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Posts Tagged ‘Mathematics’
60-Second Adventures In Thought
November 26th, 2011 
Daniel Fincke Judge This: Derren Brown False Lesson In Mathematics For Britain
September 12th, 2009 Daniel Fincke I was really irritated last night by Derren Brown’s choice to use his lottery trick on national TV in Britain to propagate fundamentally bogus mathematical thinking and to convince a group of people that their belief in their abilities to reach into the subconscious was able to generate knowledge of winning lottery ticket numbers. It’s [...]
Daniel Tammet—The Boy With The Incredible Brain
September 6th, 2009 Daniel Fincke The story of Daniel Tammet’s amazing, amazing, amazing brain. Tammet can master a new language in a week and he can memorize pi to thousands of places and do extraordinarily complicated math problems in his head simply seeing the numbers and other images and patterns in his mind. There are 5 parts, be sure to watch [...]
Qualia Soup: “It *could* just be coincidence”
July 5th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Two days ago I posted a link to a terrific radio show on highly unlikely events and the fascinating randomness at work even on the cellular levels of existence. If you haven’t listened to it and you’re not well-versed in statistics already, I recommend taking the time, it’s really good. Thinking about that radio clip, [...]
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