Purity
6th August, 2008
By xkcd, via The Filter.
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Laws, exclusions, and middles
30th July, 2008
What does Intuitionistic Logic have to do with Kate Moss’ drug use? A Neighborhood of Infinity explains.
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RH ≠ NP
5th July, 2008
Maybe it’s lucky Li’s proof of the Riemann Hypothesis didn’t work out, since…
“…if a proof is found, it has the potential to lead to the undermining of current encryption methods, which depend on the difficulty of factoring large prime numbers.”
Current encryption methods are pretty crap, aren’t they?
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Paying too much at the pump? Then support the Windies
4th June, 2008
Plus Magazine has proof positive that if you’re concerned about ever rising oil-prices, you should be cheering for the West Indies.
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Mangling the universal language
20th May, 2008
I just received an email from the TDA trying to recruit me as a maths teacher:
“The universal language of numbers is ubiquitous. And its applications in the real world are infinitesimal.”
So it’s everywhere, and it’s almost completely pointless: the Bruce Forsyth of languages.
Ah well, I guess it’s not his mother tongue.
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I danced with a man, who co-authored a paper with a girl, who appeared in a film with The Prince Of Wales
2nd August, 2007
My Erdös-Bacon number seems to be 6. At any rate my Erdös-number is (at most) 4, and my Bacon-number comes out at a dubious 2: When I was young I did some voice-over work in Empire Of The Sun, in which John Malkovich (Bacon-number 1) appeared.
UPDATE: Doormat points out that my Erdös-number is 3. Thus my E-B number is a questionable 5, which until recently would have made me a very doubtful joint world-record holder.
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