A curious pattern in January exponential sums
The exponential sum page on this site draws a new image every day based on plugging the month, day, and year into a formula. Some of these images are visually appealing; I’ve had many people ask if they could use the images in publications or on coffee mugs etc. The
Read moreThe Best Figma Plugins to Enhance Your Design Workflow in 2024
In this article, we'll explore the top Figma plugins that every designer should consider using to enhance their design workflow in 2024. Continue reading The Best Figma Plugins to Enhance Your Design Workflow in 2024 on SitePoint.
Read moreThe Million Dollar Matrix Multiply
The following post is by Wayne Joubert, the newest member of our consulting team. Wayne recently retired from his position as a Senior Computational Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Training large language models like GPT-4 costs many millions of dollars in server expenses. These costs are expected to trend
Read moreIs there an elliptic curve with 2024 points?
On New Years Day I posted about groups of order 2024. Are there elliptic curves of order 2024? The Hasse-Weil theorem relates the number of points on an elliptic curve over a finite field to the number of elements of the field. Namely, an elliptic curve E over a field
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