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Blacks and whites use drugs at roughly the same rates (9.8% for blacks vs 8.5% for whites).  So why, then, do blacks make up around 60% of drug convictions despite being 12% of the population?  And why are blacks so … Continue reading →

Recently, I’ve been reading a lot of whining from the right about how insurance rates are going up as a result of the health care reform bill that became law in March – nevermind that the data for 2010 isn’t … Continue reading →

I’ve been playing around with feature tracking and image processing in video using python a bit lately and thought it would be interesting to look at the mathematics underneath the cool technology. First up is convolution, since it’s the basis … Continue reading →

It seems that every day there’s a new letter in the newspaper talking about how the “have nots” voted to gouge the “haves” in order to pay for state services.  So, is that actually true? I took a look at … Continue reading →

There was a movement back in the 90’s to stop teaching rigorous mathematics and replace it with group work, calculators, and guesswork, with the idea being that students would learn the material better if they discovered it on their own … Continue reading →

I gave my APS talk this morning and spent the rest of the day working on my thesis.  I was uploading the latest version tonight (almost done!) when I noticed some old python code I had written to numerically solve … Continue reading →

I’m switching back to WordPress again, for good this time.  Maybe someday I’ll post something here.