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# Posts

### October 02, 2014

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sprigofacacia: Gabriel’s Horn has an infinite surface area and a finite volume, which is appropriately representative of its symbolic connection between the two.

### October 01, 2014

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Penrose Tr 002   by Azamat Moonbaev (azaMoon)  http://im-possible.info/english/art/computer/azamat-moonbaev.html   Author - http://azamoon.deviantart.com/
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In a nutshell, the traveling salesman problem is as follows: "Given a list of cities and the distances between each …Tags: simulation, traveling salesman
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(Click on the comic if you can't see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2014, C. Burke.Have you ever known anyone who just does the chant waiting for someone to jump in with the words. Have you ever been that person? Flowcharting: a lost art. It doesn't have to be complicated, but ti shouldn't be too "clever", either. Mostly, it should be readable so people in your audience can understand it (not everyone involved in a project is an expert coder). Readability, and easy understanding, are why I […]
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This image created by Christopher Culter shows the compact abelian group of 2-adic integers (black points), with selected elements labeled by the corresponding character on the Pontryagin dual group (colored discs).

### September 30, 2014

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Computer images by Isaac Dawley   http://im-possible.info/english/art/computer/isaac-dawley.html   Author - http://thanksanyway.deviantart.com/
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Mapzen focuses on building open source mapping components for developers. We design things that can be provided as a service, …Tags: Mapzen, open-source
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After you've collected data about yourself for a while, you tend to go one of two ways. You either quit …Tags: David Sedaris, Fitbit
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spring-of-mathematics: Full Size & Source: 1. Fibonacci Numbers are generated by the Pascal’s Triangle. 2. Odd and Even numbers form the Sierpinski Triangle. 3. Number’s Symmetry and the”binomial coefficient expansion” numbers. 4. Powers of 2 and 11 series. 5. Triangular Numbers.

### September 29, 2014

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Rendering of impossible cube by MirCore  http://im-possible.info/english/art/rendering/mircore.html   Author - http://mircore.deviantart.com/
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From prooffreader.com  is an interactive color-coded matrix of transition probabilities from any given letter on a row to its following letter in a column. For example, along the row beginning with the letter "h", the darkest hue, represents the highest probability (47.42%), is for the letter that most likely follows, which is "e".The most likely letter to follow "d" is "-", indicating that the most likely choice is no single letter, but instead "nothing". So that "d" most likely is at the […]
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As you may or may not know, climate change could bring with it other effects besides our average days getting …Tags: cartogram, environment, New York Times
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(Click on the comic if you can't see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2014, C. Burke.I may make a poster of this even if my students get neither the math nor the TV reference. They need to learn about both. As far as the math goes, there are two points on the co-ordinate plane to start. Let's call the first one Point A, with coordinates (-5, 2). The other point we'll call Point B, was at (2, 4) -- so it wasn't a rotational image of Point A. Point B has up and moved itself, which points don't […]
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### September 28, 2014

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Penrose Question Blocks   by Fox Chaotica  http://im-possible.info/english/art/computer/fox-chaotica.html   Author - http://sonicfreak74647.deviantart.com/
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Artworks by Tenevaya Olga   http://im-possible.info/english/art/various/tenevaya-olga.html   Artist - https://www.flickr.com/photos/126735555@N08/
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mathmajik: Spring Forest (5,3): embedded, unembedded, and cowl 12” x 11” x 9” Knitted wool (Dream in Color Classy, in colors Happy Forest and Spring Tickle) 2009 and 2013 A (p,q) torus knot traverses the meridian cycle of a torus p times and the longitudinal cycle q times. Here are three instantiations of a (5,3) torus knot: (a, middle) The knot embedded on a torus. A (p,q) torus knot may be drawn on a standard flat torus as a line of slope q/p. The challenge is to design a thickened […]

### September 27, 2014

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Still Life series by Vicente Meavilla  http://im-possible.info/english/art/vicente/vicente10.html#still-life-1

### September 26, 2014

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Unrolling these circles gives fills a triangle with base 2 π r and height r (where r is the radius of the filled disk). Such a triangle has area π r2. This does not serve as a complete proof for why this is the area of a circle, but can give you some intuition for why it should be. [code]
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What do you get when you put LEDs on a system of drones and then program them to fly in …Tags: drones, light painting

### September 25, 2014

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geometrymatters: diatoms - california academy of sciences geology 1. Biddulphia deodora -  Miocene, ph#000058D,scale bar = 10 µm 2. Actinoptychus chenevierei - holotype, Cretaceous, ph#000677D, scale bar = 10 µm 3. Lithodesmium margaritaceum - Cretaceous, ph#000865D, scale bar = 10 µm 4. Aulacodiscus currus - holotype, Eocene, ph#001088D, scale bar = 10 µm 5. Triceratium diversum - holotype, Eocene, ph#001131D, scale bar = 10 µm 6. Triceratium swastika - Cretaceous, […]
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5h48422: Did you miss math?
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Enamel works by Alisa Mantulina   http://im-possible.info/english/art/applied_art/alisa-mantulina.html
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Plate from Geometria et perspectiva [1575] – Lorenz Stoer David Wade’s ‘Fantastic Geometry – Polyhedra and the Artistic Imagination in the Renaissance’ is a fascinating entrée into the works of group of artists who published books containing enigmatic and fantastical depictions of geometric forms in Germany during the mid-sixteenth century. Densely illustrated publications by Wenzel […]
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Hi everyone, next week I start a tour of Finland. I’ll be talking about Enigma and code breaking because that’s my jam. Some of these talks are public, or at least might let you in, so you might want to come along. Here’s what I know: Monday 29th September, 12pm and 5pm: åbo akademi, Turku. Arken Building. Tuesday 30th, 6pm: Cafe Scientifique at Monitomitalo, Tampere. Wednesday 1st of October, 10am: Tampere University of Technology. Thursday 2nd, 1pm: Aalto University, […]
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No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project, an initiative from the Clinton Foundation, aims to highlight progress towards global gender equality …Tags: Clinton Foundation, Fathom, gender equality, video
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(Click on the comic if you can't see the full image.) (C)Copyright 2014, C. Burke.Doesn't anything before 11 or after 8 in the morning? She cried, "Moe! Moe! Moe!" Nyuk, nyuk! Wiseguy!
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One of our own, Lee Bradley, has just written a book called A Programmer’s Guide to the Meaning of Life. Knowing a little about Lee’s eclecticism, this is sure to be a good read. I’m heading to pick up a copy now at lulu.com. Go Tunxis community!
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mister-wunderkammer: Counting in binary Instead of counting up to five on each hand, a binary system can be used to count up to 31 on one hand, and up to 1023 on two hands. This is done by using your fingers to represent increasing numbers, multiplying by two each time. Once the numbers 1, 2, 4, 8 and 16 are assigned to the fingers, as above, different numbers can be represented by raising or tucking in the fingers. A raised finger represents its number being “on”, whereas a lowered […]

### September 24, 2014

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This is beautiful to watch. Graham Roberts, Daniel J. Wakin, and others from the New York Times, along with OpenShades, …Tags: Kronos Quartet, music, New York Times