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  1. Opinion: CFL sells integrity with expanded Grey Cup playoff format

    Photo courtesy: Bob Butrym/RFB Sport Photography The CFL has announced the expansion of its playoff format to eight…
    #NewsBeep #News #CFL #3Down #3DownNation #CA #Canada #Canadian #CanadianFootballLeague #Football #format #greycup #Hodge #JohnHodge #playoffs #postseason #Sports
    newsbeep.com/ca/642548/

  2. Nine years ago on a defunct platform I wrote this (and I made a big statement, now-deleted, more below)

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    What do you think of this explanation of the Hodge conjecture by Melbourne mathematician Arun Ram?

    theconversation.com/millennium

    I think it's great: the right level of metaphor and concrete examples that arise from simple cases of the problem.

    [...]

    #mathematics #millenniumprize #hodge #algebraicgeometry
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    Last week I was asked to explain off the cuff the Hodge conjecture by a colleague who is an engineer of some kind. I had recalled from a more recent peep into a certain pop-maths book (mentioned in the [...] above) that the author kinda wimped out, leaving the Hodge conjecture for last and then admitting it was rather complicated. I think I was a bit harsh in what I said in the redacted bit. But that may have been because I don't have the expertise in writing for a popular audience, and this certain person very much did, and held themselves to a higher standard of exposition in both detail and clarity than I would have, nine years ago.

    I'm also slightly cooler on the metaphor in the linked post — it's still a good metaphor, but it doesn't work so well for me now as when I first wrote the above.

  3. Tellingly, that old harridan #Hodge could not bring herself to accuse #Corbyn of being an anti-Semite on today's Sky #KayBurley interview..

    Because #ItWasAScam and she would be sued.

    #witch

  4. Anyone here know about isomonodromic deformations? I have a few questions… #mathematics #isomonodromy #hodge-theory