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Saturday, January 30, 2010

Interesting Miscellany

Here are some of the links I've found interesting enough to tweet or retweet in that past several weeks.

Programming
A beautiful obfuscated Pi calculator
Programming language trends of 2009
Tweetable game of life in MATLAB
Factorization of RSA768
Calculating Sines


Science
Leonardo da Vinci's resume
Richard Dawkins: Growing up in the universe
Richard Hamming: You and your research


Math
A quick little puzzle (in probability)
Euler Book Prize (A list to watch in the future. Since the site isn't updated for 2010 yet, the winner was Euler's Gem by David S. Richeson.)
A cryptic math advertisement


Miscellaneous
Succed Blog
RockYou.com's 20 most common passwords
50 Books Every Geek Should Read
Posted by Bill the Lizard on 1/30/2010
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