
“In recent years, algorithms in architecture have been able to transcend their role as frameworks of formalization and abstraction. This has been made possible in a large part by the integration of scripting languages into CAD programs. Algorithms’ output can now be directly visualized, and through digital fabrication methods this output can be built.” –Michael Hansmeyer (via Imaginary Foundation: Algorithmic Architecture)
Nerd Alert of the Day: Recreational mathematician Vi Hart (of doodling in math class fame) gets mathematical with a bunch of toy snakes.
[vihart.]
I’ve seen this video around and never actually watched it. So glad I did. Snake snake snake snake snake.
“Juan wants to buy 30 pounds of candy—“
“Jimmy, Jack, and Joanna want to split the fare to fly to Africa for the day—”
“I had 10 chocolate bars. I ate 9 of them. What do I have now?”
DIABETES, MAYBE?
And the people in my math textbooks always had the strangest ethnically ambiguous unpronounceable names to promote “diversity”. “Karajadiika’a went to the store to buy five pies!” That’s… that’s not even a human name.
In high school I remember not being able to solve some problem about some guy named Bob speeding and how he couldn’t figure out how fast he had been going. So I wrote my teacher some long essay about how Bob needed to take responsibility and solve his own problems because I wasn’t always going to be there for him and why isn’t his speedometer working and why is he speeding in the first place he’s not being a very good role model for young impressionable children…
Math story problems, why are you the way you are?
What Pi Sounds Like