Madeleine Hall, Author at Chalkdust

Madeleine Hall is a mathematical consultant at the Smith Institute, based in Oxford. She likes writing, open water swimming, the Oxford comma, and tHiS mEmE. Her PhD research was on optimal swimming for microorganisms. She has found none of her results of any use in the lido.

What a load of noise: A beginner’s mathematical guide to AI diffusion models
17 March 2025
Madeleine Hall is overwhelmed
The ninth Dedekind number
6 December 2023
Madeleine Hall is a Dedekind-ed follower of fashion
The big argument: Is Matlab better than Python?
9 November 2022
Which do you prefer?
Significant figures: Gladys West
25 May 2022
Madeleine Hall looks at one of the minds behind GPS
My favourite LaTeX package
25 May 2022
The Chalkdust editors share some of their favourites
On the cover: Vhat? Vhere? Venn
22 November 2021
Madeleine Hall takes a brief dive into the world’s favourite set-relationship-representation diagram.
On conditional probability: Cards, Covid, and Crazy Rich Asians
1 May 2021
Madeleine Hall explores the sometimes counterintuitive consequences of conditional probability to our everyday lives.