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2022-8-13

Occam's razor, Ockham's razor, or Ocham's razor (Latin: novacula Occami), also known as the principle of parsimony or the law of parsimony (Latin: lex parsimoniae), is the problem-solving principle that "entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity".

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2022-7-30

What is the birthday paradox?

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2022-7-7

Mathematical calculations show that quantum communication across interstellar space should be possible

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2022-6-22

Top ten scientific, philosophical influences and inspirations, at the moment, and in no particular order:

Ludwig Boltzmann
Kurt Gödel
Georg Cantor
Slavoj Žižek
Chris Hegdes
Mikhail Bakunin
Richard Wolff
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Alan Turing
Nikola Tesla

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2022-5-7

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2022-5-6

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2022-4-26

What lies beneath

In a new #book, an MIT scholar examines how game-theory logic underpins many of our seemingly odd and irrational decisions.
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2022-4-22

A squircle is a shape intermediate between a square and a circle. There are at least two definitions of "squircle" in use, the most common of which is based on the superellipse. The word "squircle" is a portmanteau of the words "square" and "circle". Squircles have been applied in #design and optics.

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2022-4-20

A highly composite number (sometimes called anti-prime) is a positive integer with more divisors than any smaller positive integer has. The related concept of largely composite number refers to a positive integer which has at least as many divisors as any smaller positive integer.

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2022-4-20

The seven states of randomness in probability theory, fractals and risk analysis are extensions of the concept of randomness as modeled by the normal distribution.

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