Das U-Blog by Prashanth

I recently read an article in The New Yorker magazine [ LINK ] about how the stand-up comedian Hasan Minhaj significantly exaggerated or co...

I should note that the last movie review on this blog was almost exactly 12 years ago, when I had watched the movie Source Code [ LINK ]; g...

This post is essentially a follow-up to a recent post [ LINK ] about the Köppen & Trewartha categorizations of climates; that post was i...

I've recently read the book How Not to Be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg. As the author states in the introduction, it is an exposition of s...

The previous post in this blog [ LINK ] went over my rough intuition of climate, primarily in middle latitudes like those of the US. Most of...

For a long time, I had wondered why the climates of San Francisco, Sacramento, and Los Angeles are so different from those respectively of R...

I've recently read the book Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari; this was highly recommended to me 7 years ago by a friend in graduate school ...

Last month, I attended the 2023 TRB Annual Meeting. I meant to write this post immediately afterwards, but I became busy with work and with ...

I happened to think more about the idea of recovering a functional by somehow integrating its functional derivative. In the process, I reali...

In just over a year, I've written three posts for this blog about functionals, specifically about their application to probability theor...