Here's some reading to keep you entertained while the Respectfully Insolent gang loads up on turkey:
1. Grand Rounds Vol. 3, No. 9 (albeit a couple of days late)
2. Tangled Bank #67: Giving Thanks for Science
3. The Carnival of Bad History No. 11
More like this
Joey Bernard, who writes about science under Linux, has just started a multi (as in two?) part series on GSL, the GNU Scientific Library. It is here. Just browsing through the files of GSL is fun.
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As an introduction to a mathematical game, and how you
can use a little bit of math to form a description of the game that
allows you to determine the optimal strategy, I'm going to talk a bit about Nim.
Today's pathological language is based on a piece of work called Fractran by John Conway of game theory fame. It's a really fascinating bugger; absolutely insanely difficult to program in, but based on one of the most bizarrely elegant concepts of computation that I've ever seen.
Thanks so much for the Grand Rounds plug. I really appreciate it. Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving :-).
Its cool.