Top Items About Complexity
Type | Title | Teaser | Author | Views | Rating |
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| Trivia | Chess: complexity & intuition | With about 10^128 possible unique games--vastly more than there are atoms in the known universe--chess is one of mankind's... | root | 98 | |
| Trivia | Feature creep & product design | Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often... | root | 69 | |
| Anecdotes | Charles Steinmetz: Mark of Distinction | Charles Steinmetz was once called out of retirement by General Electric to help them locate a problem in an intricate system... | Anonymous | 54 | |
| Anecdotes | Ludwig Boltzmann explains a complex equation | While lecturing on ideal gases one day, Ludwig Boltzmann casually mentioned a number of complex calculations, with which... | Anonymous | 53 | |
| Anecdotes | Lamminkainen | Sir Thomas Beecham once found himself conducting a rehearsal of Sibelius`s Lamminkainen. "In this piece,"... | Anonymous | 44 | |
| Quotes | Quote about Computers, Complexity | `Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor... | Anonymous | 41 | |
| Images | Driving in China | ... | root | 26 | |
| Anecdotes | simplifying a speech for mother | Former Cetus Corp. chairman Ronald Cape: "A few years ago I was having a lot of trouble explaining biotechnology to... | root | 25 | |
| Anecdotes | Wise Guy | Alfonso the Wise was famed for his patronage of the arts and sciences, for his revision of the Castilian legal code, for... | Anonymous | 23 | |
| Images | men & women | ... | root | 22 |
