Friday, November 28, 2014
Potpourri
A somewhat-shortened week and another list of links:
1) Couple of Presh Talwalkar video problems from the week:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pHgFqWSgWs
http://tinyurl.com/ps5yfee
and here, Presh's explanation of "ultimate tic-tac-toe":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37PC0bGMiTI
2) The interesting story of a mathematician who found a "massive net security hole" in email from a Google domain:
http://www.wired.com/2012/10/dkim-vulnerability-widespread/all/
3) Cathy O'Neil explains Andrew Gelman (p-values):
http://mathbabe.org/2014/11/24/p-values-and-power-in-statistical-tests/
4) Interesting piece re: RSA encryption:
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/a-love-letter-to-the-original-algorithm?utm_source=mbtwitter
5) Physicist Sean Carroll was thankful for Fourier transforms this Thanksgiving:
http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2014/11/27/thanksgiving-9/
6) Meanwhile, algorithms going awry:
http://tinyurl.com/kazfhk2
7) And once again, visit MikesMathPage for any number of weekly offerings:
http://mikesmathpage.wordpress.com/
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