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See also: most boring grid square http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/81429

I wonder how much of a role wetting/capillary effects play in this? The liquid interface will distort as it approaches the object, and will try to meet at a certain contact angle (…

This is speculation, but perhaps there's a game-theory issue here. If IEEE loses money by people pirating (and you can apply the usual counter-arguments about whether the pirateer …

Interestingly, these look very similar in design to so-called bacterial ratchets (see Fig 7 of [1]) which allow swimming bacteria to be sorted by size or swimming speed etc. People…

I've tried a variety of RSS readers recently for keeping track of academic publications (arxiv and journal feeds etc). I've settled on inoreader [1] as this: (i) includes a search …

There is some more information and references here: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PolyasRandomWalkConstants.html

It's interestingly that the Gibbs phenomenon appears visually as a whiplash effect. You can see how it would only get worse as higher order terms are included.

This reminds me of the aesthetic in Her [1], which was summarised nicely here [2] by the production designer: "You could say that Her is, in fact, a counterpoint to that prevailing…

I wonder if this sort of thing might be appropriate for grid computing, e.g. BOINC? There are plenty of mathematically minded projects. http://boinc.berkeley.edu/

I pictured looking top-down at the object, for which the shadow seemed quite natural?

There was a recent discussion about cylinders on HN which might be of interest: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8097125

This is lovely, would probably make a nice print! I'm working my way through Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy; this makes a great accompaniment.

This might be an interesting idea for a vim plugin too, need to teach myself vim-script first...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines

I too would recommend these types of walk - a couple of other ideas for long trails that I've particularly enjoyed: - Lykian Way, Turkey ( http://www.lycianway.com/ ) - Rota Vincen…

I would suggest Dan Deacon for someone who writes "unplayable" yet very tuneful pieces: eg. http://youtu.be/TPg4Vcr56F0?t=10m15s

I've been using JUCE for a couple of years for VST development. I've found it to be a very well put together library for audio work (diving straight into Steinberg's SDK is pretty …

Possibly a raspberry pi (with camera)? A fun project might be to make a bird house webcam or similar.

The Ask A Mathematician page linked is quite a bit better. http://www.askamathematician.com/2012/03/q-is-the-quantum-ze...

Looks interesting, nice to see last.fm support out of the box. Could anyone quickly clarify what the difference between "adding" a song and "liking" it is? EDIT: if you start playi…

Really only to be able to scrobble the tracks you listen too. For example other music services (Grooveshark / Hypem) let you connect your account and keep track of everything you l…

Awesome, very nice interface! One thing I've been looking for for a while is last.fm support (while watching youtube videos). Any chance that could be possible?

This looks great, however Windows only is a bit of a deal breaker. Definitely going to keep my eye on it though.

I really like the way Mendeley handles notes, specifically highlighting / annotating PDFs. Do you know of any alternatives that include this? I was planning on writing my own at so…

It does look like a very exciting project but I'm slightly worried that Ableton's legal team will not be too happy with it. There seem to be quite a few visual similarities, I'm as…