Science is the reverse engineering of nature by 
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-21 +Created 1970-01-01
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-21 +Created 1970-01-01Ciro Santilli had once assigned this as one of Ciro Santilli's best random thoughts, but he later found that Wikipedia actually says exactly that: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_engineering ("similar to scientific research, the only difference being that scientific research is about a natural phenomenon") so maybe that is where Ciro picked it up unconsciously in the first place.
Definition: "easy" number theory learnt in primary school, notably the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
The best modern sung Western music of all time by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-21 +Created 1970-01-01
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-21 +Created 1970-01-01You have to know the language to appreciate them.
The 60's and 70's were the days, those great proxy wars and CIA dictatorships allowed hippies to make awesome freedom music without too imminent a fear of death.
Songs making fun of things or that are pure Brazil nostalgia are also accepted. No love songs, ever. Except some by Caetano, but that's it!
English:
- 1967 Red Telephone track from the Forever Changes (1967) album by Love
- 1967 White Rabbit track from the Surrealistic Pillow (1967) album by Jefferson Airplane
French:
- Emmenez-moi (wiki) from the album Entre Deux Rêves (1967) by Charles Aznavour
Science makes progress funeral by funeral by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-21 +Created 1970-01-01
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-21 +Created 1970-01-01
The best example to look at first is the penalty kick left right Nash equilibrium.
Then, a much more interesting example is choosing a deck of a TCG competition: Magic: The Gathering meta-based deck choice is a bimatrix game, which is the exact same, but each player has N choices rather than 2.
The next case that should be analyzed is the prisoner's dilemma.
The key idea is that:
- imagine that the game will be played many times between two players
- if one player always chooses one deck, the other player will adapt by choosing the anti-deck
- therefore, the best strategy for both players, is to pick decks randomly, each with a certain probability. This type of probabilistic approach is called a mixed strategy
- if any player deviates from the equilibrium probability, then the other player can add more of the anti-deck to the deck that the other player deviated, and gain an edgeTherefore, using equilibrium probabilities is the optimal way to play
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