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What do you get if you have a lake on an island with an island on it? A recursive island.
Visual recursion happens when something contains a smaller version of itself—a pattern within a pattern or a scene within a scene.
A recursive island is a geographical ver...
On the capabilities of machines and people
In his 1988 book Mind Children, Austrian robotics researcher Hans Moravec, wro...
Maybe you, like me, heard that there are no words that rhyme with orange or chimney. From time to time, I've wondered at this. For orange, I got as far as lozenge, which I don't think is bad, but beyond that, it's not clear to me what works.
In a
The McNamara Fallacy is a belief in easy-to-measure quantitative metrics at the expense of ignoring hard-to-measure qualitative factors.
Robert McNamara was president of Ford Motor Company and later the Secretary of Defense for the USA during the war in Vietnam. He was highly intelligent and excelled at dealing with data and using it to inform strategy.
Coined by ...