Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Why are Pencils Yellow?

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"Hardtmuth settled on yellow to communicate the graphite’s geographical origins, while also linking its product to the long-held Chines...
Monday, October 29, 2018

E. L. Ince and the State of Differential Equations in England in 1926

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E. L. Ince, being snarky about the state of the study of differential equations in England, in the preface of his classic 1926 book on the s...
Saturday, October 27, 2018

Dodgers Win Game 3 of the World Series 3–2 in 18 Innings!

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Wow! It's a great day for a ball game. Let's play two! Many records were set , including longest postseason game (by time) and ...
Friday, October 26, 2018

812 Double Pendulums with Different Initial Conditions

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This is what 812 double pendulums with different initial conditions look like https://t.co/jklEvfb5EI | https://t.co/ctsPCmFfEJ pic.twitte...
Monday, October 22, 2018

Spatial and Information Efficiency in Price Lists

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Everything's clear, right? theres gotta be a better way to convey this information pic.twitter.com/pHEswDU0TC — sean (@seanposting) Oct...

"Network Science In Education: Transformational Approaches in Teaching and Learning"

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Our book on network science in education just came out. Here are some details. Title: Network Science In Education: Transformational App...
Sunday, October 14, 2018

Which Headline Do You Prefer?

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Seen in the wild: @sfchronicle using two different headlines for the same article. pic.twitter.com/xPhbvbAMzV — Mason Porter (@masonporter)...

Using a 'Sort' Function to Order the Chicken and the Egg

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Wel that settles that. 😂 pic.twitter.com/0xHvS8Dply — allie, 🎃 the spookiest 👻 transbian 💀 (@aBagorn) October 14, 2018 (I saw this thr...
Friday, October 12, 2018

A Map of Every Building in America

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Wow! "A MAP OF EVERY BUILDING IN AMERICA" RT @JenLucPiquant @jswatz : Here is the online version of the big, weird, fun thing I ...

A Really Fancy Visual Illusion

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Wow! Amazing motion illusion. V5 is firing due to V4 saturation! pic.twitter.com/oNgxRXXN3f — Alice Proverbio (@AliceProverbio) October 12,...
Thursday, October 04, 2018

Amazing Visual Illusion: A Dynamic Müller–Lyer Illusion

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This visual illusion is amazing. It is a dynamic Müller–Lyer illusion . This is probably the best illusion I've ever seen. The blue an...
Wednesday, October 03, 2018

Look at Me, I'm 𝞧 sub d...

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I am going to have a field day for puns with this new (for me) nugget of information... Sooo, Max Born, who gave us the statistical interp...
Tuesday, October 02, 2018

How Many First-Authored Papers in "Leading" Journals Does One Need to be Hired as an Assistant Professor?

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This is in ecology, but we can think of analogous exercises for mathematics and physics (including also with numbers of citations of papers ...
Monday, October 01, 2018

Dodgers Win 6th Straight National League West Division Title!

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The Dodgers won the game-163 tie-breaker with the Colorado Rockies to win their 6th straight National League West division title ! We face...
Monday, September 24, 2018

Will the Authors of this Paper Look Back in Anger?

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Key question: Will the authors look back in anger when they read their referee reports on this paper? "Can high-density human collecti...
Wednesday, September 19, 2018

XKCD on Curve Fitting

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Yes, yes, and yes ! Here is today's new XKCD .
Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Trying to Divide by 0 on a Mechanical Calculator

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;) Division by zero is a mathematical challenging concept: see what happens when you try in on a mechanical calculator https://t.co/cfo52j...
Monday, September 17, 2018

"Inferring Parameters of Prey Switching in a 1 Predator–2 Prey Plankton System with a Linear Preference Tradeoff"

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Another of my papers came out in final published form today. Title: Inferring Parameters of Prey Switching in a 1 Predator–2 Prey Plankt...

"Frequency-Based Brain Networks: From a Multiplex Framework to a Full Multilayer Description"

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One of my papers just came out in final form. Here are some details. Title: Frequency-Based Brain Networks: From a Multiplex Framework t...
Tuesday, September 11, 2018

A Very Exciting (and Dangerous?) Mathematics Conference

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Some mathematics conferences are more dangerous than others. (Bernadette Stolz-Pretzer is apparently attending a particularly exciting confe...
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