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The Wrong Way to Treat Child Geniuses – WSJ
November 24, 2025Flatland – Wikipedia
November 24, 2025https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland
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Following this vision, the Square is visited by a sphere. Similar to the “points” in Lineland, he is unable to see the three-dimensional object as anything other than a circle (more precisely, a disk). The Sphere then levitates up and down through Flatland, allowing the Square to see the circle expand and contract between a great circle and small circles. The Sphere then tries further to convince the Square of the third dimension by dimensional analogies (a point becomes a line, a line becomes a square).
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can the electoral college be understand as a simple neural network – Google Search
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The U.S. Electoral College can be understood as analogous to a simple neural network (specifically, a single-layer network or a “perceptron” with a specific aggregation function) because it involves a two-layer decision-making process with weighted inputs and a final binary output.
Analogy Breakdown
Input Layer (Voters/Popular Votes): Individual votes cast within each state represent the initial inputs. These inputs are aggregated at the state level.
Weighted Connections (Electoral Votes per State): Each state is assigned a specific number of electoral votes (its “weight”), which is based on its representation in Congress. States with larger
populations have more “weight” in the final decision.
Hidden Layer / Processing Unit (State Tally and “Winner-Take-All”): In most states, the candidate who wins the majority of the popular votes in that state receives all of its assigned electoral votes (the “winner-take-all” system). This functions like a processing unit with a specific activation function: the output for a state is a single, unified signal (all its electoral votes) for one candidate.
Output Layer (The Presidency): The total number of electoral votes from all states are summed up. The candidate who reaches the threshold of 270 or more electoral votes (out of 538 total) wins the presidency. This is the final output of the system.
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November 24, 2025Convex hull – Wikipedia
November 24, 2025Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else: Ellenberg, Jordan: 9781984879059: Amazon.com: Books
November 24, 2025Convex function – Wikipedia
November 19, 2025https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convex_function
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In mathematics, a real-valued function is called convex if the line segment between any two distinct points on the graph of the function lies above or on the graph of the function between the two points. “}}
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