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Why do we celebrate Pi Day? Let’s get geeky for a minute and talk about the math. Pi Day is celebrated annually on March 14th; it was chosen because numerically it represents the first three digits of pi: 3.14. Pi is a mathematical constant that represents the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi is a mathematical constant that represents the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. It is an irrational number, meaning its decimal representation goes on forever without repeating. Pi Day was first celebrated in 1988 by physicist Larry Shaw at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, and since then, it’s increased in popularity each year. 2015 was particularly celebrated, since the last two digits of year further fit the calculations (3.1415926).

Why do we celebrate Pi Day? Let’s get geeky for a minute and talk about the math. Pi Day is celebrated annually on March 14th; it was chosen because numerically it represents the first three digits of pi: 3.14. Pi is a mathematical constant that represents the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi is a mathematical constant that represents the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. It is an irrational number, meaning its decimal representation goes on forever without repeating. Pi Day was first celebrated in 1988 by physicist Larry Shaw at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, and since then, it’s increased in popularity each year. 2015 was particularly celebrated, since the last two digits of year further fit the calculations (3.1415926).

Why do we celebrate Pi Day? Let’s get geeky for a minute and talk about the math. Pi Day is celebrated annually on March 14th; it was chosen because numerically it represents the first three digits of pi: 3.14. Pi is a mathematical constant that represents the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi is a mathematical constant that represents the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. It is an irrational number, meaning its decimal representation goes on forever without repeating. Pi Day was first celebrated in 1988 by physicist Larry Shaw at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, and since then, it’s increased in popularity each year. 2015 was particularly celebrated, since the last two digits of year further fit the calculations (3.1415926).

Science is fun, exciting and all around us. We all use it in our daily lives, often without even realizing it. With his unique humor and trademark wordplay, Zak points out the wonder of the natural world and shows how he uses technology to bring his ideas to life on stage. Children learn about pitch, frequency, magnetic fields, and electric amplification in this interactive, joyful celebration of science. K- 3 and 4-6 versions. https://lnkd.in/eT63HeNk

Colouring is such a good tool for refocusing, calming and co regulation

"More Is Different" comes highly recommended for any bench or computational scientist planning or analyzing experiments. Like me, you probably won't understand much of it, but the writing speaks to all of us in its own way. When I first started transitioning from wet lab to more computational work, it became clear that complexity and any hope of understanding our world has little to do with how many variables we are measuring. I worked with a dataset that had only 13 variables for ~2 years*. Compare this to the multiomic movement (should be called the omome movement: s/o to Nicolas Rouleau who coined the term for omics of omics). Sometimes people write a single paper in a couple of months from datasets containing upwards of 1,000,000s of variables. Then we move on and collect 1,000,000 more data points. Is this an efficient use of resources? More is simply different. I would love to see current advocates of -omics acknowledge that. Not better, just different. In any case, one theme from the article that really stuck with me is the notion of transitioning from the quantitative to the qualitative when it comes time to generalize and share useful information. As a culture, we're currently limited by our quantitative skillset. If we can't do justice to quantitative reasoning, then our goal of transitioning to useful, more sharable qualitative information will fall short. And to close with a quote about information from the article: "It seems to me that the next stage is to consider the system which is regular but contains information. That is, it is regular in space in some sense so that it can be "read out" but it-contains elements which can be varied from one "cell" to the next...This type of "information-bearing crystallinity" seems to be essential to life....Second temporal regularity is a means of handling information, similar to information-bearing spatial regularity. Human spoken Ianguage is an example and it is noteworthy that all computing machines use temporal pulsing.  A possible third role is...the use of phase relationships of temporal pulses to handle information and control the growth and development of cells and organism" Information can be health and medicine. But it will require us to start teaching our children and our students about concepts you've probably never heard of before. Lots of work to do. *Side question/comment: This led to a few papers worth of data about how various upstream data processing methodologies can effect biological conclusions, how cell signaling might be studied through compositional analysis of secretomic data, and how studying internal and external cell processes may help us understand immune cell behaviors. I thought / am stilll thinking about BioArxiv. However, a friend told me publishing there could negatively impact faculty applications, and the perspective of the quality of the work. Do you know if that's true? I don't want to hurt any coauthors reputation, and it's not worth any risk.

Overview of anything color gradient-related by Walker Art Center. The Edgeless & Ever-Shifting Gradient: An Encyclopaedic and Evolving Spectrum of Gradient Knowledge https://lnkd.in/eVhbUxHS

I am proud to share our recent paper on the geometric aspects of optimal transport in quantum mechanics, published in Phys Rev A. We proved a recent conjecture regarding the metric property quantum Wasserstein divergences, which are dissimilarity measures on state spaces of quantum mechanical systems defined by optimal transportation. https://lnkd.in/dNjun_Na

My article, “Alex as the Product, Producer, and Consumer of Art in the Dilapidated State, in Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange”, was published today: https://lnkd.in/eqF8VxC5

Its been a busy April for me! 3 great journal articles I worked on over the last several years have been accepted and published this month!! Articles are linked below. Impact of Imperfect Kolsky Bar Experiments Across Different Scales Assessed Using Finite Elements - https://lnkd.in/gBHPaiQM Influence of Sampling Rate on Reproducibility and Accuracy of Miniature Kolsky Bar Experiments - https://lnkd.in/gh-PBsBA High Speed Impact Testing of UHMWPE Composite Using Orthogonal Arrays - https://lnkd.in/gAtKPR72