crasshopper
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Non-web entrepreneur, here to learn about web business models and programming.
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Comment · 8 years ago
browse in w3m. problem solved.
Comment · 8 years ago
Persi Diaconis https://www.ams.org/notices/200511/what-is.pdf — you want to choose randomly from the eigenvalues of a matrix
Comment · 8 years ago
read his post on octonions http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/octonions/
The 1, 2, 4, 8 phenomenon surprised 20th-century mathematicians, and derives from weird facts about how S7, S3, and S1 fiber. (fibration is lining one shape with other shapes)
Comment · 8 years ago
Persi Diaconis https://www.ams.org/notices/200511/what-is.pdf
Niles Johnson on Hopf/Milnor fibrations https://nilesjohnson.net/hopf.html
Comment · 9 years ago
For those who want to know more, this topic links nicely into A-D-E theory, Dynkin diagrams, and Coxeter groups.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-XzhVrXIVeSVcV9iRJ4S...
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-XzhVrXIVeQ298S6uCyo...
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/week230.html
https://unapologetic.wordpress.com/category/geometry/root-sy...
http://www.math.harvard.edu/~lurie/papers/thesis.pdf
Beautiful world this author is peeking into. Enjoy.
Comment · 11 years ago
Yeah, but is a vote-system going to be better?
Comment · 11 years ago
Thanks for doing this! I hope more people add their stories.
Comment · 11 years ago
Seems more like "electrophysiology" than "a neuroscience revolution". Would be really cool to have played around with those in school though.