cosmopolitanism
Via Amardeep Singh, an article in the NY Times by Kwame Anthony Appiah on cosmopolitanism. His argument (and it’s a good one) is that movements to “preserve traditional culture” are misguided: Talk of...
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Games People Don’t Play Peter Winkler Puzzlers’ Tribute, David Wolfe and Tom Rodgers, eds., A K Peters Ltd. (2001) This is a short note on 4 little games that people don’t really play. Some are...
View Articletwo thoughts for one so dear
sūryaṃ cakṣurgachatu vātamātmā dyāṃ ca gachapṛthivīṃ ca dharmaṇā | apo vā gacha yadi tatra te hitamoṣadhīṣu prati tiṣṭhā śarīraiḥ || (Rg Veda X.16.3) na jāyate mriyate vā kadācin nāyaṃ bhūtvā bhavitā...
View Articlepaper a day : pseudodifferential operators for wireless communications
It should really be “paper every two weeks” or something — mostly it’s laziness in the blogging half of the reading a paper a day rather than the reading part. This one was pretty heavy going though....
View Articleall your mh2k6 are belong to us
Things have kicked into high gear for MH2K6. As I’ve remarked before, this is one annual event that reminds me what is possible when you put your mind to it. Pathological? Yes. But also wicked fun.
View Articlecambridge and coffee
I spent the morning reading and working in the 1369 Coffeehouse in Central Square. It was like the good old days except that this time I had a laptop. Perhaps it’s just me being wistful and...
View Articlepaper a day : exponential error bounds for AVCs
Exponential Error Bounds for Random Codes in the Arbitrarily Varying Channel Thomas Ericson IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 31(1) : 42–48 I really wish I had read this paper fully before...
View Articleblogging is a virus, it seems
And the latest victim is Apurva. You would be hard-pressed to find a more congenial and literate individual.
View Articlecontradiction injunction
I came across the following in Royden’s Real Analysis: All students are enjoined in the strongest possible terms to eschew proofs by contradiction! There are two reasons for this prohibition : First,...
View Articlemore singing
I just signed up to sing a concert with Paul Flight (venue TBA): Mozart – Misericordias Domini Haydn – Salve Regina Haydn – Six Partsongs Beethoven – Elegy Gasparini – Adoramus Te With the Babi Yar...
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