal Research
10. Religious Bayesians (see here, here and here, for example)
Numbers and Numerals
1. Roman Numerals and Arithmetic
2.Pi and e
3. Irrational and Transcendental Numbers
4. Complex Numbers
5. Quaternions
6. Surreal Numbers
Manual Math
1. Arithmetic on the Abacus
2. Using Slide Rules
3. Finger Math
Computation
1. Turing Machines
2. The Halting Problem
3. The Minsky Machine
4. Conway's Game of Life
5. Wireworld
6. Busy Beavers
7. P and NP
8. Probabilistic Complexity
9. Quantum Computation Complexity
10. Lambda Calculus
11. The Genius of Alonzo Church
12. Why oh Why Y?
13. Programs are Proofs
Information Theory
1. Shannon Entropy
2. Kolmogorov and Chaitin
Bad Math of Creationism
1. Cheating with Chance
2. Probability and Fine-Tuning
3. Finding a Free Lunch
4. The Problem with Irreducible Complexity
5. Peer-Reviewed Bad ID Math
6. The Information Channel
Category Theory
1. A First Glance
2. Diagrams
3. Basic Examples
4. Functors
5. Natural Transformations and Structure
6. Initial Objects and Products
7. Products, Exponentials and Closed Categories
8. Categories and SubThings
9. Arrow Equalities and Pullbacks
10. Using Natural Transformations
11. Yoneda's Lemma
12. Monads and Programming Languages
13. Sequent Calculus
14. Linear Logic
15. Monoidal Categories
16. Category Structure for Linear Logic
17. Categorical Numbers
18.Categorical Surreals (not written yet, but see here)
19.From Lambda Calculus to Cartesian Closed Categories
Topology
1. Introducing Topology
2. Metric Spaces
3. Topological Spaces
4. Continuity
5. Topological Equivalence and Homeomorphisms
6. Shapes, Boundaries and Interiors
7. Topological Subspaces
8. Topological Products
9. Categories to the Rescue
10. Connectedness
11. Connected Topologies and Fixed Points
12. Meet the Manifolds
13. Manifolds and Glue
14. Building Manifolds with Products
15. Dimensions and Topology
16. Building Interesting Shapes by Gluing
17. Groups and Topology
18. Fundamental Groups
19. Groupoids and Strange Definitions
20. Topological Properties through Sheaves
21. Stepping Back a Moment
22. Examples of Sheaves
OK, testing out this TypeKey thing. Hmmm, what's a highly link-laden yet legitimate comment I can post? Aha! My hypothetical table of contents for Good Math, Bad Math the book:
Introduction
Probability and Innumeracy
1. Mean, Median and Mode
2. Normal Distributions
3. Standard Deviation
4. Margin of Error
5. Messing with Big Numbers
6. Bayes' Theorem
7. Election Fraud?
8. HIV/AIDS Denialism
9. PEAR: The Bad Math of Paranormal Research
10. Religious Bayesians (see here, here and here, for example)
Numbers and Numerals
1. Roman Numerals and Arithmetic
2.Pi and e
3. Irrational and Transcendental Numbers
4. Complex Numbers
5. Quaternions
6. Surreal Numbers
Manual Math
1. Arithmetic on the Abacus
2. Using Slide Rules
3. Finger Math
Computation
1. Turing Machines
2. The Halting Problem
3. The Minsky Machine
4. Conway's Game of Life
5. Wireworld
6. Busy Beavers
7. P and NP
8. Probabilistic Complexity
9. Quantum Computation Complexity
10. Lambda Calculus
11. The Genius of Alonzo Church
12. Why oh Why Y?
13. Programs are Proofs
Information Theory
1. Shannon Entropy
2. Kolmogorov and Chaitin
Bad Math of Creationism
1. Cheating with Chance
2. Probability and Fine-Tuning
3. Finding a Free Lunch
4. The Problem with Irreducible Complexity
5. Peer-Reviewed Bad ID Math
6. The Information Channel
Category Theory
1. A First Glance
2. Diagrams
3. Basic Examples
4. Functors
5. Natural Transformations and Structure
6. Initial Objects and Products
7. Products, Exponentials and Closed Categories
8. Categories and SubThings
9. Arrow Equalities and Pullbacks
10. Using Natural Transformations
11. Yoneda's Lemma
12. Monads and Programming Languages
13. Sequent Calculus
14. Linear Logic
15. Monoidal Categories
16. Category Structure for Linear Logic
17. Categorical Numbers
18.Categorical Surreals (not written yet, but see here)
19.From Lambda Calculus to Cartesian Closed Categories
Topology
1. Introducing Topology
2. Metric Spaces
3. Topological Spaces
4. Continuity
5. Topological Equivalence and Homeomorphisms
6. Shapes, Boundaries and Interiors
7. Topological Subspaces
8. Topological Products
9. Categories to the Rescue
10. Connectedness
11. Connected Topologies and Fixed Points
12. Meet the Manifolds
13. Manifolds and Glue
14. Building Manifolds with Products
15. Dimensions and Topology
16. Building Interesting Shapes by Gluing
17. Groups and Topology
18. Fundamental Groups
19. Groupoids and Strange Definitions
20. Topological Properties through Sheaves
21. Stepping Back a Moment
22. Examples of Sheaves
TypeKey managed to sign me out before I could post this, so an extra copy will be lurking in the spam queue.
OK, testing out this TypeKey thing. Hmmm, what's a highly link-laden yet legitimate comment I can post? Aha! My hypothetical table of contents for Good Math, Bad Math the book:
Introduction
Probability and Innumeracy
1. Mean, Median and Mode
2. Normal Distributions
3. Standard Deviation
4. Margin of Error
5. Messing with Big Numbers
6. Bayes' Theorem
7. Election Fraud?
8. HIV/AIDS Denialism
9. PEAR: The Bad Math of Paranormal Research
10. Religious Bayesians (see here, here and here, for example)
Numbers and Numerals
1. Roman Numerals and Arithmetic
2.Pi and e
3. Irrational and Transcendental Numbers
4. Complex Numbers
5. Quaternions
6. Surreal Numbers
Manual Math
1. Arithmetic on the Abacus
2. Using Slide Rules
3. Finger Math
Computation
1. Turing Machines
2. The Halting Problem
3. The Minsky Machine
4. Conway's Game of Life
5. Wireworld
6. Busy Beavers
7. P and NP
8. Probabilistic Complexity
9. Quantum Computation Complexity
10. Lambda Calculus
11. The Genius of Alonzo Church
12. Why oh Why Y?
13. Programs are Proofs
Information Theory
1. Shannon Entropy
2. Kolmogorov and Chaitin
Bad Math of Creationism
1. Cheating with Chance
2. Probability and Fine-Tuning
3. Finding a Free Lunch
4. The Problem with Irreducible Complexity
5. Peer-Reviewed Bad ID Math
6. The Information Channel
Category Theory
1. A First Glance
2. Diagrams
3. Basic Examples
4. Functors
5. Natural Transformations and Structure
6. Initial Objects and Products
7. Products, Exponentials and Closed Categories
8. Categories and SubThings
9. Arrow Equalities and Pullbacks
10. Using Natural Transformations
11. Yoneda's Lemma
12. Monads and Programming Languages
13. Sequent Calculus
14. Linear Logic
15. Monoidal Categories
16. Category Structure for Linear Logic
17. Categorical Numbers
18.Categorical Surreals (not written yet, but see here)
19.From Lambda Calculus to Cartesian Closed Categories
Topology
1. Introducing Topology
2. Metric Spaces
3. Topological Spaces
4. Continuity
5. Topological Equivalence and Homeomorphisms
6. Shapes, Boundaries and Interiors
7. Topological Subspaces
8. Topological Products
9. Categories to the Rescue
10. Connectedness
11. Connected Topologies and Fixed Points
12. Meet the Manifolds
13. Manifolds and Glue
14. Building Manifolds with Products
15. Dimensions and Topology
16. Building Interesting Shapes by Gluing
17. Groups and Topology
18. Fundamental Groups
19. Groupoids and Strange Definitions
20. Topological Properties through Sheaves
21. Stepping Back a Moment
22. Examples of Sheaves
Well, now I feel really bad. My heroic struggle with TypeKey left three almost-identical messages when I had hoped to post only one; I'm not quite sure how that happened.
Furthermore, while it says "Thanks for signing in, Blake Stacey" above the comment box, my messages appear signed by "Anonymous". Grrrr.
While there is a meta thread here, is there some way of getting a page with a longer list of recent comments? Even with checking this blog once a day the list still flushes off the end from the comments in the more inflammatory bad math threads, which I usually skip. So I end up checking the smaller good math threads by hand, usually with nothing new in most of them.