Life is complicated. It’s perhaps for that reason that philosophers have mused about the world for millennia. How do mathematicians deal with this complexity we encounter in the world? They seek to simplify it. By breaking down problems into their constituent parts, they become more tractable and solvable, and something that we might be able to…
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Data
Better data rather than the fastest data
by Saeed Amen •
It’s probably been about 20 years since I last timed myself running 100 metres. From memory, it was under 15 seconds (possibly 13 or maybe 14 seconds). I suspect I could run it a bit quicker today, as I run several times a week these days, somewhat more regularly than I when I was a kid.…