Mind Blown

There’s lots of things to learn and know. Some are funny trivialities, some are joyful discoveries, some are intriguing theories, some are insightful lessons, … and some are mind-blowing revelations.

Here’s my top 10. Some of them still blow my mind!

Things are only impossible until they’re not. — Jean-Luc Picard

Have fun!

1. Public-key cryptography
2. Lamport’s bakery algorithm for mutual exclusion
3. Meta-circular evaluation and homoiconicity
4. Storing state with flip-flop
5. 0.999… = 1
6. Non-Euclidean Geometry
7. Imaginary numbers
8. The necessity of axiom of choice
9. Fixed-point combinator
10. Escape velocity