Friday, January 5, 2018

Potpourri getting 2018 underway


While Steve Bannon & Donny Trump were debating over just where to have a duel at 20 paces, while reverting America back to the 18th century, I was composing this week’s math potpourri:

1)  A “Journey From Frequentist to Bayesian Statistics” via Frank Harrell:

2)  Another observation from John Baez (and commenters):

3)  The latest from “Mathematics Rising” on probabilities, the brain, and perception:

4)  Evelyn Lamb’s January “TinyLetter” is out with a lot of varied material:
I’ll probably keep citing Dr. Lamb’s monthly newsletter in the “potpourris” BUT don’t rely on me; subscribe to it for your own email, if you haven’t already:

5)  “The Intrepid Mathematician” briefly tackles the Continuum Hypothesis:

6)  A new “Carnival of Mathematics” is up here:

7)  I s'pose if you wanted to impress some folks with your cognitive skills you could commit the latest-discovered prime number to memory:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jan/04/largest-prime-number-discovered-with-more-than-23m-digits

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

1)  2017 ended with this viral tweet & comments… that was worth the wait (I never even managed to get to the end of the comments):

2)  ...and, just a lovely way to begin a new year ...though I suspect the year may rapidly go downhill from here :(((




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