December 2009
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Dec 28th
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Leó Szilárd's Ten Commandments
Recognize the relationships between things and the laws which govern men’s actions, so that you know what you are doing. Direct your deeds to a worthy goal, but do not ask if they will achieve the goal; let them be models and examples rather than means to an end. Speak to all others as you do to yourself, without regard to the effect you make, so that you do not expel them from your...
Dec 19th
Q: Why can’t you grow wheat in Z/6Z? A: It’s not a field. More jokes at Foolproof: A Sampling of Mathematical Folk Humor
Dec 19th
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Dec 16th
The final project in my post-graduate degree in Mathematics explains two approaches for computing a Euclidean upgrading of a projective 3D reconstruction, which has applications in Computer Vision. The slides for a talk I gave a couple of weeks ago explaining the subject matter are also available online.
Dec 16th
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Daniel G Bobrow: Common LISP Object Standard (1987)
Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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“Faugère used a test suite of problems to compare his implementation of the...”
– Excerpt from Multivariate Public Key Cryptosystems by Ding, Gower, and Schmidt
Dec 8th
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