What I saw on the web on 2024.9.28

[reblogarythm]

1. Ranking 24 Flavors of Gatorade (An Excuse To Make Gatorwine)
   by Binging with Babish
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfZ9kgXfDxE
   the council demanded it, Babby delivers
   via rss
   
   
2. Vigilant
   by Cory Doctorow
   https://reactormag.com/vigilant-cory-doctorow/
   a short story about the horrors of remote proctoring software
   via him mentioning it somewhere, so i went looking
   
   
3. Ya Mustapha
   by the Sabri Brothers
   https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lTqjVlv7vYFv_FPt8_DgcOmIRzt0zb10I
   in case you need some qawwali in your day
   via remembering it
   
   
4. Goldbach's Comet
   by Richard Tobin
   https://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~richard/goldbach.html
   a nice heuristic argument for the sensitivity the Comet displays to numbers mod 3
   via having noticed it, and wondered why it was there
   
   
5. Eugenia Cheng | Is Math Real? | Talks at Google
   by Eugenia Cheng and an interlocutor
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t7Pi_b5ktY
   a nice discussion of various aspects of math and math education. only sometimes ranty.
   via wondering if she'd done a talk recently. she had!