One of my pet peeves is the lack of deep understanding I have regarding mathematics. The feeling of confusion is very similar to the way I feel about long-running television soap operas with a cast of characters spanning generations. I guess what I’m looking for is the story of mathematics, where the characters are not [...]
Last Tuesday I asked readers to suggest 10 ideas to incorporate into a single story for Tuesday, which happens to be Story Day on a friend’s website. I’m always ready to steal a good idea when I see one (credit due, of course), and I thought it would be an interesting design challenge. Here’s what [...]
When clearing out my RSS reading list, came across this post on Talent Develop on Scanners: “I can never stick to anything.” “I know I should focus on one thing, but which one?” “I lose interest in things I thought would interest me forever.” “I keep going off on another tangent.” “I get bored as [...]
Remember the story of that kid who was given a class assignment to add the first 100 integers together, and solved it almost immediately to the astonishment of his teacher? That was Carl Friedrich Gauss, famed 19th century mathematician. A lot of us have heard this story in school, but American Scientist editor Brian Hayes [...]
I’ve been running AdSense for about 6 weeks, and appear to be making enough to cover my monthly hosting bill or a dinner for four at the local McDonalds. So that’s great…actual passive income! This was just with ads appearing on 10 or so specific posts that had retail possibilities. Here’s what I’ve noticed about [...]
I was just reading about a trio of grad students who, using nothing but a 10-minute audio recording of a person typing, were able to recover 96% of what was typed. Very cool. It turns out you don’t even need to have a calibration pass to match the subtle variations in sound of each key. [...]
One of my side projects involves the crafting of a custom binder, preferably one with more then three rings. Usually, my search strategy is to use Google to learn about the subject on-the-fly, further refining my keywords as I go until I get what I want. However, with esoteric specialty items like this, it’s a [...]
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