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Biweekly links for 11/13/2009

Polymath and the origin of life « Gowers’s Weblog Tim Gowers has some very interesting ideas for an open science project to come up with a simple theoretical model where self-replication organisms are likely to spontaneously arise. In this post he tries to formulate a question or questions such a project could feasibly attack, and… Continue reading Biweekly links for 11/13/2009

Biweekly links for 10/23/2009

Pan-STARRS A detection system for near-Earth objects, including objects that might impact. Will survey the entire sky once every week or so, and generate ~ 10 terabytes of data per day. Seven Guidelines for Writing Worthy Works of Non-Fiction, Bryan Caplan Good guidelines, surprisingly orthogonal to many existing lists. Mind Hacks: Hallucinations in sensory deprivation… Continue reading Biweekly links for 10/23/2009

Biweekly links for 09/18/2009

Bin Laden’s Reading List for Americans – The Lede Blog – NYTimes.com “While Oprah’s seal of approval on a book cover is sought after in America, Osama Bin Laden’s is, to put it mildly, not. On Monday, the authors of three books apparently recommended to American readers by the leader of Al Qaeda in his… Continue reading Biweekly links for 09/18/2009

Finding Primes: A Fun Subproblem

The ongoing open mathematics project finding primes aims to find a deterministic algorithm to efficiently generate [tex]k[/tex]-digit primes. The fastest known algorithm seems to be a method of Odlyzko which generates a [tex]k[/tex]-digit prime in time [tex]O(10^{k/2})[/tex]. The people working on the project have made some observations which come tantalizingly close to breaking that barrier.… Continue reading Finding Primes: A Fun Subproblem

Bertrand’s postulate

This post is motivated by the ongoing Polymath Project “finding primes”, an open source mathematics project whose aim (roughly speaking) is to find an efficient algorithm to deterministically generate a prime number of at least [tex]k[/tex] digits. The post isn’t a contribution to the ongoing research discussion, but rather describes background material I wanted to… Continue reading Bertrand’s postulate

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Biweekly links for 08/03/2009

Sweet Juniper! Incredible photo montages from Detroit. Detroit UnReal Estate Agency An entire city that seems to be dying: “Detroit Unreal Estate Agency will produce, collect and inventory information on the ‘unreal estate’ of Detroit: that is, on the remarkable, distinct, characteristic or subjectively significant sites of urban culture. The project is aimed at new… Continue reading Biweekly links for 08/03/2009

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Biweekly links for 07/24/2009

The Perfect Storm, but wait… What’s that? – YouTube My hat is off to the unknown surfer. Traders Profit With Computers Set at High Speed – NYTimes.com Highly recommended. Big data and Wall Street. Charter Cities: Blog Paul Romer’s new blog – Romer is an economist who developed endogeneous growth theory. The blog is apparently… Continue reading Biweekly links for 07/24/2009

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wiki_tex.py

I’ve written a simple python script called wiki_tex.py to help convert LaTeX to the wiki-tex used on MediaWikis like the Polymath1 wiki, and Wikipedia. It’s a stripped-down port of a similar script I use to put LaTeX on my blog – the original script is heavily customized, which is why I haven’t made it generally… Continue reading wiki_tex.py

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