A fun identity

So I’ve been working on one of my papers where we need to compute some numbers. They end up being determined by a cubic equation. However, one often finds surprising identities when Mathematica spits out a bunch of numbers expressed in algebraic form. Here is one of them: PS: I use italics in the word [...]

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Armchair economics

Seeing as the battle over raising the debt limit seems to have hit yet another impasse, it is time for me to speculate what could happen should the US default on its obligations, or follow the silly “cap, cut and balance” approach, with no tax increase on the horizon. These speculations are just that. The [...]

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Last heard in 2005

Today as I was typing my long paper, my mood was to hear something slightly different, so I started looking for stuff that I had not heard in a  while in my itunes library. Turns out that there are some songs that have not seen airplay on my desktop since 2005 (I might have heard [...]

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Copy and paste and oh what a waste

Right now I’m in the middle of writing a long paper. This is a rather intense and time consuming effort that I don’t find particularly gratifying. On a good day, I can write a lot. But when I get annoyed at how something is organized I usually copy/paste and end up reorganizing things and that [...]

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