The Function Room

30 Anyone's Guess

Sep 21, 2023 · 59 min · Season 2 · Episode 16 · 57.2 MB
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this week in the function room, It's Anyone's Guess - the maths of guesswork

David Malone of Maynooth University and the Hamilton Institute. I ride the wave of ignorance through some big topics like Information theory, Entropy, what makes a good password and how hard it would be to figure out what I had for breakfast.

But first, I notice David has that all important mathematician background behind him in the interview - a white board with lots of squiggly symbols. i have to ask