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If I were you I wouldn't make a personal ethical stand on this (by not learning GNU software). If you're the only one who does it, it can realistically only hurt you.

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/253486/name-of-de-m... As far as I can remember, Wainer doesn't really assert that the equation is known as "de Moivre's equation", that's …

I think there's an error in the first bit of example code: float fbm( in vecN x, in float H ) { float t = 0.0; for( int i=0; i Shouldn't "float a = pow( f, -H );" be "float a = pow…

If I understand this correctly, it's not even a matter of using a filter, just a case of summing some random sinusoids with an appropriate weighting for each according to the frequ…

Representing an arbitrary sequence of bits, digits, etc. using a real number is the basis for arithmetic coding. As such, it's an approach that has been productive historically, an…

What I don't exactly get is how the pages are assigned. It's not really a hashing algorithm in that sense, it's more like a dictionary data structure where the user has to choose t…

The presence of the term "gaslighting" in the comment you are replying to implies that this might be a situation involving narcissism. It's all very well, in a pop psych way, to te…

I'm not sure the scenarios "some of my best friends are of the opposite sex" or "some of my best friends are of another race" have much bearing on sexism or racism. Loving someone …

This is misleading. There's no place in the specification of Haskell that specifically defines monads as part of the language. They aren't a language feature. They are a pattern wh…

Each rotor implements a permutation of its input terminals. So maybe more like a p-box, but the difference is significant (only two wires in use at a any time, and one is in "rever…

Ireland's per capita level of funding for research has been lagging badly behind the European average, though. It's really a cultural problem: R&D doesn't happen here, except in ra…

If you read to the end, there's a mention of the premature collapse of the probabilistic inference about some entity. That clarifies what the author is talking about. The scenario …

I think this section on Wikipedia is relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximations_of_%CF%80#Grego...

It's not a case of an "original headline": this is an entirely separate article, not a regurgitation of the press release. Wolchover is a very serious writer. It's pretty sickening…

A bit of googling led to this document: https://www.academia.edu/5256838/Rekursiv_an_object-_oriente...

That's fair to say. Rational angles happen to make things easy and result in a problem which has connections with lots of well-developed areas of mathematics. This paper https://ww…

The architecturally significant part of the TWA terminal is now a hotel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Hotel . As Wikipedia says, it "straddles" various styles including Googie…

If you mean this building: https://www.safdiearchitects.com/projects/jewel-changi-airpo... then I disagree. That structure couldn't have been achieved with the technology of the Go…

He wrote a book, published in 2018: "The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter". But maybe this video is similar in content to the talk you sa…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperiodic_tiling#Cut-and-pro...

The idea is that you can use it anywhere you need to make a decision about proportions. It's not complicated. Designers know that it's no use if you need a proportion close to 1:10…

A lot of people in the psychiatric field believe that mental illness is due to chemical imbalances in the brain. No tests exist which can detect those imbalances. Your faith in "bi…

It might converge more slowly than any other simple continued fraction, but there are some super-slow to converge generalized continued fractions. A couple of examples that are slo…

The journalist writing the article may have distorted what he said. Is their a dogma of accident investigation that says there is always a root cause, or is it just a conventional …

Charles Howard Hinton is actually a very prominent figure in the history of eccentric mathematicians. Anyone who read Rudy Rucker's book about the fourth dimension in the 90s knew …