The Centipede´s Dilemma

A centipede was happy – quite! Until a toad in fun Said,¨Pray, which leg moves after which?¨ This raised her doubts to such pitch, She fell exhausted in the ditch Not knowing how to run. Who hasn’t experienced the same… Continue Reading →

L´HOMME MOYEN

Adolphe Quetelet was born in the Belgian city of Gant on February 22, 1796, the fifth child in a family of nine siblings. A very talented student, his mathematical abilities were evident from an early age, receiving prizes in algebra,… Continue Reading →

UNPRECEDENT

There are situations where an action can be carried out only when there is a precedent, that is, if that action was previously learned or observed at the individual level. Often the absence of a precedent is the favorite public… Continue Reading →

Creativity in Sports

¨Innovation, then, means finding new ways to apply energy to create improbable things, and see them catch on. It means much more than invention, because the word implies developing an invention to the point where it catches on because it… Continue Reading →

Buridan´s ass. Decision making in climbing

The French philosopher Jean Buridan (1300-1358), Ockham’s disciple, is attributed the following paradox: with a hungry ass at exactly equal distance from two stacks of hay of the same size, weight and shape, what decision will he make? Which stack… Continue Reading →

Regression toward the mean fallacy

Success = talent + luck Big success = a little more talent + a lot of luck In his book Think Fast, Think Slowly, psychologist and Nobel laureate in economics Daniel Kahneman poses this equation with a high-level golf tournament… Continue Reading →

What the Climber´s Eye tells the Climber´s Brain

In a 1959 work, the Chilean neurophysiologist Humberto Maturana * with Lettvin and other colleagues published a curious article called “What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain” (Lettvin, 1959). In this work they were able to show that the… Continue Reading →

Moravec’s Paradox

Hans Moravec, a great robotics researcher, formulated (together with Rodney Brooks and Marvin Minsky) this paradox that bears his name: “It is easy to get computers to show capabilities similar to those of an adult human on an intelligence test… Continue Reading →

Self organization in sport

At the beginning of the 20th century, the American naturalist William Beebe encountered a strange sight in the jungle of Guyana. A group of soldier ants moved in a large circle. The circle had a circumference of more than 365… Continue Reading →

Dynamic Complex Systems in Sport

Matt Ridley, doctor of biology, author of books such as Genome and What makes us human, began his career applying rigid genetic models to explain the evolutionary origin of the ethical and sexual behaviors of the human being, but over… Continue Reading →

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