Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Libraries Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

George Szpiro

πŸ‘€ Speaker
171 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Something You Should Know
Your Phone May Not Be the Problem & The Puzzles That Break Your Brain - SYSK Choice

And Figaro shouldn't be shaving men who shave themselves.

Something You Should Know
Your Phone May Not Be the Problem & The Puzzles That Break Your Brain - SYSK Choice

So if he doesn't shave himself, then he should, because he's shaving all the men in the village who don't shave themselves.

Something You Should Know
Your Phone May Not Be the Problem & The Puzzles That Break Your Brain - SYSK Choice

So that's a famous paradox.

Something You Should Know
Your Phone May Not Be the Problem & The Puzzles That Break Your Brain - SYSK Choice

It was Bertrand Russell who discovered it or invented it.

Something You Should Know
Your Phone May Not Be the Problem & The Puzzles That Break Your Brain - SYSK Choice

And it's a paradox.

Something You Should Know
Your Phone May Not Be the Problem & The Puzzles That Break Your Brain - SYSK Choice

There are many paradoxes with self-reference when the barber actually refers to himself.

Something You Should Know
Your Phone May Not Be the Problem & The Puzzles That Break Your Brain - SYSK Choice

Does he shave himself when he should only shave the people who don't shave themselves?

Something You Should Know
Your Phone May Not Be the Problem & The Puzzles That Break Your Brain - SYSK Choice

So the solution to that paradox is there is no barber like that.

Something You Should Know
Your Phone May Not Be the Problem & The Puzzles That Break Your Brain - SYSK Choice

He cannot exist.

Something You Should Know
Your Phone May Not Be the Problem & The Puzzles That Break Your Brain - SYSK Choice

And that is a falsidical paradox.

Something You Should Know
Your Phone May Not Be the Problem & The Puzzles That Break Your Brain - SYSK Choice

Random numbers are a very important subject in computer science.

Something You Should Know
Your Phone May Not Be the Problem & The Puzzles That Break Your Brain - SYSK Choice

So let me first say...

Something You Should Know
Your Phone May Not Be the Problem & The Puzzles That Break Your Brain - SYSK Choice

One cannot speak about a random number.

Something You Should Know
Your Phone May Not Be the Problem & The Puzzles That Break Your Brain - SYSK Choice

Random numbers are usually sequences of numbers.

Something You Should Know
Your Phone May Not Be the Problem & The Puzzles That Break Your Brain - SYSK Choice

And random means that there's no rhyme or reason to them.

Something You Should Know
Your Phone May Not Be the Problem & The Puzzles That Break Your Brain - SYSK Choice

So let me first ask you, which sequence sounds more random?

Something You Should Know
Your Phone May Not Be the Problem & The Puzzles That Break Your Brain - SYSK Choice

3, 4, 8, 9 or 1, 1, 1, 1?

Something You Should Know
Your Phone May Not Be the Problem & The Puzzles That Break Your Brain - SYSK Choice

So most people would say, OK, 3, 4, 8, 9.

Something You Should Know
Your Phone May Not Be the Problem & The Puzzles That Break Your Brain - SYSK Choice

is more random than 1, 1, 1, 1?

Something You Should Know
Your Phone May Not Be the Problem & The Puzzles That Break Your Brain - SYSK Choice

Well, they're both equally likely.