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ACT 2023 — Registration johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com… (by @johncarlosbaez)
ACT 2023 — Registration

ACT 2023 — Registration

6th Annual International Conference on Applied Category Theory (ACT2023) July 31 – August 4, 2023 Due to generous sponsorship from NIST and UFL, registration is completely free! Please regist…

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Computer Scientists Inch Closer to Major Algorithmic Goal quantamagazine.org/computer-…

Computer Scientists Inch Closer to Major Algorithmic Goal | Quanta Magazine

A new paper finds a faster method for determining when two mathematical groups are the same.

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Mentally approximating factorials johndcook.com/blog/2023/06/2… (by @JohnDCook)

Mentally approximating factorials

How to estimate on the spot about how many digits n! has.

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Two mathematicians explain how building bridges within the discipline helped prove Fermat's last ... phys.org/news/2023-06-mathem…
Two mathematicians explain how building bridges within the discipline helped prove Fermat's last...

Two mathematicians explain how building bridges within the discipline helped prove Fermat's last...

On June 23, 1993, the mathematician Andrew Wiles gave the last of three lectures detailing his solution to Fermat's last theorem, a problem that had remained unsolved for three and a half centuries....

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Leading digits of primes johndcook.com/blog/2023/06/2… (by @JohnDCook)

Leading digits of primes

Distribution of the leading digits of prime numbers.

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Mathematicians Discover Novel Way to Predict Structure in Graphs quantamagazine.org/mathemati…

Mathematicians Discover New Way to Predict Structure in Graphs | Quanta Magazine

In new work on graphs’ hidden structure, mathematicians probe the limits of randomness.

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Salem Prize now accepting nominations terrytao.wordpress.com/2023/…
Salem Prize now accepting nominations

Salem Prize now accepting nominations

The Salem prize was established in 1968 and named in honor of Raphaël Salem (1898-1963), a mathematician famous notably for his deep study of the links between Fourier series and number theory and …

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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Mitigation Policies Against Disinformation sinews.siam.org/Details-Page… (via @TheSIAMNews)
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The Simple Geometry That Predicts Molecular Mosaics quantamagazine.org/the-simpl…

The Simple Geometry That Predicts Molecular Mosaics | Quanta Magazine

By treating molecules as geometric tessellations, scientists devised a new way to forecast how 2D materials might self-assemble.

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Sums of GUE matrices and concentration of hives from correlation decay of eigengaps terrytao.wordpress.com/2023/…
Sums of GUE matrices and concentration of hives from correlation decay of eigengaps

Sums of GUE matrices and concentration of hives from correlation decay of eigengaps

Hariharan Narayanan, Scott Sheffield, and I have just uploaded to the arXiv our paper “Sums of GUE matrices and concentration of hives from correlation decay of eigengaps”. This is a pe…

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How the Brain Protects Itself From Blood-Borne Threats quantamagazine.org/how-the-b…

How the Brain Protects Itself From Blood-Borne Threats | Quanta Magazine

To buffer the brain against menaces in the blood, a dynamic, multi-tiered system of protection is built into the brain’s blood vessels.

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AI Anthology terrytao.wordpress.com/2023/…
AI Anthology

AI Anthology

Back in March, I was approached to contribute to a then-upcoming anthology project to evaluate an early access version of the GPT-4 large language model, and write a short essay about my experience…

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Equation of an ellipse or hyperbola through five points johndcook.com/blog/2023/06/1… (by @JohnDCook)

Equation of an ellipse or hyperbola through five points

Find the equation of an ellipse or hyperbola through five points. With Python code.

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Bridging traditional economics and econophysics phys.org/news/2023-06-bridgi…
Bridging traditional economics and econophysics

Bridging traditional economics and econophysics

In a new study, researchers of the Complexity Science Hub highlight the connecting elements between traditional financial market research and econophysics. "We want to create an overview of the...

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A step toward safe and reliable autopilots for flying sciencedaily.com/releases/20…
A step toward safe and reliable autopilots for flying

A step toward safe and reliable autopilots for flying

Researchers developed a machine-learning technique that can autonomously drive a car or fly a plane through a very difficult 'stabilize-avoid' scenario, in which the vehicle must stabilize its...

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A parabola, a triangle, and a circle johndcook.com/blog/2023/06/1… (by @JohnDCook)

A parabola, a triangle, and a circle

Three tangents to a parabola form a triangle. The circumcircle of this triangle passes through the focus of the parabola.

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Equation of a circle through three points johndcook.com/blog/2023/06/1… (by @JohnDCook)

Equation of a circle through three points

Find the equation of a circle through three given points. From elegant determinant equation to practical code.

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Sunday Puzzle: A Puzzle for Pops npr.org/2023/06/18/118294104…

Sunday Puzzle: A Puzzle for Pops

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with listener Carola Ratzlaff of Lawrence, Kansas. along with Weekend Edition puzzle master Will Shortz.

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What is a Matrix? mathenchant.wordpress.com/20… (by @JimPropp)
What is a Matrix?

What is a Matrix?

“What is The Matrix?” — Morpheus, The Matrix (1999) A matrix is a rectangular array of numbers, but a rectangular array of numbers only becomes a matrix when you think of it in th…

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Set of orbits with the same average distance to sun johndcook.com/blog/2023/06/1… (by @JohnDCook)

Set of orbits with the same average distance to sun

The set of possible orbits with specified mean distance distance to the sun.

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