Cliff Pickover
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Increase your sense of wonder. (Author of 50 books & 800 patents. Yale Ph.D.) "Pickover contemplates realms beyond our known reality." ~NY Times
New York
Joined September 2008
Ask me anything. I will be happy to answer some of your questions, and will try to reply to a portion of your questions below in the coming days.
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This could be fun. What's an example of a word that you have read but have never spoken out loud?
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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”.― Albert Einstein (as quoted by Fritz Perls)
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Humor. Reimagining the Trojan Horse. Backup plan. By Dave Coverly, @speedbumpcomic, Used with permission
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Astronomy. Beautiful Universe. Size comparison of Neptune and Earth.
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Mathematics and Beauty. A Penrose Tiling with rhombi, exhibiting five-fold symmetry. Source:
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Mathematics, Beauty, Surprise. Computation by Simone Conradi, @S_Conradi, Used with permission.
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Mathematics, Geometry, Nature, Transcendence. Hand-drawn by architect Rafael Araujo, @rafaela31416, Used with permission.
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For those of you using a local account on your MS Windows 10 PC, will you switch (convert) your local account to a Microsoft account in order to enroll in the extended security updates (ESU)? Or will you create a new user account with a Microsoft account, in order to enroll?
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“The development of statistics is causing history to be rewritten. Now statistical inquiry leads [the historian to discover] the seeds of national growth and decay, and thus becomes the prophet of his generation.”.— U.S. President James Abram Garfield, 1881
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Mathematics. Scientists discover the equations for happiness. Formulas from this free technical paper:
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“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”.― Albert Einstein
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Mathematical Coalescence. Math machine. A strange pattern emerges in these Archimedean Spirals with interconnecting tubes. "The pattern 東南西北 can be displaced, but remains conserved.". By Raven Kwok, @RavenKwok, Used with permission
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Mathematics. The secret golden ratios, hiding out in the 5-pointed star.
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The serpent in the Garden of Eden was an AI, driven by a large language model (LLM). Imagine a persuasive AI, created by an advanced antediluvian civilization or an extraterrestrial intelligence, deployed in the Garden as a serpent-like interface. Its LLM core is trained on
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Mathematics. Chess. The Majestic Odyssey of the Knight's Tour. A Knight's Tour is a sequence of moves of a Knight on a chessboard such that the knight visits every square exactly once.
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“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”.― Isaac Asimov
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Mathematics and Beauty. Conic Sections, in a nutshell. By Ketrina Thompson, Used with permission.
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