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Robert Munafo
Personal blog · mrob.commathscience
Robert Munafo's personal blog at mrob.com covers math and science. Since 2008, 40 different Hacker News readers have linked it 57 times, most often “Large Numbers”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
The Published Data of Robert Munafo -- Explore topics from large numbers to sociology at mrob.com
Most-linked posts?
- Large Numbers4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-03-09
- Reaction-Diffusion by the Gray-Scott Model: Pearson's Parametrization2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-02-13
- Reaction-Diffusion by the Gray-Scott Model2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-09-15
- /pub/math/largenum.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-01-26
- RIES – Find Algebraic Equations, Given Their Solution2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-04-09
- Missile 20th Anniversary (2004)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-26
- /pub/ries/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-04
- /pub/math/largenum.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-01-25
- /pub/ries/index.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-03-20
- /pub/math/largenum.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-25
What Hacker News says?
Technically incorrect: http://mrob.com/pub/math/largenum-2.html
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on “A cave in Romania that was sealed for 5.5M years”Submitted WebGL Gray-Scott Explorer (2012) as a story · 37 points
HN discussionNo, I want Apple to do what they've done in the past and get Intel to do something for them. http://mrob.com/pub/comp/mac-models.html#intel_special
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on “Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up”Submitted Reaction-Diffusion by the Gray-Scott Model: Pearson's Parametrization as a story · 31 points
HN discussionSee also this older LEGO orrery produced by the University of California as an educational project for NASA Kepler mission: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/table-top_tr... https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/table-top_tr... Also: http://mrob.com/pub/lego/orrery.html
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on “Designing a Lego orrery”Submitted Reaction-Diffusion by the Gray-Scott Model as a story · 16 points
HN discussion> I'm not looking to break through the undecidability barrier That, too, was far from clear. You said you were tackling this problem: > what is the property of a program that makes it undecidable? and I told you: > That is itself an undecidable question! and explained why (at least three times). And AFAICT you still don't get it because you still say you want to: > implement an algorithm that can prove theorems we a…
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on “Why I Don't Love Gödel, Escher, Bach”Submitted Alternative Number Formats as a story · 9 points
HN discussionRead http://mrob.com/pub/math/largenum.html . After that you'll probably look easier to those numbers.
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on “The Lost Art of Logarithms”Submitted Large Numbers as a story · 5 points
HN discussionLooks similar to the Gray-Scott model. https://mrob.com/pub/comp/xmorphia/
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on “Self-organising textures from cellular automata”Submitted Failures of Web Search Engines as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNot really a place. I think the technical term is thing. You can argue it's a real thing but not very place like. Seahorse Valley is more place like if you want to debate the reality of these things https://www.mrob.com/pub/muency/seahorsevalley.html
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on “Is the frequency domain a real place?”Submitted Failures of Web Search Engines as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAs an adjunct to this, if large numbers interest you there's a really excellent and long-standing set of pages about them at http://www.mrob.com/pub/math/largenum.html which has some fascinating incidental detail and covers infinities as well as large finite numbers.
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on “Who Can Name the Bigger Number?”Submitted Mu-Ency: the encyclopedia of the Mandelbrot set as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis too: https://www.mrob.com/pub/math/largenum.html
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on “Busy beaver hunters reach numbers that overwhelm ordinary math”Submitted Munafo's Laws of Mathematics as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe ultimate guide to big numbers: https://mrob.com/pub/math/largenum.html
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on “Graham's Number Is Too Big to Tell How Big It Is”Submitted Notable Properties of Specific Numbers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttp://mrob.com/ Concisely: http://mrob.com/pub/math/numbers.html The rest of the site it's amazing too.
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on “Mathematicians uncover a new way to count prime numbers”Submitted Munafo's Laws of Mathematics as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis explanation of the work the automata rule needs to do was interesting: http://mrob.com/pub/math/quad-grid-glider.html (from g+)
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on “First glider discovered in a cellular automata on an aperiodic tiling”Submitted WebGL Gray-Scott Explorer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionReaction-diffusion could easily generate these patterns. There are several places in parameter space that look possibly correct. http://mrob.com/pub/comp/xmorphia/index.html
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on “Hyperuniformity Found In Birds, Math And Physics”Submitted Large Numbers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionOn the flip side of the coin, there's ries, which takes a number and finds a mathematical expression that approximates it: http://mrob.com/pub/ries/
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on “Evolutionary algorithm to find Quake III's fast inverse square hack with Python”Submitted Missile 20th Anniversary (2004) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionRelated: Robert Munafo's RIES [1] tries to synthesize increasingly complex formula which solution is a given number. [1] https://mrob.com/pub/ries/
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on “The Ramanujan Machine: Using algorithms to discover new mathematics”Submitted Reaction-Diffusion by the Gray-Scott Model: Pearson's Parametrization as a story · 1 points
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