Potpourri

Three indictments down, and what... maybe at least another 8 to go? 

Anyway, some math from the week:

1)  Gelman re-focuses on quality control in statistics:

http://andrewgelman.com/2017/10/29/quality-control-rather-hypothesis-testing-inference-discovery-better-metaphor-statistical-processes-science/

2)  Nice piece on Karl Weierstrass’ monster from Nautilus:

http://nautil.us/issue/53/monsters/maths-beautiful-monsters-rp

3)  Fascinating Quanta piece on “The Atomic Theory of Origami”:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-atomic-theory-of-origami-20171031/

4)  “Mathematics Rising” looks at meaning and mathematics:

http://mathrising.com/?p=1531

5)  Bill Briggs on replacing p-values:

http://wmbriggs.com/post/23048/

6)  A wee bit of stock market/finance math for you:

https://www.statschat.org.nz/2017/10/30/past-results-do-not-imply-future-performance/

7)  Evelyn Lamb’s “TinyLetter,” covering her doings for the month of October, is now out (hopefully by now most of you are receiving it in your email box each month):

https://tinyletter.com/evelynjlamb/letters/stuff-evelyn-wants-you-to-read-10

8)  In case you’re not already aware of it, Vi Hart has begun a Patreon crowdfunding effort for her work:

https://www.patreon.com/vihart

Potpourri BONUS! (extra NON-mathematical links of interest): 

1)  Intriguing piece on the linguistic evolution of words from the always-interesting Ed Yong:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/11/drove-not-drived/544595/

2)  OK, along with the hysterical comments, surely my favorite tweet of the week:

https://twitter.com/KaleighRogers/status/925405353143136256