Brian Hayes @bit_player
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Doug Lenat has died. Doug was both a champion and a critic of artificial intelligence. He argued for the importance of common sense in AI (and in life, for that matter). From 2008, commenting on the Turing test:
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The Thue-Morse sequence in base 3/2 bit.ly/3wQ2tmG
Grandparent of the OEIS, published 50 years ago. See arxiv.org/abs/2301.03149. (The squiggles above and below the title are stamp-folding diagrams. "The full sequence begins 1,1,2,5,14,38,120,353,1148,3527,..., A001011. No formula is known.")
But who would dream of eating such an objet d'art?
But who would dream of eating such an objet d'art?
New on bit-player: The Middle of the Square. bit-player.org/2022/the-middl…
Just the other day I was marveling out loud about the sweetness and rationality of mathematical Twitter. No hate and snark in *this* corner of the Twitterverse. I should have known the experience might be different without my white face.
Just the other day I was marveling out loud about the sweetness and rationality of mathematical Twitter. No hate and snark in *this* corner of the Twitterverse. I should have known the experience might be different without my white face.
Words for the Wordle-Weary. New on bit-player. bit-player.org/2022/words-for…
Wordle has moved to the NY Times domain. They've done a little list-scrubbing. Six words are no longer wordle-of-the-day candidates: agora, fibre, lynch, pupal, slave, wench. And 19 words have been nixed as legal guesses.
Every word has the same frequency/probability: 1/2315.
Every word has the same frequency/probability: 1/2315.
Something very like it, from an era when my only graphic device was a dot-matrix printer. (See also bit-player.org/wp-content/ext….)
Something very like it, from an era when my only graphic device was a dot-matrix printer. (See also bit-player.org/wp-content/ext….) https://t.co/0e9Umqck5P
New on bit-player: Does having prime neighbors make you more composite? bit-player.org/2021/does-havi…
Weeks after opening registration, #JMM2022 has finally acknowledged that Covid is a thing, announcing safety protocols including mask mandates and socially distanced seating. Note the photos in the email header. (JMM is my favorite meeting, but cmon, you can do better than this.)
And do you know about Honk Fest? (honkfest.org/about/). Happening this weekend. Wish I could be there.
And do you know about Honk Fest? (honkfest.org/about/). Happening this weekend. Wish I could be there.
Well, from one of several early papers. Another from 1957 (softwarepreservation.org/projects/FORTR…) suggests that the Monte Carlo algorithm *did* exist in the compiler, using the probabilities provided by the programmer in FREQUENCY statements.
I believe the Wikipedia page is incorrect. The 1956 Fortran reference manual says that the FREQUENCY statement allows the programmer to estimate the likelihood of branches, not that the compiler will calculate it from a simulation.
But why didn't they wait until 1991 to release it?
But why didn't they wait until 1991 to release it?
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For physicists attracted to solving biological puzzles.. a great read 'Whatever happened to solid state physics?" by John Hopfield. annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.114…
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