A recent Dave Richeson tweet generated these two links to great pieces having to do with lexicography and the circularity of words (including mathematical or computational aspects):
https://pointatinfinityblog.wordpress.com/2020/05/13/circles-1-circular-definitions/
http://bit-player.org/wp-content/extras/bph-publications/AmSci-1999-03-Hayes-Wordnet.pdf
A new round of always-fun lateral thinking puzzles from Futility Closet today:
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2020/12/28/podcast-episode-325-lateral-thinking-puzzles/
...and here's an hour-plus of science-writer John Horgan talking to science-writer Amanda Gefter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGb9SVZhCwc
No math today, just a Sunday deadline:
https://www.rawstory.com/25th-amendment/
(...while wondering if Nashville is an isolated tragedy or a presage of the next 4 weeks in America)
"High school mathematics content is a wonderful vehicle for teaching powerful, human thinking."
James Tanton on the Covid-19 'teaching crisis' and mathematics education:
https://medium.com/@jamestanton/covid-19-exposes-mathematics-education-inadequacies-a-modicum-of-secret-relief-for-educators-48490c44d649
Ben Orlin on the wisdom of the (sometimes) uncanny Twitteratti:
https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2020/12/22/the-uncanny-wisdom-of-twitter-crowds/
Once again on the all-too-common practice of 'torturing the data':
https://mindmatters.ai/2020/12/torturing-data-can-destroy-a-career-the-case-of-brian-wansink/
"This is one reason why artificial intelligence (AI) is often brittle. AI algorithms can torture data faster than any human and can find an essentially unlimited number of idiosyncrasies that humans might overlook. Computers don’t get tired and they never say no."
AI, computer algorithms, modeling... and, the limits thereof:
https://mindmatters.ai/2020/12/ai-still-just-curve-fitting-not-finding-a-theory-of-everything/
