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Bookmark History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help…
Calculating the patterns and cycles of the past could lead us to a better understanding of history. Could it also help us prevent a looming crisis? By In its first issue…

November 13 2019, 5:17pm | Comments
Ask Metafilter Art and Chance: A list I want to compile a list of art works that used chance operations and/or randomness in their creation. I am keen to incorporate pre-20th century, non-Western works, and lots of works by female artists, but anything you can think of will be super…

January 20 2015, 10:45am | Comments
Bookmark Network Science of the Game of Go
They constructed their networks in a simple way: if one board position can lead to another, they are connected. Using a dataset of about 1,000 professional games and 4,000 amateur games,…

April 20 2012, 12:29pm | Comments
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The Body Counter: A statistician’s guide to mass atrocities

March 1 2012, 9:59am | Comments
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Next Step Infinity

September 19 2011, 4:21am | Comments
Bookmark Oh, Infinite Stream of Data and Light
Visitors enter the dark, gargantuan room and take up postures of reverence in front of a massive screen, which towers 40 feet above them. They take off their shoes at the…

June 16 2011, 4:22pm | Comments
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The Fundamental Physical Limits of Computation

June 1 2011, 11:44am | Comments
Bookmark Biomathematics: The formula of life
Biology used to be about plants, animals and insects, but five great revolutions have changed the way that scientists think about life: the invention of the microscope, the systematic classification of…

May 11 2011, 3:32am | Comments
Bookmark James Gleick’s History of Information
Gleick makes his case in a sweeping survey that covers the five millenniums of humanity’s engagement with information, from the invention of writing in Sumer to the elevation of information to…

March 20 2011, 5:41am | Comments
Bookmark Why the Basis of the Universe Isn’t Matter or Energy—It’s Data
Information flows everywhere, through wires and genes, through brain cells and quarks. But while it may appear ubiquitous to us now, until recently we had no awareness of what information was…

March 6 2011, 3:43am | Comments
Bookmark How to Make Anything Signify Anything
It is unlikely that Bacon’s cipher system was ever used for the transmission of military secrets, in the seventeenth century or in the twentieth. But for roughly a century from 1850,…

February 10 2011, 4:17pm | Comments
Bookmark Infinite Life
A starry firmament, or sand cascading through one’s open fingers, or weeds springing up time after time: the first conception of infinity, of the uncountable and the unending, is not recorded,…

August 5 2010, 3:18am | Comments
Bookmark Plato's stave: academic cracks philosopher's musical code
It may sound like the plot of a Dan Brown novel, but an academic at the University of Manchester claims to have cracked a mathematical and musical code in the works…

July 20 2010, 2:45am | Comments
Bookmark Triumph of the Cyborg Composer
Along with his work on synthesis, or using machines to create sounds, Cope had dabbled in the use of software to compose music. Inspired by the field of artificial intelligence, he…

March 12 2010, 3:09am | Comments
Bookmark From Eternity to Here
The arrow of time points in one direction only, from past to present to future. Now there's a fact—rather like Wittgenstein's observation "A is the same thing as A"—that is so…

January 12 2010, 2:15am | Comments
Bookmark Myriahedral projection maps of the world
A new technique for unpeeling the Earth’s skin and displaying it on a flat surface provides a fresh perspective on geography, making it possible to create maps that string out the…

December 23 2009, 2:50am | Comments
Bookmark The Higher Arithmetic - How to count to a Zillion
Last year the National Debt Clock in New York City ran out of digits. The billboard-size electronic counter, mounted on a wall near Times Square, overflowed when the public debt reached…

August 5 2009, 3:32am | Comments
Bookmark Within Any Possible Universe, No Intellect Can Ever Know It All |…
Deep in the deluge of knowledge that poured forth from science in the 20th century were found ironclad limits on what we can know. Werner Heisenberg discovered that improved precision regarding,…

March 17 2009, 9:35am | Comments
Bookmark Lewis Carroll in Numberland
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, was a mathematician at Oxford University for most of his life. His fanciful “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass” are…

February 4 2009, 10:17am | Comments
Ask Metafilter The Various Workings of a Cube-Shaped Gallery | Ask MetaFilter Imagine a cube-shaped building, with ten cube-shaped rooms along each side (10 rooms long, 10 high & 10 deep). Each cubular room has 4 walls, 1 ceiling and 1 floor. Each of the 6 interior surfaces in all 1000 cubular rooms is decorated…

April 25 2007, 3:39am | Comments

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