trying to be a mile wide AND a mile deep
Posts not about tech but typically about topics relevant to working in tech. Also includes some older posts about teaching and academic speaking.
After more than ten years in the world of academic mathematics, I have some experience with cranks and crackpots. For a while I was getting regular emails with beautiful graphics about squaring the circle, and I’ve seen talks where the validity or interest of the result hinged on, essentially, the incorrect use of a mathematical […]
Last week I wrote about talk content. It’s time for round two of talk advice: delivery. These points are largely aimed at technical talks given on projected slides, since that is the overwhelming majority of the talks I’ve attended in the past ten years. First, addressing slides or boardwork: Don’t put too much on a […]
I started compiling advice for conference and colloquium talks some time ago, writing notes to myself while attending talks, prompted by good and bad features of the talks I was listening to, as well as from my own experiences. This installation of advice is aimed at the content of the talk; next week I’ll have […]
I grade exams problem by problem, with a twist. Basically, I start each exam and grade as far as possible before I have to actually think about point allocation – meaning, essentially, until I hit a problem that will be more than 1 point away from 0 or the maximum, or at least is not […]