Hi all! You can be kept up to date on my adventures with math/science/life over at my new blog. notabstractnonsense.com Yes, there is an rss feed there. 🙂 Continue reading Switched to a jekyll blog.

Originally posted on PUT IT ALL ON RED:
You’re a doctor? I don’t really know anything about medicine, but can you explain exactly how the endocrine system works in two minutes or less? You’re a writer? I had a terrible writing teacher in high school. I bet I wouldn’t like you. You’re a carpenter? You must be super good at carpentering. You’re a singer? I… Continue reading If I Reacted to Other People’s Careers the Way They React to Me Becoming a Mathematician

It has minimal mathematics and is mostly composed of very light exposition. Still, it was good practice on writing a mathematics presentation with Prezi. You can find it here. Continue reading My matrix completion presentation for the undergrad math seminar.

This Monday,  22/07, the Stanford She++ will release a documentary on Vimeo on women in computer science. Check out the trailer and remember to visit vimeo after Monday to watch the whole thing. 🙂 Continue reading She++ : Women & Computer Science

Couldn’t agree more! Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP Robert Oppenheimer was one of the great physicists of the last century. He is most famous, of course, for his leadership of the Manhattan Project—the project that created the first atomic bomb. Today I want to talk about research and why it requires a certain amount of courage, a certain amount of nerve, or just plain “guts.” … Continue reading It Takes Guts To Do Research

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Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP Steven Soderbergh directed the famous movie: Sex, Lies, and Videotape. This 1989 movie won the Palme d’Or at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival, and is now in the United States Library of Congress’ National Film Registry for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” Today I want to explore claims about quantum computation. View original post 1,329 more words Continue reading Sex, Lies, And Quantum Computers

Originally posted on Gowers's Weblog:
I have now closed the polls in the second mathematical writing experiment. Here are the results. I have also published the comments on the first and second experiments, which shed further light on the results and on (some) people’s reasons for voting the way they did. The results were complicated slightly by the fact that after a couple of… Continue reading Answers, results of polls, and a brief description of the program