Linkage

I'm getting the hard-to-quantify but persistent feeling that G+ is getting quieter lately...too much of the actual content has moved elsewhere, maybe, and I'm seeing more of the filler. Wouldn't be surprised if Google pulls the plug soon, like they have on other projects. But for now here's my filler for the last couple of weeks.

• Why do women leave engineering?

• Still life prototiles (G+)

• Proceedings of the 32nd International Symposium on Computational Geometry, free online (G+)

• How fast is tabulation-based hashing? Not as fast as you might hope (G+)

• Three dimensional tessellation of crosses

• Animations of polynomial roots as one coefficient moves on a circle in the complex plane

• Proceedings of the 15th Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory (SWAT 2016), also free online (G+)

• Iceland 2 Austria 1, a fun thing to experience in Iceland at SWAT

• Singular they, still the right way to do gender-neutral third-person pronouns

• Make your own miniature columnar basalt out of corn starch (G+)

• The 200-year history of infographics

• Having a child-care tenure-delay policy hurts women by giving a greater advantage to the men (G+)

• Researchers sue for the right to investigate algorithmic discrimination

• Chemical serindipity finds a new blue