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Bits Come Out to Play Again, The 6 August 2025 meta
AI and the End of Programming 13 September 2023 AI
Middle of the Square, The 8 August 2022 randomness
Jotto 15 June 2022 games
Words for the Wordle-Weary 1 June 2022 games
Does Having Prime Neighbors Make You More Composite? 4 November 2021 mathematics
Riding the Covid Coaster 18 August 2021 health
Three Months in Monte Carlo 15 July 2021 physics
Foldable Words 9 February 2021 personal
We Gather Together… 24 November 2020 health
More Questions About Trees 6 October 2020 biology
Questions About Trees 4 September 2020 biology
April Fool Redux 28 March 2020 economics
MathJax Turns 3.0 14 March 2020 computing
We Gather Together 6 March 2020 mathematics
Teetering Towers of Abstraction, The 13 January 2020 computing
My God, It’s Full of Dots! 27 September 2019 computing
737: The MAX Mess 8 April 2019 technology
Divisive Factorials! 10 February 2019 computing
Room with a View, A 31 January 2019 technology
Glauber’s Dynamics 15 January 2019 computing
Empty Nest Season 2 November 2018 nature
Another Technological Tragedy 20 October 2018 technology
Mind Wanders, The 31 July 2018 neuroscience
Midcentury Monuments 22 February 2018 books
Notes from JMM 2018 25 January 2018 mathematics
Flipping Wyoming 12 January 2018 civics
Sir Roger Penrose’s Toilet Paper 24 December 2017 mathematics
Threats to the Net, The 16 December 2017 computing
Sudden Deaf 8 December 2017 biology
Approximately Yours 22 July 2017 computing
Counting Your Chickens Before They’re Pecked 5 July 2017 biology
Short Arm of Coincidence, The 13 April 2017 computing
Uniqueness Constraint, The 18 March 2017 problems and puzzles
Tantonalizing Problem, A 27 January 2017 mathematics
Polite Apocalypse, The 20 January 2017 off-topic
Joint Mathematics Morsels 5 January 2017 mathematics
Truth, Trump, and Trisectors 15 December 2016 mathematics
ABC and FLT 10 September 2016 mathematics
Secret Life of Tweets, The 27 August 2016 computing
Bertrand Russell, Donald Trump, and Archimedes 10 August 2016 off-topic
39th Root of 92, The 6 August 2016 computing
Getting to Know Julia 22 July 2016 computing
Prime After Prime 4 June 2016 computing
Where’s My Petabyte Disk Drive? 27 March 2016 computing
Number Factoids 4 February 2016 computing
Carnival of Mathematics #130 15 January 2016 mathematics
Ten Years of bit-playing 9 January 2016 meta
Deep Dreaming with Every Card I Write 26 December 2015 computing
Geotargeted by the NY Times 15 December 2015 tech
Carnival Is Coming to Town, The 10 December 2015 mathematics
Mad Max Economics 6 December 2015 mathematics
Ramsey Theory in the Dining Room 30 November 2015 mathematics
Long Run, The 15 November 2015 computing
Lost in Translation 10 October 2015 linguistics
Writing on the Wall, The 7 October 2015 off-topic
Pumping the Primes 19 August 2015 computing
Gazing into the CodeMirror 6 August 2015 computing
AIpocalypse 31 July 2015 computing
Meet the Julians 2 July 2015 computing
Fast Money, Slow Data 25 June 2015 social science
Traffic Jams in Javascript 18 June 2015 computing
Whales of the Web 27 April 2015 computing
Taxing Algorithm, A 16 April 2015 computing
Mrs. Nguyen’s Prestidigitation 22 February 2015 mathematics
600613 16 December 2014 computing
Lopsided 10 November 2014 social science
Revised and Updated 4 November 2014 books
Sunshine In = Earthshine Out 17 October 2014 computing
Glitch in the Maptrix, A 17 April 2014 computing
Cosmic Eggshells 30 March 2014 physics
Net Pests (Not) 16 March 2014 meta
Notes from the JMM 23 January 2014 mathematics
Rhodometer, The 18 January 2014 modern life
My First 1000000 Years 10 December 2013 personal
Boldface Names 29 November 2013 mathematics
Try a Little Tendrilness 10 November 2013 biology
Friendlier Skies, The 2 November 2013 modern life
Keys to the Keydom, The 27 October 2013 computing
Tetrahedra with a Twist 21 October 2013 mathematics
Advances in Obfuscation 27 September 2013 computing
Who was Aleph Null? 2 September 2013 computing
Black and White in One Dimension 2 September 2013 mathematics
Mother Ditch, The 26 August 2013 off-topic
Wisterium of Memory, The 16 June 2013 science
Little Theorem, A 5 May 2013 mathematics
Mapping the Hilbert Curve 26 April 2013 computing
Flying Nonmetric Airways 4 April 2013 mathematics
Sphere Packings and Hamiltonian Paths 13 March 2013 computing
Recursive Driveling 1 March 2013 computing
Driveling 24 February 2013 computing
Joshua Trees and Toothpicks 8 February 2013 biology
100 Years of Markov Chains 12 January 2013 computing
Flyover States, The 9 January 2013 photography
Dante’s Infernet 4 January 2013 computing
New Year, New bit-player 3 January 2013 meta
Powerlessness 12 November 2012 modern life
Fly Me to the End of the Alphabet 8 November 2012 computing
On the Sunny Side 27 October 2012 photography
Remember the Memristor? 25 October 2012 computing
Dancing with the Spheres 12 October 2012 computing
College Ties 5 October 2012 computing
IMG_1134 18 September 2012 uncategorized
ABC Game, The 7 September 2012 featured
Stop Lights 1 September 2012 technology
Crossed Conversations 21 August 2012 computing
Computing with Encrypted Data 16 August 2012 uncategorized
Jevons Number, The 11 August 2012 books
Methuselah’s Choice 6 June 2012 mathematics
Light-Field Photography 14 May 2012 photography
Statistical Mechanics of Magnet Balls 4 May 2012 featured
Kepler’s Snowflake 28 April 2012 uncategorized
World3, the Video 15 April 2012 computing
World3, the Public Beta 15 April 2012 computing
Painting the World with Pixels 4 March 2012 uncategorized
Security Theater on the Web 3 March 2012 uncategorized
PDF vs. HTML 18 February 2012 computing
17 x 17 = $289.00 8 February 2012 computing
Knowl Post, The 5 February 2012 computing
Right Click, The 21 January 2012 computing
Sugarpixels 1 January 2012 off-topic
Acceleration of History, The 20 December 2011 science
Chebfun 13 December 2011 computing
How Did the Stars Get Their Points? 8 December 2011 linguistics
TNT Is Not TeX 5 December 2011 computing
Pretirement 23 November 2011 modern life
(McCarthyism) 25 October 2011 computing
n-Ball Game, The 22 October 2011 featured
Divisive Diversions 4 September 2011 computing
Driving the Dreamboat 17 August 2011 computing
Probabilities of Probabilities 16 August 2011 probability
Slight Discrepancy, A 23 June 2011 computing
Don’t Try to Read This Proof! 7 June 2011 mathematics
Only Correlate! 28 May 2011 computing
Oh, the Places I’ve Been! 11 May 2011 computing
Zipfy n-Grams 28 April 2011 computing
Library of Babble, The 23 April 2011 computing
Rashid’s Bits 10 April 2011 computing
3.14 14 March 2011 linguistics
More on the Memristor Meme 10 March 2011 technology
Snowdunes 28 February 2011 problems and puzzles
Give Me That Good Old-Fashioned AI 19 February 2011 AI
Goooooogle 16 February 2011 modern life
How I Didn’t Invent the Memristor 14 February 2011 science
Prime Twins Conjecture, The 18 January 2011 mathematics
When Life Gives You Lemmas, Make Lemma-ade 16 January 2011 mathematics
More on Snow and Balls 10 January 2011 mathematics
Floor e? 7 January 2011 mathematics
Snowballs 6 January 2011 mathematics
Googling the Lexicon 20 December 2010 books
Square Yard of Idea, A 15 December 2010 biology
CAPTCHA Arbitrage 23 November 2010 computing
Whack-a-Rectangle 13 November 2010 computing
Kenken-Friendly Numbers 23 October 2010 games
Dotted Lines 5 October 2010 modern life
I Could Carry Less 31 August 2010 mathematics
In the Zone 24 August 2010 computing
Ormat Game, The 16 August 2010 computing
State of the Spamosphere, The 8 August 2010 computing
Four Questions about Fuzzy Rankings 24 July 2010 computing
Thrill of the Chase, The 11 July 2010 statistics
Twist of Fate, A 11 June 2010 problems and puzzles
Disentangling Gaussians 10 June 2010 computing
SnarXiv, The 7 June 2010 physics
Hole in the Bottom of the Ocean, A 4 June 2010 modern life
On the Air 25 May 2010 books
Shy Woodland Creature, A 24 May 2010 games
Big Blip, The 24 May 2010 social science
New Handbook, A 17 May 2010 mathematics
Pilgrim’s Progress 8 May 2010 modern life
Which Steve Invented the iPad? 30 March 2010 computing
Fake Fits 30 March 2010 mathematics
Statistical Error 22 March 2010 statistics
Double Flip, A 17 March 2010 mathematics
Home-Baked Graphics 9 March 2010 computing
Herbert R. J. Grosch, 1918-2010 26 February 2010 computing
Teetotaler’s Walk, The 22 February 2010 mathematics
Gruenberger’s Prime Path 16 February 2010 computing
Yet Another Spam Update 7 February 2010 modern life
Molecular Millisecond, A 6 February 2010 biology
17 x 17: A nonprogress report 22 December 2009 computing
17×17 challenge, The 5 December 2009 computing
El Farol Highway 27 November 2009 modern life
birth of the giant component, The 20 November 2009 mathematics
Information is physical 11 November 2009 computing
comment on comment spam, A 6 November 2009 computing
Flights of fancy 27 October 2009 biology
Wiki proof, A 21 October 2009 mathematics
In the long run we’re all dead 19 October 2009 uncategorized
My Dekasabbatical 14 October 2009 personal
Argiope aurantia 7 October 2009 biology
Congruent numbers 6 October 2009 computing
Hey Google, gimme back my widgets! 11 September 2009 computing
Nautical numeration 8 September 2009 mathematics
Spammy weather 14 August 2009 modern life
Outnumbered 10 August 2009 computing
Oracle of Wolfram, The 25 June 2009 computing
Not up to norm 20 June 2009 mathematics
Treats Tropiques 17 June 2009 mathematics
Alpha bravo 17 May 2009 computing
village spammer, The 16 May 2009 modern life
Sic transit 30 April 2009 science
control room, The 26 April 2009 modern life
Himalayan mathematics 20 April 2009 computing
Bits from its 15 April 2009 computing
Pub date 14 April 2009 books
Computing in the classroom 8 April 2009 computing
Bracketology: The Madness of March 13 March 2009 mathematics
Spare ribs 9 March 2009 uncategorized
More mysteries from the spamosphere 2 March 2009 modern life
Wrong number 25 February 2009 computing
Math, fonts, and HTML 16 February 2009 computing
Distant shores 12 February 2009 computing
If I had a hammer 12 February 2009 computing
Long division 9 February 2009 books
Disappearing nablas, disappearing web sites 9 January 2009 computing
Zune Bug, The 3 January 2009 computing
jsMath 28 December 2008 mathematics
Zimaths 16 December 2008 computing
59 10 December 2008 uncategorized
Cows, Colleges and Contentment 7 November 2008 mathematics
Monthly spam update 2 November 2008 modern life
Chromatic Number of Liechtenstein, The 28 October 2008 mathematics
Net work 25 October 2008 uncategorized
arity of equality, The 22 October 2008 computing
QCD 19 October 2008 physics
Survey on computing in the sciences 17 October 2008 computing
Demaine event 16 October 2008 mathematics
Spam by the numbers 4 October 2008 modern life
Alfonso’s universe 30 September 2008 uncategorized
amiable companion, An 25 September 2008 mathematics
Let’s blame the accountants 20 September 2008 modern life
Marketplace of Ideas interview 5 September 2008 books
Shut up and program! 3 September 2008 computing
Life Curves 24 August 2008 biology
Shut up and calculate! 12 August 2008 computing
Big Money 3 August 2008 games
Rosalind 25 July 2008 uncategorized
F. Fortesque Fingerhut 16 July 2008 computing
arXival mysteries 2 July 2008 mathematics
Sleight of handle 23 June 2008 computing
Jottings on .js 22 June 2008 computing
Bloom-filtered Britney 9 June 2008 computing
Spam stats 5 June 2008 modern life
Unnatural logarithms 1 June 2008 mathematics
Promoting my promotions 24 May 2008 books
On the spot 24 May 2008 modern life
Electoral rehex 15 May 2008 games
problem of describing trees, The 30 April 2008 computing
temblor forecast, The 15 April 2008 science
In Zeno’s footsteps 10 April 2008 computing
Hard covers 3 April 2008 books
Lower 48 graph, The 14 March 2008 games
Electoral hex 12 March 2008 games
How many Sudokus? 28 February 2008 games
Veliagate 28 February 2008 mathematics
linguistic arrow of time, The 24 February 2008 social science
EATCS award to Valiant 15 February 2008 computing
Get on board 12 February 2008 computing
end of the number line, The 5 February 2008 computing
Computing graphics 30 January 2008 computing
Snowfakes 24 January 2008 physics
JMM notes and snippets 10 January 2008 mathematics
JMM pixel dump 7 January 2008 mathematics
JMMing 6 January 2008 mathematics
new toy, The 25 December 2007 computing
Googling for graphs 12 December 2007 computing
To P or NP, that is the question 10 December 2007 computing
Measure twice, average once 7 December 2007 mathematics
Pulling the goalie 29 November 2007 computing
Last name first 20 November 2007 biology
Until NEXPTIME 18 November 2007 computing
New Yorker theorem, A 6 November 2007 mathematics
Boidland 2 November 2007 biology
Bumped off 23 October 2007 physics
family tree, The 22 October 2007 biology
How many of your ancestors are you related to? 21 October 2007 biology
Hung over 21 October 2007 mathematics
Multicore madness 11 October 2007 computing
Conquering divide 9 October 2007 computing
Antinomies on the landscape 1 October 2007 mathematics
Spudging 26 September 2007 computing
Processing 9 September 2007 computing
V1@gra from the source 6 September 2007 computing
Programming Perlisms 6 September 2007 computing
Lambda, the ultimate mashup 6 September 2007 computing
Addiplication 1 September 2007 mathematics
My summer vacation 27 August 2007 modern life
Quantum numbers 25 June 2007 computing
More Gauss anecdotage 13 June 2007 mathematics
V1@gra 13 June 2007 computing
Twenty-six twiddles suffice 4 June 2007 computing
More factoidal facts 3 June 2007 mathematics
Easy as abc 24 May 2007 mathematics
Amazon poker 10 May 2007 books
Welcome MAA readers 1 May 2007 mathematics
mathematical fable previsited, A 1 May 2007 mathematics
Factoidal facts 16 April 2007 mathematics
Hermann Weyl, tax accountant 16 April 2007 mathematics
Choosing up sides, again 12 April 2007 games
Choosing up sides 20 February 2007 games
Working on the railroad 10 February 2007 mathematics
Postage due 8 February 2007 mathematics
stepchild, The 6 February 2007 computing
land surveyor’s algorithm, The 2 February 2007 mathematics
demon in the dryer, The 31 January 2007 modern life
green fuse, The 12 January 2007 biology
Math on the Mississippi 7 January 2007 mathematics
Math baubles 15 December 2006 mathematics
Jacobsthal numbers, part 3 11 December 2006 computing
Wantzel’s Theorem 8 December 2006 mathematics
arXiv rolls over, The 8 December 2006 mathematics
Good company 8 December 2006 uncategorized
Snappy or sappy? 6 December 2006 uncategorized
Back to School 6 December 2006 modern life
Erreurs de mathématiciens 29 November 2006 mathematics
Abel to Zygmund 26 November 2006 mathematics
Radio alert 25 November 2006 modern life
Running on empty 24 November 2006 mathematics
Jacobsthal numbers 23 November 2006 computing
Stupid questions 22 November 2006 uncategorized
What’s So Special About {0,2,3,4,7,11,12,14}? 21 November 2006 mathematics
backblog, The 21 November 2006 uncategorized
R6RS 15 September 2006 computing
Softer infrastructure 14 September 2006 books
Only connect! 14 September 2006 computing
Sums, Differences, and Surprises 25 August 2006 mathematics
More on Sums and Differences 20 August 2006 mathematics
Counting Sums and Differences 17 August 2006 mathematics
Conspiracy theories 10 August 2006 modern life
Haµte cuisine 6 August 2006 modern life
figure in the flagstone, The 5 August 2006 science
Beach reading 3 August 2006 books
Empty-niche syndrome 3 July 2006 science
Scheduled procrastination 27 June 2006 computing
Errors acummulate 16 June 2006 computing
Friday Night Smackdown 9 June 2006 computing
Sudoku dans la Belle Époque 7 June 2006 games
DCLXVI 6 June 2006 modern life
Can You Divide by Three? 6 June 2006 mathematics
ENIACiana 31 May 2006 computing
Room 641A 24 May 2006 computing
oddest numbers, The 10 May 2006 computing
Refrigeration by filtering 5 May 2006 physics
Setting the river straight 29 April 2006 science
PageRank for physicists 20 April 2006 modern life
Brackets 17 April 2006 modern life
Summing up 11 April 2006 computing
Reversing History 9 April 2006 computing
Cranking it up 29 March 2006 mathematics
Today’s catch 28 March 2006 mathematics
Early Crop of Sudoku, An 24 March 2006 games
Old Man River 22 March 2006 science
My protest against the tyranny of time 20 March 2006 modern life
Library daze 5 March 2006 modern life
0.203188 28 February 2006 mathematics
Taxation without rationalization 24 February 2006 mathematics
Life after algebra 20 February 2006 mathematics
Playfair’s Powerpoint Presentation 18 February 2006 books
Zeroing in on zeta zeros 17 February 2006 mathematics
Bidirectional subroutines 14 February 2006 computing
Packed primes 10 February 2006 mathematics
Reversible Eraser, A 9 February 2006 computing
Newton and Notwen 7 February 2006 computing
Rediscovering America 5 February 2006 science
Swapping Lies 5 February 2006 computing
Permissive Actions 31 January 2006 computing
Best Friends 30 January 2006 problems and puzzles
First Bites 27 January 2006 games
More Math Notes from San Antonio 25 January 2006 mathematics
San Antonio: Still More Talks 25 January 2006 mathematics
San Antonio: Two Talks on Primes 25 January 2006 mathematics
San Antonio: Alternating Subsequences 25 January 2006 mathematics
From the Lonely Star State 14 January 2006 mathematics
Now Boarding Row N 12 January 2006 technology
Magnetic Attractions 11 January 2006 physics
New Flavor of Spam, A 10 January 2006 computing
Introducing bit-player 9 January 2006 meta