There were recent headlines about Somali fraud in the charitable systems in Minnesota… While all fraud in the millions of dollars is something we should investigate, track down, and denounce, the recent collective punishment might be out of proportion…
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What if there were an easy way to get some numbers and information from recent bills, and cut through the hype to make some interesting mathematical observations? This might be useful for those who are studying law or mathematics – or anyone wanting to dig through the numbers in recent law. With some basic PHP we can build something that easily processes and shows which might be the most interesting for mathematicians.
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Summer of Math Exposition is coming next month!
Continue reading “SOME Summer of Math Exposition is coming soon!”Coming soon: Humboldt Math Festival
The annual Humboldt Math Festival is happening April 26 in Eureka! If you are near Northern California, plan to check this out and see a new game I made that combines climbing and numbers… Check out their promo video below:
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Last year a report found that isolated indigenous groups have been found to have lives just as happy as many groups in highly developed nations. The lead author stated “I would hope that, by learning more about what makes life satisfying in these diverse communities, it might help many others to lead more satisfying lives while addressing the sustainability crisis.”
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Two articles and a free Zoom weekly series on the future of AI
AI and tools like ChatGPT and Bing Assistant, Claude etc. may have changed the way we work in many industries. I just recently found that asking obscure programming questions give some surprisingly useful or halfway working responses in Microsoft Bing assistant. But will it be what some consider an AGI – a general intelligence to match human thought or ingenuity?
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If you have been participating in Summer of Math Exposition voting, remember this is the last full day of voting for the phase-2 voting portion of the contest!
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In recent years some voters have been increasingly unsatisfied with two-party systems in USA. In 2016, neither of the two party candidates could get a majority of votes of the American people. In 2000, one third party candidate ended up making a big difference in the total, because as in most voting systems, one can only vote for one person for each position.
Continue reading “Ranked-choice (Instant-runoff) Voting, Interactive Demo”Have SOME Pi!
SOME (Summer of Math Exposition) is happening again this year – a contest without a big prize, but of course the winner is everyone when we build some new math posts and videos for students learning…
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