Listening to Satellites: A Journey with My RTL-SDR V3(moh53n.medium.com)

133 points by Asdrubalini 3 years ago | 17 comments

A Tale of Unwanted Disruption: My Week Without Amazon(medium.com)

78 points by josephcsible 3 years ago | 19 comments

Highway to Ruin: The crash of Southern Airways flight 242 (2022)(admiralcloudberg.medium.com)

110 points by vinnyglennon 3 years ago | 74 comments

New Orleans teenagers found a new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem(keith-mcnulty.medium.com)

849 points by malshe 3 years ago | 227 comments

Medium member-only article by Keith McNulty explaining how two New Orleans teenagers found a new trigonometric proof of the Pythagorean Theorem.

The EU AI act is coming, this time for real probably(wolfhf.medium.com)

101 points by FionnMc 3 years ago | 183 comments

Writing: Good career move, terrible career (2018)(byrnehobart.medium.com)

143 points by mathgenius 3 years ago | 87 comments

A solution to The Onion problem of J. Kenji Lopez-Alt (2021)(medium.com)

359 points by fanf2 1 year ago | 139 comments

Medium post by Dylan Poulsen presenting a mathematical solution to J. Kenji López-Alt's problem of cutting an onion into evenly sized pieces.

Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded(twitter.com)

967 points by tosh 2 months ago | 702 comments

A post by Daniel Lemire on X discussing Xiaomi's Xring O3 CPU, its large cache, ARM C1-Ultra cores with SME2/SVE2, and performance compared to Apple chips.

37, the median value for the second prime factor of an integer(grossack.site)

416 points by sacrosanct 2 years ago | 185 comments

Blog post by Chris Grossack exploring the fact that 37 is the median value of the second smallest prime factor of an integer, verified with Sage.

The Mathocalypse(scottaaronson.blog)

361 points by 6bitquant 18 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.

Making any integer with four 2s(eli.thegreenplace.net)

338 points by LorenDB 1 year ago | 144 comments

Eli Bendersky's blog post on the puzzle of generating any natural number using exactly four 2s and arbitrary mathematical operations.

Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM(latimes.com)

596 points by brandonb 5 months ago | 794 comments

LA Times article reporting that University of California faculty, citing severe math deficits, are demanding a return to SAT requirements for STEM applicants.