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wikipedia: reliable sources
Here is what, for many, is a weak point in wikipedia: the sources. What is accepted as “true”. Here is a list of claims that may have been challenged in wikipedia, or not. See how many you get right!
About the katakana Japanese syllabary: in a manga, the speech of a foreign character or a robot [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The alpha shapes
Typical problem in computational geometry: given a set of points, what is its shape? This may often be intuitive for a human being, but try to define this concept mathematically, then implement it numerically.
One of the proposals is called the “α shape”, and is closely related to the Delaunay triangulation. More details below.
See also [...]
The CGAL project
I have been following and using this project for some years now, on and off. In my opinion, a very remarkable cooperative effort of several research centers, coordinated at INRIA Sophia Antipolis. They provide very robust implementations of algorithms on computational geometry: Delaunay triangulations, Voronoi diagrams ski sums, meshes, alpha shapes, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )La movida superficie de un líquido
(Yet another post in Spanish, since the news article is in this language! ). Se insiste mucho en esto, y por fin nos hemos decidido a tenerlo en cuenta: la divulgación de los resultados de la investigación. Aqui está La movida superficie de un líquido, que divulga nuestro último artículo en el JCP: [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )SklogWiki
SklogWiki is a wiki for people interested in simple liquids, complex fluids, and soft condensed matter. SklogWiki is particularly oriented towards theoretical and computational studies.
That seems to wrap it up. Speciallized wikis are a great idea (see wikia), and this one was created for topics that interest me a lot. The name comes from the [...]
Statistical Mechanics, by Ben Widom
I love Dr. Benjamin Widom’s writing style. This recent book by him is an excellent introduction to the topic of statistical mechanics. The subtitle, A Concise Introduction for Chemists, makes clear some previous knowledge of quantum mechanics, thermodynamics is needed. And some spectroscopy, not much. A new classic, to shelve along Molecular Theory of Capillarity [...]
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