Category: Logic | Page 4

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Robert J. Marks
Date
February 10, 2025

Categorized
Logic, Mathematics

Tagged
Eulerian paths, Leonard Euler (1707‒1783), Michael Medved, Seven Bridges of Königsberg}

Monday Micro Softy 13: Garbage Trucks, String Theory…

_{… and Stained-Glass Windows. What connects them?} _{Robert J. Marks
February 10, 2025

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Logic, Mathematics}

These puzzles, associated with the great mathematician Leonard Euler (1707‒1783), have a practical use, for example, in laying water pipes.

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Robert J. Marks
Date
February 3, 2025

Categorized
Logic, Mathematics

Tagged
Micro Softies, Micro Softy on graphs}

Monday Micro Softy 12: Can You Connect the Dots?

_{You may use no more than four perfectly straight lines and the lines must be connected.} _{Robert J. Marks
February 3, 2025

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Logic, Mathematics}

This classic puzzle in simple graph theory resulted in a commonly used phrase. Can you guess it?

group of musicians after the performance of his work

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Robert J. Marks
Date
January 27, 2025

Categorized
Logic, Mathematics, Probability

Tagged
Law of Conservation of Money, Monte Hall Problem}

Monday Micro Softy 11: What Happened to That Other Dollar?

_{Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy get the discount for their cheap hotel rooms but the figures don’t really add up} _{Robert J. Marks
January 27, 2025

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Logic, Mathematics, Probability}

To solve this Micro Softy, you need to pinpoint the flaw in the logic that hinges on the Law of Conservation of Money.

Manhole drain cover on streets of lower Manhattan

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Robert J. Marks
Date
November 18, 2024

Categorized
Business and Finance, Logic

Tagged
Featured, Marilyn vos Savant, Micro Softies, Robert J. Marks}

Microsoft: What Did You Need To Work There in the Early Days?

_{They asked questions that were not about the details of computer technology. The questions made you think. Hard.} _{Robert J. Marks
November 18, 2024

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Business and Finance, Logic}

For example. they would ask questions like, why are manhole covers round?

Four-leaf clover stands out against green leaves

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Gary Smith
Date
August 21, 2024

Categorized
Business and Finance, Logic, Mathematics, Sports

Tagged
Featured, Regression toward the mean}

Bad Luck Seldom Persists — But it Never Guarantees Good Luck

_{Many people embrace the fallacious law of averages in their daily lives when "regression toward the mean" is a more realistic picture} _{Gary Smith
August 21, 2024

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Business and Finance, Logic, Mathematics, Sports}

For example, the baseball player with the highest batting average in any season generally does not do as well the season before or the season after.

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
July 7, 2024

Categorized
Law, Logic, Politics}

What Does Granting “Rights” to Nature Really Do?

_{If everything has rights, nothing does really} _{Wesley J. Smith
July 7, 2024

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Law, Logic, Politics}

Why not allow the profitable Teton tourist area to to return to a natural state as a forest on the mountain, as is, apparently, its inherent right?

a pile of shovels and forks laying on the ground

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Gary Smith
Date
June 27, 2024

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Logic

Tagged
Herbert Simon on AI capabilities, Marvin Minsky on AI capabilities}

AI Is Still a Delusion

_{Following instructions and performing fast, tireless, error-free calculations is not intelligence in any meaningful sense of the word} _{Gary Smith
June 27, 2024

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Artificial Intelligence, Logic}

Not knowing what words mean, neither OpenAI’s ChatGPT 3.5 nor Microsoft’s Copilot nor Google’s Gemini can do a simple logic test.