Joe Cecil

Mathematics as combination charnel ground and pure land

Something I've been thinking off and on about is: How can we view mathematics as yet another combination charnel ground and pure land? In theory, mathematics is supposed to be "pure," "rational," unsullied by the fact that it is human minds that invent it,

Referring to books by author name instead of title

A fun linguistic quirk is that some mathematics books are referenced (on the Internet?) more often by a variant on author name than by title. For example, "Baby Rudin" for Walter Rudin's Principles of Mathematical Analysis as opposed to Walter Rudin's Real and Complex

A terrible LaTeX meme

Probably been done already. I regret nothing.

Diving into Elo, 1

This is a quick overview of Elo rating systems as described by Wikipedia. I am going to outline the general system here and then outline some questions I had and answered. I'll hold off on the statistics because I haven't yet found the paper about those.

Measuring the mutual density of a followership

Visa tweeted once about the density of interconnections in Twitter followerships: an interesting variable that’s not immediately, obviously easily observable in social graphs (currently): amongst say a dozen celebrities with over 1m followers, whose network is the most dense with interconnected relationships? — Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) August 28, 2021 Quoted

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