Curious about olfaction and smell after all the buzz on Twitter/X? Join us tomorrow to hear about work w/ @KevinKaichuang@jdthamores on how models of odorant-receptor interactions can guide our ability to model olfactory perception!
Happy New Year!! Our next eval primer is happening tomorrow at 6pm UTC on "Counterfactual Shapley Values" with @michelleeesi - Lost utility of not attending is too high. So sign up now here: https://t.co/trka5XP1f3
See you in class! 🐾
I wrote an essay about the recent embrace of location-sharing apps + why it should really, like, really, freak you out—new in @thedrift_mag
https://t.co/h7JOr9FVpk
We JUST solved a hard open math problem— the moving sofa problem!
"What is the area of the largest shape that can be manuevered through an L corner of width 1?"
On Dec 2, 2024, Korean Jineon Baek proved the answer is the 18 curve section Gerver's sofa with area 2.2195..!
We are delighted that Hannah Fry will join the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics in January 2025 as Cambridge's first Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics.
Learn more in our interview:
https://t.co/Io2ek6P1hR
@FryRsquared@Cambridge_Uni
New video: Why 4d geometry makes me sad
As I say in the intro, if you even remotely like math, I can almost guarantee that you will be delighted by the solutions to the puzzles here.
https://t.co/Adqhkx39AG