What are exams good for?
“I can see that your son has native speaker skills, but we still cannot give him a passing grade”, the English examinator told me in an apologetic tone of voice. … Continue reading What are exams good for?
Category: Philosophy
The math behind why we can’t travel faster than light
Simon walks you through several special relativity paradoxes and a brief proof of why nothing can move faster than light. He shows the working out of the distance formula. Based … Continue reading The math behind why we can’t travel faster than light
On IQ tests
In AI there’s this concept of dimensionality reduction, which reduces a lot of dimensions to three or less dimensions (however you lose a lot of information through that). IQ tests … Continue reading On IQ tests
Simon explaining Interstellar
Simon didn’t want to watch Interstellar (he generally dislikes fiction and often finds it too scary as well), but somehow he did get sucked into the story after his sister … Continue reading Simon explaining Interstellar
The Universe is made of ones and zeros?
While riding in the car: “If the Universe is not random, it’s made of zeros and ones! I worked it out because quantum mechanics describes elementary particles as probabilities. So … Continue reading The Universe is made of ones and zeros?
Geeks out of the box 