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In the previous post, we discussed the Prisoner’s Dilemma and saw how a simple strategy called Tit-for-Tat enforced the Golden Rule and won a very interesting contest. But does Tit-for-Tat always come out on top? The most confounding thing about the strategy is that it can never win – at best, it can only tie [...]

Almost every decision we make involves someone else in one way or another, and we face a constant choice. Should we take advantage of them, go for the quick score and hope we never see them again – or should we settle for a more reasonable reward, co-operating in the hope that this peaceful relationship will continue long into the future?

Ski lift operators have proved that it’s not only conidae snails who can produce the Sierpinski triangle in their natural environment.

My three dimensional unfolding of the quaternion Julia sets finally finished rendering.

This undulating plane is a visualization of all quaternion Julia sets.

These beautiful shapes are three dimensional slices of four dimensional objects known as quaternion Julia sets.