Monthly Archives: October 2016

Coffee Passport

Posted on October 24, 2016 by Persiflage

Having completed my visits to 22 Chicago coffee shops on the Chicago indie coffee passport tour, here are my notes together with a (rough) ranking in four categories from best to worst, taking into account a number of factors, including … Continue reading →

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Serre 1: Calegari 0

Posted on October 18, 2016 by Persiflage

I just spent a week or so trying to determine whether Serre’s conjecture about the congruence subgroup property was false for a very specific class of S-arithmetic groups. The punch line, perhaps not surprisingly, was that I had made an … Continue reading →

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Champagne Marxists

Posted on October 15, 2016 by Persiflage

One wonders whether it is only the US in which highly educated white liberal college students from the upper reaches of the socio-economic strata support the extremely regressive Bernie Sanders-style policy of spending a trillion dollars on free education for … Continue reading →

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