Linkage

AI researchers shun Nature Machine Intelligence. Apparently it’s not a good time to launch a closed journal in a field where “virtually all of the major outlets make no charge for access to or publication of papers”.

Why I won’t be using Adobe Scan (G+). As Martin Brinkmann writes, “I won’t use an application that forces registration and cloud saving on me.” Well, I kind of do with my email, but the fewer other corporations that I give copies of my scanned documents the better.

Why I write about women on Wikipedia. Editor SusunW discusses her motivation for contributing to women’s biographies on Wikipedia.

The Golomb graph (G+, more G+ comments). It’s mostly famous as a (nonplanarly-drawn) unit distance graph, but it’s also polyhedral. In the G+ comments, I challenge my readers to find drawings of it as a convex polyhedron. My favorite is Greg Egan’s rotating version using only equilateral and isosceles triangles and regular pentagons (below), but Refurio Anachro’s almost-convex unit distance representation of the dual (a tetrahedron glued onto a triangular cupola) is also nice.

Forbidden Configurations in Discrete Geometry (G+). My new book exists! Or at least, you can get the e-reader version. Be careful if you have a black-and-white Kindle, as I do: it has lots of color illustrations. The print version will come later this year. Here’s my department’s news item about it.

Wiki Editing Day. An online project to improve Wikipedia’s coverage related to female mathematicians, now past.

Dear Autocorrect… (Sincerely, Mathematician). From math3ma, the blog of mathematics graduate student Tai-Danae Bradley (most other posts of which are in large part about category theory).

Katara constructs finite projective planes. An amusing application of finite geometry to children’s games.

London Combinatorics Colloquia. Peter Cameron summarizes a collection of interesting sounding combinatorics talks: János Pach on triangling the triangle, Carsten Thomassen on nowhere-zero flows, Paul Russell on additive combinatorics, Katherine Staden on induced Turán theorems, Agelos Georgakopoulos on percolation, and Nikhil Bansal on discrepancy.

Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art (via). Unfortunately I don’t think I’ll be in London any time between now and the October close of this exhibit at the Tate Modern on the relation between photography and abstract art. But if I were it would be high on my priorities to see.

Tiling Bot (via, also via). A pretty tiling on twitter, daily.

Maria Agnesi, the greatest female mathematician you’ve never heard of (G+). Possibly the author underestimates how much we’ve heard of her and her witch, but it’s a nice piece anyway.