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The brothers Vegard and Bård made this to promote the third season of their television talk show. In an interview, the brothers mentioned that given the opportunity to collaborate with Stargate, they originally wanted to make a dance song about men who cannot dance or dread dancing and named it "The Dancing Stick", but felt that the idea was "too clever“. Tris McCall of The Star-Ledger describes the song as "a parody of the excesses and absurdities of contemporary club music" Recently Simon & Schuster's Children's Publishing has acquired a picture book based on the song. Which song?
Daft Punk released a video called Random Access Memories Unboxed. The company X, which owns Daft Punk’s record label, parodied the clip in an advertisement for Y, an unrelated product. Identify X and Y.
Y was born in Pretoria, South Africa. At age 12, he sold the computer code for a video game called Blastar for $500. He went on to start companies including Zip2 and SolarCity. There is a reason I use the letter ‘Y’ and not ‘X’. Identify Y.
X was founded on November 29, 1777, as El Pueblo de X de Guadalupe, the first civilian town in the Spanish colony of Nueva California. The city served as a farming community to support Spanish military installations. When California gained statehood in 1850, X served as its capital. Identify X, the largest city in the Silicon Valley.
_____ is a Japan-based manufacturer of optics and reprography products. It enjoys a majority share of the world market in gastro-intestinal endoscopes. In late 2011, the company fired its newly appointed British president, precipitating a scandal that wiped 75% off the company's stock market valuation and resulted in the arrest of 11 directors and senior managers for alleged criminal activities.
What is special about this handgun created by Solid Concepts?
This is the logo of an annual event organized by X. • On October 8, 2011, X published an analysis of the Staatstrojaner software, a Trojan horse employed by the German government. The software was found to have the ability to remote control the target computer, to capture screenshots, and to fetch and run arbitrary extra code. X says that having this functionality built in is in direct contradiction to a ruling of the constitutional court.
This is the logo of something that was a precursor to what popular modern day product?
United States TSA (Transportation Security Administration) official Instagram account displaying things they have confiscated at airports.
This picture taken by Voyager 1 inspired a book by a great popularizer of science. What is captured in this picture and what is the name of the book?
Spearman's g-factor is a generalized type of this, while “kinesthetic” and “naturalistic” are two of the “multiple” ones theorized by Howard Gardner. The average increase in its measurements over time is called the Flynn effect, and it is tested using the Stanford-Binet scale. The Turing test tests this for machines. Name this property of the mind.
One operator named for this property is used in the general definition of Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, which relies on the fact that this property does not apply to position and momentum operators. Hilbert names rings that have this property, while groups that exhibit this property are called Abelian. Name this mathematical that property notably does not hold for multiplication of matrices.
Identify the two characters from popular British comedy, ‘The IT Crowd’
In chaos theory, the X effect is the sensitive dependency on initial conditions in which a small change at one place in a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state. The name of the effect, coined by Edward Lorenz, is derived from the theoretical example of a hurricane's formation being contingent on actions of a distant X. What is X?
____________ was an American popular mathematics and science writer specializing in recreational mathematics, but with interests encompassing micromagic, stage magic, literature (especially the writings of Lewis Carroll and G.K. Chesterton), philosophy, scientific skepticism, and religion. He wrote a column in Scientific American from 1956 to 1981.
X is a branch of mathematics that deals with reasoning that is approximate rather than fixed and exact. Compared to traditional binary sets (where variables may take on true or false values) X variables may have a truth value that ranges in degree between 0 and 1. X has been extended to handle the concept of partial truth, where the truth value may range between completely true and completely false.
Identify this American Mathematician. A biopic on his life grossed more than $300 million at the box office and won four Academy Awards.
Linear Particle Accelerator (the SLAC)
Current Berkeley professor Christos Papadimtriou said -“When I was an assistant professor, X was a junior. • That semester, X was fascinated with a math problem called pancake sorting: How can you sort a list of numbers, say 3-4-2-1-5, by flipping prefixes of the list? … X came to me with an idea for doing it with only 1.67n flips... We held the record in pancake sorting for decades. It was a silly problem back then, but it became important, because human chromosomes mutate this way. • Two years later, I called to tell him our paper had been accepted to a fine math journal. He sounded eminently disinterested. He had moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico to run a small company writing code for microprocessors, of all things. I remember thinking: "Such a brilliant kid. What a waste." • Who is X?
X is a free personal web server that implements a distributed social networking service. Installations of the software form nodes (termed "pods") which make up the distributed X social network. • The project was founded by Dan Grippi, Maxwell Salzberg, Raphael Sofaer and IlyaZhitomirskiy, students at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. The group received donations in excess of $200,000 via Kickstarter.
X is a microconsole running its own version of the Android operating system, developed by Boxer8. Development was funded via Kickstarter, raising $8.5 million and becoming the website's second-highest-earning project in its history.
