#blaisepascal — Public Fediverse posts

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
-- Blaise Pascal

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Panopainting #NewMexico

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Pensees by Blaise Pascal (555 p.)

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https://gram.social/p/cititoramator/889125308579206500

#livre Petite vie de #BlaisePascal de Bernard Sesé

-> UK : John Wallis via son frère qui utilisait des livres imprimés (cf ....) pour marchands -> naissance de la science à l'aide des mathématiques mis en forme par ... avec les chiffres indo-arabes. -> invention du signe algébrique de l'infini + pariticipe à la création de la Société Royale -> France imitation -> toutes les cours royales.

#science #maths #chiffre #nombre #culture #zero #calculs #gestion #comptabilite #mesures #code #quantite

3Blue1Brown on Wordle, probability, information theory, and expected value.

Or: Shannon, von Neumann, and Pascal walk into a word game...

Whether or not you've been sucked into this word game fad, this is a really good explanation of the relationships between probability and expected information value (I = -log2(p)), as well as how to optimally find one element within a known search space.

It explains the logic behind selecting starting words for Wordle, as well as how and why optimisers choose their own guesses, and what an optimal solver's ultimate limits would be.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=v68zYyaEmEA

HN discuussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30232413

#Wordle #3Blue1Brown #Video #InformationTheory #Probability #ClaudeShannon #JohnVonNeumann #BlaisePascal #ExpectedValue