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Relative color
I’m amazed at how many people think that colors are absolute, meaning the same RGB value will be perceived as the same color in every condition. It’s definitely not like that. Lighting conditions and...
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Guinea pigs and cognitive biases
Some time ago, a friend asked for my help with a puzzle: There are 1,000 buckets, one of them contains poison, the rest of them are filled with water. They all look the same. If a pig drinks that...
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The Kid and the Beast
At Reykjavik Chess Tournament of 2004, a “kid vs beast” match took place. A 13-year-old player faced Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess player in the history of the game. At move #30, Kasparov had to...
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Gracias, Ernő Rubik
Hungría le ha dado al mundo notables matemáticos, como Jon Von Neumann y Paul Erdos. También grandes novelistas como Ferenc Molnar, autor de “Los muchachos de la calle Pal“, un clásico de la literatura...
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