Tag: mathematics
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Links van 20 tot 26 maart 2026
I Stopped Going to the Gym… Here’s What Happened Is het mogelijk om niét verliefd te zijn op Patty? Ik dacht het niet. LeanBeefPatty, vlog Project NOMAD – Offline Knowledge & AI Server Wikipedia, AI, maps, and education tools running on your own hardware — completely free. No internet required. survival, zombia apocalypse, knowledge, data…
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Links van 25 februari tot 4 maart 2026
LLM Skirmish LLM Skirmish is a benchmark where LLMs play 1v1 RTS (real-time strategy) games against each other LLMs write their battle strategies in code, which is then executed in the game environment LLM Skirmish tests in-context learning, as each tournament lasts five rounds and LLMs are able to alter strategies between rounds AI, llm…
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Links van 31 januari tot 9 februari 2026
5,500-Year-Old Sumerian Star Map Recorded the Impact of a Massive Asteroid – Archaeology Worlds With modern computer programs that can simulate trajectories and reconstruct the night sky thousands of years ago the researchers have established what the Planisphere tablet refers to. It is a copy of the night notebook of a Sumerian astronomer as he…
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Links van 16 tot 21 januari 2026
John Oliver: Why Everything is a Scam: FIFA, Mergers, & Information Literacy – Trevor Noah 't Is John Oliver en Trevor Noah, en John Oliver is op zijn best als hij informeel is en ik wil *nu* nog eens een Bugle podcast, John Oliver LaTeX Coffee Stains This package provides an essential feature to LATEX…
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Links van 8 tot 10 januari 2026
The Napoleon Technique: Postponing Things to Increase Productivity – Effectiviology The Napoleon technique is a productivity technique that involves postponing dealing with something if it’s likely to get resolved without your immediate input. For example, based on the Napoleon technique, you could decide to wait a day before replying to emails that ask for your…
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Links van 25 december 2025 tot 1 januari 2026
Knuth: Knight's Tours in Olin Hall Knuth is a national treasure — Knight's tours are one of humankind's earliest known combinatorial patterns. They originated in Kashmir and Persia, about 1200 years ago, and they've had a substantial, continuous history ever since then — first in Asia, then eventually in Europe, and finally in the Americas,…
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Links van 25 december 2025
Exploring Mathematics with Python The heart of this book is Arthur Engel’s 1993 textbook Exploring Mathematics with your Computer which utilizes Turbo Pascal for its exploratory work, and is still available for purchase. The first six chapters (and Appendix A) are essentially that book, but with the programming language changed to Python, some rewording, reformatting…
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Links van 7 tot 13 december 2025
rePalm – Dmitry.GR Pixter was quite popular, as far as kids' toys go, in USA in the early 2000s. A friend brought it to my attention a year ago as a potential rePalm target. The screen resolution was right and looking inside a "Pixter Color" showed an ARM SoC – a Sharp LH75411. The device…
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Links van 16 december 2014 tot 17 december 2014
Hexspeak – WikiwandHexspeak, like leetspeak, is a novelty form of variant English spelling using the hexadecimal numbers. Created by programmers who wanted a magic number, hexspeak words can serve as a clear and unique identifier with which to mark memory or data. The Fatal PinchMany startups go through a point a few months before they…
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Links van 21 november 2014 tot 26 november 2014
A Country Known Only by Name | Articles | Inference: The International Review of ScienceThere is no need to introduce Alexander Grothendieck to mathematicians: he is one of the great scientists of the twentieth century. De Franstalige nota van Elke Sleurs (N-VA): ‘Schandalig gebruik van de taal van Molière’ – België – Knack.be"Cette loi est…
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Links van 7 april 2014 tot 10 april 2014
Giving Away Our Recommendation Engine for Free | Mortar Blog | Data Science at ScaleWhat’s better than a recommendation engine that’s free? A recommendation engine that is both awesome and free. Today, we’re announcing General Availability for the Mortar Recommendation Engine. Designed by Mortar’s engineers and top data science advisors, it produces personalized recommendations at…