Linkage for the end of September

Algomation animated algorithms

Rush hour video, or, what our robot-driven future will be like

The Washington Post rants about those evil student pirates, but neglects to mention the free alternatives (G+)

A song video about knots, from the low-dimensional topology blog

Fun hex grid facts, via MF

SODA 2015 accepted papers (G+)

KaTeX, a lobotomized but fast web math renderer

Against laptops in lectures, via MF

David Wade’s ‘Fantastic Geometry’ – The Works of Wenzel Jamnitzer & Lorenz Stoer on Dataisnature

Something about how some data structures I helped develop could improve bitcoin mining (G+)

63 and –7/4 are special, numberphile video about prime factors of recurrence sequences (G+)

Critique of Hirsch’s Citation Index, article in the Notices about how the h-index doesn't provide much more information than the total citation count (G+)