This spring, an 80-year-old Japanese chalk company went out of business . Nobody, perhaps, was as sad to see the company go as mathematicians who had become obsessed with Hagoromo Fulltouch Chalk, the so-called “Rolls Royce of chalk.” Read more…
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Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk
The laws of probability seems simple at first thought, but scratch the surface and their inner truth can be rather more counterintuitive. This video describes one of those situations—and the answer might prove more useful than you think. Read more…
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How Understanding Probability Could Save Your Life
Facebook has been working on facial recognition for years to auto-tag photographs, but has now reached a point where its technology is ‘ closely approaching human-level performance .’ In fact, in some ways it might even be better. Read more…
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Facebook’s Facial Recognition ‘Approaching Human-Level Performance’
Here’s a mesmerizing gallery of “Fabrege Fractals” created by Tom Beddard , whose site also features a 2011 video of Fabrege-inspired fractal landscapes that must be seen to be believed. They’re all made with Fractal Lab , a WebGL-based renderer Beddard created. Fabergé Fractals by Tom Beddard, using his WebGL-based fractal engine, Fractal Lab. ( via Colossal )
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Fabergé Fractals
A partial solution to a centuries-old problem known as the twin prime conjecture now affirms the idea that an infinite number of prime numbers have companions — and that a maximum distance between these pairs does in fact exist. Read more…
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Mathematician Makes Astounding Prime Numbers Breakthrough
Japanese kids learn to multiply with a completely different method than the one kids in the US do. The Japanese math voodoo/magic is more of a visual technique where you draw lines and count the intersections. More »
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Quickly Multiply Big Numbers the Japanese Way
Already on Android for the past few months, this conceptually simple calculator app is finally available to iOS users. What may seem basic in theory becomes extraordinary in MyScript’s execution, leaving you with a buttonless calculator you’d never think to want but can’t imagine living without. More »
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MyScript Calculator: Somehow Calculators Just Got Even More Convenient