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November 2026

  1. The determinant method strikes again! (Siegel zeroes edition)
  2. There Is Always Something There To Remind Me

October 2026

  1. THE MILWAUKEE BREWERS ARE THE WORLD CHAMPIONS OF BASEBALL
  2. “You Can See Everything”
  3. De-automating
  4. When the phone inside your ribcage rings, it’s not for me (They Might Be Giants show report)
  5. Eigenvalues of random p-adic matrices
  6. James Purdy, Narrow Rooms

September 2026

  1. I love working here, II
  2. I love working here
  3. Wisconsin sports analytics and beer tomorrow night!
  4. Finite-time blowup
  5. Don’t Be Too Sure dramatis personae

August 2026

  1. New uncertainty videos!
  2. Brewers 22, Mariners 0
  3. Repaired!
  4. Goodbye, Adley Rutschman
  5. Goodbye, Dean Kremer

July 2026

  1. Dream (Trade deadline)
  2. A photo of my father telling Daniel Patrick Moynihan to go take a hike
  3. Zhao Yu Ma on homological vanishing and optimal ranges
  4. Proposed World Cup rules change
  5. I saw the figure 7 in black
  6. Walking Red Flag
  7. US World Cup watch party, Wingra Park
  8. Save it for 2062, Peacock
  9. 250
  10. Oath is the campaign-donation allocation optimizer you’ve been looking for

June 2026

  1. Lou Reed and Ludwig Wittgenstein were first cousins
  2. On 7
  3. Game Theory, Linus and Lucy
  4. People are good and the system works, redux
  5. More shoulderblogging
  6. People are good and the system works
  7. Pete “Polar Bear” Alonso’s walkup song, in an ideal world
  8. Recent progress around Cohen-Lenstra heuristics (notes from a Bourbaki talk)
  9. The Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics

May 2026

  1. Human character, continuity of
  2. Nicknames for Ottawa, Illinois
  3. Memorial Day
  4. Is there a higher Belyi theorem?
  5. Brewers 5, Cubs 2
  6. Wittgensteinian aphorism (after six hours spent in the company of college undergraduates)
  7. Roger Brown on “Ms.”
  8. “My hatred of you has turned to pity”
  9. Blank life

April 2026

  1. Ellenberg-Li-Shusterman
  2. Alices
  3. Minor Epiphany Concerning the World Columbian Exposition of 1894 and John Hughes
  4. Brewers 8, Red Sox 6
  5. Armiversary
  6. The College Boy and His Problems
  7. Curse of the Badgerino

March 2026

  1. Sad Badgers
  2. In which my daughter invents science
  3. The Irrational Decision
  4. In which I flex music knowledge for my daughter
  5. The ex-prospect who only hit homers
  6. Two small appreciations of the culture of France

February 2026

  1. Networking and granfallooning
  2. In which I rescue Harvard’s grading system
  3. As an old calculus professor of mine used to say
  4. Waiting for Godot (Gen-X rewrite)
  5. Yankees Outright Yanquiel Fernandez
  6. Luck or loveliness
  7. Now pitching, Cadeler Wellvich
  8. George Birkhoff, faces made of lines
  9. What’s the entropy of a random integer?

January 2026

  1. It’s a good old-fashioned Wisconsin booger-freezer out there!
  2. Dick Gross
  3. If one is not to make a mess of life
  4. The encylopedia of triangle centers
  5. Bruhat intervals that are large hypercubes
  6. I’m holding out for the trigonometry of happiness
  7. Dyadiku
  8. Reaching the masses (not a Marxist post)
  9. Black Box Coat Factory
  10. Chowder was the national soup

December 2025

  1. Merry Jewish Christmas!
  2. Self-portrait with about one quarter of Richard Serra’s sculpture Equal
  3. Rusczyk wins a Bezos
  4. The American people have just one fixed idea
  5. Save my life, I’m going down for the last time
  6. I said to myself, sit down
  7. How I know zombies aren’t real
  8. Pete Alonso is an Oriole
  9. One more on sphere packing/cap set/Turan
  10. Larry Agran is the Paul Soglin of Irvine, CA
  11. So disappointing
  12. Another example: sets of arcs and loops with bounded intersection
  13. “That’s an excellent question!”

November 2025

  1. Random Americans, ethnic stereotypes, and large language models
  2. “Not Vegan”
  3. Mathgiving
  4. I wrote about John von Neumann for the Free Press
  5. Sphere packing, cap set, and the Turán problem are all the same thing
  6. Madison West JV girls basketball: Regents 45, LaFollette Lancers 37
  7. Let us now praise United Airlines
  8. I reviewed a book about the math foundations crisis for the New York Times

October 2025

  1. The golden age of not hitting triples
  2. Triple chai
  3. International Conference on Ancient Magic
  4. A favorite tactic of the self-identified iconoclast
  5. MacArthur Fellows: Wisconsin and Williams
  6. This condition of ill-training
  7. Taylor Swift and Stephanie Burt, or: Life of a Harvard English Professor

September 2025

  1. Claudia Prieto, “Tus Ojos”
  2. To The Best of our Knowledge is finished
  3. I gave a talk about machine learning and math
  4. Social media hiatus
  5. Chadeish yameinu
  6. Global epistasis emerges from a generic model of a complex trait (or: random walks on a hypercube with reweighting)
  7. Pre-covers
  8. Mura Yakerson interviewed me
  9. Klartag improves the sphere-packing constant
  10. Bertrand Russell on rationality and math
  11. Yu Darvish has beaten 29 out of the 30 MLB teams
  12. The Yankees’ #2 prospect

August 2025

  1. I’m on the Kirchner podcast!
  2. Predicament
  3. John O’Hara, “Wise Guy”

July 2025

  1. One more observation about Tom Lehrer
  2. RIPPP Tom Lehrer
  3. Doing less with less
  4. When your liver is sluggish
  5. Knowledge concerning the applicability of automatic computing machines to problems in pure mathematics
  6. Caden, Colin, Jaiden, Caden, Kailen, Dalton, Holden, Brayden, Brayan, Denton and Braeden
  7. A small thing

June 2025

  1. A history of the 21st century for Pittsburgh Pirates fans
  2. 2009 AL ROY nonprescience
  3. Happy Juneteenth
  4. Math and medicine webinar
  5. Bertrand Russell on touching grass
  6. Nigel Boston (1961-2024)
  7. Constructing lameness hierarchy using crowd-sourced data

May 2025

  1. A fang, a feeling, a flair, a match, a thing for you, levitation, my TV and my pills, New York
  2. Brewers 5, Orioles 2 / Orioles 8, Brewers 4
  3. That’s when everything went widdershins
  4. Get out of my dreams
  5. This and that
  6. A paleontologist, a scientist, a tree, decided, God, Superman, the leveler, the voice of Sarah Strickland’s rage, the walrus

April 2025

  1. St. Olaf, Carleton, UW-Madison, wholesomeness
  2. Another thing about the White Lotus
  3. I Just Saw a Face
  4. In which I have cursed the Baltimore Orioles
  5. Leeway

March 2025

  1. Aphorism
  2. A birthday message from Azat Miftakhov
  3. Substance-free dorm
  4. The best team in baseball history at not hitting into a double play

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