torustic

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by torustic 10y ago
In retrospect, my other comment was stupidly obtuse. Both too technical (in the sense of specificity) and too unstructured (in the sense of presentation order). A more appropriate path from CS might be analogous (well, inverse if anything)
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by torustic 10y ago
> while we're at it, we need an update with statistics, data science and machine learning. See this post and its comments[0] to get some foundations upon which to think about these correspondences. [0] https://golem.ph.ut
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by torustic 10y ago
Lurie's "On Infinity Topoi"[0] preceded the book and is, I quote[1], > 50 pages of pure cake, beautifully and informally written. The book is 1000 pages long. There is some new cake there, but not 20 times as much. [0] ht
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by torustic 10y ago
Every agent tries to understand (or perhaps "dualize") its environment. I both like and dislike theories of mind that describe the brain in terms of n-veiled solipsism. But I generally like them because of the specific (decision-t
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by torustic 10y ago
I've been thinking about something to recommend, since it's a bit ridiculous to end a relativistic exposition without settling the uncertainty into some new, interesting starting point. Minimum description length might be just the
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by torustic 10y ago
> Someone smarter than I will likely know this but are probability and functions nature's compression techniques? One of the nice things about mathematics is that we don't need to say anything like that. Probabilities are natu
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by torustic 11y ago
The relevant clip from the last episode of QI. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipFIxrsYSxs#t=3m40s