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If you are remotely interested in mathematics, you'd probably heard of Fourier, or Joseph Fourier . His name comes to mind whenever a physicist, electronic engineer or any technical person deals with frequencies . I don't need to praise Fourier anymore because there are tons of videos and articles about him all over the internet.  In this article, I will be talking about Fourier series and epicycles (Foucycle), seemingly two distinct branches of mathematics if you're unaware of Euler's famous formula . Epicycles are essentially circles within circles, they have been studied extensively by astronomers because it was thought planets' motion was perfectly circular (Not to mention how they were convinced the earth was the centre of the universe) until the inverse-square law of planet motion was introduced by Keppler and Newton . Fourier series is essentially a way to approximate any function as the infinite sum of scaled sins and cosines, simple yet revolutionary. 

Communicating information is perhaps the highlight of the 21st century; the obvious example is the boom in internet and smartphone use in the last 20 years or so; everything is well connected and messages get sent within a fraction of a second. A less obvious example of communicating information is through reading information stored in physical object prone to damage. For example, a CD could be scratched slightly but still, all the relevant information can be recovered properly.  How did we arrive at such a resilient communication? Let's take communicating with your partner as  an example. Without sounding too much like a family consultant, the key here is to send your message as clearly as possible to avoid misunderstanding. Let's say you are an intelligent being who can formulate a proper and grammatically correct sentence, and you wanted to say "I want pizza". You could say the sentence face to face, and hopefully, your crave for pizza would be communicate

 Different people play chess in different styles, no one knows the best way yet. This guide is perhaps useful to computers more than humans, although feel free to take a piece of life-long advice from this article on human behaviour. Source:  https://ar.casact.org/actuaries-versus-artificial-intelligence-what-do-actuaries-do-what-will-they-do/ The participants of this study are merely two chess programs I wrote. With the best of my abilities, I tried to give them some sort of personality that is reflected in their style of play. To understand how to create a "personality" in a program, it is helpful to understand the most common algorithms used in chess. Broadly speaking, designing a chess engine involves two parts: The Risk Assessment part and The Search part. For the latter, there is a pretty standard and efficient algorithm that searches for the best piece to move called the minimax. Thus I won't be altering the search algorithm much. I will, however, alter the risk as

https://www.gocoffeego.com/dbimages/148/roasting@2x.jpg Coffee roasting is widely considered to be an art form among roasters that requires immense dedication to the craftsmanship. It certainly looks like an art considering how many people can't function normally without their morning cup of coffee. Coffee roasting is arguably the key transformable step in the coffee cycle, which usually starts by harvesting coffee cherries, then drying these cherries in numerous different methods, and usually ends up in the morning mugs of office workers (figure 1). Before coffee roasting, the coffee beans hardly resemble our beloved morning coffee in taste, look or smell. As artistic as it sounds, coffee roasting can be quantified to a large degree and can be turned to a scientific and engineering discipline. The motivation behind this article is to explore the usage of mathematical modelling and artificial intelligence to aid commercial coffee roasters to achieve a high level of consistenc

Can we blame bats for transmitting COVID-19 to humans? starting one of the most horrific pandemics and economic crises in the history of mankind. Does batman deserve to feel awkward when bowing to NHS staff? Source:  www.shutupandtakemymoney.com/what-a-bad-time-to-dress-up-as-a-bat-batman-meme/ It is known that bats can harbour different strains of viruses without being infected due to their amazing immune system that limits inflammation [1]. Nevertheless, that is not a valid proof to put the blame on bats straight away, it just puts bats as a pretty good candidate. In this article, I will take a hands-on approach to investigate the root organism that transmitted COVID-19 to humans by taking the bioinformatics rout. I will analyse a sequence taken from a faecal swap of common bats in China to try to arrive at a meaningful conclusion; in a way, reconfirming the results of this peer-reviewed paper [2]. I will start first by showing the computed results and explain its implications, then