Remembering David MacKay
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Approaching the 10th anniversary of the untimely death at the age of 48 of
David MacKay, who was Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of
Cambr...
The Strange Case Of The Monotonous Running Average
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These days I am putting the finishing touches on a hybrid algorithm that
optimizes a system (a gamma-ray observatory) by combining
reinforcement-learning w...
Updatez!
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1. The STOC’2026 accepted papers list is out. It seems to me that
there’s an emperor’s bounty of amazing stuff this year. I felt especially
g...
Spend More Time With Your Dog This Christmas
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Spend More Time With Your Dog This Christmas
As daylight shortens and routines slow down, many people experience a dip
in mood and motivation. The run-up ...
Holosplit
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Recently I had to update Mathematica on my laptop and after having solved
the challenges of the license manager that keeps looking different every
time ...
Scholarships for Ukrainian PhD students in Mainz
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The Cluster of Excellence PRISMA+ at the University of Mainz announces
scholarships for Ukrainian PhD students who have already started a PhD in
the field ...
Both g-2 anomalies
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Two months ago an experiment in Berkeley announced a new ultra-precise
measurement of the fine structure constant α using interferometry
techniques. This w...
The forgotten life of Einstein’s wife
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19 December was the 141th anniversary of the birth of Mileva Marić
Einstein. But who remembers this brilliant scientist? While her husband,
Albert Einstein...
Coaching Academics?
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A longtime reader and sometime correspondent of mine recently posed some
questions to share with FSP readers (if you are still out there). These
questions...
So Long and Thanks For All the Fish!
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This blog has moved. The new location is http://dabacon.org/pontiff. So
long and thanks for all the fish! Over the past three years I’ve had a good
time bl...
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