Well, that certainly steps things up a notch…
Posted on August 23rd, 2010 by Mobyseven
Brilliant video. But very NSFW lyrics.
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Just got home from a long day of volunteering for the Greens.
Posted on August 21st, 2010 by Mobyseven
For most of the day today it was only me and Dave (Velociranga) handing out information for the Greens; at one point another volunteer came along and we went on break for an hour, but then she headed off and it was just the two of us again. Sadly, when we had to head off [...]
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I can’t really talk about Mandelbrot with including Jonathan Coulton.
Posted on August 21st, 2010 by Mobyseven
Such an awesome, awesome song… Oh, and some extra bonus fun:
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Most of the mathematicians you hear about are dead.
Posted on August 21st, 2010 by Mobyseven
Benoit Mandelbrot is very much still a living legend. I’ve just now got around to watching his TED talk from this year — he takes what is an extremely complicated and beautiful field of mathematics and manages to explain it in terms of a very familiar concept: Roughness.
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By the time you read this, I’ll have voted.
Posted on August 21st, 2010 by Mobyseven
No more political talk for now. I’ll see you all on the other side of the election.
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Don’t forget to vote tomorrow.
Posted on August 20th, 2010 by Mobyseven
That’s all I have to say on the matter for now. I feel like it’s pretty clear who I’l be voting for; if you aren’t sure, you can probably piece it together from some of the issues I think are important this election:
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Man, I’m really loving the maths songs at the moment.
Posted on August 20th, 2010 by Mobyseven
At least this one’s Tom Lehrer again. Everybody remember their differential calculus?
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Symmetries and identities.
Posted on August 19th, 2010 by Mobyseven
If attending the Secular Society event on Friday isn’t our thing, perhaps the next MUMS seminar will be more down your alley? This week, Arun Ram will be presenting — the abstract is below the fold. As always with this type of maths, the abstract will be scarier than the talk itself. It all comes [...]
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I’ve just gone through a Twitter update…
Posted on August 18th, 2010 by Mobyseven
If anybody who sees this blog here and also on Twitter notices any irregularities, just let me know. Had to change the way updates get done just then…
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Two great events for National Science Week!
Posted on August 18th, 2010 by Mobyseven
For those of you who haven’t been paying attention, this week (14-22 August) is National Science Week — and the Secular Society is getting in on the action. We’ve got two events coming up on Thursday and Friday lunchtimes, so if you’re at Melbourne Uni, or are just an interested party, I highly recommend coming [...]
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