Egyptian Fractions (2006)(blog.plover.com)

103 points by luu 4 months ago | 17 comments

I found the best anagram in English (2017)(blog.plover.com)

274 points by Amorymeltzer 3 years ago | 127 comments

The Irish Logarithm(blog.plover.com)

171 points by 082349872349872 3 years ago | 25 comments

It’s an age of marvels(blog.plover.com)

408 points by pavel_lishin 2 years ago | 389 comments

Blog post by Mark Dominus imagining which modern inventions would or would not astonish Benjamin Franklin, from streetlights and the internet to Wikipedia and Moon landings.

One Plus One Equals Two (2006)(blog.plover.com)

105 points by lemper 2 years ago | 57 comments

My 1992 view of the problems of computer programming in 1992(blog.plover.com)

27 points by pavel_lishin 4 months ago | 4 comments

Introduction to Stochastic Calculus(jiha-kim.github.io)

414 points by ibobev 1 year ago | 69 comments

A blog post by Ji-Ha Kim giving a beginner-friendly, intuition-focused introduction to stochastic calculus using calculus-based derivations.

Calculus with Julia(jverzani.github.io)

249 points by subset 16 days ago | 49 comments

Online open textbook by John Verzani teaching calculus using the Julia programming language, shown at its preface page.

The Mathocalypse(scottaaronson.blog)

361 points by 6bitquant 19 days ago | 380 comments

Scott Aaronson blog post reacting to OpenAI releasing hundreds of AI-generated math results, including a claimed proof of Khot's Unique Games Conjecture.

How to Formalize All of Mathematics(xenaproject.wordpress.com)

62 points by practal 10 days ago | 53 comments

A Xena Project blog post by Kevin Buzzard's group on how to formalize all of mathematics using the Lean theorem prover.

Calculus for Mathematicians, Computer Scientists, and Physicists [pdf](mathcs.holycross.edu)

332 points by o4c 11 months ago | 70 comments

A free PDF textbook by Andrew D. Hwang, 'Calculus for Mathematicians, Computer Scientists, and Physicists: An Introduction to Abstract Mathematics'.

Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is(forum.level1techs.com)

417 points by felineflock 2 months ago | 171 comments

A Level1Techs forum post presenting technical experiments on how quantization and implementation differences make locally run LLMs perform worse than reference versions.