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Dec 15, 2016

  • A crash course in self-balancing trees, cartoon by UCI grad student Tatiana Bradley

  • Knitted graph theory and knot theory, by sarah-marie belcastro (G+)

  • IBM helped the Nazis track down the Jews, so why should the tech industry behave any better this time around? (G+)

  • Sculpture that overlays texture maps and human forms, by Kohei Nawa

  • Light-painted photos of dancers that look more like drawings, by Echo Lew

  • Doron Zeilberger on the Balkanization of mathematics conferences (G+)

  • How to shrink PDF files, useful for online rec letter sites with small file size limits (G+)

  • Apple's Swift sorting library falls down when its input is already sorted (G+)

  • Origami with layered textures, by Goran Konjevod

  • Trump's moves to completely eliminate climate research and roll back progress on global warming (G+)

  • Maryna Viazovska wins the Salem Prize for using modular forms to solve sphere packing

  • A new naturally-occurring quasicrystal

  • Stephen Orlando follows the chronophotography tradition of Marey

  • Pythagorean tiling, now a Wikipedia good article

  • David Eppstein

Geometry, graphs, algorithms, and more