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July 2009's Entries

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

Random Past Entries

Draining the Swampland
- Jun 9, 2009
- Not so easy, I’m afraid…
Weird
- Apr 24, 2005
- Last night, I had a dream. The plot doesn’t matter much. But, at some point, one of the characters drew…
Weekend in Jersey
- Nov 17, 2002
- So I find myself in Central New Jersey again, for Curt Callan’s 60th birthday Festschrift. The weather sucks, but the…
Jaguar
- Nov 9, 2002
- Finally bit the bullet and upgraded my iBook to Jaguar. I had such a horrible time when I upgraded Golem,…
Moduli-Fixing in M-theory
- Feb 18, 2003
- So I thought I’d say some more about the relation between Bobby Acharya’s paper on moduli-fixing in M-theory (which…

MT How-To

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

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Instiki 0.30.0 and tex2svg 1.0 (2)
- 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:

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 ...

Effective Field Theory of Inflation (5)
- Jacques Distler
  - Apr 9, 2017 11:47
  - Would it be correct to say that I can write down such an effective field theory for any frw coupled ...
- Nirmalya
  - Apr 4, 2017 03:05
  - Dear Jacques, Would it be correct to say that I can write down such an effective field theory for any ...
- Jacques Distler
  - Jan 12, 2008 22:33
  - In a non-Lorentz-invariant effective theory, the power counting can be rather different from what you would find in a Lorentz-invariant ...
- wandering.the.cosmos
  - Jan 12, 2008 22:17
  - Dear Jacques, I’m just a grad student here. This paper reminds me of a question I’ve been wondering about. In ...
- Robert
  - Jan 9, 2008 05:00
  - Thats indeed a very nice and carefull paper. Thanks for the link.

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July 10, 2009

Musical Interlude II

Time for another peak into the contents of my iPod.

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