A Mathematician, a Different Kind of Mathematician, and a Statistician
I am taking a course on Japanese history for funsies so expect to see a fair bit of Japanese history popping up here over the next few months… The Jomon and Yayoi cultures predated modern Japanese culture on the Japanese islands. It is important to understand these are not proto-Japanese
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Hi, you’re at this page because you said that Confederate veterans are United States veterans. You might even had suggested they were pardoned by Congress. This would probably be in response to something about the current discussion in the United States regarding statues of Confederate leaders. Let’s start off by
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I usually write longer explainers, but it’s not even necessary this time, because that’s how wrong the Baltimore Sun is this time. Activist draws attention to Maryland flag’s Confederate origins during #NoConfederate campaign When he first moved to Maryland, graphic designer and activist Benjamin Jancewicz was amazed by the ubiquity
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I’ve been learning a bit of Asian history, since it is something I know little about. One question is about the role of ancient Chinese culture across other East Asian societies. Buddhism played a role in transmitting Chinese cultural and social values to both Korea and Japan. This is because
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It has suddenly become fashionable to assert that children must be taught cursive handwriting or there has been some sort of failure in their education. In fact, here’s a New York Times article on the topic, posted after I had written this. Why Handwriting Is Still Essential in the Keyboard
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At this moment, thirty years ago, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat, Ukraine, suffered a “catastrophic power increase,” commonly called a meltdown, that killed 31 people. This post is not to retell the story of Chernobyl. A magnificant 2006 documentary, The Battle of Chernobyl tells the story well enough
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Occasionally, I post some pictures and notes on hardware projects we have going on in the Cybernetics Laboratory, which is to say, my desk. One thing that always comes up a program called Kermit, originally built by Columbia University, now maintained by the Kermit Project. Kermit has been around since
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