web.mit.edu
The 500-mile email
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simone.computer
simone.computer
· Simone Marzulli's personal website, feel free to click your favourite buttons! · Shared by 43, including Joscha Bach, 瑞拿頭, Stef Walter, Hans Bickhofe
colah.github.io
Visual Information Theory
· I love the feeling of having a new way to think about the world. I especially love when there’s some vague idea that gets formalized into a concrete concept. Information theory is a prime example of… · Shared by 40, including rohit, sircharlsxavier, 瑞拿頭, Gordon, Alexander Seifert, kaywa, Jeff Ammons
Quanta Magazine
Beyond the Bell Curve, a New Universal Law
9 min · · A potent theory has emerged explaining a mysterious statistical law that arises throughout physics and mathematics. · Shared by 30, including Mattia Fregola 🤔, Kevin Mitchell @WiringtheBrain@ mstdn .social, Taylor Pearson, 瑞拿頭
PetaPixel
Goodbye Aberration: Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optical Problem
4 min · · When you look through your viewfinder and things seem a little bit blurry or lacking definition, it's probably because you are using an “el cheapo” lens. · Shared by 27, including 瑞拿頭
Stanford University
Video is better when the codec and transport work together.
9 min · · No. Are you sure? Your website looks like a startup company’s. It's just the HTML template! They all look like this. We promise, this is an academic research project at a university. The code is open… · Shared by 24, including 瑞拿頭, Philippe
Quanta Magazine
Rainbow Proof Shows Graphs Have Uniform Parts
10 min · · Mathematicians have proved that copies of smaller graphs can always be used to perfectly cover larger ones. · Shared by 23, including Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, 瑞拿頭
bollu.github.io
A Universe of Sorts
10 min · · I show off minanim.js , a tiny, 100LoC, yet feature-complete library for building animations declaratively, and why someone would want to do things this way. Enjoy! The blue circle's animation is… · Shared by 21, including Kevin Marks 🏠kevinmarks.com xoxo.zone/@KevinMarks, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, 瑞拿頭, Simone Corsi 💻🚀
medium.com
The Ramanujan Summation: 1 + 2 + 3 + ⋯ + ∞ = -1/12?
9 min · · “What on earth are you talking about? There’s no way that’s true!” — My mom · Shared by 21, including Anita Leirfall, Guy Longworth, Dr. Craig Malkin, 瑞拿頭
The New York Times
Travels with John Conway, in 258 Septillion Dimensions
10 min · · The Princeton mathemagician, who died in April, left an engaging legacy of numerical gamesmanship. · Shared by 18, including 瑞拿頭, Anita Leirfall, Dr. A.S. Barwich
The Guardian
Plan to sell 50m meals made from electricity, water and air
2 min · · Solar Foods hopes wheat flour-like product will hit target in supermarkets within two years · Shared by 18, including Warren Whitlock, @grzewap@mastodon.social, 瑞拿頭
altwork.com
The New Way to Work
1 min · · Altwork’s objective is to redefine how your computer and workstation work with you; to support you in being more productive, comfortable, and healthy. Whether you need to sit, stand, collaborate or… · Shared by 17, including Scott Hanselman 🌮, Christopher D. Long, 瑞拿頭
Nautilus Magazine
The Computer Maverick Who Modeled the Evolution of Life
11+ min · · In 1953, at the dawn of modern computing, Nils Aall Barricelli played God. Clutching a deck of playing cards in one hand and a stack… · Shared by 15, including 瑞拿頭
Science Magazine
‘Wood wide web’—the underground network of microbes that connects trees—mapped for first time
3 min · · Global census of forest fungi suggests warming could trigger soil carbon bomb · Shared by 14, including Korben, 瑞拿頭, News from Science, AAAS
hanshack.com
Figuregrounder
· A figure-ground diagram poster tool · Shared by 14, including patrick h. lauke (redux) "Big Dog" #toryScum #cis, Dominik Grolimund, 瑞拿頭
medium.com
Why Hot Water Freezes Faster Than Cold—Physicists Solve the Mpemba Effect — The Physics arXiv Blog
3 min · · Aristotle first noticed that hot water freezes faster than cold, but chemists have always struggled to explain the paradox. Until now · Shared by 14, including Dom Zuend, Liza Sperling, 瑞拿頭