buffon

So what people pay attention to is the far right buffon yelling about white replacement or such bullshit.

He may be a senile buffon and apparent pedophile, but at least he laid bare what the US truly stands for.

Is every programmer a brainwashed eternal growth buffon?

> But Buffon never figured out how this species change actually took place: it took Darwin, and his theory of natural selection, to shed light on the process.

If you read Reddit or ironically twitter, he is some kind of clueless buffon, yes I get he is making likely a lot of mistakes and fairly crazy things, but it requires somewhat crazy thinking to achieve somewhat crazy results.

Buffon and Linnaeus were doing it 2 centuries ago, more than a century before this was written.

Take Buffon's needle (only chosen because is interesting, and continuous, as opposed to discrete).

According to Buffon, life originated already divided into a number of distinct types—an “internal mould” that organized the organic particles that made up any individual creature.

If you run Buffon's needle a lot you come to the conclusion that we live in a locally Euclidean space.

Buffon’s needle assumes a flat space, while a non-Euclidean space or geometry would affect the probability leading to a different value other than pi.

You can try Buffon's needle if you want something much faster.

They postulated that this was achieved using Buffon's needle's method!

According to Buffon, life originated already divided into a number of distinct types—an “internal mould” that organized the organic particles that made up any individual creature.

[edit] also, nobody calls him Georges-Louis Leclerc, he is usually referred to as “Buffon”.

Considering how you can test statistics in real life (ex: Buffon's Needle) there must be something very "statistical" embedded in reality itself (it is true that quantum mechanics pushes everything very far so can seem to complex).

Some time has passed since my last read but I distinctly remember at least Baron Harkonnen having a self important but buffoonish inner monologe and at least one instance of a pov jump to another character who is thinking (paraphrasing) "this guy is a decadent buffon".

Buffon and Linnaeus were doing it 2 centuries ago, more than a century before this was written.

Take Buffon's needle (only chosen because is interesting, and continuous, as opposed to discrete).

If you run Buffon's needle a lot you come to the conclusion that we live in a locally Euclidean space.