1) If math is your thing, should you become a data scientist?:
2) “Are we killing students' love of math” (h/t Earl Samuelson):
3) Constructor theory and Newcomb’s Paradox, via David Deutsch:
4) Fun interview with Eugenia Cheng in the Guardian (including promotion of her latest book, “Beyond Infinity”):
5) Joselle Kehoe looks at renewed interest in bootstrapping in physics:
6) Cathy O’Neil on when less is more, with Big Data:
7) James Tanton on “Exclusionary Math”:
8) Mike Lawler points to “pension accounting” (and this article), as “the most important public math issue by miles and miles”:
9) I’ve referenced the latest poker-playing AI bots (and successes) before, and now this interesting follow-up report on these human-beating machines. Two separate algorithmic programs have now handily defeated human professionals, and might even take on each other:
10) A little statistics/causality thinking from Dilbert:
11) ICYMI, last weekend I chatted with Dr. Francis Su:
12) If it's math and in Quanta, you know it'll be good! This time from Kevin Hartnett (on class numbers):
13) Well, this looks charming (but then it had me from the very initial Cat Stevens music)! [h/t to Jim Propp for pointing it out]:
Potpourri BONUS! (extra NON-mathematical links of interest):
1) A physicist questioning dark matter:
2) Feel like I become a bigger fan of Brian Hayes, in some asymptotic way ;) with each new piece he writes. And now he’s off on a new writing venture:
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