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Temporal Paradox
Doc: A paradox! Marty: What? Doc: A paradox! Marty: You mean one of those things that destroys the universe? — *Back to the Future II* A temporal paradox is any paradox that arises due to a person, object, or information, travelling backward in time. As discussed in Unbound…
The Monkey Pirate Puzzle
A hundred prisoners are each locked in a room with three pirates, one of whom will walk the plank in the morning. Each prisoner has 10 bottles of wine, one of which has been poisoned; and each pirate has 12 coins, one of which is counterfeit and weighs either more or less than a…
This business of arrows
"This business of arrows is a tricky one" —Dependency Graph for Knowledge The best discussion I've seen on the challenge of deciding which way to draw the arrows is from Edward Tufte, in the book "Beautiful Evidence" -- and available online here: Links, Causal Arrows, Networks …
What Should I Do Now?
One of the greatest questions in life, in philosophy, in management, in personal productivity is the ever present: WHAT SHOULD I DO NOW? (The now is redundant, as you can only do things "now". If you're talking about something to "do" in the future, then you're talking about "W…