The Turing Enigma, “a dark thriller, commemorating the tragic death of Alan Turing,” is available to view for free online. First, here’s a trailer: [vimeo 25774798]
Converting a stream of binary digits to a stream of base $n$ digits
James Coglan asked on twitter: Suggestions wanted: how to turn an indefinite stream of bits (01110010…) into a stream of [A-Z] where letters are evenly distributed. — James Coglan (@jcoglan) June 11, 2012 And I don’t mean just select character codes, I mean select from an arbitrary-sized character set of any length. — James Coglan…
Problems I’m currently thinking about
I’ve been in a bit of a problem-posing mood recently. Hopefully I’ll do some problem-solving soon. Here are a few questions I’ve thought of but haven’t got solutions for. I haven’t done any literature searching, so these might have been done before. All the problems are quite computery. Maybe I’m a computer scientist, really. Problem…
P-Value Extravaganza
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…