@bit_player

Words, numbers, bits, pixels.

 Chapel Hill, NC
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Joined June 2011
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The Thue-Morse sequence in base 3/2 bit.ly/3wQ2tmG
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Mini Das@MiniDas_4 Sep 2021
For physicists attracted to solving biological puzzles.. a great read 'Whatever happened to solid state physics?" by John Hopfield. annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10…
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On this day in 1959, Caltech alumnus John McCarthy first presented the mathematically sophisticated Lisp programming language, which remains an important tool for computer science and artificial intelligence research: computerhistory.org/tdih/apr…
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Amy Hayes@AmyJHayes24010 Sep 2019
Are we all ready for Palindrome Week (which actually seems to be 10 days but who’s counting)? #WeAreChesterNJ
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Don Knuth's 1-page simplified proof of the (recently-proved, 30 year old) Sensitivity Conjecture for Boolean functions: cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/paper…
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Tim Bray@timbray15 Jul 2019
In which Paul Vixie crystallizes the Internet’s loss of innocence in a few short eloquent sentences. mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/ms…
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Peter Shor@PeterShor112 Jul 2019
Charles Bennett is going to be the next Shannon Lecturer at the 2020 International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) in L.A. This is maybe the most prestigious award in information theory. Congratulations to Charlie!
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Open secret: Twitter is pretty great if you follow people who mostly want to talk about math.
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💻 Meet Dr Alice Mary Hilton, mathematician, philosopher and social activist. In ‘63 Hilton came up with the term ‘cyberculture’. She wrote extensively about intelligent machines, the impact of automation + future of work. New @Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_… #WomeninSTEM – at Camden Town, London
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"My paintings translate words into visual language." So much great data art & #dataviz inspiration in the paintings by Leslie Roberts: leslierobertsart.com/section… via @MrPrudence
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Virus - never has been so aptly named
Geoff Manaugh
@geoffmanaugh10 Aug 2017
Holy crap. Malware hidden in a strand of DNA hijacks the computer that analyzes that particular gene sequence. wired.com/story/malware-dna-…
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I was interviewed about probability and random number generators for this piece. @JasonClayworth worked hard to get it right. | Identical winning numbers crop up in hundreds of U.S. lotteries. Are the drawings really random? desmoinesregister.com/story/… via @DMRegister

Identical winning numbers crop up in hundreds of U.S. lotteries. Are the drawings really random?

The same strings of winning lottery numbers have been called in short periods of time in dozens of the same games across the United States.

desmoinesregister.com
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Meanwhile, weather prediction, our society's best algorithmic decision support tool, and one of the great success stories of science, continues to improve. science.sciencemag.org/conte…
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An interactive obituary for Roy Glauber, in which you can play with an embedded Ising ap and learn how his methods have ties to the Manhattan project, via Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods bit-player.org/2019/glaubers…
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Trying out a new game. Prime Pairs. Place a pair of adjacent counters so the total is Prime. Keep filling the grid until someone can’t go.
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The Earth's magnetic field is behaving unpredictably: nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Me and Theo and an old Mac running Version 1.0... [30 years of #WolfLang compatibility and counting!]
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Lenore Blum@BlumLenore15 Oct 2018
The majority in a group has implicit professional advantages, unavailable for the minority: role models, mentors, colleagues, networks, advice, connections... Want equity.? Build these into your program, making them explicit for all. Just Do It!
Lenore Blum@BlumLenore15 Oct 2018
Replying to @BlumLenore @CSDatCMU
Here is a 10-minute version of a film I made over 40 years ago, bit.ly/2mTMKzW  I now call it: Back to the Future. What works today (eg women.cs.cmu.edu) is not too different than what we were doing then. It’s not rocket science, just common sense. Just Do It!
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"Inconsistent and inappropriate interpretations of p-values and statistical significance appear to be the norm in the highest courts in the US judicial system," conclude @aidybarnett and @goodmanmetrics. osf.io/h4cj6/
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Did you hear about the senior hire who yelled at the search committee, challenged them to a drinking game, and complained when his references were checked? Me neither.
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