Another copy of the #Data-Parallel-Finite-State-Machines #paper #pdf.
Lacan was a shockingly corrupt and abusive psychoanalyst.
Hey, the Moonies (Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church) have forked Wikipedia.
The 8086 family #asm #ISA, including instruction cycle timings for the 8086 through the 80486.
The Paxos Made Live #paper.
Apparently Wärtsilä’s internal-combustion #energy electrical power plants have a faster ramp rate even than simple-cycle gas peakers.
#pdf of slides about #energy storage levelized costs from 2015
Google says 250 ms is fast enough for a search engine #UX? But William James gives 50 ms for a threshold of simultaneity, which of course is nonsense when it comes to audio. Lots of nonsense about film editing and Walter Benjamin
Ethanol and water form a #eutectic at about 94% ethanol, freezing at about -118°. #materials
Fab Academy Cardboard Machine Kit 2016 (although a lot of the machines seem to be laser-cut #MDF). Posted by Nadya Peek (nadya on Vimeo). #manufacturing
Nadya Peek’s (and James Coleman, Ben Peters, Matt Hirsch, and Ilan Moyer’s) modular reconfigurable motion stages. #manufacturing
Shams al‐Dīn al‐Bukhārī was a 13th-century astronomer who enabled Gregory Chionades to obtain Greek translations of the astronomical handbooks. This makes him the “mathematician” with the largest number of descendants in the Mathematics Genealogy Project, with 132301 of them.
The Mathematics Genealogy project entry for Shams ad-Din al-Bukhari. From him we can trace Gauß via the lineage Gregory Chioniadis → Manuel Bryennios (aka Μανουήλ Βρυέννιος, Constantinople) → Theodore Metochites (aka Θεόδωρος Μετοχίτης, 1315, Constantinople) → Gregory Palamas (aka Γρηγόριος Παλαμάς, born in Constantinople and archbishop of Thessaloniki) → Nilos Kabasilas (aka Νεῖλος Καβάσιλας, 1363) → Demetrios Kydones (aka Δημήτριος Κυδώνης, Thessalonica, three-term Mesazon of Byzantium) → Georgios Plethon Gemistos (1380, Nómoi) → Basilios Bessarion (1436) → Johannes Argyropoulos (Padova, 1444) → Johannes Kapnion Reuchlin (Basel, 1477) → Philipp Melanchthon (Heidelberg, 1511) → Johannes Caselius (Halle-Wittenberg, 1560; Leipzig, 1566) → Georg Calixt (Helmstedt, 1607) → Johann Andreas Quenstedt (Helmstedt, 1643, De Transsvbstantiatione Contra Pontificios Exercitatio) → Michael Walther, Jr (Halle-Wittenberg, 1661, Manichaeismi recensio historica; Disputatio theologica inauguralis de Paulina Petri increpatione) → Johann Pasch (Halle-Wittenberg, 1683, Conjunctiones in genere dissertatione astronomico-theorica) → Johann Andreas Planer (Halle-Wittenberg, 1686, Gynaeceum Doctum, sive Dissertatio Historico-literaria) → Christian August Hausen (Halle-Wittenberg, 1713, De corpore scissuris figurisque non cruetando ductu) → Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (Leipzig, 1739, Theoria radicum in aequationibus) → Johann Friedrich Pfaff (Göttingen, 1786, Commentatio de ortibus et occasibus siderum apud auctores classicos commemoratis) → Carl Friedrich Gauß (Helmstedt, 1799, Demonstratio nova theorematis omnem functionem algebraicam rationalem integram unius variabilis in factores reales primi vel secundi gradus resolvi posse). We can also trace Euler via Erasmus from Kydones: Kydones → Manuel Chrysoloras → Guarino da Verona (1408) → Vittorino da Feltre (Padova, 1416) → Theodoros Gazes (Mantova and Constantinople, 1433) → Rudolf Agricola (Ferrara, 1478) → Alexander Hegius (1474) → Desiderius Erasmus (Montaigu, 1497/1506; Turin, 1506) → Wolfgang Fabricius Capito (Freiburg im Breisgau, 1515) → Simon Sulzer (Strasbourg, 1531) → Johann Jacob Grynaeus (Basel, 1559) → Sebastian Beck (Basel, 1610, Illustre Axioma, Ivstvs Avtem Fide Sva Vivet) → Theodor Zwinger, Jr. (Basel, 1630, De Illustri Sententia Apostolica Hebr. c. 13. V. 8) → Peter Werenfels (Basel, 1649, Diatribe In Psalmum S. S. Psalterii Primum. De Vnica Et Vera Hominis Felicitate) → Jacob Bernoulli (Basel, 1676, Primi et Secundi Adami Collatio) → Johann Bernoulli (Basel, 1690, Dissertatio de effervescentia et fermentatione; Basel, 1694, Dissertatio Inauguralis Physico-Anatomica de Motu Musculorum) → Leonhard Euler (Basel, 1726, Dissertatio physica de sono).
Of the 200k mathematicians in the database, three-quarters have no students; either their line died out immediately, or they are still alive. Another 10% only had one student, and almost another 4% only two, which makes you wonder how mathematics hasn’t died out entirely, but there are a smallish number of mathematicians with many students, including David Hilbert’s 75 and the prodigious 134 doctorates of one C.-C. Jay Kuo, an MIT graduate at the University of Southern California whose students are almost exclusively Chinese and Korean. There seems to be a certain tradeoff of quantity for quality, though, since of those 134, only one has had a student of their own, one Ioannis Katsavounidis (1998, Image Compression with Wavelet Transform and Vector Quantization) whose student is Stergios Poularakis (Thessaly, 2014, Low Complexity Hand Gesture Recognition). Kuo is one of the 52373 descendants (through 8 generations, including Fano) of Felix Klein, who can be traced back to both Euler and Gauß. The #2 advisor on the list is Roger Meyer Temam, of Orsay and IU, with 119 students and 476 descendants.
