Unhappy Truckers and Other Algorithmic Problems - Issue 3: In Transit
When Bob Santilli, a senior project manager at UPS, was invited in 2009 to his daughter’s fifth grade class on Career Day, he struggled with how to describe exactly what he did for a living. Eventually, he decided he would show the class a travel optimization problem of the kind he worked on, and impress them with how fun and complex it was. The challenge was to choose the most efficient route among six different stops, in a typical suburban-errands itinerary. The class devised their respective routes, then began picking them over.
The Second Story Of Echo And Narcissus
Are you listening closely? This is the story you know: "Narcissus was a man who was so in love with himself that he fell in love with his own reflection.
Pole of inaccessibility
A pole of inaccessibility marks a location that is the most challenging to reach owing to its remoteness from geographical features that could provide access. Often it refers to the most distant point from the coastline. The term describes a geographic construct, not an actual physical phenomenon. Subject to varying definitions, it is of interest mostly to explorers. Northern pole of inaccessibility[edit]
Understanding the Fourier transform » #AltDevBlogADay
Yes, I realize that after reading the title of this post, 99% of potential readers just kept scrolling. So to the few of you who clicked on it, welcome! Don’t worry, this won’t take long.
Inconsistent Mathematics, Reutersvärd, and Buddhism: An Interview with Chris Mortensen
Inconsistent Mathematics, Reutersvärd, and Buddhism: An Interview with Chris Mortensen by Michael Lopresto Chris Mortensen is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Adelaide. He thinks that the inconsistent hasn't been taken seriously enough in Western philosophy, that the masterpieces of Reutersvärd rub our noses in the inconsistent, and that Western philosophy and Buddhism are complementary.
Stop Bullshitting Yourself If You Want To Wake Up (From The True Matrix)
I’m trying to free your mind Neo. But I can only show you the door. You’re the one who has to walk through it.— Morpheus, The MatrixTweet This I have it all, but I feel a void… I think I fell asleep at the wheel of my life. I’m my very own “Walking Dead.”
BEN FRANKLIN SHOULD HAVE SAID ELECTRONS ARE POSITIVE
BEN FRANKLIN SHOULD HAVE SAID ELECTRONS ARE POSITIVE? --- Wrong. Many authors bemoan the fact that Ben Franklin labeled "resinous electricity" as negative, and "vitreous electricity" as positive.
The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why? by Marcia Angell
The Emperor’s New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth by Irving Kirsch Basic Books, 226 pp., $15.99 (paper) Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
Marty and Michael in Math Magic Land
Is there an Occulted Numeric Language Embedded Within Our Culture? Via Midwest Real A visual representation of Pi to 10,000 digits. I shan’t bullshit you my friends, I suck at math. If you forced me to do algebra with a gun to my head, the event could only end with my landlord having PTSD.
Stars in My Pocket Like Bits of Data by Paul Stephens
The poetics of information overload. Eric Hu, Drone. © Eric Hu. Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. —Gertrude Stein A human being takes in far more information than he or she can put out. “Stupidity” is a process or strategy by which a human, in response to social denigration of the information that she or he puts out, commits him- or herself to taking in no more information than she or he can put out.
