The brothers Vegard and Bård made this to promote the third season of their television talk show. In an interview, the brothers mentioned that given the opportunity to collaborate with Stargate, they originally wanted to make a dance song about men who cannot dance or dread dancing and named it "The Dancing Stick", but felt that the idea was "too clever“. Tris McCall of The Star-Ledger describes the song as "a parody of the excesses and absurdities of contemporary club music" Recently Simon & Schuster's Children's Publishing has acquired a picture book based on the song. Which song?

What Does The Fox Say?

Daft Punk released a video called Random Access Memories Unboxed. The company X, which owns Daft Punk’s record label, parodied the clip in an advertisement for Y, an unrelated product. Identify X and Y.

Sony, PlayStation 4

Connect

Google[x]

Y was born in Pretoria, South Africa. At age 12, he sold the computer code for a video game called Blastar for $500. He went on to start companies including Zip2 and SolarCity. There is a reason I use the letter ‘Y’ and not ‘X’. Identify Y.

Elon Musk

X was founded on November 29, 1777, as El Pueblo de X de Guadalupe, the first civilian town in the Spanish colony of Nueva California. The city served as a farming community to support Spanish military installations. When California gained statehood in 1850, X served as its capital. Identify X, the largest city in the Silicon Valley.

San Jose

_____ is a Japan-based manufacturer of optics and reprography products. It enjoys a majority share of the world market in gastro-intestinal endoscopes. In late 2011, the company fired its newly appointed British president, precipitating a scandal that wiped 75% off the company's stock market valuation and resulted in the arrest of 11 directors and senior managers for alleged criminal activities.

Olympus

What is special about this handgun created by Solid Concepts?

The first 3D printed gun

This is the logo of an annual event organized by X.

On October 8, 2011, X published an analysis of the Staatstrojaner software, a Trojan horse employed by the German government. The software was found to have the ability to remote control the target computer, to capture screenshots, and to fetch and run arbitrary extra code. X says that having this functionality built in is in direct contradiction to a ruling of the constitutional court.

Chaos Computer Club

This is the logo of something that was a precursor to what popular modern day product?

Mozilla Firefox

What do these pictures show?

United States TSA (Transportation Security Administration) official Instagram account displaying things they have confiscated at airports.

What famous problem is shown here?

Monty Hall problem

This picture taken by Voyager 1 inspired a book by a great popularizer of science. What is captured in this picture and what is the name of the book?

Pale Blue Dot

Spearman's g-factor is a generalized type of this, while “kinesthetic” and “naturalistic” are two of the “multiple” ones theorized by Howard Gardner. The average increase in its measurements over time is called the Flynn effect, and it is tested using the Stanford-Binet scale. The Turing test tests this for machines. Name this property of the mind.

intelligence

One operator named for this property is used in the general definition of Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, which relies on the fact that this property does not apply to position and momentum operators. Hilbert names rings that have this property, while groups that exhibit this property are called Abelian. Name this mathematical that property notably does not hold for multiplication of matrices.

Commutative property

Identify the two characters from popular British comedy, ‘The IT Crowd’

Moss and Roy

In chaos theory, the X effect is the sensitive dependency on initial conditions in which a small change at one place in a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state. The name of the effect, coined by Edward Lorenz, is derived from the theoretical example of a hurricane's formation being contingent on actions of a distant X. What is X?

Butterfly

____________ was an American popular mathematics and science writer specializing in recreational mathematics, but with interests encompassing micromagic, stage magic, literature (especially the writings of Lewis Carroll and G.K. Chesterton), philosophy, scientific skepticism, and religion. He wrote a column in Scientific American from 1956 to 1981.

Martin Gardner

X is a branch of mathematics that deals with reasoning that is approximate rather than fixed and exact. Compared to traditional binary sets (where variables may take on true or false values) X variables may have a truth value that ranges in degree between 0 and 1. X has been extended to handle the concept of partial truth, where the truth value may range between completely true and completely false.

Fuzzy logic

Identify this American Mathematician. A biopic on his life grossed more than $300 million at the box office and won four Academy Awards.

John Nash

Map of what place?

Skyrim

Fill in the blank.

Drake

Aerial photo of the world’s largest ________.

Linear Particle Accelerator (the SLAC)

Current Berkeley professor Christos Papadimtriou said -“When I was an assistant professor, X was a junior.

That semester, X was fascinated with a math problem called pancake sorting: How can you sort a list of numbers, say 3-4-2-1-5, by flipping prefixes of the list? … X came to me with an idea for doing it with only 1.67n flips... We held the record in pancake sorting for decades. It was a silly problem back then, but it became important, because human chromosomes mutate this way.

Two years later, I called to tell him our paper had been accepted to a fine math journal. He sounded eminently disinterested. He had moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico to run a small company writing code for microprocessors, of all things. I remember thinking: "Such a brilliant kid. What a waste."

Who is X?

Bill Gates

X is a free personal web server that implements a distributed social networking service. Installations of the software form nodes (termed "pods") which make up the distributed X social network.

The project was founded by Dan Grippi, Maxwell Salzberg, Raphael Sofaer and Ilya Zhitomirskiy, students at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. The group received donations in excess of $200,000 via Kickstarter.

Diaspora

X is a microconsole running its own version of the Android operating system, developed by Boxer8. Development was funded via Kickstarter, raising $8.5 million and becoming the website's second-highest-earning project in its history.

OUYA

Not even on the list of the world’s top 10 wind-turbine manufacturers as recently as 2002, Suzlon is now in the top five. It was started by a Gujarati textile businessman who found his prospects stunted due to power problems. In 1990, he invested in two windmills and realized wind-power's huge potential. In 1995, he formed Suzlon and gradually quit textiles. Name this billionaire.

Tulsi Tanti

The teen owner of an Australian bank reported the theft of 4,100 X worth $1.4 million Australian.

A spokesman for the Australian Federal Police says to his knowledge, a theft of X has never been investigated but if it was reported to officers then police would investigate it like any other theft.

Bitcoin

X was founded by Y. Y is regarded as the father of Ethernet technology. Y is known for his notable awards and for formulating a law. The law states that the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system. X represents computers, communication and compatibility.

Identify X,Y

X – 3com Y – Robert Metcalfe

The person on the right is Napoleon Bonaparte. Who is on the left and what is he displaying to the crowd?

Alessandro Volta, Battery

LIKES: Surfing the Internet, HTML5, karaoke, cats, mint-flavored ice cream

DISLIKES: Malware, online bullies Identify.

Inori, the personification of Internet Explorer

A composer of soundtracks for film, television and video games, he has won multiple awards and has been described as the "John Williams of video game music". He has composed soundtracks for over 60 games and over a dozen other works during his career. In 2005 he founded DirectSong, a record label that publishes digital DRM-free versions of his soundtracks as well as those of classical composers.  His music for critically acclaimed RPG Y which was also the Game of the Year for 2011 earned him his Fourth BAFTA Game Awards nomination. Identify X and Y

Jeremy Soule, Skyrim

Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he applied his intelligence in unconventional ways, winning a contest when he was in eighth grade by finding over 4,500 words that could be formed from the letters in "Ziegler's Giant Bar". He has contributed to the development of the rigorous analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms and systematized formal mathematical techniques for it. In the process he also popularized the asymptotic notation. He is also the creator of the TeX computer typesetting system, the related METAFONT font definition language and rendering system, and the Computer Modern family of typefaces.

Who are we talking about?

Donald Knuth

Originally developed by Paul Ginsparg, in part to supersede a multinational email distribution list for preprints that had been operated manually by Joanne Cohn for about two years. It started in August 1991 as a repository for preprints in physicsX is an archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy, computer science, quantitative biology, statistics, and quantitative finance which can be accessed online. In many fields of mathematics and physics, almost all scientific papers are self-archived on X. On October 3, 2008, it passed the half-million article milestone.

Identify.

arXiv

A former San Diego college student, Carlos Enrique Perez-Melara, is now among FBI's most wanted cyber-criminals for making malware that could apparently catch a cheating lover. The software would enable the sender to spy on e-mails and instant messages on the recipient's computer or even spy on the person via webcam. The program was priced at $89 and sold to at least 1,000 customers who tried to infect about 2,000 others and stalk. The agency has offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to his arrest. What is the name of this malware?

Lover spy

Logo of which company that was in the news in recent years?

TEPCO