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Captain Jack wrote:
> This is an incredibly important life lesson: the complexity of a phenomenon
> is utterly disconnected from the number of syllables needed to describe it.
Exhibit A:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58_s6r7PaKo
It's just a swinging pendulum, after all...
Exhibit B: Rule 30 can be stated in 8 equations. Oh, did I mention? It's
Turing-complete. It can compute any computable function.
Note also that simple /= easy.
x^5 - x + 1 = 0 is "simple". Now try solving it...
Similarly, the Waltz is "simple". Try dancing it sometime; you'll
discover that it's surprisingly difficult, despite being so simple.
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