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		<title>no respect!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What does it mean that my new project didn&#8217;t get written up on my own blog? It&#8217;s just a sign that I can only hold so many media outlets in my head at one time&#8230;
If you were not already aware: I have a Kickstarter page for a project I&#8217;m calling Punk Mathematics. It&#8217;s a bit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mathpunk.net/?p=111</link>
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		<title>howard rheingold on crap detection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Howard Rheingold on Crap Detection 101:
The answer to almost any question is available within seconds, courtesy of the invention that has altered how we discover knowledge &#8211; the search engine. Materializing answers from the air turns out to be the easy part &#8211; the part a machine can do. The real difficulty kicks in when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mathpunk.net/?p=103</link>
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		<title>notes on play</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m thinking about how I work so differently on solo projects than on projects with other people.
Solitary play is just play. It&#8217;s fun, and self-absorbing, in a literal sense: your self is absorbed into the play, and we experience ego-less joy for a little while.
Play with playmates may be just play, but it often turns [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mathpunk.net/?p=97</link>
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		<title>hope</title>
		<description><![CDATA[@leashless serves up elevation and awe. In particular:
Although I do not want to over-stress the parallels between open source software and open source appropriate technology, the fundamental conditions that support these technologies are very similar. There is a rapidly growing network &#8211; just over half the human race has cell phones now, and the rest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mathpunk.net/?p=94</link>
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		<title>Nering on Linear Algebra</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Linear Algebra and Matrix Theory by Evar Nering, the introduction:
We try to describe intuitively what is meant by a linear system&#8230;
[If we know or assume that a system is linear, then:] If we know the outputs for a collection of different inuts, we know the outputs for all inputs that can be obtained by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mathpunk.net/?p=91</link>
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		<title>Math for Primates podcast: Quantum Games!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;ve forgotten to mention that I&#8217;m doing a podcast! On math! (Are you shocked?)
In our latest episode, we talk about the sex lives of lizards, how to be maximally unbeatable at rock-paper-scissors, and while I think we did okay at explaining Quantum Game Theory, we fail to save the Enterprise.
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		<link>http://www.mathpunk.net/?p=87</link>
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		<title>evokeStoked</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my continued efforts to champion the creative job application as modern American literary form, here is a bit of my response to &#8220;Tell us why the idea of social innovation/enterprise has you all excited now!&#8221; 
I will freely admit that I&#8217;ve done my share of sneering at social innovation entrepreneurs. They can be chipper [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mathpunk.net/?p=85</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[I loved this and wanted to post it somewhere. From The Public Domain
Paying attention to the last ten years means we need to realize that nonproprietary, distributed production is not the poor relation of traditional proprietary, hierarchically organized production. This is no hippy lovefest. It is the business method on which IBM has staked billions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mathpunk.net/?p=83</link>
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		<title>calling all mathematicians and physicists: please fix economics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just took a couple hours to work my way through this talk by Eric R. Weinstein on Gauge Theory in Economics. It&#8217;s a really good talk; however, it is a math talk, so if you aren&#8217;t comfortable with vector spaces being the simplest object in view, I&#8217;m not sure how much you&#8217;d enjoy it. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mathpunk.net/?p=74</link>
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		<title>Statement of purpose</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After much gnashing of teeth and rending of garments, I have submitted an application to Carnegie-Mellon&#8217;s Ph.D. Program in Computation Organization and Society. (Why is it that I can manage to multiply octonions, but filling out forms gives me conniptions?) My statement of purpose is below. (I removed the bit where I discuss how my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mathpunk.net/?p=69</link>
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