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These are vibe-coded games of varying educational content.

Pavement plots are univariate data visualizations that look like strips of pavement in rectangular slabs.

It's amazing how long this book can go without mentioning von Neumann.

Community Connection Positive Sum Curiosity Belonging Team Ambition Accountability Adaptability Collectivism The AI Collective is a non-profit that hosts events.

Starting from averaging, you get all of multiple regression by least squares.

What a fun book!

Here's an interactive widget, made quickly with Claude, that let's you play around with different 2x2 matrices.

Complex numbers are usually introduced by inventing the "imaginary number" i as a new entity.

For at least six years, I've been collecting quotes about what mathematics is.

I finally read my copy of The Dispossessed.

Kevin Hartnett, that prolific writer for Quanta Magazine, has written the first book published by Quanta Books.

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It may not have won a Pulitzer, but Cheng's book reminds me of nothing quite so much as Gödel, Escher, Bach.

Linear Algebra is the mathematics of linear transformations.

Scott Young's first book came out in 2019.

Those "rationalists" are even weirder than I thought!

I'm thinking about how to make linear algebra so simple that it could be taught much earlier than it usually is.

We must give our all in the struggle to unify the entire society with the revolutionary ideology of the Great Leader Kim Il Sung.

As a Man Thinketh is a 1903 self-help "book" (you can print it on eleven sheets of paper) that was part of what William James called "the mind-cure movement."

Beauty and Strength Power and Compassion Honor and Humility Mirth and Reverence Like the Quakers, Wiccans don't really have official central texts, but a lot of Wiccans seem to be into The Charge of the Goddess, which was written by Doreen Valiente around…