Category: General
Teen gets accepted by all eight Ivy League schools
(CNN)There must be something in the water at Elmont Memorial High School. For the second year in a row, an Elmont Memorial High School student has been accepted to all eight Ivy League schools. Last year, the Long Island high school’s salutatorian Harold Ekeh chose to attend Yale University after having his pick of all […]
Genius by numbers: why Hollywood maths movies don’t add up
From A Beautiful Mind to The Theory of Everything and The Man Who Knew Infinity, Hollywood loves a mathematician. So why cant it get beyond the fevered prodigy scribbling equations on windows? In the Tina Fey sitcom Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, wealthy Manhattanite Jacqueline Vorhees wails to her assistant that she cant afford to get divorced. […]
The Knowledge Dynasty Announces New Categories
The Knowledge Dynasty is pleased to announce the addition of the two new, closely related categories of Linked Data and Artificial Intelligence. In computing, Linked data (often capitalized as Linked Data) describes a method of publishing structured data so that it can be interlinked and become more useful through semantic queries. It builds upon standard Web […]
Congrats to the Nobel Laureates!
Congratulations to all the 2014 Nobel Prize winners in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Economics, Literature and Peace!