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Cells Can Be Living Calculators
MIT engineers have transformed bacterial cells into living calculators that can compute logarithms, divide and take square roots, using three or fewer genetic parts.
Inspired by how analog electronic circuits function, the researchers created synthetic computation circuits by combining existing genetic “parts,” or engineered genes, in novel ways.
Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2013/05/cells-can-be-living-calculators
"Fuckin' Concrete Contemporary Abstract Algebra Introduction..." by Nicolas Bourbaki Junior
It’s so beautiful.
Oh wow.
(Source: frictionlessemu)
“Cause you walked in to discount strippers warehouse and said: ‘help me showcase my intellect!’”
Got my beer money, but I have to pay for the stupid fucking broken window
Shit days can always get worse
Math themed asks (because my life is math)
- x: What is your value?
- y: Do you ever feel dependent on someone else?
- z: What gives you depth?
- f(x): What functions do you serve to others?
- pi: What's your favorite food?
- e: Have you ever acted irrationally?
- ln: Do you like the outdoors?
- i: Did you ever have an imaginary friend?
- 0: Do you ever feel like nothing?
- 1: Do you ever feel lonely?
- 2: If you had to spend your entire life with one other person, who would it be?
- 3: Are you religious?
- 4: What are your roots?
- 5: When are you in your prime?
- 6: What are you afraid of?
- 7: Do you consider yourself lucky?
- 8: What makes you gr8?
- 9: What are you so close to achieving?
- +: What is the sum of your parts?
- -: What do you feel incomplete without?
- /: What are you divided over?
- *: Do you ever wish there were more of you?
Pi IS WRONG!!
Pi is not wrong. Maybe Tau seems a little less messy, for lack of a better word, but pi is not wrong. It still works. Nevertheless, tau is an interesting alternative. Tau day is coming up in about a month. Brace yourselves. This is a neat infographic despite saying pi is wrong.
Also, that form of Euler’s identity isn’t the most beautiful one. This one is:
Not only because of the surprise that comes with it, but also because each of the five most important numbers in maths appears exactly once (0, 1, π, e, i) and each of the three basic operations appears exactly once (addition, multiplication and exponentiation). With τ the + is replaced by a - and then it gets less beautiful.
…this is the sole reason in the Universe I prefer π to τ.
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