Random 10 Jan 2007 12:23 pm
Resolution
On December 31, I thought about resolving to be even lazier in 2007 than I was in 2006, but I never got around to it.
Archive for the tag 'mathematics'
Random 1 Aug 2006 1:26 pm
Havoc
While we’re on the subject of insects [ "Spiders aren't insects!" --- "Oh, don't be such a freaking literalist!" ], here’s an urgent message from Physics Today:
In 2005, we all witnessed, via the international media, the devastation that hurricanes caused in property damage and loss of life. Katrina alone almost destroyed New Orleans and flooded [...]
Random 10 May 2006 12:41 am
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There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don’t those who are sick of this joke. (Google says there are about 452,00010 instances of it on the web.)
Random 26 Apr 2006 12:41 pm
Attractive
Who would’ve expected to find Lorenz attractors on a box of Godiva chocolates?
Here’s a nice Java applet that generates the Lorenz “butterfly.”
Random 28 Mar 2006 9:32 pm
Ones
Laura sent an e-mail to a mutual friend, letting him know about a Terry Jones show on TV this week, The Story of One.
Here’s what she got back:
Ah yes, one.
It’s given us all a lot of trouble.
First the Jews turned it into a religion.
Then the Christians showed up and kept calling it three.
The Manicheans—remember the Manicheans?—kept [...]
Random 8 Nov 2005 10:48 pm
Random?
Of course, nothing’s really random. Nothing comes from nowhere. We’ll use the category “Random” in the slang sense, as in “Where the hell did that come from?”
I remember when I had to generate random numbers to pick a couple of winners (we gave out iPods—well, a chance at an iPod—to people who answered a detailed [...]
