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New Knot Theory Discovery Overturns Long-Held Mathematical Assumption (scientificamerican.com)

a week ago | robinhouston | scientificamerican.com | newest

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What Is Man, That Thou Art Mindful of Him? (astralcodexten.com)

a week ago | robinhouston | astralcodexten.com | frontpage

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Minesweeper thermodynamics (oscarcunningham.com)

6 days ago | robinhouston | oscarcunningham.com | best

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A crowdsourced project to link up erdosproblems.com to the OEIS (terrytao.wordpress.com)

a week ago | robinhouston | wordpress.com | newest

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Gym bros are already taking the strongest weight-loss drug (businessinsider.com)

a week ago | robinhouston | businessinsider.com | newest

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LLMs for the Old and Infirm (oblomovka.com)

a week ago | robinhouston | oblomovka.com | newest

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Rupert's Property (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

a week ago | robinhouston | wordpress.com | frontpage

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A convex polyhedron without Rupert's property (arxiv.org)

2 weeks ago | robinhouston | arxiv.org | frontpage

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Elegant mathematics bending the future of design (epfl.ch)

2 weeks ago | robinhouston | epfl.ch | best

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AI attempts at the International Mathematical Olympiad 2025 (mathstodon.xyz)

a month ago | robinhouston | mathstodon.xyz | newest

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Scholars solved a 130-year literary mystery and it hinged on one word (sciencedaily.com)

a month ago | robinhouston | sciencedaily.com | frontpage

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What happens when an octopus engages with art? (cnn.com)

a month ago | robinhouston | cnn.com | frontpage

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A new pyramid-like shape always lands the same side up (quantamagazine.org)

3 months ago | robinhouston | quantamagazine.org | best

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Building a Monostable Tetrahedron (arxiv.org)

3 months ago | robinhouston | arxiv.org | frontpage

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Annotation Mono: A lovingly crafted handwriting-style monospace font (qwerasd205.github.io)

3 months ago | robinhouston | github.io | newest

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Moon Pi: we're going to calculate π on the Moon (pi.space)

3 months ago | robinhouston | pi.space | newest

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A quantum algorithm for Khovanov homology (arxiv.org)

3 months ago | robinhouston | arxiv.org | newest

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The Powerlifter Who Became a Professor (nytimes.com)

4 months ago | robinhouston | nytimes.com | newest

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Walkers' Sensations Poppadoms vs. HMRC: The Chip of Theseus (ft.com)

4 months ago | robinhouston | ft.com | frontpage

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Pandanus Language (wikipedia.org)

4 months ago | robinhouston | wikipedia.org | newest

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Putting rigid bodies to rest [pdf] (cmu.edu)

4 months ago | robinhouston | cmu.edu | newest

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ChatGPT is shockingly bad at poker (natesilver.net)

4 months ago | robinhouston | natesilver.net | newest

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Humans are insecure password generators (outsidetheasylum.blog)

4 months ago | robinhouston | outsidetheasylum.blog | newest

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Making code last a long time (twitter.com/jonathan_blow)

4 months ago | robinhouston | twitter.com | frontpage

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X X^t can be faster (arxiv.org)

4 months ago | robinhouston | arxiv.org | best

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My Approach to Teaching Electronics (lcamtuf.substack.com)

5 months ago | robinhouston | substack.com | frontpage

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Does Baby Have Hat? (jeremykun.com)

5 months ago | robinhouston | jeremykun.com | newest

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Tech employees are getting the message: Playtime's over (businessinsider.com)

6 months ago | robinhouston | businessinsider.com | newest

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The Earth might flip over at any time (bramcohen.com)

6 months ago | robinhouston | bramcohen.com | frontpage

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The three-dimensional Kakeya conjecture, after Wang and Zahl (terrytao.wordpress.com)

7 months ago | robinhouston | wordpress.com | frontpage

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Elon Musk and Spiky Intelligence (natesilver.net)

7 months ago | robinhouston | natesilver.net | frontpage

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The Wrongs of Thomas More (nealstephenson.substack.com)

7 months ago | robinhouston | substack.com | best

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Simulating Time with Square-Root Space [pdf] (csail.mit.edu)

7 months ago | robinhouston | mit.edu | newest

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The hardest working font in Manhattan (aresluna.org)

7 months ago | robinhouston | aresluna.org | best

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Make a "Magic Eye" image using Excel (divisbyzero.com)

9 months ago | robinhouston | divisbyzero.com | newest

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Harnessing Vision for Computation (2008) [pdf] (changizi.com)

10 months ago | robinhouston | changizi.com | frontpage

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Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one? (saytheprime.com)

10 months ago | robinhouston | saytheprime.com | best

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Thoughts on Arc (macwright.com)

11 months ago | robinhouston | macwright.com | newest

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Asppppp: Portals for Your Mouse Cursor (chachatelier.fr)

a year ago | robinhouston | chachatelier.fr | newest

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Beyond the wall: Working with aperiodic tilings using finite-state transducers (greenend.org.uk)

a year ago | robinhouston | greenend.org.uk | best

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[flagged] ChatGPT Is Bullshit (springer.com)

a year ago | robinhouston | springer.com | best

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The underground world of hobby tunneling (bloomberg.com)

a year ago | robinhouston | bloomberg.com | best

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Solving Olympiad geometry without human demonstrations (nature.com)

a year ago | robinhouston | nature.com | frontpage

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The Borsuk-Ulam Explorer (julius-ross.com)

a year ago | robinhouston | julius-ross.com | frontpage

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What can you do with an Einstein (aperiodic monotile)? (nytimes.com)

a year ago | robinhouston | nytimes.com | frontpage

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How the World’s Most Famous Scream Was Recovered (youtube.com)

2 years ago | robinhouston | youtube.com | best

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Police got called to an overcrowded presentation on “rejuvenation” technology (technologyreview.com)

2 years ago | robinhouston | technologyreview.com | frontpage

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Messages that can only be understood under the influence of psychedelics (qri.org)

2 years ago | robinhouston | qri.org | best

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Quasicrystalline structure of the Smith monotile tilings (arxiv.org)

2 years ago | robinhouston | arxiv.org | frontpage

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How to Save the Troubled Graphene Transistor (technologyreview.com)

2 years ago | robinhouston | technologyreview.com | newest

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An exponential improvement for diagonal Ramsey (arxiv.org)

2 years ago | robinhouston | arxiv.org | newest

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Why some GitHub labels are illegible (firsching.ch)

2 years ago | robinhouston | firsching.ch | best

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Knotted Portals in Virtual Reality (springer.com)

2 years ago | robinhouston | springer.com | newest

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Knots to Narnia – Bill Thurston (1992) [video] (youtube.com)

2 years ago | robinhouston | youtube.com | frontpage

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Screenshots as the Universal API (matt-rickard.com)

2 years ago | robinhouston | matt-rickard.com | best

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Knots to Narnia – Bill Thurston (1992) (youtube.com)

2 years ago | robinhouston | youtube.com | newest

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Printable Puzzle Project (puzzlehub.org)

2 years ago | robinhouston | puzzlehub.org | newest

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Streetlights Are Turning Purple (businessinsider.com)

2 years ago | robinhouston | businessinsider.com | frontpage

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A counterexample to the periodic tiling conjecture (terrytao.wordpress.com)

2 years ago | robinhouston | wordpress.com | newest

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Spreading deadly pathogens under the disguise of popular music (arxiv.org)

2 years ago | robinhouston | arxiv.org | best

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Screenshots as the Universal API (matt-rickard.com)

2 years ago | robinhouston | matt-rickard.com | newest

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An efficient key recovery attack on SIDH

3 years ago | robinhouston | iacr.org | frontpage