Extra Future[Cheeky as hell:][link]
>Twitter Sort is a sorting algorithm that takes advantage of the Twitter API. You pass the script the numbers you would like sorted and it will tweet a request asking for somebody to sort them. When someone replies with a sorted version of the numbers, it will print them to the console and return.
[link]: https://github.com/ExPHAT/twitter-sort “ExPHAT/twitter-sort”
[A great pickup for the NYT, and makes a lot of sense for Silver, too.][link] If you’re not familiar with FiveThirtyEight, it is the work of statistician Nate Silver doing his mathamagic on US Politics. He modeled the 2008 US election nearly perfectly. Do yourself a favor and read his [introduction post][intro].
[link]: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/ “Election Forecasts – FiveThirtyEight Blog – NYTimes.com”
[intro]: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/welcome-and-welcome-back/ “Welcome to FiveThirtyEight”
[John August crowd-sources answers to some screenwriting issues][link] in his blog comments.
>Far away on a distant planet, an intelligent but very paranoid species is constructing a series of terrestrial watchtowers to scan the heavens, making sure no space-traveling enemies sneak up on them.
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>You can think of these watchtowers as observatories, each one watching a 180-degree (half-sphere) swath of the sky. For this simplest version, you can ignore complications like atmospheric distortion or possible moons.
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>Question #1: For complete coverage, what is the minimum number of watchtowers they need to build?
[link]: http://johnaugust.com/archives/2010/math-advice-for-paranoid-aliens “Math advice for paranoid aliens”
[Sabermetrics turns Baseball into a math nerd’s game.][link] I find nothing wrong with that whatsoever.
[link]: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/100402 “Bill Simmons: Finally on board the sabermetrics revolution – ESPN”