Collaborate Disseminate
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ScienceAlert: A team of scientists has shown that crows can ‘count’ out loud — producing a specific and deliberate number of caws in response to visual and auditory cues. While other animals such as honeybees h… Continue reading Crows Can ‘Count’ Out Loud, Study Shows
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Atlantic: In October 2003, Mark Zuckerberg created his first viral site: not Facebook, but FaceMash. Then a college freshman, he hacked into Harvard’s online dorm directories, gathered a massive collection o… Continue reading A Chess Formula Is Taking Over the World
O’Reilly’s “Tech Trends” newsletter included an interesting item this month:
Want your own Klein Bottle? Made by Cliff Stoll, author of the cybersecurity classic The Cuckoo’s Egg, who will autograph your bottle for you (and may include other surprise… Continue reading 73-Year-Old Clifford Stoll Is Now Selling Klein Bottles
An anonymous reader shares a report: According to the Ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras, ‘consonance’ — a pleasant-sounding combination of notes — is produced by special relationships between simple numbers such as 3 and 4. More recently, scholars… Continue reading Pythagoras Was Wrong: There Are No Universal Musical Harmonies, Study Finds
Pi was calculated to 100 trillion decimal places in 2022 by a Google team lead by cloud developer advocate Emma Haruka Iwao.
But 2024’s “pi day” saw a new announcement…
After successfully breaking the speed record for calculating pi to 100 trilli… Continue reading Pi Calculated to 105 Trillion Digits. (Stored on 1 Petabyte of SSDs)
After a 6-1 vote by the district board, San Francisco middle schools will teach Algebra I again this fall. Axios reports: Roughly a third of SFUSD middle schools this fall will begin offering the course to eighth graders at about a third of its 13 midd… Continue reading Algebra To Return To San Francisco Middle Schools This Fall
Jennifer Ouellette reports via Ars Technica: A typical lawn sprinkler features various nozzles arranged at angles on a rotating wheel; when water is pumped in, they release jets that cause the wheel to rotate. But what would happen if the water were su… Continue reading Mathematicians Finally Solved Feynman’s ‘Reverse Sprinkler’ Problem
Dan Rockmore, the director of the Neukom Institute for Computational Sciences at Dartmouth College, writing for The New Yorker: Recently, statistical modelling has taken on a new kind of importance as the engine of artificial intelligence — specifical… Continue reading How Much of the World Is It Possible to Model?
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: Google DeepMind has created an AI system that can solve complex geometry problems. It’s a significant step towards machines with more human-like reasoning skills, experts say. Geometry, an… Continue reading Google DeepMind’s New AI System Can Solve Complex Geometry Problems
Longtime Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shares a report from ScienceAlert: According to a new study [published in Nature Human Behavior], the human brain has two separate ways of processing numbers of things: one system for quantities of four or fewer, an… Continue reading There’s a Big Difference In How Your Brain Processes the Numbers 4 and 5