Alexander Poddiakov

Research interests: complexity-creating activities, exploratory behaviour, creativity, problem posing and solving, experimental objects to study thinking

[Alexander Poddiakov @poddiakov]

@press4change @AlisonGopnik @PsychScience @marjorie_rhodes @csneal @Girls_inScience @GirlsinTech @GirlsWhoCode @SCFG

[Alexander Poddiakov @poddiakov]

@ChessPuzzlesX The puzzle of chess pieces beating one another in “rock—paper—scissors” way

https://t.co/vgvDFIbTp9

[Alexander Poddiakov @poddiakov]

@WWMGT On Gardner’s columns about paradoxes of nontransitivity: a possible continuation

The puzzle of chess pieces beating one another in “rock—paper—scissors” way

https://t.co/vgvDFIbTp9

[Alexander Poddiakov @poddiakov]

@WWMGT On Gardner’s columns about paradoxes of nontransitivity: a possible continuation

The puzzle of chess pieces beating one another in “rock—paper—scissors” way

https://t.co/vgvDFIbTp9

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@chesscom Intransitively winning chess players’ positions--like in rock-paper-scissors game

In Doklady Mathematics
https://t.co/yqm7apSLbF
Full text: https://t.co/nRJhJwwccs

A popular version
https://t.co/1L45Lfl9a6

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Intransitively winning chess players’ positions--like in rock-paper-scissors game

In Doklady Mathematics
https://t.co/yqm7apSLbF
Full text: https://t.co/nRJhJwwccs

[Eric Malmi @ericmalmi]

Language models can't play chess, right?♟️ Excited to share our latest experiment that let's you play chess against a Gemini model!

[Alexander Poddiakov @poddiakov]

@WWMGT The five-player intransitive dice problem is solved
https://t.co/aaH6Fglw7h

[Alexander Poddiakov @poddiakov]

The five-player intransitive dice problem is solved
https://t.co/aaH6Fglw7h

[Alexander Poddiakov @poddiakov]

@AndrejSpiridon4 @svalver «Оружие» и «броня» в нетранзитивной биологической конкуренции: движение к междисциплинарной модели?
https://t.co/f9HUXKepfg

[Alexander Poddiakov @poddiakov]

@WWMGT The presentation by Scott Vorthmann is very interesting!

Serendipity: a spiral and a heptagon with inscribed heptagons from the presentation look like reciprocal frames in Popovic Larsen's book.
See also https://t.co/RWhx7uaR6K

[Martin Gardner tweet @WWMGT]

Friday, February 21, 2025 at 12 noon Atlanta time: "Algebra and Serendipity: The Beautiful Mathematics of vZome" live presentation with Scott Vorthmann –

https://t.co/FRrMKs16UY

[Alexander Poddiakov @poddiakov]

@JohnKounios It is interesting how different people's brain activity is related to negative (Uh‐oh!) insights. Gillian Hill is studying them
Emotion and Insight
https://t.co/hErNNqgVKi
https://t.co/FuRzfLYpos
https://t.co/fwbp22DH6H

[Alexander Poddiakov @poddiakov]

@JohnKounios It is interesting how different people's brain activity is related to negative (Uh‐oh!) insights. Gillian Hill is studying them
Emotion and Insight
https://t.co/hErNNqgVKi
https://t.co/FuRzfLYpos
https://t.co/fwbp22DH6H

[John Kounios @JohnKounios]

https://t.co/BNsg4L4hkU

[Alexander Poddiakov @poddiakov]

@WWMGT What would Gardner write about geometry of reciprocal frame structures?
https://t.co/RWhx7uaR6K
https://t.co/62LByTCJdp
Popovic Larsen. Reciprocal frame architecture (2005)

[Alexander Poddiakov @poddiakov]

@WWMGT What would Gardner write about geometry of reciprocal frame structures?
https://t.co/RWhx7uaR6K
https://t.co/62LByTCJdp
Popovic Larsen. Reciprocal frame architecture (2005)

[Alexander Poddiakov @poddiakov]

@ukcreativity
Creativity of creativity researchers: Invention of problems and experimental objects to study thinking
https://t.co/2RsD4Zjyhf
Full text: https://t.co/zHbqGlJJkm

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@WWMGT Candle Swap by Oskar van Deventer
https://t.co/KztMj6DOIq

[Alexander Poddiakov @poddiakov]

@WWMGT Candle Swap by Oskar van Deventer
https://t.co/KztMj6DOIq

[Martin Gardner tweet @WWMGT]

New @SciAm piece on legacy of Martin Gardner https://t.co/puKWzPAjmT including interview with G4G Chair @CardColm