Welcome to 2017

A big thank you to those of you who have been following the blog for some time now, and welcome to all of you joining for the first time in 2017! I spent the holiday break fine-tuning my writing and publishing process. The biggest difference regular readers will notice is that I've figured out a way to keep writing in Markdown, but have LaTeX math rendered in the blog as well as in the email newsletter (where I can't rely on the MathJax.js Previously I've been writing math expressions using plain HTML, which gets quite tedious, and also makes it hard to include some formulas! The LaTeX version looks much better, especially on the blog site. These don't look as crisp as the MathJax versions on the blog itself, but are still better than what we had before.