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Maxwell's Demon

Personal blog · maxwelldemon.com · on HN as Geladamathculture

Maxwell's Demon is a personal blog at maxwelldemon.com about math and culture. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “2+2=1? Playing with modular arithmetic”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-11, and you can follow it by feed.

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22mentions?
5HN people?
2011–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for a 2011 post on patterns in modular arithmetic. One commenter linked it as a visual comparison to the Filigrams thread.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Vain attempts to construct order

The author on HN?

Gelada · 257 karma · member since 2011

Mathematician, Artist, Maker. I blog at http://maxwelldemon.com @gelada on twitter

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. 2+2=1? Playing with modular arithmetic
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-11-20

What Hacker News says?

  1. alvin0 · 2016-02-10
    looks similar visually to "Patterns in modular Arithmetic" not sure if they are mathematically same though. http://maxwelldemon.com/2011/11/20/22-1-patterns-in-modular-...

    Comment linking /2011/11/20/22-1-patterns-in-modular-arithmetic/

    on “Filigrams: A New Type of Pretty Picture (2000)”
  2. Gelada · 2011-01-23

    Submitted Mathematician, Artist, Maker, I find myself looking for a job... as a story · 94 points

    HN discussion
  3. Gelada · 2011-11-20

    Submitted 2+2=1? Playing with modular arithmetic as a story · 28 points

    HN discussion
  4. Gelada · 2012-03-18

    Submitted Combining great recreational math themes: Prime numbers and Phyllotaxis Sprirals as a story · 18 points

    HN discussion
  5. ColinWright · 2011-09-04

    Submitted How do we understand the world? The Academy: Axiom 1 as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  6. Gelada · 2012-07-01

    Submitted Could Khan Academy and similar projects disrupt in the wrong direction? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Gelada · 2012-03-26

    Submitted The 2x1 rectangle, hexayurts and domes as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Gelada · 2011-12-05

    Submitted How the hell does 1-x/2-6x^2+11x^3-7x^4+3/2x^5 relate to wood? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Gelada · 2011-07-21

    Submitted Can mathematical toys close the math gap? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Gelada · 2011-01-04

    Submitted How to offer $1,000,000 and not loose a penny using game thoery as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. fanf2 · 2018-05-15

    Submitted The Taylor-Socolar aperiodic tile as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. severine · 2016-10-28

    Submitted The Curve in the Curvahedra as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Gelada · 2015-09-24

    Submitted Color your way to understanding mathematics as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Gelada · 2014-02-10

    Submitted Pullback of complex functions as a logo for the Twitter Math camp as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Gelada · 2013-08-05

    Submitted Exploring the shapes of multivariable mathematical functions as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Gelada · 2013-02-01

    Submitted What mathematics would you read out loud? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Gelada · 2013-01-15

    Submitted Handcrafting digitally designed wedding rings. as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Gelada · 2012-06-06

    Submitted Old models of education versus "The new shiny" as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Gelada · 2012-05-09

    Submitted Was any mathematics ever lost because it was developed on bad foundations? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. Gelada · 2012-02-24

    Submitted Teaching and Being Wrong as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Gelada · 2012-02-02

    Submitted Powers of Ten in words, an attempt to get some sense of the size of the internet as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Gelada · 2011-06-01

    Submitted Do you remember the old mathematics room at Foyles bookshop in London? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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