know what's cool? here's what: there's a math lecture on monday titled "what do you hear in these sounds?"

...which is a dar williams song. ha ha. other cool things about math include, probably temporarily, my understanding of statistics. for those of us who are social scientists at heart, it's amazing the difference a text makes. so now i can tell you in fifty words or less pretty much how bayesian inference works. (luckily for you, i'll refrain from doing so here.) furthermore, i can also explain why, which is even better.