January Wrap-up....

To wrap up January, another end-of-month compendium of some of my favorite reads (and not necessarily math) from the prior 4+ weeks:

1)  George Dyson on the coming ascent of analog computing:

https://www.edge.org/conversation/george_dyson-childhoods-end

2)  Perhaps an interesting numeric math coincidence:

https://blog.plover.com/math/power-digit-sum.html

3)  This myth-of-raw-data piece from Nick Barrowman came out last year, but I saw it for the first time this month when someone linked to it on Twitter:

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/why-data-is-never-raw

4)  Wm. Briggs, finds a middle way between Bayesianism and frequentism, posting a couple of papers related to the statistics wars and demise of p-values:

http://wmbriggs.com/public/Briggs.ReplacementForHypothesisTesting.pdf

http://wmbriggs.com/public/Briggs.EverthingWrongWithPvalues.pdf

5)  I found this court case (reaching the Supreme Court) over words, interesting:

https://www.newappsblog.com/2019/01/a-mysterious-scandal.html

6)  Scott Alexander is perhaps just a tad behind in his reading ;)

This month he reviewed Kuhn’s “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/01/08/book-review-the-structure-of-scientific-revolutions/

7)  A glimpse of the future came with DataGenetics review of the latest Consumer Electronics Show:

http://datagenetics.com/blog/january42019/index.html

8)  For podcast fans a long list of math-related podcasts via David Petro:

https://ontariomath.blogspot.com/p/podcasts.html

9)  And, wow, a week of Brians!:
Sean Carroll talked to string theorist/popularizer Brian Greene this week on his Mindcast podcast for over an hour:
https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2019/01/28/episode-31-brian-greene-on-the-multiverse-inflation-and-the-string-theory-landscape/
...and Joe Rogan spoke with physics popularizer Brian Cox for 2 1/2 hrs. on his podcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=wieRZoJSVtw

10)  If you’re looking for things to read, the #BookCoverChallenge Twitter hashtag is chockfull of ideas people are passing along.

11)  A Scientific American piece on linguistic relativity:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/our-language-affects-what-we-see/

12)  Food fight (or worse) in particle physics! (thread):

https://twitter.com/skdh/status/1088330458251907073

13)  mathematics as tautologies, etc... a great piece on the link of Frank Ramsey to 20th century philosophy:
https://aeon.co/essays/what-is-truth-on-ramsey-wittgenstein-and-the-vienna-circle

14)  A draft chapter on math history from Keith Devlin:
https://web.stanford.edu/~kdevlin/Papers/DanesiChapter.pdf

15)  Alan Sokal (who knows something about hoaxes) on the recent Boghossian hoax affair:
https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2019/01/24/rules-protect-research-subjects-should-include-different-standards-different-types

16)  If you missed it you have to watch the "60 Minutes" story about the humble, elderly small-town couple who used a little arithmetic to (legally) win millions from state lotteries:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jerry-and-marge-selbee-how-a-retired-couple-won-millions-using-a-lottery-loophole-60-minutes/

17)  Lastly, only recently discovered this site for any with an interest in ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response):

https://asmruniversity.com

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