Parametric plots al dente

London architect George Legendre

turned the idea into a 208-page book, "Pasta by Design," released in September by Thames & Hudson [...]

The book classifies 92 types of pasta, organizing them into an evolutionlike family tree. For each, the book provides a mathematical equation, a mouthwatering picture and a paragraph of suggestions, like sauces to eat it with.

New York Times: Pasta Graduates From Alphabet Soup to Advanced Geometry

Graphing calculator in Google search

Now [(sqrt(cos(x))*cos(200x)+sqrt(abs(x))-0.7)*(4-x*x)^0.01, sqrt(9-x^2), -sqrt(9-x^2) from -4.5 to 4.5] yields:

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Venn Piagram

Intersection: delicious!

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I don't remember infinite series being this interesting in school

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Playing against The Tetris God

Sam Hughes has created a version of Tetris that always gives you the worst possible piece.

Play HATETRIS or read more about it.

The author's high score is 5 lines.

A princess story

Kristian Lum explores the consequences of a novel probabilistic model of dating:

Let there be n princes in the pool, the i^th of whom has utility to the princess p_i. p_i is determined by the prince's covariates x_i linearly such that p_i = s_i β where β is unknown to the princess. After having sampled prince i, she reads his utility to her centered at his true utility but with variance σ²/t_i, where t_i is the length of her relationship with prince i…

The punch line has an optimal dating strategy and some awesome graphs. Read the entire post to learn more about better living through computer simulation.

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