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cambridge and coffee
I spent the morning reading and working in the 1369 Coffeehouse in Central Square. It was like the good old days except that this time I had a laptop. Perhaps it’s just me being wistful and...
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three quotes from James Munkres
I found these on a post-it note from his book Topology. I took the class in spring 2000, which feels like ages ago. He ended up writing me a recommendation letter for grad school, so I suppose I have...
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a T-shirt opportunity
I had this idea a long time ago for a shirt that one could sell to MIT students and alums. I’m sure it would go over well — I’d get one. Maybe I should set up a cafepress thing for it?
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Well, that’s done then.
Mystery Hunt 2008 is over. This year I had to hunt from Berkeley due to thesis pressures by keeping in touch via AIM and Skype. Staying awake for a long time to work is much harder when nobody else is...
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History of Mystery Hunt Lengths
Via Robert Buckingham, a graph of the length of the MIT Mystery Hunt: I always quote 60 hours to shock people about how long it is, but that seems a little extreme. Filed under: Uncategorized
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A corrected plot of Time For First Team To Find The Coin versus Year
Robbie made some corrections to his earlier plot: Filed under: Uncategorized
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On entitlement and the Mystery Hunt
The MIT Mystery Hunt ended a little over a week ago — the premise is that a coin is hidden somewhere on campus and teams have to solve a bunch of puzzles to find its location. The prize for winning is...
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33rd Annual Conference on Maturing Young Scientific Theories: Emerging...
I’m on the organizing committee for this pretty cool conference at MIT this week. Any readers of the blog who are in Cambridge on Friday might want to attend the plenary lecture. I hear it’s going to...
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Linkage
Posting a hodgepodge of links after a rather wonderful time hiking and camping, solving puzzles, and the semester starting all together too soon for my taste. [Trigger warning] More details on Walter...
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