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The software that won the competition seems to map the configuration space of an origami crease pattern using techniques from statistical mechanics - pretty snazzy! More technical …

Does it usually get taught in the undergrad maths curriculum?

Seems like Katex from the scripts getting loaded. I love the design too, kinda medieval-chic.

Today I learned there's a CSS property for styling the first letter of a paragraph, neat. ( https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/i/initial-letter/ ) --edit: The font used for …

Thank you!

Is there a notification channel you can subscribe to / look at if you want to stay up to date on compromised PyPI packages?

That's a great find. My personal favourite so far from Dust is "Laboratory Conditions": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N25e4Ss34Q

That's a lovely bit of automation.

I've never read up on the republic of Venice, but after quickly scanning the Wikipedia article on its election procedure... that is a strangely large number of voting rounds and lo…

Agreed, I'm not sure if it can be made to work either. I have an inkling of a thought that instead of an egalitarian society being required for lottocracy to work, an egalitarian s…

It's a potentially big problem for sure. It reminds me of stories I've heard about the public education system in some of the Scandinavian countries. From what I remember off the t…

I heard about lottocracy/sortition for the first time not long ago and I quite like the idea. The last time was when I heard a professor talk about it, and I was recommended readin…

Lecture recordings available here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs6rMe3K87LHu03WWh9rE... And the interactive tutorial server can be found here: https://adam.math.hhu.de/#…

Something I'd love to see is a Europe-hosted mirror of software repositories like pypi, juliahub, and the like. It feels pretty essential to have these be available no matter what,…

It's amazing to hear it's visible in such a big city. I don't have a good intuition for all the metrics that describe how strong this storm was/is, but when put like this it hits h…

Could you see it from the inner city or only closer to the edges?

The first time I heard of it was in this Matt Parker video where he helped do this with a school-sized group of kids [0]. An "AI player" made of matchboxes, run by schoolkids, is a…

Thanks! I'll go give it a look.

Sounds like a fun topic to dig into. Do you have any papers or books you'd recommend?

3blue1brown has a great series of videos on the central limit theorem, and it makes me wish there were something similar covering the generalised form in a similar format. I have a…