Is there some sort of subculture of the maker movement that focuses on building stuff mainly from scavenged and jury-rigged parts, with minimal purchase of new parts? Any good examples or sites or subreddits? Cc @starsandrobots @NickPinkston @niftynei @theartlav
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Mutatis mutandis, how many randomly broken radios, based on typical failure modes, do you need in order to assemble 1 functional radio out of scavenged parts?
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This is the simplest sort of homogeneous case. Ramsey theory covers a lot of such "structure appearing out of disorder via enabling conditions" questions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsey_theory …
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Heteregenous case: how many randomly broken bits of junk from from a particular subset of the economic production web do you need to assemble an arbitrary design in the combinatorial space. Eg... a 6-wheel vehicle with a snowplow attached?
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I'm interested in synthesis side... what *can* you realize within the design space induced by the parts universe of a junkyard? Sort of like the Boydian snowmobile question (snowmobile = skis + motorcycle parts). How quickly does the expressivity of a junkspace increase with n?
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For the chance to be >50% I believe it's 23, assuming all days of the year are equally likely
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Number theory is the junk drawer of mathematics, and I mean that in the nicest possible way. It’s full of random crap that seems completely useless until you suddenly need EXACTLY that one proof.
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