Potpourri

While the Colluder-In-Chief tries to consolidate his fiefdom and schedule parades, I consolidated some math offerings:

1)  Yet another profile of mathematician/hedge fund manager Jim Simons:

https://blogs.ams.org/mathgradblog/2018/02/03/incomplete-jim-simons-matters/

2)  Do Google searches predict Bitcoin prices?:

https://cryptocurrencynews.com/bitcoin/google-search-bitcoin-decline/

3)  Patrick Honner back in Quanta Magazine (on vaccines):

https://www.quantamagazine.org/flu-vaccines-and-the-math-of-herd-immunity-20180205/

4)  Did you miss e Day?… Ben Orlin celebrated!:

https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018/02/05/the-abc-book-of-e/

(if you missed it, it will come around again in Europe later this year)

…and of course Evelyn Lamb will never miss any mathy-excuse to celebrate either:

https://blogs.ams.org/blogonmathblogs/2018/02/06/how-to-have-an-excellent-e-day/

5)  Statistics crash course:

http://flowingdata.com/2018/02/05/statistics-crash-course/

6)  Tanya Khovanova asks… and answers “Why?”:

https://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/2018/02/why/

7)  More of Keith Devlin on math education and math application:

http://devlinsangle.blogspot.com/2018/02/how-todays-pros-solve-math-problems.html

8)  Videos from the San Diego Joint Math Meetings in January have now been posted:

https://vimeopro.com/vcubeinc/jmm2018

9)  hmmm... flipped classrooms... how about flipped conferences (goes beyond just math conferences):
https://twitter.com/RuthLevine5/status/960823072306712576

10)  And a little bit of math weirdness from Futility Closet:
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2018/02/08/math-notes-118/

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

1)  The latest, and last, ‘annual question’ from John Brockman’s “Edge”:

https://www.edge.org/the-edge-question—2018

2)  will end with yet another guitar rendition of Pachelbel Canon (…before an Executive Order gets issued commanding that we all listen to Wagner):