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by taliesinb 6y ago
Thanks, I do appreciate you extracting this. I did follow one or two of these originally. But I'm not going to buy an ebook on Amazon to figure out if he has anything useful to say.
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by taliesinb 6y ago
Hey Adele! Thanks for the resource. Here's something a bit wilder I'm still trying to wrap my head around: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09252...
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by taliesinb 6y ago
Frustrating, that list contains almost no usable links. Its as if he doesn’t want you to actually read or understand what he is saying.
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by taliesinb 6y ago
Brute force search of the computational universe of simple programs for useful ones – that rings a bell, but I can’t think where I have seen that before!
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by taliesinb 6y ago
Maybe we need to think about whether modern capitalist economies are higher-order lifeforms that have produced many systems, including systems of economic rationalization and "consent manufacture", that directly optimize their...
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by taliesinb 6y ago
It’s probably been 15 years since I looked in detail at a formal treatment of statistical mechanics, so maybe this is well-trodden territory, but... has anyone formalized the idea that the second law can be interpreted as a general inabilit
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by taliesinb 6y ago
I can recommend Taibbi’s writing on substack. Funny, and refreshingly cynical in an age when most liberal journalists seem to have decided that the dangers of Trumpism demanded absolute obsequence to the other side.
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by taliesinb 6y ago
Second this. I’m working on a set of ideas about how best to enable arbitrary learning trajectories through a knowledge graph — partly in an effort to better capture my own learning in mathematical topics. I liked how Quantum Country integr
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by taliesinb 6y ago
A very nice paper. I'm quite happy to see more work on discrete generative models -- probabilistic programming languages are still wrestling (or simply ignoring!) the problem of "disintegration", where conditioning changes th
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by taliesinb 6y ago
That’s straight out of Tintin and the Broken Ear, where a would-be terrorist blows himself up after a time change: https://imgur.com/gallery/27jxctY
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by taliesinb 6y ago
Heartening to see that unusual perspectives and opinions are rewarded with downvotes.
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by taliesinb 6y ago
Because I don’t think infinite amounts of information, and uncomputable numbers, exist. They are fantasies, and relatively recent ones at that. Unfortunately those fantasies came to dominate 20th century mathematics, and in the guise of str
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by taliesinb 6y ago
To someone like me, who believes that the universe is, must be , fundamentally a computer, the actual academic paper is hardly any better. Whatever the paper is doing is not describing any kind of computational process. It's a mille-f
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by taliesinb 6y ago
Couldn’t agree more. A great example of a mathematics popularizer along these lines is Norman Wildberger, who has an astonishing range of videos on youtube about an amazing range of mathematical topics. Here’s an interview with him: https:
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by taliesinb 6y ago
A fun little physical experiment: a density gradient of the water in a fish tank (caused say by putting sugar in the water) will cause a laser to bend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhNZP2KgMLw How this can be connected t
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by taliesinb 6y ago
Kauffman’s book looks like a treasure trove! Reminds me of Penrosee’s RTR. Thanks for linking.
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by taliesinb 6y ago
J seems like this alien bit of technology that is powerful but inscrutable. It also doesn’t seem to have any nice introductions / videos on YouTube. Anyone have some pointers handy for someone who wants to get the “big ideas” of J with
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by taliesinb 6y ago
Thanks! By nlab book you mean the whole nlab project? Also, can you help me understand the connection to lattices? Do they model intersection and union of open sets? Why is finiteness needed for lattices to be appropriate?
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by taliesinb 6y ago
Can anyone recommend a finitist, constructivist approach to topology? I’m really most interested in discrete geometry, but a geometry that doesn’t try to preserve traditional concepts like curvature, angle, volume etc, but builds them up fr
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by taliesinb 6y ago
Disclosure: I worked on Mathematica for ~8 years. I think the value of Stephen's big book is that served as a kind of manifesto to "take computation seriously". By that I mean: to think about computations, in the abstract ,
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by taliesinb 6y ago
Cellular automata are like the `y = m * x + b` of the algorithmic universe. Personally, I believe it is inevitable that a vast and rich new mathematical world will spring up around simple computational systems, where they are the primary ob
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by taliesinb 6y ago
Hi there! Like this line of work. As an enthusiast of Alife-ish things, CAs (and NKS-style computational systems generally), and also an author of an ML library, I was looking forward to jumping on the slack and just having a chat with like
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by taliesinb 6y ago
Maybe we should be using rational trigonometry instead: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3C58498718451C47
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by taliesinb 6y ago
Interesting. Also, small world: One of the authors (Vasco) taught me computability at the University of Cape Town. What I find quite interesting to think about is how the complexity (as a function of accuracy) of a “taken-for-granted” compu
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by taliesinb 6y ago
If you want to see the author riff on density matrices, check out this recent video: https://youtu.be/wP_Jsxn7BA4?t=1020 And by riff I mean with an actual electric guitar
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by taliesinb 6y ago
I couldn’t agree more with this article. I happen to be working on a new way to look at quantum mechanics, based on finite combinatorial objects called multi-way systems, and after just a few weeks I’ve made a very satisfying amount of pro
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by taliesinb 6y ago
At the bottom of the page I linked are some resources. But you can take a look at the most recent alife conferences like... ALife and GECCO to see what people are up to these days.
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by taliesinb 6y ago
Beautifully done! Blind Watchmaker had a big impact on me as a kid. After I had read it, I programmed my own take on the biomorphs program and sent a copy of my program to Richard Dawkins. His research assistant Yan Wong replied with a very
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by taliesinb 6y ago
Thanks!
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by taliesinb 6y ago
Yup. I'm just shocked that https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/76594#issuecommen... has been open for more than year now. Two finger scroll that lags for up to 1 second! Imagine the uproar if Appl

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