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KeithDevlin

@KeithDevlin@fediscience.org

Mathematician (Emeritus Stanford), author (inc. many for a general audience), and avid cyclist. For many years "The Math Guy" on NPR. Co-founder of the ed tech company BrainQuake. I write an edited monthly blog for the Math. Assoc. of America called "Devlin's Angle", often (not always) about #mathed. The ranking site AcademicInfluence.com ranks me No.1 of the world's "Ten Most Influential Mathematicians 2000-2020". [https://tinyurl.com/w6p2bx5s] Being active on sites like this probably helped!

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A more accurate headline would be " resulted in exactly what around half the population knew would happen and repeatedly said so at the time." 🙄 https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/30/britons-brexit-bad-uk-poll-eu-finances-nhs

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Much of the Internet "debate" about algebra seems to stem from lack of awareness of what the subject is (versus the arithmetic method it was long ago) https://tinyurl.com/2p9myzt5

KeithDevlin, to socialism
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Appallingly misleading article in the . The article explains that Lech Walesa is FOR and against both and (b/c both can lead to authoritarianism). The one mention of "socialism" is inserted into the article by the author (a familiar MAGA writer) and then put into the headline by the WaPo. Do better, WaPo https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/16/walesa-socialism-ukraine-legacy/

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For readers of on the website who have emailed me about missing posts from 2011 and earlier, ALL posts from 1996 on can now be accessed here: https://profkeithdevlin.org/devlins-angle/

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Arrived in Odense, Denmark yesterday. Where regular gasoline costs $8.20 per gallon. American gripes about the "high" cost of gas look crazy to Europeans

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Weight-weenie insanity. Maybe if I were that close to being a national champion ... But these days, my body weight is the bigger factor to work on, by far 🙄 #cycling https://www.bikeradar.com/features/pro-bike/jason-holder-trek-emonda/

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Presumably some shit. One gate agent at CPH checking every passport in great detail. So late getting all on board we lost our landing slot at LHR. Still sitting on the tarnac in CPH an hour after we should have left and no info on when we will take off.

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's under oath statements suggest he has a get-out-of-jail card in his pocket. His hand-picked majority? Surely that won't work? Will it? 🤔 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/30/nyregion/trump-deposition-excerpts.html?unlocked_article_code=wLikcp9ZfdMGaQAt4dEO8zNFwKE6eaFjpw5finav6x3TeDRmfX1DSYrLhuvI4-DyJezoJP0gVOtOynz3_U1gG8DLCDl5HeQHhQoZbPJl1zP7pc6lJ6u95dAARTf2rJrRXjOi3wcMpRYHJG2QPJ1yacwYxkYA4zKpUHxUvq5m28yoFCeOhOzzuPezzdEhPJwk8TUy-NevDx0XC4JbDHzGGzDlfKdwTJiKboSHDCbCNax45Ogdb8UsYH2dbc4mE_GV-oPb7ZpWT5YpFzRfldCbY6m5HuijZTDDO6qXqNP44HtHYxHjQMaHkMcmF2-4wS8rdRPzkICW1O0jiXfBjuCeSLYy-X9r&smid=url-share

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Police should not be using this badly flawed tool to make arrests. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/06/technology/facial-recognition-false-arrest.html?smid=url-share

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Bummer. Seems the supply of genuine English cheddar in the US has finally dried up. NONE in my local stores. Irish and Australian (prevalent) are good, as are some American cheddars, but to my taste not the same. Another fail

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I still think this old blogpost from 2016 provides a great analogy to help understand why is a useful (hence important) TOOL in , but not an effective METHOD. http://devlinsangle.blogspot.com/2016/12/you-can-find-secret-to-doing.html

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For all us boomers and near boomers, watch this and weep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWRCooFKk3c

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I don't know the fine details of this report, but I suspect that most doctoral dissertations include some language found elsewhere. The PhD is typically an academic's first "published" work, and most of us necessarily rely on our supervisor for guidance and approval. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/20/us/harvard-claudine-gay-plagiarism.html

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WTF? What century is the Spanish FA living in? Sexual assault by a person in power and they want to punish the victims? https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/aug/26/spain-football-federation-threatens-to-sue-protesting-female-players?CMP=share_btn_tw

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Shout out to @automattic, the folks behind , etc., for providing great customer service.

I've been making modifications to profkeithdevlin.org and my 90s era expertise with unix, html, etc. is hopeless in the css world (which I guess is the online media equivalent to my beloved, but now rusty, LaTeX).

now struggle with the stuff they helped create ☹️

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What a fortunate "accident" for Putin https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/23/yevgeny-prigozhin-on-private-jet-that-crashed-near-moscow-russia-wagner

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At root, the would like to be able to lynch Fani Willis. The closest they can get is an appalling, trope-filled verbal assault on an elected public official

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Guess this MAGA wants to appeal to both sides

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This is surely the wrong photo for this article? 🤔

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Harvard makes the right decision for any university to make in this circumstance. Of course context matters; in any utterance. Stefanik herself used the word "genocide"; should she be canceled? https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/dec/12/harvard-board-backs-president-antisemitism-row

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Voting in yesterday's Senate race shows how California is now two very different political entities with a clear dividing line

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Niklaus Wirth, the computer pioneer who created the language Pascal (which was my language of choice for many years after graduating from Fortran, Algol, and Basic) has just died. He was a giant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklaus_Wirth

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The late afternoon sun yesterday really brought out some of the beauty of downtown San Francisco, prompting me to make a slight detour through Yerba Buena Gardens. We are fortunate that Red State Americans think we live in a dystopian cesspit, so they stay the hell away 1/2

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Take a trip down memory lane. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcNgzm29n98

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