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This is an even more interesting question on a broader definition - OP and a lot of the answers refer to math, which is understandable given most of our backgro
by personjerry 5y ago
This is an even more interesting question on a broader definition - OP and a lot of the answers refer to math, which is understandable given most of our backgrounds, but I've always wondered what about complex, inter-domain problem solving?
How do we map programming to understanding genetic codes?
How do we map psychological research or zoological data to operations research?
- aral12 5y agoOne thing that has been worked, at least with genetic codes, is mapping them to linguistics (or rather to text), although it could be argued that the scaffolding of this mapping is still mathematical. I guess in this case the analogy was already there, waiting to be leveraged. Mode info: https://deepmind.com/blog/article/enformer https://deepmind.com/blog/article/enformer
- personjerry 5y agoBut we need the people with feet in both doors to make the connections necessary to figure out what mappings can be used, and that seems nontrivial
- telxosser 5y agoI have been super into the book Introduction to the Theory of Complex Systems by Thurner, Hanel, Klimek. I thought the whole field of Complex Systems was kind of bullshit before this book. IMO we just don't know that much in this area in 2022. It is just too new and different. I thought it was about fractals or some nonsense before reading this book.