Gower’s weblog has a nice piece up about A new way of proving sumset estimates. Interesting discussion on a interesting math issue. Give it a read and a think.
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Ray Kurzweil, a man that I have always found to be creative, inventive and genius, but who I disagree with on several major issues, has felt for several years that it is not a matter of if, but a matter of when that computers will become self aware and more intelligent then humans. From this [...]
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A colleague shared this at work today and I wanted to share this online. It is a piece by Hans Rosling made for the BBC which visually displays the stats of age and wealth in 200 countries over 200 years. Very cool stuff.
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Found a interesting story at the New York Times. It seems that China, not a traditional chess playing nation or chess power house, has been turning out a few masters the last few years. Currently the most promising one is a 16 year girl named Hou Yifan who recently one a chess championship. Full story [...]
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Gower’s weblog has a ongoing series uniquely discussing the lower bounds of complexity (P vs NP) by use of emoticons. Yes that is right a math conversation with emoticons as the characters. Be sure to read the comments as well. The series will eventually have nine parts, but only three parts are up so far. [...]
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