Research has been published describing a mathematical model that successfully predicts the ratios of left-handers to right-handers in different sports.
Shadow Box by Laura Kishimoto
Shadow Box by Laura Kishimoto:
The Odds Gods smile on birthday/card matches
The classic birthday problem asks how many people are required to ensure a greater than 50% chance of having at least one birthday match, meaning that two or more people share a birthday. The surprisingly small answer, assuming that all birthdays are equally likely and ignoring leap years like 2012, is 23 people.
What’s the (implicit) equation for “equation”?
See for yourself with this inverse graphing calculator.
2012 Loebner Prize to be held at Bletchley Park & streamed online
The 2012 Loebner Prize competition (based on the Turing test) will be held at Bletchley Park. A Bletchley Park Trust press release explains the competition procedure: The judges at the competition will conduct conversations with the four finalist chatbots and with some human surrogates, and will then rank all their conversation partners from most humanlike…
Carnival of Mathematics 86 submissions are due
The next Carnival of Mathematics, a monthly blogging round up hosted by a different blog each month and coordinated by The Aperiodical, will be hosted at The Math Less Travelled in May 2012. Submissions are due by Tuesday so please consider any blog posts either you have written or you have enjoyed on another blog…
APPROXYMOTION by Peter A Vikar
[vimeo url=http://vimeo.com/40641882] Peter’s site is full of beautifully stark geometric/topological art