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Complexity physics finds crucial tipping points in chess games
For his analysis, Barthelemy chose to represent chess as a decision tree in which each…
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Why solving crosswords is like a phase transition
There's also the more recent concept of "explosive percolation," whereby connectivity emerges not in a…
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Delve into the physics of the Hula-Hoop
High-speed video of experiments on a robotic hula hooper, whose hourglass form holds the hoop…