“Mathematically Correct Breakfast” is a short YouTube video showing a man cutting a bagel into two interlocking rings, presumably to get more surface area for cream cheese. Through some careful math, it’s revealed that it does give you more bagel to spread your cream cheese on. Assuming that your bagel is perfectly round, you can get more spreadable surface — up to 17.4% more — by cutting your bagel along a two-twist Möbius strip like the man does in the video. Read full article here
Societal Issues
AI Predicts Crime A Week In Advance With 90 Per Cent Accuracy
An artificial intelligence model built by Ishanu Chattopadhyay and his colleagues analysed crime data in Chicago from 2014 to 2016 and managed to predict future levels of crime down to the nearest 300 metres, a week before they actually happened. While extremely useful, this artificial intelligence has been shown to expose racial prejudice in law enforcement. Hopefully, as the study’s data and methodology have been made available for others to evaluate, these prejudices can be avoided in the next iteration. Read full article here
Merv
August 15, 2022
