Tag: Real world math
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Numbers all the way dooooooooooooown
Musical accompaniment. Time for a sip of Chateau Schadenfreude, now that the Holy Bitcoin has dropped off the scale at $20k. This number is not just a ‘chartist’ threshold. Some crucial loans and margin calls were designed to be triggered at this number. When your fake “economy” is built on Magic Numbers All The Way…
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EXPonential EXPectation reprint
Inspired by NFT stupidity, here’s a reprint from 2018. = = = = = ABSTRACTION is the cause of EVERY SINGLE CRASH in business, government, and ordinary lives. Abstraction has three Ds: (1) Debt. (2) Delusions. (3) Drugs. All three are unsustainable departures from real value and real work and real measurements. Sooner or later…
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Nice graph humor
Here’s a truly funny piece of graphic wisdom. Most graphs violate this rule. More numbers and more lines DO NOT convey more information. The most common example is polls that show percent approve vs percent disapprove, or percent R vs percent D, as perfectly mirrored lines. Only one of the lines is necessary. The mirror…
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It’s all about caste
Headline at MindMatters: Unexplained — Maybe Unexplainable — Numbers Control the Universe In Carl Sagan’s Contact, the extraterrestrials embedded a message in the irrational number pi (the circumference of a circle divided by its radius). But some other numbers are critical to the structure of our universe too — and why they are critical does…
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