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A Mysterious Design That Appears Across Millennia | Terry Moore | TED
What can we make of a design that shows up over and over in disparate cultures throughout history? Theorist Terry Moore explores “Penrose tiling” — two shapes that fit together in infinite combinations without ever repeating — and ponders what … Continue reading
A very normal ball drop led me to infinity
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Is the idea that democracy always benefits society misguided, or just mathematics? | Aeon Videos
Can an argument for democracy be based on a mathematical theorem? From Plato’s tyrants to Condorcet’s ‘jury theorem’ Plato believed that public policy should be the purview of a small group of wise leaders; in his view, ordinary citizens couldn’t … Continue reading
How This One Question Breaks Computers
[…] Sources https://matjaz.substack.com/p/why-are… https://www.khanacademy.org/computing… https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-… The Nature of Computation – Cristopher Moore […]