AIR U.S. Presidential Election Algorithm Verified Again by Eric Schulman and Daniel Debowy For the third election in a row, the Annals of Improbable Research U.S. Presidential Election Algorithm ( see Debowy and Schulman, AIR Online, 20 October 2003 and Schulman and Debowy, AIR Online, 11 August 2012) correctly predicted the outcome of the United States presidential election. […]
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Licking the Spoonerism Problem
The Spoonerism Problem was first outlined by K. Tsichlas, M. Bender, and the Algorithmic Design Group (ADG) of King’s College, UK, at London Stringology Day 2005. (LSD 2005) (see note below §) It was named in honour of William Archibald Spooner (22 July 1844 – 29 August 1930) and can be defined thus : “Whether […]
A many-armed-god sort of robot
There are many ways to describe what happens in this video. Karaman and Frazzoli and friends, the scientists and engineers behind it, choose one of the less poetical ways: “The RRT* algorithm is used together with the Ball Trees algorithm and a memoization technique for asymptotically-optimal path planning in high-dimensional configuration spaces for manipulation purposes.” They also […]
The penny determination algorithm
Dan Meyer writes, on his blog: Something I enjoy about computational thinking (the focus of my position with Google) is that it asks you to explicitly verbalize processes that may only exist in your intuition, processes that are too obvious for words. Case in point: which of these is a US penny? 100% of my […]