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Another Try With A New Look
Unless there is a general revolt, this is it. Tweaks can of course be made---fonts darkened or lightened, background colors shaded, some widgets shifted. But this is it. One of…
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Teaching Journal: Day 5
Let's make sure we grasped yesterday's lesson. Emails and comments suggest we have not. These concepts are hardest for those who have only had classical training. We want to know…
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Teaching Journal: Day 4
Today is the quietest day, a time when all is still, a moment when nary a voice is raised and, quite suddenly, appointments are remembered, people have to be seen,…
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Teaching Journal: Day 3
In the real, physical class we learned to count yesterday. Elementary combinatorics, I mean. Figured out what "n!" and "n choose k" and the like meant and how that married…
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Teaching Journal: Day 2
As might have been obvious from yesterday, the truth, falsity, or the somewhere-in-betweenness of any conclusion-hypothesis-proposition can only be assessed with reference to a list of assumptions, premises, data. That…
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Teaching Journal: Day 1
Truth exists. Therefore, so does falsity. That truth exists is one of the many things we know to be true based on no external evidence. Naturally there are a very…
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Teaching Journal: Day 0
This begins my two week tarriance at Cornell, teaching ILR-ST somenumberorother, a course in the Masters of Professional Studies, which is not unlike, though not entirely the same as, an…
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What Do You Think Of The New Look? (Back To Old: Temporarily)
Everybody gets to vote. Though, like in any socialist paradise, there is only one candidate. This one. This new design, I mean. The old one was growing stale, it was…
