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“Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules… repeated without end.”

His TED talk just went online, and his demeanor was a stark contrast with Wolfram.

7 responses to “Benoit Mandelbrot”

  1. They were both great talks! Thanks for the links! Has Lisi returned to TED for an encore?

  2. Thanks for the heads up – off to watch that now

  3. I think the brain perceives beauty in the irreducible computational complexity derived from iterative algorithms…

    Artistic Wormhole

    …yet we can only design simpler constructs, like squares, and Windows.

    The greater opportunity is not to design things, but processes of creation. New evolutionary algorithms. New catalytic seeds.

    pegleg000: Lisi’s probably waiting for that Higgs boson first… Maybe I’ll see him in the desert this summer…

  4. "I think the brain perceives beauty in the irreducible computational complexity derived from iterative algorithms…"

    Ha! My brain did a few somersaults and woke me up from my 3:00PM sluggishness.

  5. Entertaining talk/lecture. He is an amazing individual.

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