Mastodawn

Whoa, hold onto your protractors! 🤓 Rohan's blog post just made Gaussian integration the hip new thing for the cool kids of numerical analysis. Because nothing screams "party" like Chebyshev-Gauss quadrature and evaluating definite integrals! 🎉
https://rohangautam.github.io/blog/chebyshev_gauss/ #GaussianIntegration #ChebyshevGauss #NumericalAnalysis #MathIsCool #PartyWithMath #HackerNews #ngated

Gaussian integration is cool

Brief discussion on gaussian quadrature and chebyshev-gauss quadrature

sydney Feb 20

👻 Tired of getting ghosted by endless events? The five-number summary is your threat-hunting sidekick.
Check out our latest THOR Collective Dispatch for the full breakdown.🕵️

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Stop Chasing Ghosts: How Five-Number Summaries Reveal Real Anomalies

Boo. No séance required.

THOR Collective Dispatch

Vin Apr 4, 2024

https://phys.org/news/2024-04-breakthrough-prime-theory-primes.html #primenumbers #math #mathiscool #scienceisreal

Breakthrough in prime number theory demonstrates primes can be predicted

Both arithmetic aficionados and the mathematically challenged will be equally captivated by new research that upends hundreds of years of popular belief about prime numbers.

Phys.org

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\๏/eg Dec 16, 2023

In other news, "Microsoft Excel is officially an esport." https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/dec/15/you-didnt-just-succeed-you-exceled-sydney-man-dubbed-the-annihilator-wins-excel-world-championship #mathiscool

‘You didn’t just succeed, you Exceled’: Sydney man dubbed the ‘Annihilator’ wins spreadsheet world championship

Andrew Ngai, who works as an actuary, fends off competitors from around the globe to reclaim the event, televised live on ESPN

The Guardian

Sam Leitermann-Long Nov 16, 2022

Student side project because they were inspired, exploring the connections between the partial derivatives of a function and its gradient. Examining the function on a uniform region helps visualize!
#iteachmath #mathiscool #3dprinters

Russ Sharek Nov 18, 2017

Lava lamps to generate randomness:

https://youtu.be/1cUUfMeOijg

#crypto
#encryption
#mathiscool

The Lava Lamps That Help Keep The Internet Secure

At the headquarters of Cloudflare, in San Francisco, there's a wall of lava lamps: the Entropy Wall. They're used to generate random numbers and keep a good ...

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