Month: April 2012

IBM Ponder This 04-12 Solved

Credited with solving this puzzle, this was a fun one: Ponder This Challenge: This month’s challenge is based on a model suggested by Harry Buhrman, Serge Fehr, Christian Schaffner, and Florian Speelman, who described the garden-hose model in their paper “The Garden-Hose Game: A New Model of Computation, and Application to Position-Based Quantum Cryptography” ( […]

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Math Music

I don’t recall what I was puzzling over at the time but it was some set of formulas that I was struggling to understand the relationship between.  In my frustration I started to wonder if I were to be able to “hear” the equations would their relationship be easier to grasp, like harmony.  Our brains […]

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