Kindling Lab

Knowledge connects. And it’s meant to be played with.

You never know which dot will connect, or when.

Latest episodes

How Computers “Think”
How does a piece of thoughtless silicon become a machine that can run any program?
1 published · 12 planned
Data Structures and Algorithms
Why can the same problem get orders of magnitude faster just by organizing the data differently?
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Distributed Systems
Machines fail and networks drop. How can a crowd of machines still behave like one reliable machine?
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Mathematical Structures
What is mathematics really about? The answer: what stays unchanged under transformations.
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Probability, Statistics and Information
How do we reason under uncertainty, and how do we measure “information”?
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The Limits of Computation
Which problems can be solved, which are too hard, and which can never be solved?
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The I Ching × Math and Computing
The 64 hexagrams are six-bit binary numbers. How do an ancient symbol system and modern discrete math recognize each other?
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System Design
How do load balancers, caches, databases and queues fit together into a system that survives real traffic and keeps running when parts break?
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