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Humor, Math
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For the love of the Gaussian function: a lonely math major crunches the numbers

Somewhere there’s a someone for everyone
Somewhere there’s a someone for me
Though I may be lonely now
I’ll see it through somehow
To someone’s heart I know I hold the key
–Dean Martin, “Somewhere There’s a Someone,” 1966

But was old Dean right in his assertion? The fact that he spoke in such certainties when mathematics and modern physics seem to tell us, in stereo, that the only certainty in the universe is the lack thereof is unnerving to me. His words beg the question: is there really a someone? Somewhere? For me?

Perhaps even in this very university?

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News & Politics
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What the hell happened?

So seeing as how we’re distributing massive amounts of viruses and spyware or something, I upgraded our installation of WordPress. Hopefully we won’t get hacked anymore. Mantas – do you still see all the links?

We lost the old design in the upgrade – I could convert it to work with the new WordPress but it’d take forever, so I’ll just redesign it eventually. Until then we have this basic-ish theme, which still looks better than the old site.

Update: So the site no longer looks like shit and I don’t think we have spam links anymore.  We’re using a free template with Mantas’s desktop right now, I may or may not end up making a full new design.

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