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browse in w3m. problem solved.

Persi Diaconis https://www.ams.org/notices/200511/what-is.pdf — you want to choose randomly from the eigenvalues of a matrix

read his post on octonions http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/octonions/ The 1, 2, 4, 8 phenomenon surprised 20th-century mathematicians, and derives from weird facts about how S7, S3, …

Persi Diaconis https://www.ams.org/notices/200511/what-is.pdf Niles Johnson on Hopf/Milnor fibrations https://nilesjohnson.net/hopf.html

For those who want to know more, this topic links nicely into A-D-E theory, Dynkin diagrams, and Coxeter groups. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-XzhVrXIVeSVcV9iRJ4S... htt…

Yeah, but is a vote-system going to be better?

Thanks for doing this! I hope more people add their stories.

Seems more like "electrophysiology" than "a neuroscience revolution". Would be really cool to have played around with those in school though.

I wonder why the graduate students went to Zeelenberg first, instead of straight to Eijlander.

I've heard that as well. I dunno, doubling seems to have worked so far...

Agreed, if you're doing the same kind of work (or similar enough) over time.

Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law. The best advice I ever got on project-time estimation (from a biology po…

If, as the article says, "Clients’ Focus on Low Price Is a Major Reason for Effort Overruns", then probably a simpler theoretical explanation can just be the winner's curse. No nee…

And Seth Brown wrote a few useful small functions too. http://www.drbunsen.org/explorations-in-unix/ (might have also made it to HN)

Here's a tiny tool I like: https://gist.github.com/isomorphisms/9537586 It just prints the first `head` line and then random few rows instead of the top few. For me this is nicer t…

Jeroen, I'm just reading your [1] for the first time now. Are you aware of Dirk Eddelbuettel's `littler`? I believe that might overlap with your Rio tool to some degree.