Ineffective Theory

If I say, “let \(n\) be the smallest integer expressible as a sum of two positive integer cubes in two distinct ways”, I have unique identified an integer.

In (all?)

Physicists are often bothered by the question “why do fundamental physical constants have the values they do?”

Westmoreland: Oh, that we now had here but one ten thousand of those men in England that do no work today.

NIST plans to release an initial standard for post-quantum cryptography in 2022, after having moved to the selection round last month.

The Kolakoski sequence is a self-descriptive sequence consisting entirely of the digits \(\{1,2\}\).

I’ve numbered this post, because this is obviously a well that will never run dry.

A brief immunology tutorial from Akiko Iwasaki et al.; see also the accompanying video.

The comet NEOWISE (properly, C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)) provided an opportunity to finally try out astrophotography with a reasonably nice camera.

(This post was originally written on my old blog.