tribe | 9 years ago | on: As a musician's memory faded, his family saved the music still in his head
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tribe | 9 years ago | on: The Mathematics Autodidact’s Aid (2005) [pdf]
For another list of recommendations by topic, check out this (very popular) list:
tribe | 9 years ago | on: Student Builds Daphne Oram’s Unfinished ‘Mini-Oramics’
Someone made an iPhone app which simulates one of these machines, if anyone is interested in playing around with one:
tribe | 10 years ago | on: Every top 5 song from 1958 to 2016
This is not quite what you are looking for, but it is still pretty interesting:
tribe | 10 years ago | on: Voronoi Diagrams on the GPU
I have used Voronoi diagrams (and their corresponding Delaunay triangulations) for interpolation routines.
tribe | 10 years ago | on: Why We Love Lists
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tribe | 10 years ago | on: The Immobile Masses: Why Traffic Is Awful and Public Transit Is Worse
Isn't this the point of the gas tax? For every mile you drive, you use more gas. The more gas you use, the more you pay. Tracking which roads people are driving on would also require massive infrastructure investment, and have significant privacy implications.
tribe | 10 years ago | on: Noma's taste of tomorrow: creating the future of food
Isn't this basically how Slashdot works?
tribe | 10 years ago | on: The Malware Museum
Please do, I think that they would make a great addition.
tribe | 10 years ago | on: Math Bite: Irrationality of √m (1999)
When this proof has been presented to me in the past, I believe we assume that m is a positive integer. This is mentioned in one of the comments, but I agree that it should be more clear in statement of the theorem.
tribe | 10 years ago | on: Reddit ngram analysis
tribe | 10 years ago | on: Seeing stars again: Naval Academy reinstates celestial navigation
Even with a mobile app, it may still be worth knowing how to navigate the old fashioned way. I would imagine that books / hand calculations are more resistant to power failure than apps and GPS are.
tribe | 10 years ago | on: The Importance of Recreational Math
Unfortunately, I don't live near UCLA (Does anyone know of a similar program in the Boston area?).
However, I have found that it is not too hard to learn advanced math without the help of an instructor. A couple math-inclined co-workers and I have been reading Topology by Munkres. Since it is such a popular textbook, there are plenty of solutions to exercises online. Working with other people makes it easier to ask questions if you are confused, and also helps me stay motivated.
tribe | 10 years ago | on: Daniel Thompson, Whose Bagel Machine Altered the American Diet, Dies at 94
The Awl ran an interesting piece on this [1] which focused more on how disruptive the bagel machine was to the bagel unions. I wonder if people will ever lament the loss of taxis if Uber and its ilk take over.
[1] http://www.theawl.com/2015/09/a-disruption-cautionary-tale
tribe | 10 years ago | on: Using Spotify to measure the popularity of older music
If you liked this, you may be interested in Dorothy Gambrell's analysis from the other direction. She took the top songs from billboard over the past 100 years, and tried to find out which ones have remainied popular.
tribe | 10 years ago | on: Discovery of a new irregular pentagon that can cover the plane
From the article:
“We discovered the tile using using a computer to exhaustively search through a large but finite set of possibilities,” said Casey. “We were of course very excited and a bit surprised to find the new type of pentagon.
I would expect it to take longer than seconds, since there are many ways that these shapes can fit together, and there are many possible edge lengths.
tribe | 10 years ago | on: The Mathematician (1947)
You might be interested in this article [1]. Basically, even if many proofs are incorrect, their results are almost always still true. Also, there have been many large changes in what counts as 'rigorous' over time. I agree with you that computer-checked proofs seem like a logical next step in the rigor of mathematics.
[1] http://www.gwern.net/The%20Existential%20Risk%20of%20Mathema...
tribe | 10 years ago | on: How a keyboard changed what I look for in an editor
There have been some attempts to re-create the datahand [1], but it seems that they have stalled.
tribe | 10 years ago | on: The next version of Safari will let users block ads on iPhones and iPads
There are examples of medieval books with ads in them, so it seems such advertisements are older than mass media or the printing press.
http://medievalbooks.nl/2014/12/05/medieval-spam-the-oldest-...
tribe | 10 years ago | on: 97% environmentalist
I have read similar perspectives before[1], and I am not sure how I feel about them. On the one hand, much of the industrial pollution /is/ in response to consumer demand and reducing personal consumption has some impact on that. But on the other hand, it seems very clear that by and large the public will never change consumption patterns to be more environmentally friendly ( sometimes because they cannot financially, and often because they do not care ). So it seems systematic changes are necessary.
[1] https://orionmagazine.org/article/forget-shorter-showers/
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