Not to mention, I assume the intent was for humor, not political implications, thus, the choice of Clinton and not Bush.

That last sentence made my stomach curl. Why is the work of someone who works with text any less important? You could make the same argument in my field. I'm a composer and everyone knows the music industry is full of borderline plagiarism, but if I heard one of my pieces note for note on the radio with no…

I had a very similar class - terrifying at first, one of my favorites by the end. :)

Math makes science possible.

Your arguments are incorrect.

Your argument is wrong because there is no injective map from your set of decimals between zero and one to the primes; in other words, no matter what function (in this context, a rule mapping one thing in the first set to the second) you come up with, I can always come up with something in the first set that is not…

No problem! I'm always happy to chat about math. Is this an analysis class you're taking?

This is actually analysis, not number theory.

Did you just make a Continuum Hypothesis joke? Major awesomesauce.

It's not really a pigeon hole principle argument; the generalization of the the pigeon hole argument to infinite sets is tautological as it takes on the the very definition that gives rise to the ordering of infinite cardinals, namely: the set A has cardinality greater than set B if and only if there does not exist an…

It would have been nice if they mentioned that as a result of Cantor's diagonalization argument (the argument outlined in the video) that we call sets where the lines can be drawn "countable" and those where the lines can't be drawn "uncountable." It was a pretty good introduction nonetheless.

I almost never use my iPhone's flash; the HDR mode covers probably 90% of situations where you would traditionally use flash and produces much more natural shots.

Wow, I need to have my coffee earlier. "Site"

I love today's XKCD, but I have to admit, it bothers a me a bit that Giz is writing about it when a subset of the writers on this sight refuse to adhere to the principle outlined in the comic. Nevertheless, the majority are great.

Yes, you're absolutely right. That number is likely take from the SPC page (spc.noaa.gov), which is always riddled with redundant and false reports until NWS survey teams can complete their work. That being said, I really don't appreciate the tone of this article. Harold Brooks is an incredibly talented…

Because the collision would have crumpled 2 or 3 of the first water tight compartments, of which 3 of the first 4 could flood without causing the ship to sink. The grazing blow of the iceberg opened 6 of the compartments.

I don't mean to nitpick, but a lot of this information is blatantly wrong. As someone already pointed out, the Titanic struck the iceberg at 11:40 p.m. on April 14 and sank 2:20 a.m. on April 15. The iceberg did not "rip open a hole;" it made a series of very small gashes. The ship did not attempt to sail on; a…

I agree. Given the heat issues (or near-issues, depending on your perspective), I wonder if they opted not to up the wattage because it would add to the pre-existing issue and being that the maximum operating temperature is already near the limit of the average user's tolerable range, it might have pushed it over the…

That really bugged me too. Being a classical composer, I was super excited by this, then I saw that they only used classical music and thus, one could not draw any conclusions about the relative utility of classical music with regards to other genres (except that it is at least, but not necessarily more useful in…

Am I the only one wondering why those phones are displaying different times and dates?