Matt DelPiano is used to being a step removed from stardom, but a Sept. 24 story in The Wall Street Journal finds him front and center.
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👓 The Pre-Challenge Challenge – Setting Up for the 9 X 9 X 25 | Extend Domains
This post will be a series of questions. If you answer yes to the question, skip to the next one! If you answer no, follow the links for further detail. If you’re thinking “I’d ra…
👓 Bloomberg's TicToc is starting to build a brand beyond Twitter | Digiday
Begun as a Twitter network, TicToc now includes a podcast and newsletter and is developing a website.
👓 Riemann hypothesis, fine structure constant, Todd function | John D. Cook
This morning Sir Michael Atiyah gave a presentation at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum with a claimed proof of the Riemann hypothesis. The Riemann hypothesis (RH) is the most famous open problem in mathematics, and yet Atiyah claims to have a simple proof.
Based on the update that the whole thing may fall apart, but the fact that it’s based on the Todd function as it reaches a limit for the fine structure constant might provide an answer to Sean Carroll’s issues? We’ll see what comes of it.
👓 Announcing WP-Lens a new, simple WordPress Theme for Photographers | Alan Levine
Here is another new experimenting in porting a Creative Commons licensed HTML5 Up template into a WordPress theme, say hello to WP-Lens. This joins my three previous HTML5 Up to WordPress themes, I…
👓 Riemann hypothesis likely remains unsolved despite claimed proof | New Scientist
Mathematician Michael Atiyah has presented his claimed proof of one of the most famous unsolved problems in maths, but others remain cautiously sceptical
👓 Newsonomics: The Washington Post’s ambitions for Arc have grown — to a Bezosian scale | Nieman Lab
It is increasingly the tech stack of choice for major news publishers. But now Arc wants to be the backbone of your digital advertising and subscriptions, too.
👓 Kavanaugh’s Yearbook Page Is ‘Horrible, Hurtful’ to a Woman It Named | New York Times
The Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and some high school friends described themselves in a yearbook as “Renate” alumni. The woman they were referring to is furious.
👓 Trump Unleashes on Kavanaugh Accuser as Key Republican Wavers | New York Times
The Republican, Senator Lisa Murkowski, said she was troubled by Christine Blasey Ford’s story. Senate Republicans hired a sex-crimes prosecutor from Arizona, Rachel Mitchell, to question Dr. Blasey.
👓 Trump bragged about his presidency and world leaders laughed | Politico
“I didn't expect that reaction, but that's okay,“ he responded.
👓 Scoop: The DOJ's full Rod Rosenstein exit statement | Axios
Veracity confirmed by 3 sources close to White House
👓 Creating new policies together | Twitter
To improve the health of public conversations, we want to address the impact dehumanizing language can have on off-platform behavior
👓 Facebook Has Removed More Than A Dozen Big Conservative And Liberal Political Pages | Buzz Feed
Facebook said the pages were managed by a fake account and were spamming content from LifeZette, a conservative site.
👓 U.S. Divorce Rate: Millennials Are Causing the U.S. Divorce Rate to Plummet | Bloomberg
Americans under the age of 45 have found a novel way to rebel against their elders: They’re staying married. New data show younger couples are approaching relationships very differently from baby boomers, who married young, divorced, remarried and so on.
👓 Atiyah and the Fine-Structure Constant | Sean Carroll
Sir Michael Atiyah, one of the world’s greatest living mathematicians, has proposed a derivation of α, the fine-structure constant of quantum electrodynamics. A preprint is here. The math her…