A completely new approach suggests the validity of the 110-year-old Lindelöf hypothesis, opening up the possibilities of new discoveries in quantum computing, number theory and cybersecurity
Athanassios Fokas, a mathematician from the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics of the University of Cambridge and visiting professor in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering has announced a novel method suggesting a solution to one of the long-standing problems in the history of mathematics, the Lindelöf Hypothesis.
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👓 How to Teach Google What a Story Is | The Atlantic
Deep inside Google, a small team has been trying to solve a problem that's easy for any schmuck around the watercooler but frighteningly difficult for the world's most data-rich company: telling a story.
👓 A Family Of Woodchucks Ate Paul Ryan’s Car | NPR
Miles Parks (NPR)Winter in Wisconsin is tough. So tough, in fact, that living creatures might go searching for shelter in unlikely places. House Speaker Paul Ryan explained Thursday that a family of woodchucks moved into his Chevy Suburban recently, eating the wiring and rendering the car useless. "My car was eaten by animals," Ryan said, to laughs from an audience at an event hosted by The Economic Club of Washington D.C. "It's just dead."
👓 American democracy’s built-in bias towards rural Republicans | The Economist
Its elections no longer convert the popular will into control of government
👓 RSS is Not Dead: FreshRSS in Installatron | Tim Owens
It all begins with a tweet (pay not attention to the fact I'm no longer on Twitter)@ReclaimHosting Is NewsBlur something that would install on a Reclaim server? Looks like perhaps too many moving parts. (Looking for an alternative to TinyRSS) https://t.co/UoWItuDBkW— Mark Sample (@samplereality) July
👓 The Next App: Nextcloud | Tim Owens
You may have noticed in my last blog post a bit of a tease in that I've become a bit more comfortable recently with building installers. Of course not every application is going to be compatible with a cPanel environment or work well in the context of automating the install,
👓 FIFA want fewer women shown on TV at WC | ESPN
FIFA wants fewer images of attractive women in World Cup stadiums shown on future broadcasts, with sexism a bigger problem than racism in Russia.
👓 I got a camping hammock and it’s amazing| Chris Beckstrom
It was $25 on Amazon. It has bug netting. It is made of nylon parachute material and weighs about a pound and a half. I carry it around in my backpack and hang it all over the place! It’s amazing. It can turn any pause on a hiking trail into an impromptu campsite. It’s extremely comfortable, and...
👓 Links, tags, and feeds | Adactio.com
Basically, if something on my site is a list of items, chances are there’s a corresponding RSS feeds. Sometimes there might even be a JSON feed. Hack some URLs to see. Meanwhile, I’ll be linking, linking, linking…
👓 Tech Notes: Why not add an option for that? | Neugierig.org
If you've ever developed software you've surely had users ask you to add an option. "Rather than forcing everyone into behavior A," they'll reason, "why not add an option so users can choose between behaviors A and B?" This post is an attempt at producing a canonical consolidated answer to why the answer to this is often "no".
👓 Any Good Blogroll Plugins for WordPress? | Brad Enslen
Brad Ensler (Brad Enslen)Does anyone have a recommendation for a good blogroll plugin for WordPress? I’ve looked at Indieweb blogroll solutions and there are some really good implementations. I really like Colin Walker’s directory of people who have commented via webmention. It would be great to aid blog discovery a...
👓 Metadata, Part 2: Microformats | Lockedown Design & SEO
In Part One of this miniseries on metadata, we looked at how you can use Schema.org markup to help search engines understand your website content better. Today, we’ll look at another widely used form of structured data markup, Microformats. Microformats is an initiative launched in 2005 by the web development community to give more semantic meaning to HTML.
👓 Microdata, Part 3: Dublin Core Markup | Lockedown Design & SEO
In Part One of our miniseries on metadata, we examined Schema.org. In part Two, we looked at microformats. Today, we’ll close this series by looking at Dublin Core. The Dublin Core Metadata Intiative (DCMI) first began in 1995 in Dublin, Ohio. Since 2000, it has been used alongside other specialty markup languages, such as RDFa.
👓 The viral #PlaneBae story is raising some serious questions about how creepy social media can be | Business Insider
An unlikely couple became unlikely internet celebrities overnight in the #PlaneBae saga, and their experience raises some serious questions about privacy and social media.
📺 "The Five" Episode #1.10 | Netflix
Directed by Mark Tonderai. With Stephen Boxer, Paul Warriner, Jessica Neil, Imogen Neil. As the investigation into Jesse's disappearance takes an unexpected turn, it is time for Mark and his family to finally face up to the truth, but will they ever be the same again? Pru enlists Slade's help as she worries how Mark will take the news of her shocking discovery, and they face a race against time as they do everything that they can to help him rescue his family before it is too late.
Overall, this was a relatively interesting series. It definitely became much better in the end that it started out. The first few episodes were very muddy and I almost gave up, but it generally paid off in the end. There were several instances of deus-ex-machina to drive the plot or increase the drama, but I’ll give them a flier.
Definitely a limited series here though. I’m not sure I’d buy any of the machinations flowing out of this as the seed for additional seasons.