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John Allen Paulos

@JohnAllenPaulos

Math prof, NYT bestselling author. Innumeracy, Math'n Reads Newspaper, others: https://t.co/Xff6upioJJ, columnist, ponderer

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In 1930, the mathematician Frank Ramsey proved that as graphs get bigger, structure is inevitable. Ramsey died later that year at the age of 26. This work spawned Ramsey theory, which looks for inescapable patterns in a huge range of systems. quantamagazine.org/after-nearly-a…

In 1930, the mathematician Frank Ramsey proved that as graphs get bigger, structure is inevitable. Ramsey died later that year at the age of 26. This work spawned Ramsey theory, which looks for inescapable patterns in a huge range of systems. quantamagazine.org/after-nearly-a…
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'A large part of mathematics which becomes useful developed with absolutely no desire to be useful, and in a situation where nobody could possibly know in what area it would become useful; and there were no general indications that it ever would be so. By and large it is…

'A large part of mathematics which becomes useful developed with absolutely no desire to be useful, and in a situation where nobody could possibly know in what area it would become useful; and there were no general indications that it ever would be so. By and large it is…
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Trump showed up at his fraud trial in NY today to watch his star expert witness testify, who was paid over $500,000. A recap …meidastouch.com/news/trump-sho…

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Fwiw: If you add up the number of Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza, and Israel, the sum is about 7 million, approximately equal to the number of Jews in Israel.

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Surprises me every year: 'How many questions will the final exam have?'

That's never a good metric for my exams. Some questions are quick, some require a lot of work, some stand alone, some have multiple parts. What information does 10 or 5 or 15 give? Anxious students, I know.

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Current chatbots can pass the Turing Test, right?

A lot of people have claimed this, but Cameron Jones (Cameron Jones) and Benjamin Bergen of UCSD actually tested the claim!

(Spoiler: The answer is 'no, they don't pass.')

arxiv.org/abs/2310.20216

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Determinants of all the 3×3 matrices made from the 9! = 362,800 permutations of {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9} range from −412 to 412.
The smallest value that doesn't occur at least once is ±324. Histogram of the values with some highlights and lowlights marked:

Determinants of all the 3×3 matrices made from the 9! = 362,800 permutations of {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9} range from −412 to 412. The smallest value that doesn't occur at least once is ±324. Histogram of the values with some highlights and lowlights marked:
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Johnson presided over a country with more than a quarter million deaths from Covid, one of the worst death tolls in Europe. Indirectly his innumeracy probably contributed to the total. apnews.com/article/covid1…

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The chief science adviser to former prime minister Boris Johnson recently stated that he struggled to get Johnson to grasp the science and math associated with Covid. He added that Johnson was often bamboozled by the graphs and data. apnews.com/article/covid1…

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