Science / Math / Physics (2024-11)
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Mathematicians discover a new kind of shape that’s all over nature (3D tessellating forms)
(scientificamerican.com)
a few weeks ago, i gained a need for something roughly spreadsheet-shaped. very tiny—1e4 or 1e5 rows, if that. i decided my options were:
- literal spreadsheet
- sqlite plus some sugar
- mathematica notebook
i have never used mathematica before in any serious capacity (nor anything else in...
> We prove that the following problem is co-RE-complete and thus undecidable: given three simple polygons, is there a tiling of the plane where every tile is an isometry of one of the three polygons (either allowing or forbidding reflections)? This result improves on the best previous construction w...
Book review: Eric Turkheimer's "Understanding the Nature-Nurture Debate"
(theinfinitesimal.substack.com)
The geometry of data: the missing metric tensor and the Stein score [Part II]
(blog.christianperone.com)