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I analyzed the chords to 1300 popular songs for patterns. This is what I found.

Hooktheory Blog2012497 points183 commentsMath & Algorithms details

In Math You Have to Remember, In Other Subjects You Can Think About It

Mathematical Association of America2012236 points127 commentsMath & Algorithms details

Why multi-armed bandit algorithm is not "better" than A/B testing

VWO Blog2012147 points76 commentsTech Industry & Business details

Learn about the basics of multi armed bandit testing & algorithms, the difference b/w multi-armed bandit testing and A/B testing, its application in the real world.

Faster Fourier transform among world’s most important emerging technology

MIT2012121 points47 commentsMath & Algorithms details

New Particle Discovered at CERN

University of Zurich News2012127 points33 commentsScience & Space details

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Physicist Uses Math to Beat Traffic Ticket

PhysicsCentral2012106 points71 commentsMath & Algorithms details

Learn about public engagement activities from the American Physical Society

Prof. dr. N.G. de Bruijn, 1918-2012

Universiteit van Amsterdam2012106 points6 commentsMath & Algorithms details

Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics

Nearly all binary search and merge sort implementations are broken (2006)

Google Research Blog2012148 points164 commentscited by 21Software Engineering details

Posted by Joshua Bloch, Software EngineerI remember vividly Jon Bentley's first Algorithms lecture at CMU, where he asked all of us incoming Ph.D. ...

The man who hand-draws fractals

New APPS Blog2012102 points18 commentsMath & Algorithms details

The faster-than-fast Fourier transform

MIT2012220 points31 commentsMath & Algorithms details

For a large range of practically useful cases, MIT researchers find a way to increase the speed of one of the most important algorithms in the information sciences.

How to Draw a Circle

Banu Blog2011180 points50 commentsMath & Algorithms details

The Secret of the Fibonacci Sequence in Trees

American Museum of Natural History2011344 points26 commentscited by 4Science & Space details

The Art of Computer Programming (interview with Don Knuth)

BCS2011140 points25 commentsMath & Algorithms details

While he was over in the UK for a book tour and lecture series, Professor Donald Knuth made time to talk to BCS editor Justin Richards about his life.

Edsger Dijkstra's note on starting array indices at 0 (pdf, 1982)

UT Austin Computer Science2011160 points76 commentscited by 25Software Engineering details

An Introduction to Data Mining

University of Toronto Data Mining2011224 points25 commentsDatabases & Data details

Intuitive explication of Fourier Transformation

What percentage of people are alive today?

My baby, the finite state machine (2006)

MSDN Blogs2011106 points17 commentsSoftware Engineering details

Why floats suck - accurate galaxy-wide coordinates in 128 bits

Facepunch2011205 points83 commentsSoftware Engineering details

The Mathematics Of Beauty

Some fun mathematical puzzles

Microsoft Research201084 points51 commentsMath & Algorithms details

Explore research at Microsoft, a site featuring the impact of research along with publications, products, downloads, and research careers.

First improvement of fundamental algorithm in 10 years

MIT2010231 points37 commentsMath & Algorithms details

The max-flow problem, which is ubiquitous in network analysis, scheduling, and logistics, can now be solved more efficiently than ever.

25 Best Hangman Words

Wolfram Blog2010114 points27 commentsMath & Algorithms details

Mathematica analysis of picking the optimal words to win the Hangman spelling game. Code and link to Wolfram Demonstration are included.

The Most Important Algorithms

RISC Linz2010187 points48 commentsMath & Algorithms details

Beating Binary Search

How Dr. Seuss would prove the halting problem undecidable

UMBC Ebiquity Lab Blog2010249 points60 commentsMath & Algorithms details

First Clay Millennium Prize goes to Grigoriy Perelman

Clay Mathematics Institute201077 points13 commentsMath & Algorithms details

Poincare official problem description

Is math a socialist plot?

Mathematical Association of America201087 points73 commentsMath & Algorithms details

The Known Universe Scientifically Rendered For All to See

American Museum of Natural History200966 points20 commentsScience & Space details

Step-by-Step Math

Wolfram|Alpha Blog2009132 points32 commentsMath & Algorithms details

Have you ever given up working on a math problem because you couldn’t figure out the next step? Wolfram|Alpha can guide you step by step through the process of solving many mathematical problems, from solving a simple quadratic equation to taking the integral of a complex function.