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Getting back to work
After a month of lock downs and self-isolation, many people are eager to get back to normal life. This is not just about the emotions,...
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A word about the novel coronavirus...
So today my school and the Claremont Colleges in general decided to move courses online for the rest of the semester. This has led some...
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Coding as a fundamental skill
I was reading a perspective that views the effort to teach kids coding as a "fetishization" of the subject. Naturally, I disagree....
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Why Calculus?
Sometimes people ask me, why should students study Calculus? Today I saw this figure in a major magazine. Now, the law of diminishing...
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Data science as a liberal art
I was asked recently to write a few paragraphs about how I feel data science as a liberal art, being as I am teaching Foundations of Data...
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Tau: you spin me right round
Okay, so there still seems to be some confusion about Tau versus Pi. Tau is the full circle constant, and represents 360 degrees, so one...
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Calculus on Schoolhouse Rock
I discovered quite by accident while watching the Schoolhouse Rock video on adjectives that the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus is used...
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Give a better interview over Skype
Things I wish graduate advisors had told their students about doing Skype interviews. Do *not* sit in front of a window, door, or any...
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Galadriel and the Ring
Las Vegas is definitely what would have happened to Middle-Earth if Galadriel had taken the ring.
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Mathematics and the Bard
I never knew until now that there is some mathematics in Shakespeare's "As you like it" Celia: Yes; I think he is not a pick-purse nor a ...