mathematics
2026-03-18 @ 17.07.25 ∈ In English
Bell-bottoms today, miniskirts tomorrow: Math reveals fashion's 20-year cycle
Over the past century, skirt lengths have repeatedly shortened and [lengthened every two decades. But starting] in the 1980s, the data show a wider range of skirt lengths appearing at the same time, suggesting that fashion trends are becoming more fragmented.
2024-11-03 @ 14.08.28 ∈ In English
2024-09-28 @ 16.33.41 ∈ In English
2023-10-02 @ 12.17.34 ∈ Lorem ipsum
2023-04-21 @ 9.43.56 ∈ In English
Punctuation in literature of major languages is intriguingly mathematical
[The] language characterized by the lowest propensity to use punctuation is English, with Spanish not far behind; Slavic languages proved to be the most punctuation-dependent. […] German punctuation thus seems to combine the punctuation features of many languages, making it a kind of Esperanto punctuation.
2023-04-13 @ 18.18.19 ∈ In English
2022-04-07 @ 11.51.33 ∈ In English
Researchers Identify ‘Master Problem’ Underlying All Cryptography | Quanta Magazine
The existence of true one-way functions, they proved, depends on one of the oldest and most central problems in another area of computer science called complexity theory, or computational complexity. This problem, known as Kolmogorov complexity, concerns how hard it is to tell the difference between random strings of numbers and strings that contain some information.
2020-10-14 @ 13.47.12 ∈ In English
2020-07-06 @ 14.36.00 ∈ In English
(Just a good basic overview.)
Security 101: Encryption, Hashing, and Encoding - System Overlord
Encryption, Hashing, and Encoding are commonly confused topics by those new to the information security field. I see these confused even by experienced software engineers, by developers, and by new hackers. It’s really important to understand the differences – not just for semantics, but because the actual uses of them are vastly different.