The Beyond Podcast

This Episode Was Randomly Selected From The Set Of All Possible Episodes

This episode looks at probability theory, statistics, epistemology, and thought experiments involving the Self Sampling Assumption.

This Episode Halts

In this episode we discuss paradigms for naming very large numbers, and how this connects to the power of algorithms, programming languages, and the machines they run on.

This Episode’s Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny

In this episode we discuss metaness in the realm of physics.

This Episode’s Title Exists Somewhere In the Digits of Pi

This episode discusses The Book of Tao, minimal descriptions of strings, as well as Kolmogorov Complexity.

This Episode Cannot Prove Its Own Consistency

This episode discusses the work of Alan Turing and Kurt Gödel, drawing parallels between the Halting Problem and the Incompleteness Theorems. We also review a fun book of puzzles!