Computational

Entry Navigation Entry Contents Bibliography Academic Tools Friends PDF Preview Author and Citation Info Back to Top First published Fri Oct 16, 2015; substantive revision Wed Dec 18, 2024 Could a machine think? Could the mind itself be a thinking … Read more

Exciting news! This is the best possible Boggle board: Boggle is a word search game. You form words by connecting adjacent letters, including along diagonals. Longer words score more points. Good words on this board include STRANGERS and PLASTERING. After … Read more

Close your eyes and picture the iconic “bullet time” scene from The Matrix — where hacker Neo, played by Keanu Reeves, dodges bullets in slow motion.   Now imagine being able to witness the same effect, but instead of speeding bullets, … Read more

Audio: A primer on why microbiome research is hard (Audio) Introduction Some background The hard stuff The relevance of toxicity datasets to the clinical problem Methodological problems in toxicity datasets Intraspecies toxicity variability Toxicity synergism Conclusions There are now (claimed) … Read more

This year’s Global Astronomy Month is off to an exciting start for North America in anticipation of the total solar eclipse on April 8. In light of this momentous event, the following is a list of resources that bring Wolfram … Read more

Abstract:Understanding the functional architecture of complex systems is crucial to illuminate their inner workings and enable effective methods for their prediction and control. Recent advances have introduced tools to characterise emergent macroscopic levels; however, while these approaches are successful in … Read more

Overture In this section there are no definitions, no theorems, no computations. Well, not in this overture: just a picture, the an infinite number of infinity symbols below, and a little discussion of why we wrote this Open Educational Resource … Read more

(Updated version of  Computational Intractability: A Guide to Algorithmic Lower Bound by Demaine-Gasarch-Hajiaghayi is here) Any question like who first though of X is often hard to answer. I blogged about who first came up with the Fib numbers here. I’ve heard … Read more

GitHub – google/s2geometry: Computational geometry and spatial indexing on the sphere {{ message }} This commit does not belong to any branch on this repository, and may belong to a fork outside of the repository. You can’t perform that action … Read more