Adereth

A cryptic way of speaking quite plainly whilst avoiding automatic surveillance tools. I came up with the idea a good number of years ago during my cryptography phase. Here’s how it works:

A toppling domino can push over a larger domino, but how much bigger must the next one be?

The Small Knocking Down the Big is a 2009 installation by Chinese artist Qiu Zhijie made from hundreds of cut wooden dominoes meant to loosely demonstrate the effects of something that has become known as Domino Magnification. The basic premise is that any domino can knock over another domino that’s roughly 1.5 times larger, meaning that if you gently pushed a normal sized domino into a chain of bricks that increase in size each time by 1.5, the 32nd object will be large enough to topple the Empire State Building! Source.

but it involves simulating thousands of points interconnected by thousands^2 springs until the points positions converge.

but it involves simulating thousands of points interconnected by thousands^2 springs until the points positions converge.

You and Your Research — Richard Hamming

Transcript: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

Richard Hamming gets to the heart on what differentiates a prolific scientist from an ordinary one.

"If you do not work on an important problem, it’s unlikely you’ll do important work. It’s perfectly obvious. "

Another key idea is that of an attack. These problems are hard because they are not amenable to brute force. You need to find a trick to make the problem approachable.

By important I mean guaranteed a Nobel Prize and any sum of money you want to mention. We didn’t work on (1) time travel, (2) teleportation, and (3) antigravity. They are not important problems because we do not have an attack. It’s not the consequence that makes a problem important, it is that you have a reasonable attack. That is what makes a problem important.