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April Fools on the arXiv
Here’s a post on Metafilter about papers posted to the arXiv on April Fools’ Day. They’re all from the physics section, but a couple are of the basically-maths sort of physics.
I had a look at the maths section for any papers with bizarre titles published on the 1st of April but I couldn’t find anything. A missed opportunity!
I did find a computer science paper with the title “Worst-Case Robust Multiuser Transmit Beamforming Using Semidefinite Relaxation: Duality and Implications,” which looked to me like something produced by a Markov chain paper title generator but it seems to be a serious paper about something or other.
Money Polyhedra by Kristi Malakoff
Money Polyhedra by Kristi Malakoff:
Slides about the princess in a castle puzzle
I gave a talk to our internal postgrad forum last week about the princess in a castle puzzle. I made some slides for it using deck.js. They looked quite nice and I could just about get what I wanted in them, but I now know that using SVG in HTML is still an enormous faff if you want it to scale nicely, which is basically the only reason you would use SVG.
I’m not sure if you can follow along with the slides without me talking; maybe I’ll do a transcript with slide drive later.
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Para Clocks by LeeLABS
A scientific and graphing calculator in Minecraft
Minecraft is a game where you mine and craft. There is a substance called redstone which you can mine, and craft into circuits. Even making simple logic gates is quite finicky. That hasn’t stopped people from trying to make more complicated things like adders.
Somebody has made a scientific calculator with a proper display and a graph plotter.
[youtube url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgJfVRhotlQ]
I am agog.
Carnival of Mathematics – The Next Generation
Mike Croucher has written a post about the next incarnation of the Carnival of Maths, which we are coordinating.