Eleventh Linkfest
The month of August has been something of a “lost month” for me. I’ve spent entirely too much time playing video games, and didn’t get as much research done as I should’ve… but now I’m coming out of that slump with recharged energy. Sometimes it’s good to take time off. Besides, as the links below make manifestly clear, there’s been no lack of fantastic scholarship showing up in my corner of the blogosphere. And now I’d like to share some of that scholarship with you, so please enjoy the (possibly late, but who’s keeping track anyway) Eleventh Linkfest!
The previous linkfest was Linkfest 10.
Technical
Luboš Pilsen: Old (physics) theories as limiting cases of new ones
Santo D’Agostino: An amusing (and instructive) error I made while solving a recurrence relation
Terence Tao: A geometric proof of the impossibility of angle trisection by straightedge and compass, Hilbert’s seventh problem, and powers of 2 and 3
Akhil Mathew: The Fourier-Deligne transform for l-adic sheaves, Chern classes, Invariant theory for the general linear group
Sam Lewallen: Positivity, Dynamics, and Knots
John Baez: Bayesian Computations of Expected Utility
John Armstrong: Integrals are Independent of Parametrization, Integration on Singular Cubes, Integration on the Standard Cube, Stokes’ Theorem (statement)
Bill Gasarch: An application of Ramsey Theory to Proving Programs Terminate
Michael Lugo: Dimensional analysis for gravity trains
The Physicist: Why does light choose the “path of least time”?
Daniel Moskovich: A little bit of purity is a great deal
JSE: Bourqui on spaces of rational curves and motivic Batyrev-Manin
Yan Zhang: On Physical Units
Richard Lipton: An Error Correcting Code From The Book
Non-Technical
Dartagnan: No, I don’t want your ‘Rewards Card’
Markus Kayser: The Solar Sinter (3D printer using solar and sand)
Al Sweigart: Nobody cares about a few million nanoseconds
Deena Stryker: Why Iceland Should Be in the News, But Is Not
Richard Lipton: Big Problems with Big Iron (i.e., with using brute force to speed up computation)
Matt Novak: The Push-Button School of Tomorrow (1958), Crossing a telephone with a TV set in 1968
Stokes: Let’s Play Anarcho-Syndicalist Collective!, Similarities between Moby Dick and Final Fantasy X
Michael Lugo: 867-5309
James Colliander: Evolution labels needed on medicines
Andrew Gelman: Trolls! (of the Patent variety), Blogging is “destroying the business model for quality”?, Blogs vs. Real Journalism
Simon Grey: Copyright Versus Technology, Riots and Free Trade, The Insanity of IP
Michel Bauwens (excerpting Stephen Downes): The War on Individual Property and Common Sharing by the IP Maximalists
Michel Bauwens (excerpting Aaron Swartz): The Guerilla Open Access Manifesto
Jeffrey Shallit: Those Creationists are Just so Darn Cute When They Try To Do Math, A fountain of stupidity
J. Simmons: Shared Challenges and Opportunities in Open Source Spaceflight
Ruben Berenguel: Zen in Running
Francis Irving: And so corporations begin to open data…
Alex Papadimoulis: Manually-propagating Worm, Top-grade, SHA1 Encryption, Supporting The Twenty Year Server Plan, The Ice Machine, and The Split Monitor
KW Regan: Is Jeopardy! in Mathematicians? (on Watson)
Rick Falkvinge: And When Even The Death Penalty Doesn’t Deter Copying — What Then?
South Bend Seven: Lessons of the Mini-Skirt
CTK Insights: When am I ever going to use this (math)? Why do we need to learn this?
Orchid64: Will miss #351: WYSIWYG at restaurants
Umair Haque: The Great Splintering (on London riots and the disintegrating social contract)
Lance Fortnow: My Cruise Vacation (with interesting notes on increasing automation)
Khatzumoto: Reading Is Skimming, Bad Goal, Good Goal, Japanese is useless and a waste of time: stop learning it (Or: on the psychology of procrastination)
Sonic Charmer: S&P Downgrade: The Litmus Test
Peter Woit: This Week’s Hype (shoddy journalism on string theory)
Henry: Weird Dreams Volume 1
Aaron Renn: Detroit: A New American Frontier
Cory Doctorow: Getting digital copyright right: pay artists, but don’t break the Internet
Matthew Belinkie: The Bioethics of The Clone Wars
Ben Allen: Demographic Transitions and the Future of Humanity
Tanya Khovanova: Polite Gender Bias (in Mathematics)
Mikko Mononen: Path Replanning in DetourCrowd
Pictures and Art
Telefunker: L’Université (abandoned university in Belgium)
Nick Yates: Pacific Coast, Yosemite, Colorado Plateau, Rocky Mountain National Park
Avoision: Return to Wolff’s Flea Market
Music and Video
DJ Project feat. Giulia: Mi-e dor de noi
PangaeaPanga: TAS: Super Mario World “small only” in 1:18:23.22