Monday morning: Bay Area. Tuesday: Ann Arbor. Wednesday: DC. Thursday: gave a talk. Friday afternoon: Back in Ann Arbor ( Read more... )

I am having a really hard time understanding how something "can't be explained."

A speaker this morning at the NCTM (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics) gave a cute example of a kid's interpretation of the prompt, "Write a story problem whose answer is 5*(7+3)". The kid wrote,
Tim went to the candy store to bye (sic) some chocolate ( Read more... )

More on Rep. Betty Brown (R-TX)'s incredibly ignorant and offensive viewpoint here.

A quote from the article:

... Brown, in all earnestness, at one point during the video asks Ko whether people back in China faced similar difficulties presenting valid identification in elections there ( Read more... )

What do you know, AwesomeMath uses Google ads. They just showed up on top of my Gmail.

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When she was good,
She was very good indeed,
But when she was bad she was horrid.

Once, a few years ago roughly to the day, I was on a recruiting dinner for the Berkeley math department(*), and I ordered a hot chocolate, whereupon several others at the table decided that the breezy weather was a beautiful time for a nice, warm, thick beverage as well. The prospective student, from Chicago, gaped at us. "It's March. You're ( Read more... )

Every time I wonder what it feels like to be totally clueless and to want proficiency without understanding the theory, I think about my attempts to learn new programming languages.

The importance of stupidity

"I have a natural aversion to cute funny guys. I didn’t meet him until he showed up at the audition for ‘Anchorman’ overweight, wearing an ugly ’70s suit and real muttonchops and ’stache. That’s when he stole my heart forever."

Isn’t He Bromantic?, NYT

Civil Disunion: Perspectives | KQED Public Media for Northern CA

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A friend of mine from high school spoke on KQED radio (San Francisco NPR-affiliate) about same-sex marriage and immigration benefits. It aired Friday, Feb 27. (2:25 minutes)