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Posts with this logo use MathML. To see the equations, you either need Mozilla or a MathML plugin for IE/Win. You will also need to install some fonts. The posts were authored in itex (an extension of WebTeX) using the itexToMML Text Filter plugin for MovableType (the README file).

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July 2009's Entries

• Musical Interlude II
  • Jul 10, 2009
  • More musical tidbits.

Random Past Entries

• Daddy Links, Mommy Links and AutoLinks
  • Mar 7, 2005
  • Google AutoLink and Larry Summers tackled in the same post? … Priceless. You go, girl!…
• OpenSSL Vulnerability or Opportunity?
  • Oct 1, 2003
  • Vulnerability in OpenSSL, job at Apple.
• Leave the Country, Lose Your Songs?
  • Jul 28, 2003
  • I haven’t yet succumbed to the allure of the iTunes Music Store. While nice in theory, I’ve been wondering how…
• Sacrificial
  • Apr 4, 2007
  • A Passover story.
• Vote Early, Vote Often
  • Aug 4, 2003
  • In the wake of the Florida Debacle of November 2000, there has been a headlong rush to replace paper ballots…

MT How-To

1. Validating Comments
   • May 3, 2003
   • Run comments through the W3C Validator before posting. The first in a series of “How-To” articles on MovableType.
2. Bullet-Proofing II
   • May 11, 2003
   • More bullet-proofing tips to ensure your blog is valid XHTML
3. Text Filters for Comments
   • May 19, 2003
   • Allow a choice of Text Filters in your Comment-entry form.
4. Serve it Up!
   • May 26, 2003
   • Serving your blog as XHTML 1.1 with a MIME-type of application/xhtml+xml.
5. <abbr>, <acronym>, Accessibility & ...
   • Sep 10, 2003
   • A tutorial on marking up abbreviations and an MT plugin which makes the job easy.
6. Forcing Comment Previews
   • Jun 16, 2004
   • Introducing the MTHash plugin, and a reliable way to force Comment Previews.
7. Internationalization and Trackbacks
   • Feb 17, 2005
   • In which our hero gets fed up with gibberish Trackbacks and takes matters in his own hands.

Recent Comments

• Instiki 0.30.0 and tex2svg 1.0 (5)
  • Tim
    • Aug 3, 2020 00:03
    • It’s ok i think I get what’s going on. Well the paper’s introduction on page 3 tells you what it ...
  • Tim
    • Aug 2, 2020 17:45
    • Hello, Prof. Distler. Have you seen/read this paper? https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.06872.pdf I wonder if this is a significant result. Is this about ...
  • Tim
    • Aug 2, 2020 17:38
    • Hello, Prof. Distler. Have you seen/read this paper? https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.06872.pdf I wonder if this is a significant result. Is this about ...
  • Jacques Distler
    • Mar 16, 2019 20:28
    • … but only if you choose the “Markdown with itex to MathML” text filter.
  • Jacques Distler
    • Mar 16, 2019 20:18
    • Works on this blog, too:

• Entanglement for Laymen (9)
  • Sidney
    • May 15, 2020 15:06
    • This example is very useful ! I still don’t fully grasp the distinction between what the filter does (absorbing photons) ...
  • Jacques Distler
    • May 12, 2020 16:01
    • This criteria makes sense indeed, is it correct to interpret it as an “action at distance” ? No more than ...
  • Sidney
    • May 12, 2020 15:47
    • This criteria makes sense indeed, is it correct to interpret it as an “action at distance” ? So if I ...
  • Jacques Distler
    • May 10, 2020 13:15
    • I suppose I should have started with an exposition of the difference between classical probabilities (there’s a 50% chance that ...
  • Sidney
    • May 10, 2020 09:16
    • A layman here, thank you for this very clear explanation (the less convoluted I came across, from what I remember) ...

• Action-Angle Variables (24)
  • Matthew Kvalheim
    • Apr 14, 2018 20:23
    • Sorry — when I said “global”, what I really meant was globally on defined on a torus or on a ...
  • Jacques Distler
    • Apr 14, 2018 20:06
    • But then there is the question: why do the local 1-forms dφ id\varphi^i patch together to yield well-defined global 1-forms? ...
  • Matthew Kvalheim
    • Apr 14, 2018 18:57
    • Interesting. I didn’t know that result. Thanks for the reference. Using that result, given (K 1,…,K n)(K_1,\ldots,K_n), we can locally ...
  • Jacques Distler
    • Apr 14, 2018 12:12
    • It seems to me that your complaint, here, is purely a local one, and it is the thing that is ...
  • Matthew Kvalheim
    • Apr 14, 2018 03:28
    •       ω\omega is a fixed, known 2-form. I completely agree.       Given ω\omega and the K iK_i, this defines a ...

• MathML Update (1)
  • Random Bloke
    • Apr 7, 2018 00:38
    • PW has a new post and he mentions you and an interaction with you in the past. Can you comment ...

• Statistical Innumeracy (2)
  • Peter Theophilopoulos
    • May 20, 2017 13:31
    • The issue that many times an benign fibroid cyst leads to fears of the worst. My wife has had two ...
  • Jim Lifter
    • Jan 15, 2011 15:34
    • I couldn’t agree more. We make such irrational decisions when such great data is available. Your example about breast cancer ...

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