Is it possible to take the instrumentals from one track, the vocals from another, and come up with something that you’d actually want to listen to? Turns out yes:

Amazing what computers can do these days. (via Holger Levsen)

Original 1, Original 2.

As a math person, you’re often faced with the task of communicating about math. Unfortunately, most modern means of communication, be it email, the web or instant messages, aren’t really suited to typing math. Fortunately, however, many of these means do allow the use of Unicode, and Unicode …

1,662,780How Many Germs Live On Your Keyboard?

(xkcd is great.)

Because when you’re looking for Runge-Kutta methods, you find neat stuff and end up playing with it. That’s why.

(How’s that for a first journal post after fifteen years, huh?) :)

…the true origin of Darth Tater. Wait no longer.

I challenge you to come up with a shorter/simpler piece of code that executes the Sieve of Erathostenes than this Python snippet:

N = 1000
candidates = range(2, N+1)
i = 0

while i < len(candidates):
    candidates = [n for n in candidates
        if n % candidates[i] != 0
        or n <= candidates …

Think anagrams. ‘Nuff said. :)

Courtesy of Andrea (who’s giving Josie socks), I give you Darth Tater:

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