Probably a lot like /u/spaceghoti 'damned near everything'. Top three that come to mind at the moment...
- Quantum Mechanics - when you have molecules rolling up inclined surfaces and light waves acting different depending on if someone is looking or not, then you know shit's just got weird.
- Bayes' theorem - if your spam filter works, then you can thank this reverend from 1812 for writing down the probablity algorithm to make it work. I've played with it in Python some and it's amazing.
- Game Theory - I just scratch the surface of this. The concepts are pretty far-reaching.
Game Theory and Bayes... You stir some undergrade school memories. Those are very interesting, especially the former, and one day I shall go back to it to finally understand fully something I had a hard time with.
Regarding Quantum theory, it is just so mindbogglingly interesting. It seems so surreal.
If you are not completely confused by quantum mechanics, you do not understand it.
I think this was a superb book which stepped through a lot of the foundations of QM and broke it down. Need to go run down my copy and re-read it again.
Probably a lot like /u/spaceghoti 'damned near everything'. Top three that come to mind at the moment...
- Quantum Mechanics - when you have molecules rolling up inclined surfaces and light waves acting different depending on if someone is looking or not, then you know shit's just got weird.
- Bayes' theorem - if your spam filter works, then you can thank this reverend from 1812 for writing down the probablity algorithm to make it work. I've played with it in Python some and it's amazing.
- Game Theory - I just scratch the surface of this. The concepts are pretty far-reaching.
Fuuuu that's 1h30 spent reading your fav topics haha, now I want to know more hahaha, especially on the Game Theory ! Going to sleep now lol
Game Theory and Bayes... You stir some undergrade school memories. Those are very interesting, especially the former, and one day I shall go back to it to finally understand fully something I had a hard time with.
Regarding Quantum theory, it is just so mindbogglingly interesting. It seems so surreal.
I think Wheeler said it best...
I think this was a superb book which stepped through a lot of the foundations of QM and broke it down. Need to go run down my copy and re-read it again.