Gearing up to teach Modern Plain-Text Computing, which I’m pleased to say is now required for new grad students. A real barrier to successful PhD research—a “hidden curriculum”, to coin a phrase—is knowing how to use your computer properly for technical work, which no-one teaches. Except now we do.

MAR—Missing at random
MCAR—Missing completely at random MDTR—Missing don’t tell reviewer MBAG—Missing bad at Git NMUF—Not missing unfortunately faked MINTATIA—Missing I’m not typing all that in again MIWHCAF—Missing it would have cost a fortune MLOMWYMAD—Missing look on my work ye mighty and despair

I want to hear Trump ramble at length about Sraffa’s neglected legacy, the Cambridge Capital Controversy, Neo-Ricardian theory, and unexpected reswitching dynamics in seemingly simple models of an economy consisting of iron, corn, and labor inputs.

This is so funny.

Burners eat huge losses in desperate race to sell unwanted Burning Man tickets

Burning Man tickets usually sell out and become a hot commodity in the weeks leading up to the annual desert bacchanal. This year, people hawking t...

I have to say, the one good thing about Zuckerberg is the way he acts as a repeated and decisive rebuttal of the notion that the world would be a better place if only the techbros had some sort of education in Classics and the Humanities more generally.

Mark Zuckerberg reveals 'Roman' statue of his wife

Facebook creator says 7ft statue follows "Roman tradition of making sculptures of your wife".

—You know that Lincoln didn’t really mean “We should find common ground”, in that speech, right? He meant “This is either gonna go all one way or all the other, there's really no middle ground” — But I saw it on a “Civility” billboard — Also, when he opened with that line, the people listening would have known he was quoting Mark — Mark? Mark who?

I have acquired a new candidate First Day Of Class t-shirt, designed for the way we live (and do assignments) now.

Apple in Don Fanucci mode with Patreon.

English Journalists, please learn the difference between a modal infinitive and the perfect tense. Thank you. The first President *to have worked* at McDonald’s.