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can seem to field a ground ball clearly and everybody s drunk especially the guy in front of you who has poured his entire beer into his shoe from which to the delight and acclaim of all section 37 he chugs a good game a good game to watch though not a game i d call well played willson contreras got hit or did a convincing imitation of getting just barely nicked on the tip of his little finger and gave a good jawing to brandon woodruff who s hit him five times before the brewers catcher who is also contreras s brother had to keep him away from the mound brewer turned red sox caleb durbin who has not hit a lick since arriving here makes an error at third to start a rally of dinks and walks that turns a 3 0 boston lead into a 4 3 deficit contreras still mad rbi doubles and the red sox go back ahead i forget how the brewers tied it back up but it was tied back up the brewers get a single and then yelich walks garrett mitchell hits a sharp single placed where the runner on second is probably going to beat roman anthony s throw to the plate which throw anthony heaves so far away from the catcher that it s actually very difficult for fans in section 37 to understand where the ball is and where everybody s going but it is not so difficult for not that fast anymore but very very experienced veteran christian yelich who has never stopped running since he left first base at the crack of the bat and now realizes that the ball is so very far from home plate that he may actually be able to score which by a virtuoso feat of sliding tag dodging and plate swiping he does to put the brewers up 7 5 fenway park boos so hard it vibrates the brewers tack one more on i forget now top of the 9th shipping up to boston plays the crowd is still coldly drunkenly in this game two meek outs willson contreras comes up one more time he s still mad he hits a no doubt home run to left next guy singles and now it s really on very drunk red sox fan beckons to cj and me think we ve got some more think we ve still got some more cathy high fives him but they didn t have more ground ball to brice turang makes a nice throw brewers win 8 6 to go to 8 2 red sox lots of talent but snakebit as the season opens drop to 2 8 the crowd chants sell the team true baseball share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on x opens in new window x like loading tagged boston milwaukee brewers red sox apr 06 2026 5 comments nostalgia psychology armiversary twenty years ago this week i thought it was twenty years ago today but i just went back and checked and it was april 3 2006 i fell down a flight of stairs at msri and broke the absolute fuck out of my left elbow knocked the head of the radius right off and it was apparently floating down around my wrist the emts cut my shirt off doped me up and sent me down to the er i am a stubborn guy and gave my seminar the next morning with my arm immobilized in a sling went in for surgery the next tuesday and they screwed the titanium rectangle to my bone that s been in there ever since whoever scheduled it told me you re lucky you ve got the third best elbow surgeon in the bay area i said why only the third best they said because the best one works for the 49ers and the second best one works for the raiders in my memory they told me at the er the night i broke it that i needed to undertand that my arm was never going to go back to its original anatomy that this kind of injury meant a permanent change but the emails i wrote that day said i was told i d recover and just probably always have a little stiffness at the break so maybe it was the surgeon who told me that before i went under the knife whoever told me probably had a lot of experience telling patients that kind of news and they could see me blanch because they then said you re never going to have a elbow that moves normally again but also a couple of years from now your elbow as it is will feel normal to you and you re just going to go through your life never thinking about the fact that it s broken this was true it turned out my left arm doesn t fully straighten out and never will and i barely ever find myself thinking about or even noticing this it s just the arm i have now and have had for twenty years this week i m curious if you know me and especially if you didn t know i broke my arm is it noticable to you that one of my arms is never straight once you know to look you can see it in photographs when they told me my arm was broken for good it felt like a life changing disaster and when they told me i d just stop noticing it i thought they were lying to me to be nice but people are built to adjust to change i ve tried to remember this over the years when other shitty things have happened that as bad as it is there s a future me who s used to whatever it is who is not as sad or mad or regretful about it as present me and who is coming into being at astonishing speed share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on x opens in new window x like loading tagged arm change elbow apr 05 2026 1 comment college education history offhand the college boy and his problems the high school boy and his problems pdf at link is a 1921 book by thomas arkle clark dean of men at the university of illinois i think the high school boy and his problems would be an amazing band name i the front man would be the high school boy and my backup band would be his problems anyway this passage p 19 this transposed from high school to college and from most communities to most upper middle class communities and from boy to student holds up nicely a century or so on it is a great opportunity which is offered a boy who goes to high school in these days however when in most communities it is the rule rather than the exception for boys to go the privilege is not infrequently valued rather lightly the boy goes not from any serious purpose on his own part or any special desire for training but because it is the custom because his parents have desired it and because all the other boys in his class are going possibly it is better to go for these reasons than not to go at all but if added to these there is also the eagerness on his part to train his mind to add to his store of information to prepare himself better for the work which he must take up later in life and especially if there is for him some interest some line of study which he very much desires to carry on his chances of getting somewhere will be materially increased no one can get far in any line of work without interest the work we do without joy in the doing is pretty sure to be badly done i do think i believe along with dean clark that most of our students do if not always at first find this joy in the doing and that it s a material part of our job as educators to help them find that joy this on electives is good too when your grandfather went to high school if fortunately he had the chance to do so the course of study open to him was a pretty rigid one very much indeed like an intellectual table d hote at which he had little opportunity to pick and choose but must take what was set before him and ask no questions there was a generous helping of mathematics with latin and probably greek to form the heavy part of the intellectual meal physics and chemistry often made up a part of the requirement with history and english to serve as dessert to lighten the repast there were few if any electives then and little questioning on the part of the students as to whether or not what they were taking was likely to do them any good or was particularly to their individual tastes they took their studies as they ate the simple nourishing food that was set before them at home by grandmother in the belief that their elders knew best what was good for them now everything is different the program of study in the well equipped modern high school carries an intellectual bill of fare as varied and as bizarre as that represented by the à la carte dining service of a first class hotel the boy entering high school today has so varied a program set before him and has so many things from which to choose that it is little wonder if he is not sometimes confused and at a loss to know just what to choose share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on x opens in new window x like loading tagged thomas arkle clark apr 03 2026 leave a comment ab food madison travel curse of the badgerino not long after wisconsin s ignominious elimination from the ncaa men s basketball tournament duke gets knocked out too on a wild half court shot from a uconn freshman with 0 4 seconds left in the game ab and i were in laguardia where it happened not watching the game and the sudden communal shout was terrifying for a second until we realized it was basketball the shouts were happy shouts there was not a single duke fan apparently in all of terminal b the last time duke won a national championsihp was in 2015 against the best team wisconsin has fielded in my time here most people around here feel we were the victim of poor officiating in the final going in any event since duke s questionable win over the badgers they have not been back to the finals and we like to think they won t again until wisconsin wins march madness and breaks the curse ab and i were in laguardia because we were coming back from paris where i gave seminaire bourbaki last week about recent progress in cohen lenstra heuristics i ll post the notes soon we got a good price on a sort of nutty ticket that went from paris to jfk then left laguardia 6 hours later which gave us the chance to eat a gigantic italian lunch dinner at bruno in howard beach then take a couple of busses across the breadth of queens to the airport with a direct flight back to madison ab has now been to howard beach astoria flushing and jackson heights she is surely in the 99th percentile of queens literacy among madison high school students share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on x opens in new window x like loading tagged basketball curses march madness queens wisconsin mar 20 2026 1 comment offhand sad badgers since 2013 a 12 seed has upset a 5 seed in the first round of the ncaa men s basketball tournament 20 times four out of those 20 games were lost by wisconsin share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on x opens in new window x like loading tagged badgers basketball upset uw madison mar 10 2026 7 comments ab math in which my daughter invents science while we ate our pizza i was talking with ab about differential equations which they re about to start doing in calculus we talked about y y this is why populations grow exponentially i explained because their growth is proportional to the existing population so they satisfy y cy and we can see that a differential equation like that has an exponential as its solution this was met with skepticism why couldn t you just say we know populations grow exponentially and that s how you know they have that differential equation my first reaction was to say no it goes the other way but then i realized that what ab had asked me was in fact very deep this two way traffic sign she was gesturing at is really at the heart of science sometimes you have a mechanism and you use mathematics to work out its consequences including consequences you can t observe directly sometimes you have observations and no mechanism and then you cherchez la differential equation in a world where we had no idea how flies were spawned you could count the number of flies over time and reason that maybe just maybe y cy was the governing law and so somehow each existing fly was emitting new flies at a constant rate once i realized this i launched into a whole spiel about newton and his inference of the gravitational differential equation from planetary motion probably getting most of it slightly wrong or maybe even totally wrong but that is a dad s prerogative sometimes share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on x opens in new window x like loading tagged differential equations inference mar 09 2026 1 comment books computers economics friends the irrational decision ben recht s book the irrational decision how we gave computers the power to choose for us comes out tomorrow i was privileged to get my copy early and if you want an opinionated informed no bullshit take on what optimization actually does and what purpose and whose purposes it serves written by somebody who knows this subject inside and out this my readers is your march reading here s the amazon purchase page if that s how you like to get books and if you re not already reading ben s arg min blog get thee thither it s where the all the saltiest action in inference statistics and machine learning is going on share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on x opens in new window x like loading tagged optimization older posts recent posts ellenberg li shusterman alices minor epiphany concerning the world columbian exposition of 1894 and john hughes brewers 8 red sox 6 armiversary the college boy and his problems curse of the badgerino sad badgers in which my daughter invents science the irrational decision recent comments allen knutson on alices richard on armiversary eitan bachmat on bruhat intervals that 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