Realized I updated lots of other places but not here. I passed my quals!

Next step is my thesis proposal, called prelims here.

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Oh that's right, the rest of the world doesn't get today off, it's a state holiday. (And yet I woke before 9am.)

And I work from home Tues too, so it's a 4-day weekend for me, yay!

Okay gentlemen and ladies, someone's cellphone went off so it's time for a Pop Quiz. Put away your notes, put away your pencils and papers, put away your calculators, and most especially put away your cellphones and answer the following questions ( Read more... )

Hooray, this means I can do more work. Wanted to go to the gym (I missed the last couple weeks), but the roads are a bit messy.

Woke up this morning with a low grade fever and sore throat. Or maybe "continued to not be asleep" might be better, since I didn't sleep more than an hour straight all night long. Had the AC on all night and it didn't help, so between that and the fever of 99.5F I concluded I was sick. Called the local mega-university's health services triage ( Read more... )

I've got a sabbatical coming up Fall 2010. I'm seriously considering spending 6 months in Australia. For professional reasons, really! I want to see the night sky south of the equator, and I could do astrophotography. (On the personal side I really want to live in a place where cockatoos will come to my birdfeeder ( Read more... )

I am looking for a reliable source to explain to a non-mathematician why drawing conclusions from a sample size of 3 is ridiculous.

I'm trying to understand something. Please answer the below questions to the best of your ability.

Poll The World

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Time to boycott Amazon.com . They've decided to delist factual and useful books on homosexuality from their internal search engine, calling them "adult themed," so that "ex-gay" books show up on searches before other books on homosexuality. For example, the book "Heather Has Two Mommies" does exist on Amazon.com in both the original edition and ( Read more... )

Should college police officers carry guns?

Discuss.