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Monthly Archives: May 2015
Talk Like a Local: How to Speak Roman Dialect
Originally posted on Unofficial Guide to Rome:
? Many people don’t know that there are many, many ways to speak Italian (just as a unified “Italian cuisine” doesn’t actually exist). I’m not talking about slight variations in slang and accent, like the…
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The Business of Being Rush Limbaugh
After news broke about the Rush Limbaugh Show getting kicked to the curb by WRKO-AM in Boston, Nielsen radio market #10, I received about a dozen emails asking when I was going to comment. So, here goes. First, understand the…
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Critical Perspectives on Waluigi
Originally posted on The Empty Page:
Nintendo have declared 2013 to be the year of Luigi – “Super” Mario’s taller, greener brother. What better time then to take a critical gaze at this most ignored of computer game characters. Often…
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The Nature of Modern Finance
Originally posted on The Baseline Scenario:
Is modern finance more like electricity or junk food? This is, of course, the big question of the day. If most of finance as currently organized is a form of electricity, then we obviously…
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Wise Words: Didion’s Commencement Address at UC Riverside in 1975
Originally posted on JoanDidion:
In a commencement address at the University of California, Riverside, in 1975, Didion offered a general imperative that still illuminates her own disposition, even in the darkest times: “I’m not telling you to make the…
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Location of Vim Syntax files for different programming languages
Originally posted on Programming in Linux:
If you use Vim for programming, you find that by default based on the type of the file, Vim enables syntax highlighting. That is if your file name is myfile.c or myfile.C, Vim enables…
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The Unit and Counit of an Adjunction
Originally posted on The Unapologetic Mathematician:
Let’s say we have an adjunction . That is, functors and and a natural isomorphism . Last time I drew an analogy between equivalences and adjunctions. In the case of an equivalence, we have…
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Do We Need Mysticism In Theory?
Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP Boris Spassky is the oldest living world chess champion. He held the title 1969 to 1972, until famously losing to Bobby Fischer in the Match of the Century. Watching the game from the US was … Continue reading
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Root Systems
Originally posted on The Unapologetic Mathematician:
Okay, now to lay out the actual objects of our current interest. These are basically collections of vectors in some inner product space , but with each vector comes a reflection and we want…
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Human Mathematics 