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File: BlogTopics [[[> See also: * DealWithThisSoon _ _ * RandomWritings. * ColinsBlog * ColinsBlog2010 * ColinsBlog2009 * ColinsBlog2008 * ColinsBlog2007 * ColinsBlogBefore2007 ]]] !! Blog Topics I'm starting to take this "blogging" thing more seriously, but I keep getting fleeting ideas for things to write about, and then when it comes time to write something I can never remember any of them. So this is where I'll put cryptic, and not so cryptic, notes about things I could/should write about. Additionally, Adam has suggested some sources: * Square with a view * German grammar and weather forecasts * Numeracy, and an ill-tempered exchange: * https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.histed/posts/10155714337493465 * Negative resistance and the 741: * https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Circuit_Idea/Negative_Resistance * What's Happening: * http://www.ams.org/samplings/math-history/happening-series * Best Writing: * http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/series/the-best-writing-on-mathematics.html ********> * Ritardatario : Number 53: * http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/dec/04/italy.johnhooper * http://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/feb/11/italy.sophiearie * http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4256595.stm * "grep -f" can be awfully slow ... * Smug responses that turn out to be wrong, mistaken, or otherwise unfortunate * "Overhead lines problem, but we're on a diesel" * "If you hit all the reds, you'll hit all the greens" * The Surprised Expert * ... and White Knighting * The Crow and Andrew * ... and people who don't get it. * The Crocodile problem * Signal reflection - an analogy * In praise of broadcast media * ThoughtsAboutAlgebra * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6954514 * Monty Hall * 10 bucket, two choice variant * Richard Wiseman * Tanya * TheTuesdayBoy * Car/Key/Goat * Survivorship bias, startups, and Bayesian analysis. * Glueing together the edges of squares * and other shapes * filling in holes * classifying surfaces * locally one-sided? ******** * DiagrammingMathsTopics * Three integers in AP that product to a prime * Connection with Landau's problem. * Infinite(?) family of solutions. * What if I had an algorithm for an NPC problem? * Elliptic curves * Fourier, the spring, the string, and the pendulum. * The Lasso problem * resources: * http://www.acs.psu.edu/drussell/Demos/reflect/reflect.html * http://www.acs.psu.edu/drussell/Demos/HangChain/HangChain.html * Proof that | [0,1)^2 | == |[0,1)| * Not the interleaving, as that doesn't work * ... or use that one and fix it so it does work. * There exists a transcendental * Dedekind cuts * Using a river to find the earth's radius * The Triangles * Hill-Climbing / Hill-Descending * Spikey Spheres * 1800-dimensional optimisation * Image approximation * The tension between explaining clearly, _ and helping to develop proof skills * Decision tree in business * RANT: developers should be made to use slow machines. ********< * http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2009/04/18/cantors-non-diagonal-proof/ There were more but, ironically, I can't remember them ... !! Comments * http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/comments/ !! Links * http://mathoverflow.net/questions/64448/interesting-and-accessible-topics-in-graph-theory * http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=408538