These two videos are a rendering of the Mandelbox - a 3D representation of the Mandelbrot Set.
This is why I don’t believe in Intelligent Design - if a math equation two lines long can generate this much complexity and variation, can we really think that the relatively minor differences in life aren’t controlled by something [...]
I have a fairly broad area of expertise, with a substantial degree of depth in some fields. This has led many friends and some family to suggest that I should sign up for Jeopardy - because, they say, “You’d be sure to win.” I typically respond by mumbling some sort of humble version of “I’m [...]
While I’ll generally agree that Unions fulfilled a useful and necessary purpose in the past, they are currently granted far too much power, often by laws passed at their insistence.
A monopoly is a single firm that controls the production and sale of a given good. Good examples are Standard Oil, US Steel, and Ma Bell. [...]
The future is largely unpredictable - especially in the long run. As an example, physics represents arguably one of the most successful areas of human knowledge and prediction. Given two bodies, with sufficient knowledge of initial conditions, we can determine their exact conditions at any point in time from now until infinity. Adding even a [...]
There once was a boy who went to a great casino. The boy was very, very smart, and quickly created a system where he could make a good living playing the casino games. He played for many days, accumulating a small fortune in winnings, until, one day, his luck ran out and his system proved [...]