This is the best video about frequentist statistics I’ve ever seen. Watch and enjoy: [youtube url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVMVGHkt2cg] by Jesse Kelly Productions. Found on youtube’s math blog. If that blog really is automatically generated, I think we need to reject the null hypothesis that Google hasn’t invented strong AI. Am I doing it right? brb, going to…
Math/Maths 100: 2nd Birthday Spectacular – What’s your project?
A new episode of the Math/Maths Podcast has been released. A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week is a 100th episode/2nd birthday celebration. Samuel and Peter discuss the last year in mathematics, then introduce and discussion contributions from 11+ special guests answering the question ‘What’s your current project?’ featuring:…
12th Forum of Young Women Mathematicians
via Olivier Gerard on Google+: 12th Forum of Young (Wo)men Mathematicians Will take place in Paris in November. All mathematicians (of all ages and genders) welcome to attend. Starting keynote by Claire Voisin. Young women and young men starting their mathematics career can submit a talk. The particularity is that all organization, referring and invited lectures…
Topics from the second year of the Math/Maths Podcast
A year ago I compiled a list of topics we had covered on the first year of the Math/Maths Podcast. This was ahead of the first anniversary and 50th episode. Yesterday is two years since the release of episode 1 and tomorrow we will record episode 100, so I’m repeating the task for our second…
Robot choreography and coupled oscillators
Nao robots are a programmable standard model of small scale humanoid robot by French firm Aldebaran Robotics, and they are used for, among other things, the RoboCup soccer tournament to provide a standard platform to compare programming skills. Anyone paying attention to robot/dancing-related news on the internet will be aware that Nao robots have been…
Ask a mathematician: “Where should we live?”
Dear Mathematician, My partner and I are trying to buy a house. We both work in different places, and neither of us enjoys commuting. How could we decide where to live? Fictionally yours, Norman Mettrick Norman, Thank you for your intriguing and entirely imaginary letter. The short and not terribly useful answer would be:
Carnival of Mathematics 87
The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of May, is now online at Random Walks. The Carnival rounds up maths blog posts from all over the internet, including some from our own Aperiodical. For more information about the Carnival of Mathematics, click here.