Game Theory As A Dark Art, by Scott Alexander.
Your garden-variety evils act against your values. Your better class of evil, like Voldemort and the folk-tale version of Satan, use your greed to trick you into acting against your own values, then grab away the promised reward at the last moment. But even demons and dark wizards can only do this once or twice before most victims wise up and decide that taking their advice is a bad idea.
2021-10-22
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Flashcards Why is it good to carefully choose the point where you take moments?? Because you can ignore the rotational effect of any forces acting at that point.
Why is it good to take moments at $R_A$ or $R_C$ here rather than halfway down the rod?? Because you only get 1 unknown.
2021-11-17 If a rigid body is tilting about a pivot, what can you say about the reaction at any other support?? It is zero.
2021-10-20
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How can we develop transformative tools for thought?, Andy Matuschak and Michael Nielsen.
Notes A more powerful aim is to develop a new medium for thought. Such a medium creates a powerful immersive context, a context in which the user can have new kinds of thought, thoughts that were formerly impossible for them. The range of expressive thoughts possible in such a medium is an emergent property of the objects and actions in that medium.
2021-10-19
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how many real solutions does 8^x + 4 = 4^x + 2^(x + 2) have?
2021-10-14
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what are the coordinates of the point at the shortest distance between these two circles?
2021-10-14
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See Also [[Further Maths - Eulerian Trails]]S [[Further Maths - Hamiltonian Cycles]]S [[Further Maths - Kruskals Algorithm]]?? Flashcards What is a graph with weighted edges called?? A network.
What is the degree of a vertex?? The number of edges connected to it.
What is the order of a vertex?? The number of edges connected to it.
What is the valency of a vertex?? The number of edges connected to it.
2021-10-13
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what can be said about this recursively defined sequence?
2021-10-13
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what is always true about recursively applying these two functions?
2021-10-13
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what is the maximum of this function when this condition is satisfied?
2021-10-13
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