Paperclips
Simon loves the Paperclips game. It involves a lot of Game Theory and economics.
Category: Logic
Singing bottles, negative kelvins and resolving Zeno’s paradox
Picking up hiking keeps leading to beautiful conversations and thought experiments on the way. Yesterday, on our longest hike so far (over 8 km, partially in the sand), as we … Continue reading Singing bottles, negative kelvins and resolving Zeno’s paradox
A Small Program that Doubles Itself
I wrote a small program that copies itself. When the program doubles itself it executes itself twice. The code that doubles itself is now doubled. The second time you run … Continue reading A Small Program that Doubles Itself
Simon’s Halting Problem Gist
You can easily turn every statement into a program. If the program stops, or “halts”, then the statement is true, and if it never stops, or “loops”, the statement is … Continue reading Simon’s Halting Problem Gist
Grandfather Paradox on a Möbius strip
The famous Grandfather Paradox (you travel to the past and kill your grandfather, which prevents the your existence) on a Möbius strip. Simon’s inspiration comes from the “Solution to the Grandfather Paradox” video … Continue reading Grandfather Paradox on a Möbius strip
The three ages or 1-input 1-output logic gates
After a whole night working on my writing and not feeling very fresh in the morning, I told Simon about the three ages of life: the young age is when … Continue reading The three ages or 1-input 1-output logic gates
Brilliant’s Daily Challenges
Simon is doing an increasing load of Brilliant’s daily challenges. Some more recent challenges:
Simon’s graph theory thoughts about the overpopulation problem
In a complete binary tree, every node has two children (except for the bottom nodes that don’t have any children at all). This means one mind-blowing thing: that the bottom … Continue reading Simon’s graph theory thoughts about the overpopulation problem
Mind Your Decisions
For over a month, Simon has been fascinated by Presh Talwalkar’s channel Mind Your Decisions. The channel is full of short videos on famous math problems, logic riddles, proofs and … Continue reading Mind Your Decisions
Learning to See. On Machine Learning and learning in general.
December was all about computer science and machine learning. Simon endlessly watched Welch Labs fantastic but freakishly challenging series Learning to See and even showed me all the 15 episodes, … Continue reading Learning to See. On Machine Learning and learning in general.
Simon continues practicing Digital Computer Electronics
Reading the Digital Computer Electronics eBook (third edition):
Too Many Twos Solution Proof
Simon has come up with an equation to solve the Too many Twos, the puzzle mode of the Add ‘Em Up game: x is the number of twos I used … Continue reading Too Many Twos Solution Proof
Geeks out of the box 