To solve last week’s puzzle: you are told how many heads there are so start by flipping that number of coins.
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We continue to explore the way simple roles followed by unintelligent agents — even dumb bugs — can yield complex behavior.
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Swarm intelligence enables the colony to converge on the shortest and most efficient path to food without any individual being especially smart.
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About last week’s MicroSofty: Think of the probability issue as just a distraction…
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I live in McGregor, Texas, where Elon Musk’s Space X has a testing center, and occasionally, the testing of their rocket engines gently rattles the dishes on the shelves in my home.
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The 1876 song My Grandfather’s Clock by Henry Clay Work. was about a clock that stopped, short, never to go again when the old man died.
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Optical illusions and audio illusions have no place in reality, neither do logical illusions even though they are used a lot in math proofs.
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You can get to all 72 other Micro Softies and their answers from here. Test your wits against the engineers!
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Sally tells her landlord she will give him one gold bead every day during the 30-day month.
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To show off my electrician skills, this week’s Micro Softy is about the light switch on your stairs.
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Fritz goes in the first day and sees one of the seven switches down and the rest up. He dutifully flips one of the switches.
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Problem: If we get one more prisoner, we have to start doubling up cells which is no good.
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The other two switches turn outside lights off and on. Wide Clyde can’t see outside, so he can’t determine which switches control the lights.
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Choose any three-digit number, say 567, and repeat it: 567,567. Divide it by the prime numbers 13, then 11 and then 7.
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Two fathers and their two sons walked into the Bass Pro Shop in Memphis, Tennessee. Each man bought an AK47 rifle with ammunition and a 75-round drum magazine
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A few days later, a second note was received. It read: “In the BAA [now the NBA] finals, the Baltimore Bullets will defeat the Philadelphia Warriors to win the 1948 World Championship in Basketball.”
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The western scale is based on natural acoustic harmonics from the physics of vibrating strings and resonant acoustics from sound columns.
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To solve Microsofty 59, recall that direction of air flow is due to pressure — not size. Which tire is under more pressure?
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The solution to last week’s puzzle is to ask whether the way each of the relationships is created makes any difference.
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We are reversing our usual order and giving the answer to #57 first. Ben could have one of two possible family relationships to me.
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