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Good Math, Bad Math


Academia vs Industry: an Updated Opinion

One thing that continually amazes me is the amount of email I get from readers of this blog asking for career advice. I usually try to just politely decline; I don't think I'm particularly...

Started in Good Math, Bad Math • 11 hours ago • 0 responses
Tags: chatter
Friday Random Ten, 12/18

Naftule's Dream, "Speed Klez": Naftule's Dream is a brilliant progressive klezmer band. I happen to love klezmer,but I think that anyone into jazzy prog rock would also enjoy them. They're...

Started in Good Math, Bad Math • 6 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: music
ID Garbage: CSI as Non-Computability

An alert reader pointed me at a recent post over at Uncommon Descent by a guy who calls himself "niwrad", which argues (among other things) that life is non-computable. In fact, it basically tries...

Started in Good Math, Bad Math • 1 week ago • 0 responses
Tags: intelligent design
Another Cantor Crank: Representation vs. Enumeration

I've been getting lots of mail from readers about a new article on Google's Knol about Cantor's diagonalization. I actually wrote about the authors argument once before about a year ago. But...

Started in Good Math, Bad Math • 3 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: bad math
What is math?

I've got a bunch of stuff queued up to be posted over the next couple of days. It's been the sort of week where I've gotten lots of interesting links from readers, but I haven't had time to finish...

Started in Good Math, Bad Math • 3 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: basics
Advanced Haskell Data Structures: Red-Black Trees

So, we've built up some pretty nifty binary trees - we can use the binary tree both as the basis of an implementation of a set, or as an implementation of a dictionary. But our implementation has...

Started in Good Math, Bad Math • 4 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: haskell
A Special Midweek Recipe: Ad-Libbed Cranberry Chutney

It's not saturday, but I've got a recipe that I needed to write down before I forget it, so you're getting an extra bonus. I usually make a simple cranberry relish for thanksgiving. But it...

Started in Good Math, Bad Math • 4 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: recipes
Creating User-Defined Types in Haskell

(This is an edited repost of one of the posts from the earlier version of my Haskell tutorial.) (This file is a literate haskell script. If you save it as a file whose name ends in...

Started in Good Math, Bad Math • 1 month ago • 0 responses
Tags: haskell
The Balance of Screening Tests

As you've no doubt heard by now, there's been a new recommendation issues which proposes changing the breast-cancer screening protocol for women under 50, by eliminating mammograms for women who...

Started in Good Math, Bad Math • 1 month ago • 0 responses
Tags: goodmath
Shameful Innumeracy in the New York Times

I've been writing this blog for a long time - nearly four years. You'd think that after all of the bad math I've written about, I must have reached the point where I wouldn't be surprised at the...

Started in Good Math, Bad Math • 1 month ago • 0 responses
Tags: bad statistics
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