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Reality is pretty complex, alright... Normally we expect reality to be far more complex than we can comprehend in a limited human mind. Each time we look to one object, many other objects go outside o...
I want to give you an intuition about Kolmogorov complexity, without being very formal. Basically, Kolmogorov complexity defines a measure of how small can you compress a certain string of characters....
"P equals NP?" is a million dollars unsolved problem. Introduction "P" is the class of problems where we have algorithms that solves the problem in polynomial time. "NP" is the class of problems havin...
"It's more moral for a doctor to kill a germ than to allow the germ to kill his patient. The germ wants to live. The patient wants to live. But the patient has moral precedence because he's at a highe...
A virtual machine is a common example of simulation. It can take the description of a (virtual) "computer" state and continue the execution from that point on. You can simulate a huge computer given a...
"Believe" is often associated with religion. However, even for using the "scientific method", we are forced to assume certain qualities of the Universe that we cannot prove nor fully verify. The most...
We have this requirement: "Create the smallest program that will print the full text of the play Othello by William Shakespeare". I should warn you that the requirement hides a trick and you will hate...