Having now finished the first half of Cheryl Misak’s intellectual biography of Frank Ramsey (“A Sheer Excess of Powers”), I am especially struck by what Ramsey (pictured below) accomplished before reaching his 19th birthday. In particular, in the space of … Continue reading
Over a century ago, the legal giant Oliver Wendell Holmes invited us to look at the law through the lens of probability theory, or in Holmes’s own immortal words: “The prophecies of what the courts will do in fact, and … Continue reading
“Total Eclipse” was created by Zachary Abel and consists of a hollow sphere containing 720 interwoven paperclips in the shape of a soccer ball. I featured this whimsical work of art on my blog a few years ago (see here); … Continue reading
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If you are in the Orlando area, skip Disney and visit the Orlando Museum of Art instead. OMA is featuring a special exhibit on The Florida Highwaymen, a remarkable group of Afro-American painters from Ft…
The formal paper pictured above consists of two succinct sentences and is the shortest-known paper published in a serious math journal; more details are available here. File under: proof by contradiction (hat tip: @pickover).
We presented the basic mechanics of Bayesian voting in one of our previous posts and showed how this simple and intuitive method of voting combines the best of both worlds: the ability of voters to express the intensity of their preferences … Continue reading
I interrupt my series of blog posts on Bayesian voting to share this video clip with my loyal followers. It’s a video I shot on my phone of Tim Tebow’s first-ever Spring Training home run …
Now that we have described how quadratic voting works (see my blog post dated 23 Feb. 2020) and have presented several salient objections to this complicated method of voting (see my previous blog post), in this post I shall present … Continue reading
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