Today is Ada Lovelace Day. In 1843 she published a program for a machine that nobody ever finished, Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, so the program never ran. In 1950 Alan Turing argued with her anyway. 🧵
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Lluís Santaló was born in Girona 115 years ago today, on 9/10/11, a date he liked to say was easy to remember.
Getting from there to Argentina, where he spent the rest of his life, took a civil war and a French internment camp.
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Gaudí va projectar una església de cap per avall: cordes i saquets de perdigons penjats del sostre. Els comptes, els feia la gravetat.
Ho expliquem a «Les matemàtiques de Gaudí», l’exposició del CRM a la Biblioteca de Ciència i Tecnologia de la UAB, fins al 30 d’octubre. 🧵
As the tokens piled up towards a jackpot, choices got faster and more accurate at once.
Demetrio Ferro (CRM, UPF) and colleagues propose why in Nature Communications: from around three tokens, the yardstick for judging each offer moves.
