April 2011
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Supercomputers crack sixty-trillionth binary digit... →
“Australian researchers have done the impossible — they’ve found the sixty-trillionth binary digit of Pi-squared! The calculation would have taken a single computer processor unit (CPU) 1,500 years to calculate, but scientists from IBM and the University of Newcastle managed to complete this work in just a few months on IBM’s “BlueGene/P” supercomputer, which is...
you were only waiting for this moment to arise
acmenes:
ihatemusic1943:
Nikolai...
Mathematical Poetics: Logic and Emotion are Not... →
hiremebecauseimsmart:
Despite what the MBTI claims, logical and emotional are not opposites.
You mean to tell me that,
because I cried when I watched Brokeback Mountain and Never Let Me Go;
because I empathise with a character in a book;
because I’m moved by the majesty of nature;
because I relate to…
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A Better Way to Teach Math →
Is it possible to eliminate the bell curve in math class?
Imagine if someone at a dinner party casually announced, “I’m illiterate.” It would never happen, of course; the shame would be too great. But it’s not unusual to hear a successful adult say, “I can’t do math.” That’s because we think of math ability as something we’re born with, as if there’s a “math gene” that you either inherit or you...
The Geometry of Musical Chords
hiremebecauseimsmart:
by Dmitri Tymoczko
A musical chord can be represented as a point in an orbifold. (An orbifold is a quotient manifold.)
Line segments join notes of one chord to those of another. Composers in a wide range of styles have exploited the (non-Euclidean) geometry of these spaces, typically by using short <link> line segments between structurally similar chords. Such...
“The second law of thermodynamics holds, I think, the supreme position among the...”
– Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
(via scienceisbeauty)
programmingmeetsmath:
vananhcao:
“C++ : Where friends have access to your private members.”
Oh god.
Sorry, you won’t get this unless you know an object-oriented programming language.
Funny! :))
Do you see God ?
fuck-yeah-tumblrs-best-posts:
imjustthatsmart:
Teacher: Do you see God? Student: No teacher Teacher: Can you touch God? Student: No teacher Teacher: Then maybe there’s no God. Student: Teacher do you see your brain? Teacher: No Student: Can you touch your brain? Teacher: No Student: Then maybe you have no brain …
LOL!
Reblogged from imjustthatsmart
well, I can see my brain in an x-ray or...
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scroll through the cable listings, see Hardcore Porn. Go back and see it’s Hardcore Pawn. I see what they did there
New tech shows Einstein wrong: we can watch... →
The seemingly random movement of Brownian motion just got a little more classical. Scientists have been able to image the ultrafast motions of a trapped particle, revealing the underlining trajectories causing Brownian motion. This is the first time inertial Brownian motion of a particle in a fluid have been measured.
The Neuroscience of “Source Code”: Mind Your... →
Early morning, April 4 Shot rings out in the...
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Aaron “Hotch” Hotchner: This is Special Agent Dr. Reid.
David Woodland: Oh, you look too young to have gone to medical school.
Dr. Spencer Reid: They are Ph.D.’s, three of them.
David Woodland: What, are you a genius or something?
Dr. Spencer Reid: I don’t believe that intelligence can be accurately quantified, but I do have an IQ of 187, an eidetic memory, can read...
