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Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State Is Eternal (#277)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

CHAPTER

The Centrality of Mathematics in the Network State

I wonder if you can expand a little bit on your fascination with one such taxi cab number 1729. And maybe, maybe also along the way, we'll get into Ramanujan, and why he's so important to you. Sure. The core thing about the network is Metcalf's Law. It's more like k times n or something like that in terms of the actual. But it's not like they're actually all literally connected directly to each other.

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