Archive - The Palindrome

Accio Insights: The Marauder’s Map of the ML World

A deep dive into the swiss army knife of machine learning

Feb 19 • Tivadar Danka and Sairam Sundaresan

The Palindrome in 2026

Feb 15 • Tivadar Danka

The Day My Project Went to Space

From whiteboard to orbit to science

Feb 2 • Tivadar Danka and Miklós Kornyik

January 2026

Why is the Golden Ratio Hiding in the Fibonacci Sequence?

The non-recursive formula for Fibonacci numbers

Jan 30 • Tivadar Danka

How did the Babylonians know √2 up to six digits?

The greatest known computational accuracy in the ancient world

Jan 21 • Tivadar Danka

I Finally Listened to You and I’m So Glad I Did

(you will be too)

Jan 15 • Tivadar Danka

The Camel Principle: Why Adding Zero is the Most Powerful Trick in Mathematics

What it is, how it works, and why it is essential

Jan 12 • Tivadar Danka

The Single Most Undervalued Fact of Linear Algebra

Matrices are graphs

Jan 4 • Tivadar Danka

December 2025

Kids Are Tiny Scientists When It Comes to Debunking Santa

A Bayesian journey from magic to logic

Published on MomScience • Dec 24, 2025

The 10 Most Popular Posts of The Palindrome in 2025

Dec 23, 2025 • Tivadar Danka

Visualizing the Chain Rule

(because I can never remember the formula)

Dec 22, 2025 • Tivadar Danka

If You Want to Hit Your Target, Take More Shots

Dec 18, 2025 • Tivadar Danka

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