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Mark Chu-Carroll (aka MarkCC) is a PhD Computer Scientist, who works for Google as a Software Engineer. My professional interests center on programming languages and tools, and how to improve the languages and tools that are used for building complex software systems.

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Back to Chaos: Bifurcation and Predictable Unpredictability

Category: Chaos

So I'm trying to ease back into the chaos theory posts. I thought that one good way of doing that was to take a look at one of the class chaos examples, which demonstrates just how simple a chaotic...

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Why Math?

Category: goodmath

So, why math? The short version of the answer is remarkably simple: math provides a tool where you can, without ambiguity, prove that something is true or false. I'll get back to that - but first, I'm going to...

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Nobel Prize Blogging: Symmetry Breaking

Category: goodmath

Today the 2008 Nobel Prize winners were announced for physics. It was given to three physicists who described something called symmetry breaking. Since most people don't know what symmetry breaking is, but people remember me writing about group theory...

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ScienceBlogs DonorsChoose Drive 2008

Category: goodmath

Every year at ScienceBlogs, we do a charity drive for DonorsChoose.org. If you haven't heard of them, DonorsChoose is a charity that takes proposals from schoolteachers, and lets people pick specific proposals to donate money to. We run our...

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Inflation Conversions - What's 1972£10,000 worth today?

Category: goodmath

I've been getting a ton of questions about an article from the Independent about a guy named Bertie Smalls. Bertie was a british thief who died quite recently, who was famous for testifying against his organized crime employers back...

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Carnival of Math: The Spam Edition

Category: goodmath

To be honest, I haven't been following the Carnival of Math much since it's inception; my new job keeps me busy enough that I barely have time to keep the blog going, and so I haven't really looked much...

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Free Will and Fruit Fly Behavior

Category: goodmath

I've been seeing articles popping up all over the place about a recent PLOS article called Order in Spontaneous Behavior. The majority of the articles seem to have been following the lead of the Discovery Institute, which claims that...

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A Cool Movie of the Kaye Effect

Category: goodmath

I came across this while looking through the referrals to GM/BM. This is an incredibly cool video of a strange phenomenon called the Kaye effect. It includes high speed video of the effect, and a demonstration of their mathematical...

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Strange Loops: Ken Thompson and the Self-referencing C Compiler

Category: goodmath

I'm currently reading "I am a Strange Loop" by Douglas Hofstadter. I'll be posting a review of it after I finish it. A "strange loop" is Hofstadter's term for a Gödel-esque self-referential cycle. A strange loop doesn't have to...

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The 2007 Abel Prize: Professor S. Varadhan and the Theory of Large deviations

Category: goodmath

As an alert reader pointed out, a major mathematical prize was awarded recently. Since 2002, the government of Norway has been awarding a prize modeled on the Nobel, but in mathematics. The prize was originally suggested by Sophus Lie,...

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