We Use Too Many Fonts
And so eventually, you understand, that the reason that there are a lot of typefaces is just because there’s a business, not a need.
Massimo Vignelli, schooling.
And so eventually, you understand, that the reason that there are a lot of typefaces is just because there’s a business, not a need.
Massimo Vignelli, schooling.
Depressing, but faithful to the book.
Viggo Mortensen sure loves nude scenes.
Good but not great, the graphics where amazing.
I got the anti-imperialist message.
In probability theory, the birthday problem, or birthday paradox[1] pertains to the probability that in a set of randomly chosen people some pair of them will have the same birthday. In a group of at least 23 randomly chosen people, there is more than 50% probability that some pair of them will have the same birthday. Such a result is counter-intuitive to many.
For 57 or more people, the probability is more than 99%, and it reaches 100% when, ignoring leap-years, the number of people reaches 366 (by the pigeonhole principle). The mathematics behind this problem led to a well-known cryptographic attack called the birthday attack.
The more you know.
But now, with the prospect of human-level computing power in about 30 years, a new idea suggests itself: that I may be working to create tools which will enable the construction of the technology that may replace our species. How do I feel about this? Very uncomfortable. Having struggled my entire career to build reliable software systems, it seems to me more than likely that this future will not work out as well as some people may imagine. My personal experience suggests we tend to overestimate our design abilities.
Creepy.