Ars Technica keeps it simple, smart, with a new study that shows why statistics can be the third kind of lie* – sometimes the hard way to think about a problem really is the wrong way, … Read the rest “Statistics are complicated, right? Well, thinking that is why we tend to get misled.”
Nature reports on a water filter based on computer pioneer Alan Turing’s only biology paper that appears to clean salt out of water three times better than conventional filters: … Read the rest “Alan Turing’s idea makes water three times cleaner.”
“A representation is faithful if it has only one braid in its kernel.”
So, this is doctorate-level mathematics rendered as interpretative dance, and that is not a joke.
The belts always twist, but never get tangled. Geometry can be weird.
If you find this hypnotic, check out what the same creator has done with a dodecahedron. Round and around and around….
The Atlantic investigates the social movement behind America’s recent surprise win at the international Math Olympiad:
… Read the rest “Why are American kids getting so good at higher math?”You wouldn’t see it in most classrooms, you wouldn’t know
I don’t have the math language to explain what’s going on here very well. It’s a diagram of the Rastrigin function, which is, ahem, “a typical… Read the rest “Science Art: Contour plot of Rastrigin’s function in two variables, by Tos”
New Scientist delves into the advanced mapping of pizza slicing for *everyone’s* preferences:
… Read the rest “Beyond “We can all agree on cheese”: Higher pizza-cutting mathematics.”Most of us divide a pizza using straight cuts that all meet in the middle. But what if
Fusion goes beyond the three kinds of lies (“Lies, damned lies, and statistics,” according to… someone) and into the awful implications of trusting the data as it lies,… Read the rest “The third kind of lie: science vs. p-hacking.”
SONG: “One (Is The Loneliest Number)”.
ARTIST: grant, featuring Sebastian Balfour. (Originally by Harry Nilsson.)
SOURCE: It doesn’t have a research source. It’s… Read the rest “SONG: One (is the Loneliest Number) (penitential cover)”
Nature skips past the blue-and-black dress to ask: Have you seen the one about viral scholarship?:
… Read the rest “Viral science – things that spread fast.”In a paper due to appear in Management Science, Sharad Goel and his collaborators propose
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The full title of this appears to be: “D ß ist der schneck auß dem grund auf gezogen/mit allen notwendigen linien drauß er gemacht wirdet,” or “This … Read the rest “Science Art: D ß ist der schneck auß dem grund…, by Albrecht Duerer, from Four Books on Measurement (Underweysung der Messung mit dem Zirckel und Richtscheyt)”
Nature has more on the suitably self-recursive premiere of a uniquely mathematical piece of music:
… Read the rest “Gödel music composition to debut at Gödel Prize celebration.”The piece, “The Hilbert Heartbreak Hotel” by Danish composer Niels Marthinsen, was
When it comes to finding new information, The Independent reports, those crazy, criss-crossing paths that ants take are more efficient than Google at processing new information:
… Read the rest “Ant colonies are smarter than Google.”The
Or so says a new analysis published in Nature. That’s 4% of condemned people who would be exonerated given enough time:
… Read the rest “1 in 25 Death Row inmates don’t belong there.”Few convictions result in an exoneration, most of those convicted
…and they way they move, ScienceDaily says follows the same mathematical pattern:
… Read the rest “So a shark, a hunter-gatherer and a honeybee walk into a bar…”A mathematical pattern of movement called a Lévy walk describes the foraging behavior of animals
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