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DrNosferatulast Wednesday at 4:58 PM4 repliesview on HN

Not exactly circles, but famously:

With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann%27s_elephant


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KolibriFlyyesterday at 5:26 AM

Feels like the mathematical version of "just because you can doesn't mean you should."

kbelderlast Wednesday at 9:33 PM

"and with 20 billion I can make it hold a conversation."

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WorkerBee28474last Wednesday at 9:14 PM

Related: 'A meeting with Enrico Fermi' https://www.nature.com/articles/427297a

rob74yesterday at 8:33 AM

Looks more like an amoeba to me...