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April 2012's Entries

Mrs. Adler Lies!
- Apr 7, 2012
- Such a sweet looking old lady…

Random Past Entries

Going Galt
- Sep 21, 2010
- Piling on…
Twistor Yang Mills
- Sep 27, 2007
- Belatedly Boels et al.
Basher
- Feb 1, 2003
- Brad DeLong takes a break from a long series of excellent posts on the Bush economic “plan” to take…
Surface Waves
- Sep 18, 2009
- More elementary hydrodynamics. Why? ‘Cuz it’s fun.
Black Box Voting
- Dec 19, 2003
- Finally, there’s a site devoted exclusively to the electronic voting scandal.

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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dCS (3)
- Tom
  - Oct 3, 2023 16:21
  - Hello, Prof. Distler. I just read this post: https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/blog/archives/002943.html#more What would you say is a good undergrad particle physics book ...
- Jacques Distler
  - Sep 3, 2023 04:20
  - Pardon the slight digression… I have nothing to say about “dynamical Chern-Simons gravity”, but this certainly brings to mind work ...
- Mitchell Porter
  - Sep 3, 2023 02:48
  - Pardon the slight digression… I have nothing to say about “dynamical Chern-Simons gravity”, but this certainly brings to mind work ...

Brotli (1)
- FurriousFox
  - Mar 28, 2023 11:24
  - hmm, but now you got the issue that if you send a request with if-none-match: “0-5debc62fd30dd-br” it’ll respond with etag: ...

Fine Structure (2)
- Jacques Distler
  - Oct 18, 2022 10:40
  - Quantum I and II are (roughly) the first and second half of Griffiths’ book.
- Dave
  - Oct 17, 2022 23:52
  - Just out of curiosity, what book are you using/recommending for the course (if you’re using any)?

MathML Update (8)
- Jacques Distler
  - Jul 24, 2022 14:53
  - That’s because I turned off sending the Content-Security-Policy header. It clearly doesn’t affect the loading of other Javascript, but does ...
- Mitchell Porter
  - Jul 24, 2022 14:38
  - It’s all working everywhere now!
- Jacques Distler
  - Jul 24, 2022 01:14
  - The browsers you list all use MathJax to render the formulæ. But so does Chrome on a Mac, and that ...
- Jacques Distler
  - Jul 23, 2022 15:25
  - Is it just my blog, or is the n-Category Café also affected? The browsers you list all use MathJax to ...
- Mitchell Porter
  - Jul 23, 2022 14:26
  - Chrome and Microsoft Edge under Windows, Chrome under Android. They all still show the same problem, the markup is displayed ...

Action-Angle Variables (26)
- Jacques Distler
  - May 5, 2022 11:24
  - That is: your homology basis γ i\gamma_i are the boundaries of disks, γ i=∂D i\gamma_i = \partial D_i. That sounds ...
- Leo Stein
  - May 5, 2022 10:29
  - I know this is extremely late, but I just stumbled on this post recently. In the setting where your symplectic ...
- 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 ...

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