Math52, a project by Mathalicious to “offer a fresh vision of what it means to teach math”, has surpassed its Kickstarter funding goal, which means that the project will receive the pledged money and can go ahead. At the time of writing, over $36,500 have been raised, well over the target of $27,000. The aim is…
Film “The Turing Enigma” online for free
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…