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Primes and Squares

For discussion about programming, math, linguistics, music, science, and related topics. Not about CGCC (the site itself) or golfing.

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flawr

Jul 12, 2017 22:26

^ With Raos result we now have the full classifications of pentagonal tilings of the plane.

flawr

Jul 12, 2017 22:23

quantamagazine.org/…

trichoplax

Jul 11, 2017 13:24

in The Nineteenth Byte, Apr 26 '15 at 14:41, by Doorknob

PhiNotPi

Jul 7, 2017 18:52

thank you autocomplete

Nathan Merrill

Jun 29, 2017 16:31

cvedetails.com

PhiNotPi

Jun 24, 2017 16:28

Martin Ender

Jun 23, 2017 13:25

@flawr hey, why does this get starred when you post it? :P

Nathan Merrill

Jun 10, 2017 01:24

seancassidy.me/the-intuition-trap.html

flawr

Jun 5, 2017 17:47

Squared Squares - Numberphile

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PhiNotPi

Jun 1, 2017 22:19

El'endia Starman

May 31, 2017 20:57

flawr

May 26, 2017 14:25

The Ultimate LEGO Machine Returns!

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mbomb007

May 24, 2017 21:42

@flawr Base 10

flawr

May 20, 2017 21:06

smbc-comics.com/comic/monty-hall-problems

trichoplax

May 18, 2017 15:09

Being paid to read books like that sounds like a dream :)

Nathan Merrill

May 10, 2017 19:28

"the US is actually on the metric system"

PhiNotPi

Apr 18, 2017 16:03

I think the two main solutions are "there donate a kettle of ten chips" and "the red on a tea kettle often chips"

Feeds

Apr 10, 2017 18:44

Why I Love PBS

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El'endia Starman

Apr 2, 2017 23:25

This heatmap of /r/place is so cool! i.imgur.com/a95XXDz.gifv

Riker

Mar 28, 2017 20:45

imgur.com/gallery/WpoCV5G

orlp

Mar 27, 2017 01:01

@PhiNotPi I think for this the most valuable thing a piece can have is a story

El'endia Starman

Mar 23, 2017 03:49

I found a couple great webpages, mostly because I wanted to learn more about the Klein quartic. Lots of interesting (to me at least) math here: math.ucr.edu/home/baez/klein.html and westy31.home.xs4all.nl/Geometry/Geometry.html

Martin Ender

Mar 17, 2017 16:03

there is no smooth transition from finite to infinite

flawr

Mar 14, 2017 22:50

This video will SELF DESTRUCT in 7 days- MY LIFE IS A LIE

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flawr

Mar 8, 2017 20:29

aiexperiments.withgoogle.com

El'endia Starman

Mar 8, 2017 15:39

This is seriously cool: the all-green picture with red strawberries

flawr

Mar 4, 2017 21:43

Martin Ender

Mar 3, 2017 21:06

@PhiNotPi try 2S. I'm calling it the Endropy. Where is my Nobel prize?

Martin Ender

Feb 27, 2017 15:32

Nathan Merrill

Feb 21, 2017 22:14

bah, if I don't feel qualified to write a arbitrary precision integer, then what qualifications do I have to write a language

El'endia Starman

Feb 20, 2017 14:37

Good point--making no decision is itself a decision. So that's a THIRD option I have to research!

El'endia Starman

Feb 12, 2017 21:42

Apparently sun quakes are a thing.

El'endia Starman

Feb 7, 2017 22:16

36-page research paper (PDF) on the NP-completeness of some games: Classic Nintendo Games are (Computationally) Hard

El'endia Starman

Feb 6, 2017 15:43

Link: play.starmaninnovations.com/hyperbolicgeometry

El'endia Starman

Jan 27, 2017 18:44

One of my coworkers just shared this link with us: astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/…

Kritixi Lithos

Jan 23, 2017 18:10

El'endia Starman

Jan 22, 2017 22:50

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