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Impossible is an innovation group and incubator. It started as a gift economy platform created by Lily Cole in 2013, and since then has expanded to other areas, mainly design and technology. Impossible claims to be working on client projects with potentially far-reaching impacts. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Impossible.comA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Cryptocurrencies, currency competition, and the impossible trinityInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Cartesian meditationsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Unconditionally Secure Quantum Bit Commitment is ImpossibleCited 541 times
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Unconditionally Secure Quantum Bit Commitment is Impossible
Prediction and Outcomes of Impossible Mask Ventilation
The Lyapunov exponent and joint spectral radius of pairs of matrices are hard?when not impossible?to compute and to approximate
Commissioning: com-mission impossible?
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
Cartesian meditationsEdmund Husserl, Dorion Cairns · 1960
Jesus the son of Mary, or, The doctrine of the Catholic church upon the incarnation of God the SonJohn Brande Morris · 1851
The Conspirators HierarchyJohn Coleman · 1992
Treaty Occupationay ToxicologySuelen Queiroz · 2010
Criminal LawRand McNally · 1980
Fashion made fairEllen Köhrer · 2016
Division Of InheritanceAssoc. Prof. Dr. Halis Aydemir · 1800
complete unified theory, Nirmalendu DasNirmalendu Das · 1998
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