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August 31, 2014 life academia

The first week of the new semester is over, and it seems like I’m settling down. Time to get back on some life and math.

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August 3

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July 3

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April 2

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March 3

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February 3

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Should vs. Does22 The Case for Complete Government Transparency22 I Want Good Movies20

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Can't Stop, Addicted To The Shindig1

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Idiocratic Much?15 Foundation Or Competition, That Is The Question13 We Must Know, We Will Know2

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Instruction Manual17

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March 1

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Discovering Perspectives Through Colorblindness11 Finding a phone7

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نمیدونم گنجشکها باهوش‌تر شدن، یا پنجره‌ها رو بهتر میسازن، یا صرفا از روی شانس...7

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امروز ۱۵ ساله شدم. ۱۵ روز از آخرین روز‌ی که پام تو زادگاهم بود میگذره. از آغا...21

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اگه تو یه روز آفتابی دراز کشیده باشی تو یه ساحل شنی جایی که موج میخوره بهت، ی...29 آیا انجام دادن «هر کاری» بهتر از هیچ کاری نکردن هست؟ هرچه بیشتر به این موضوع ...29 یه سری آدما فکر میکنن فقط خانما پریود میشن. خانما احتمالا بهشون بر میخوره که ...22 با دوستان تصمیم گرفته بودیم که بریم یه راه‌پیمایی‌ای بکنیم. یکی از دوستان یه ...13

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گر صبر کنی...19 اول سر صبی دارم کرکره رو میدم بالا که اومده قلکش رو زده کف زمین و سکه‌هاش رو ...5

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Which province in Canada pays the least tax?20 بعضی آهنگها بلا‌استثنا من رو میبرن به دوران بچگی و در صدرشون آلبوم یاد ایام ه...18

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If Immigration Was A Baby14

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مشکلات جهان اولی11

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So you want to animate your PDF files?12

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One-parameter family of functions1

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Getting (Non)philosophical With Bayes29

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Mutually informing the cause?29 Signless Laplacian and the matrix-tree theorem27 If you treat a network like a dynamical system...21

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Balls, bins, and the Hungarian method30

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Delayed Iranian Applications Update - UCalgary HR and ISS6

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A missed point4

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2017 Fields Medal Symposium in honour of Martin Hairer23

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August 1

Don't take IELTS24

June 1

Linear approximation and Taylor polynomials16

April 5

Merge PDF files29 What to do with a long list?22 Permanent rank paper is published by ELA18 A full matrix with given eigenvalues18 Losing the symmetry8

March 2

On the last digits of conscutive prime numbers23 Some March Mathness3

February 6

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Roots of a polynomial28 sftp stories21 On mental health?19

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Sagemath for calculus1

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Spotify on linux29 On convex bodies17 Making quick notes and searching through them9 Search and play things from terminal5

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February 1

Motivation, choices, and persuation21

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December 3

Spectral characterization of matchings in graphs19 Shapism in Polygons11 lambda-tau paper got accepted4

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April 1

I'm giving a math talk tomorrow29

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