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At a time when the Victorians prided themselveson science and rationality, the two quiet young men from Buffalo, New York began a confusing debate about just how honest a magician needed to be or could afford to be.
Teller Jim Steinmeyer • Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
anyone who is confident of the effectiveness of their algorithm should be happy to demonstrate that effectiveness in a fair and rigorous test.
Tim Harford • The Data Detective
John Barth’s long story “Lost in the Funhouse,”
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
At the age of just forty-two, one of the true geniuses of cryptanalysis committed suicide.
Simon Singh • The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
Tyler Cowen • Thoughts in Between: exploring how technology collides with politics, culture and society on Apple Podcasts
Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon (1941).
Herbert A. Simon • Models of My Life
To those who saw them up close, Dennis had the capacity to make an observation in an instant that would take someone else weeks of painstaking math to figure out. Even Eckhardt marveled as Dennis’s knack to intuitively see “it”: “Look what this means. Look at the deep axiom in here. It works.” That said, Eckhardt was the mathematical genius. He was
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