In the fall of 1992, my senior year of college, I took a seminar on Social Psychology of Language with Roger Brown. (Roger Brown the psychologist, not Roger Brown the painter, one of my very favori…
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Tomorrow is Memorial Day. William James, in 1897, dedicating the monument to Col. Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th regiment, a monument which still stands in Boston Common today: “And when Sout…
It was felt that the 1894 exposition in Chicago needed a big iron monument to rival the Eiffel Tower, and a man named George Washington Gale Ferris had the decisive insight that what the occasion d…
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These are the notes from the recent Bourbaki seminar I gave about just some of the remarkable work people have done around the Cohen-Lenstra conjectures in the past few years. I have to submit the …
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Twenty years ago this week (I thought it was twenty years ago today, but I just went back and checked and it was April 3, 2006) I fell down a flight of stairs at MSRI and broke the absolute fuck ou…
I was in Boston for Pesach and stuck around an extra day because some more Wisconsinites, the mighty Milwaukee Brewers, were also coming into town to play the Boston nine. CJ and I took in the game…
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“The High School Boy and His Problems” (pdf at link) is a 1921 book by Thomas Arkle Clark, Dean of Men at the University of Illinois. I think “The High School Boy and His Problems…
“Let’s hazard an assertion: On or about June 2007, human character changed. To be more exact—because the phrase human character now feels antique—we might say instead that the human sensorium…
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A well-thought-out statement. One thing I like about it is that it is not in any way anti-AI; the declaration merely says that, as with any other piece of technology, we should use it in ways that …
While we ate our pizza I was talking with AB about differential equations, which they’re about to start doing in calculus. We talked about y’=y. “This is why populations grow expo…
