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Friday, May 11, 2018

Friday may be money-laundering day at the White House, but at MathTango it’s math-potpourri day.

(…when I can find time I’ll explain a few changes I’m making to the Friday potpourri):

1) Possibly a good thread for teachers to contemplate:

2) Somewhat related, a few, brief teaching “meta-lessons” from Kalid Azad:

3) Some tidbits from John Cook this week:

“Robust Statistics”:

…applications of “Benford’s Law”:

4) Not sure exactly why I find palindromic numbers interesting but I do, and Gary Davis has been referencing them lately:

…also, this OEIS entry:

5) “Robinson Tiles”… some quirkiness from Futility Closet:

6) Just a little Elon Musk commentary from a statistician… I’m constantly amazed by both Musk’s performance(s) and the opposing viewpoints of him:

7) ICYMI, my post last weekend that Patrick Honner later pointed out to me was especially appropriate for this official Teacher Appreciation Week:

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

1) Errol Morris, Hilary Putnam, Noam Chomsky, Thomas Kuhn… interesting piece for the philosophically-inclined:

2) The still-interesting-at-94 Freeman Dyson, via John Horgan:

…while I’m at it, many tributes to Feynman this week of his 100th birthday (here are 2):
From Tom Siegfried:

3) Finally, h/t to Derren Brown for passing this incredible bit along:

And this fellow has a YouTube channel here:

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