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Introduction

Teaching

Evaluating Students is Important, Too

Motivating the Integral with Euler's Method

Online Teaching in the Time of Coronavirus

2019 Spring Class Reflections: Calculus

Working Backwards

Asking the Right Question

Why Word Problems?

Course Goals

Calculus

An easier approach to partial fractions decomposition

A Neat Argument For the Uniqueness of $e^x$

Models

Paradigms and Priors

The difference between science and engineering

Research

Numerical Semigroups and Delta Sets

Explainer

More Thoughts on the Axiom of Choice

What is the Axiom of Choice?

The SIR Model of Epidemics

An Overview of Bayesian Inference

Food

Lockdown Recipes: Red Beans and Rice

Science

Hypothesis Testing and its Discontents, Part 3: What Can We Do?

Hypothesis Testing and its Discontents, Part 2: The Conquest of Decision Theory

Hypothesis Testing and its Discontents, Part 1: How is it Supposed to Work?

Why Isn't There a Replication Crisis in Math?

Pascal's Wager, Medicine, and the Limits of Formal Reasoning

Artificial Intelligence

Writing Calculus Tests with ChatGPT

Why I'm Not Scared of the New Chatbots

Fictional History of Numbers

A Fictional History of Numbers, Part 4: Imagination, Complexity, and the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra

A Fictional History of Numbers, Part 3: Computability, Reality, and Leaving Well Enough Alone.

A Fictional History of Numbers, Part 2: Measurement, Estimation, Completeness, and Reality

A Fictional History of Numbers, Part 1: Counting, Fractions, and Algebra

Musings

Old Books and the Passage of Time