August 2012
Conversations with Kurt Gödel →
From Rudy Rucker’s blog.
” I don’t think I mentioned this on my blog yet: I scanned my mostly handwritten notes on my conversations with the great logician Kurt Gödel during the years 1972-1977 …”
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jayckayc:
http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=math
yes maddox on math! i don’t know how old this is, but it still applies!
“Why is math the only discipline that has to put up with this bullshit? People gladly learn art, music, literature and geography. You’ll even nod like a happy idiot when you learn what a haiku is, and you never complain or whine about how you’ll never use this in...
“Next week, while we’re all watching NBC, a nuclear-powered, MINI-Cooper-sized...”
– Andrew Kessler, The Huffington Post. Why You Should Be More Interested in Mars Than the Olympics.
Kessler, who spent ninety days inside NASA to write Martian Summer: Robot Arms, Cowboy Spacemen and My 90 Days with the Phoenix Mars Mission, believes the agency is “so frightened of failure that...
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Tumblr Beats Headphones Spam
flippydoodle:
There is a spam post going around on Tumblr in which there is a picture of a pair of Beats by Dr. Dre headphones, and the author of the blog claiming that the headphones “just arrived this morning”, after they took part in a survey. The post tells you to click on a link which would take you to the survey.
Please do not click on that link. It’s a shortened link, which then...
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“What is the best interpretive program for making sense of quantum mechanics?...”
– Interview with a Quantum Bayesian, Christopher A. Fuchs via University of David: (via isomorphismes)
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Women In Mathematics #1: Hypatia of Alexandria
drumkey255:
This is THE original Woman In Math. The Big Math Momma. The Joan of Arcsines.
Born sometime between 350 and 371 AD in Alexandria, Egypt, Hypatia is the first notable woman in Western history to be known as a mathematician. Officially, she was Platonic scholar, the head of a school teaching peoples about Philosophy, Logic and Mathematics, for example.
She is thought to have to been...
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“The human body itself could soon be connected to the web, “father of the...”
– The human body could soon be connected to the web, says ‘father of the internet’ Vint Cerf - News - Gadgets & Tech - The Independent (via myserendipities)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2012-7-22) →
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“Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey...”
– W.S. Anglin (via mathstalio)
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“Requirements muddle up; changes are needed immediately. Meanwhile, no one has...”
– Ellen Ullman (via hackedy)
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“The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a...”
– Anonymous (via hpshelton)
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The Higgs Mechanism part 1: Lagrangians « The... →
This is part one of a four-part discussion of the idea behind how the Higgs field does its thing.
Part 2: Examples of Lagrangian Field Equations
Part 3: Gauge Symmetries
Part 4: Symmetry Breaking
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2012-7-15) →
The Smashing Pumpkins (13)
Jack White (13)
Death Cab for Cutie (12)
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Neutral Milk Hotel (11)
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“Have you heard, this new movie, the Batman movie—what is it, the Dark Knight...”
– Limbaugh: New Batman Film Is an Anti-Romney Conspiracy (via wilwheaton)
“This man may look like an idiot and sound like an idiot, but don’t let that fool you, he is an idiot” ~ Groucho Marx
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It's A Website! It's My Website! →
acmenes:
My music website is live.
Maybe I’ll go write some music now.
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RIP Jon Lord
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Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood:
thatmathblog:
U={x: |x-Mr. Rogers| < δ} for δ > 0.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2012-7-8) →
Lana Del Rey (18)
Jack Johnson (14)
Joan Osborne (12)
Florence + the Machine (2)
The Format (2)
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The Doctor: The writing - the graffiti - Old High Gallifreyan... the lost language of The Time Lords. There were days, there were many days, these words could burn stars, and raise up empires, and topple gods.
Amy Pond: What does this say?
The Doctor: "Hello sweetie."
Computer Scientists Reproduce The Evolution of... →
Simulation explains the origin of one of nature’s most important organising principles
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“This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period...”
– Message on mimeographed copies of lyrics distributed by Woody Guthrie to fans in the 1930s (via oracionessucias)
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“I can’t really get a mental picture of the sort of people who design these kinds...”
– Olin Shivers (via fogus)
you guys fogus has a tumblr :o
(via hackedy)
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Advice From A JUG Leader - Learn A Different... →
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