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A central problem in combinatorics, probability theory, and analysis is to understand the spectrum of random d-regular graphs G with vertices. The following paper marks a huge leap in our understanding of this problem. Ramanujan …

While in Palo Alto for the holidays, I stumbled on a piece of public art I didn’t previously know about: the Linus Pauling Commemorative Ceramic Mural, created in 2000 by Ross Drago. It’s a set …

Top of my bedside reading pile just now is a gift from my daughter – the great essayist Joseph Epstein's new memoir, Never Say You've Had a Lucky Life. Especially If You've Had a Lucky …

Thank god there’s only a week left of this bullshit. I am truly sick of somehow everyone deciding that “Christmas” means “all of December”. Just fuck off. All of it.

An update to this blog is severely overdue, it appears. I hadn't realised it had been so long since I had last posted.There's been no big leap forward since the autumn but there have been …

From the Independent: Nigel Farage has launched a defence of Elon Musk’s incendiary social media attacks on Keir Starmer, claiming that “free speech is back” under the Tesla tycoon’s ownership of X (Twitter). The Reform …

This is a lovely Grauniad piece about autism and board games. These parts resonated in particular: Growing up, board games were my refuge from a baffling, often hostile world. and: Games gave me quiet, structured …

So when last we saw our heroes they had rolled on the Carousing Table and all had gone sideways.I actually made a diagram to keep it all straightSo this time, I set things up to …

The trends I got right—and wrong—reveal a pattern. Where do they point for the baby name future? Making predictions is fun. Facing up to the results, though, can be humbling. In the past, I’ve held …

He did want a drink. He wanted one badly. However, a good share of the hell that was on his back right now was there because he'd been drunk for so long--jumping at chances, blundering, …

for students | for scholars | for pleasure This blog is no longer being updated regularly with fresh content. Here are some self-study resources (including text and video) for those who would like to improve …

Editors’ Highlights are summaries of recent papers by AGU’s journal editors. Source: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth Faults can slip suddenly as earthquakes, but also slowly and still energetically as slow-slip events. Slow-slip events …

~ 🌟 This post is about View Transitions. If you are not familiar with the basics of it, check out this 30-min talk of mine to get up to speed. ~ With View Transitions, the …

OMG, this is such great news! My favorite newsletter Sidebar is back from its break. Designer Fabricio Teixeira is taking over the duties. He explains the spirit of Sidebar: Sidebar has always felt different. It …

I’ve just read last year’s wrap up and it made me quite sad. I really was in a rough spot, mentally. What makes me the most sad though is I couldn’t honestly tell you I’m …