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Fans of the HP CalculatorNice to see somebody else around here who likes HP! I've been using them since the mid 70's when I was in high school. Prefer them both from an operational perspective as well as how they're constructed. I've got several (65, 67, 41C, 41CX, 15C, 16C, 48GX, & 35S) as well as two Russian RPN ...
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Scientists Learn To Fabricate DNA EvidenceHugh Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that it is possible to fabricate blood and saliva samples containing DNA from a person other than the donor, and even to construct a sample of DNA to match someone's profile without obtaining any tissue from that person — if you have access to their ...
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IBM Claims Breakthrough In Analysis of Encrypted DataAn anonymous reader writes "An IBM researcher has solved a thorny mathematical problem that has confounded scientists since the invention of public-key encryption several decades ago. The breakthrough, called 'privacy homomorphism,' or 'fully homomorphic encryption,' makes possible the deep and ...
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CRC Research Safari (1st & 3rd Saturday)Hi, Here is a project I started last year but didn't get very far on because of a job change and a couple of other issues. I was thinking of picking it back up over the summer. http://www.twine.com/twine/115r3vhx8-n8c/experimental-rss-email-aggregator The basic idea was to use a RSS feed ...
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TED Talks Dan Gilbert on our mistaken expectationsDan Gilbert presents research and data from his exploration of happiness -- sharing some surprising tests and experiments that you can also try on yourself. Watch through to the end for a sparkling Q&A with some familiar TED faces.
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Bathsheba SculptureYou've probably seen this/these before, and if so, I apologize.Nicholas Hamblet added 16 months ago
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Goldbach's Conjecture+1 for Goldbach's conjecture interest here. Fun stuff. I just started a twine for it.Dan Freeman added 16 months ago
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Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into BeingYes, there's a point here, isn't there, that even if our mathematics is a natural outgrowth of our "embodied minds", this fact still doesn't speak to the question of whether maths in any way exists independently of human minds. In their book The Mathematical Experience, Reuben Hersh and Philip ...Phil Wilson added 17 months ago
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DimensionsMathematical animations of stereographic projections and many other good things.Nicholas Hamblet added 17 months ago
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Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into BeingWell, you're sentence is ambiguous due to the definition of 'ontological', do you mean it as a structural description of mathematics that is used for organization and dependency analysis (ie proofs). Or, do you mean it as the fundamental nature of mathematics? If you mean it as the first, it's ...James Choate added 19 months ago
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