Fifth Linkfest
C-c-c-c-combo breaker! Finally the Linkfest deviates from the pattern it was establishing for itself. A Monday linkfest instead of Saturday? How eccentric! The reason the linkfest was delayed was I spent the weekend in Chicago, attending and speaking at the Graduate Student Logic Conference at UIC (if you’re interested, I spoke about Fitch’s Paradox– by the way, the paper I wrote on the subject is now online in the journal “Synthese”, and will appear in print soon, sadly Synthese has a paywall but you can read a bootleg version of the paper here (the bootleg has no author name because Synthese uses double-blind peer review and Synthese’s TOS doesn’t let me alter the final draft)) (the paper assumes basic familiarity with the paradox, so the blog article should be read first, if you don’t already know the paradox)
Here at Xamuel Laboratories, we are constantly researching how to make Linkfests provide more value more efficiently. This time around, we are experimenting with adding new info along with blog article titles, in cases where the title alone gives very little idea what the article is about. Hopefully this will give you a better idea when a link is worth reading, when the blogger didn’t pick a very informative title.
The previous Linkfest is here: Linkfest 4.
Technical
Scott Aaronson: Better late than never (or: Correcting yet another batch of shoddy scientific journalism)
Ngô Quốc Anh: The Monge-Ampère equations: An invariant, The Picone identity for p-Laplacian, Uniformly boundedness implies weak convergence, A squeezing argument and application to logistic equations, Commutator of Delta and Gradient on functions
John Armstrong: Continuously Differentiable Functions are Locally Lipschitz
John Baez: Higher Categories for Concurrency, Crooks’ Fluctuation Theorem, Category-Theoretic Characterizations of Entropy, Networks and Population Biology (Part 3)
Jacob Biamonte: Network Theory (Part 7)
Benedict Eastaugh: Developing arithmetic in Gödel’s system T
Mark Eichenlaub: Visualizing Elementary Calculus: Optimization, My Friends’ Birthdays
Victoria Gitman and Joel Hamkins: A natural model of the multiverse axioms (PDF)
Hilbertthm90: Other forms of Witt vectors, Sheaf of Witt Vectors
Jesse Johnson: Why cut disks?
JSE: Can the trace hear the shape of its field?
Tanya Khovanova: A Son Named Luigi
Emmanuel Kowalski: Multiplicativity, where art thou?
Joel Lewis: Strogatz @ MIT
Dick Lipton: Guessing, Navigating Cities and Understanding Proofs
Akhil Mathew: The Dold-Kan correspondence (part 1), Tsen’s theorem
Daniel Moskovich: Why do we study knots in S3?
The Physicist: Q: Is there a single equation that proves black holes are real?, Q: How do velocities add? If I’m riding a beam of light and I throw a ball, why doesn’t the ball go faster than light?
Jeffrey Shallit: Can Irrational Numbers be Represented in a Computer?
Terence Tao: Stein’s interpolation theorem, Effective limiting absorption principles, and applications
Non-Technical
Scott Aaronson: CS timeline voting: the results are in!
Ben Allen: Freedom and Public Goods
Avoision: Charles Eugster: 91 Year Old Bodybuilder
John Baez: What To Do?, Moore’s Law for Solar Power?
Ferdinand Bardamu: The Canadian Election and the Constipation of Western Democracy, The True Nature of Drug Abuse
Matthew Belinkie: Eurovision 2011: Semi-Final Preview Part 1
BlueShoe: Neighborhood Cats, “Real” Japanese, The trouble with J-celebrities
Alexandre Borovik: Some random thoughts about ICT in mathematics teaching, Mathematical Education: Modularisation vs. Linear Syllabus
Wade Bortz: 3D/DC (or: 3D printing convention in Washington, DC)
Sonic Charmer: Sea Salt, Organic Food, Play
Matthew Compher: Portal 2: Modern physics in popular culture? Nice.
Dagonet: Corporate Jobs Are Like Marriage, The Way Girls Think
Diana Davis: How to publish a (mathematics) paper
Advocatus Diaboli: Fake Jobs Hurt The Real Economy
Mark Eichenlaub: Dear Admissions Committees…
James Feudo: Don’t Be a Matt Foley Speaker
Lance Fortnow: Ravi Kannan wins the Knuth Prize
Anonymous, c/o Bill Gasarch: How important is Teaching Experience on the job market?
T. Ryan Gregory: A Conservative majority? Not so fast
Simon Grey: Group Work and Group Think, An Interesting Idea (a response to my article: Is Mathematics Objective or Subjective?), Gigantic Waste of Time (or: How to improve introductory economics courses)
Timothy Gowers: Some post-referendum consolations
Workshy Joe: A Reader’s Question About “Frame”
Khatzumoto: When to start getting used to Japanese
Tanya Khovanova: Good Math Research Projects for High School
Ilkka Kokkarinen: On reality compression, You’ll see your problems multiplied, Megacrusher makes more room!, Raise with power
Robert Krzyzanowski: There Is No Magic
Izabella Laba: Joe, meet Pavlik (or: a response to Joe Lieberman on the need for vigilance)
Dick Lipton: Strange Places to Prove Theorems
Michael Lugo: Two no-hitters four days apart is not that rare
Orchid64: Won’t Miss #313: “Law and order” moral mentality
Alex Papadimoulis: Security by Post-It
Steve Pavlina: Are You Faking Progress?
Proph: A Quick Thought on bin Laden’s Death
John Robb: The Omnivore’s Advantage, An Omnivorous Strategy for Local Energy
Roissy: How Not To Spend A Ton Of Money On Your Girlfriend Or Wife, Prince William: Beta Chump, Engagement Ring Quandary
Adriana Salerno: Blog(Blog) (or: On a talk, given by Steven Strogatz, about how he chose what to write in a NYTimes math column)
Jack Saturday: Anti Wage-Slavery, Pro-Freedom Quotations of the Week 659, 660
South Bend Seven: Higher Education Bubble, Royals: Okay if they are a long time ago or far, far away
Jeffrey Shallit: Neil Postman: Perpetually Clueless, Review of Monton’s “Seeking God in Science”
Stingray: They Are My Peeves And I Will Pet Them As I See Fit
TGGP: Why didn’t I notice this until just now? (or: The ambiguity of ! when combining math and C syntax)
Luca Trevisan: And where have you been? (or: On iPhone’s habit of recording where its users go)
Ulysses: Weekend Drink Recommendation – the Tardy Derby edition
Default User: Myers Musings: How Chicks Annoy
Pictures and Photography
Avoision: Journey to the End of the Night – 2011
Ruben Berenguel: Road Trip Through Iceland: Day 8 – From Mývatn to Husavik visiting Ásbyrgi and Dettifoss
BlueShoe: This trash bin made me re-evaluate my life
Consolidation Crew: Security Breach: The London Mail Rail
Jessica Hagy: Need For Closure vs. Size Of Grudge
Locohama: Loco’s taken with Instagram #2
MonkeyMan: Apple Restriction Zone, Internet Hole
Matt Novak: Push Button Lunch (1903), Urban Airport of the Future (1926)
Telefunker: Noah’s Ark (Belgium), St. Elle (Belgium)