Jan 18, 2016
The ideas, knowledge, beliefs, laws and regulations, etc. contained in a culture would be the genetic instructions ordering the use of exosomatic energy.…
Jan 18, 2016
I’ve often heard people say that the interesting part of number theory is the interaction between addition and multiplication, but I only yesterday realized one reason why that is, triggered by convincing myself that $a b = \mathrm{lcm}(a,b)\mathrm{gcd}(a,b)$ (a train of thought triggered by seeing the letters “GCD” graffitied on a wall in Chicago).…
Jul 9, 2014
The other day I was sitting in The Coop in Cambridge, reading a book on combinatorial games, and so naturally I started wondering about games played in groups, or on their Cayley graphs at least.…
Jan 21, 2013
If I say the word “swimming” to you, you’ve got a fair bit of information about what word I’m going to say next.…