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Несколько месяцев бился с моделью, и ничего не получалось. А вчера утром, проснулся, после очередного просмотра видео по ТК, с более-менее работающей идеей.
За день довел ее до ума, и все сошлось! Вечером обсудил с соавтором по зоому и ... надо книгу писать про волка и трех поросят, Золушку и Принца, Красную Шапочку и охотников, Одиссея, Сирен и прочих Стивов Джобсов.
За день довел ее до ума, и все сошлось! Вечером обсудил с соавтором по зоому и ... надо книгу писать про волка и трех поросят, Золушку и Принца, Красную Шапочку и охотников, Одиссея, Сирен и прочих Стивов Джобсов.
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And yet Archimedes possessed such a lofty spirit, so profound a soul, and such a wealth of scientific theory, that although his inventions had won for him a name and fame for superhuman sagacity, 4 he would not consent to leave behind him any treatise on this subject, but regarding the work of an engineer and every art that ministers to the needs of life as ignoble and vulgar, he devoted his earnest p481 efforts only to those studies the subtlety and charm of which are not affected by the claims of necessity.
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For no one could by his own efforts discover the proof, and yet as soon as he learns it from him, he thinks he might have discovered it himself; so smooth and rapid is the path by which he leads one to the desired conclusion.
--- Plutarch, Marcellus: 17.
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Marcellus*.html
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Negative Facts - characteristic functions
https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/1qb5j6pdqd/econTabReport.pdf
Trump voters don't trust most mainstream media outlets, except Fox, because they expose Trump as a liar, which is a practical impossibility in Trumpworld, i.e. "fake news."
"Not trustworthy" is a characteristic function, both for Trump and Biden voters.
Trump voters don't trust most mainstream media outlets, except Fox, because they expose Trump as a liar, which is a practical impossibility in Trumpworld, i.e. "fake news."
"Not trustworthy" is a characteristic function, both for Trump and Biden voters.
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The Space of Mathematics: Philosophical, Epistemological, and Historical Explorations.
https://books.google.com/books?id=SUcgAAAAQBAJ
Among other remarkable things in Lawvere's paper, I find his reference to Lenin quite amusing.
https://books.google.com/books?id=SUcgAAAAQBAJ
Among other remarkable things in Lawvere's paper, I find his reference to Lenin quite amusing.
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Life, Universe and Everything
How do I explain this concept to people who don't want to understand math? Maybe I can find a way to visualize the concept using some kind of "parallel roadmaps" diagram.
You won't get rich through inventions.
You get rich through improvements.
-- Henry Ford.
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I've got a crazy hypothesis that modern political polarization is caused by information overload. That is, people's cognitive abilities are so strained that they can't handle political complexity and resort to a primitive two-value system "us vs them." Furthermore, since politics for the vast majority of us is a rare, low-priority, low-skill activity with no real-life consequences, rational cognitive allocation should be equal to zero (as "investors" we are in no position to gain political capital at all). Therefore, the only return on politics is social (e.g. group cohesion) and/or emotional (e.g. BIRG) capital.
How would I test it?
How would I test it?
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It is necessary to abandon the concept, found in Plato, that in order to discuss correctly about any thing, one must first know its true nature. The value that goods have on the market is a fact; we can look for its laws without knowing from where that fact originates. It goes without saying that if someone is able to connect that fact to another, more general fact, that will be all the better for our science [Political Economy].
-- Wilfred Pareto. Considerations on the Fundamental Principles of Pure Political Economy.
Two breakthrough concepts — proof (Ancient Greeks) and free markets (North European Enlightenment) — were successfully absorbed and adapted by Asian powers in the late 20th century. The West needs to come up with another breakthrough to stay competitive in the 21st and beyond.
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“The principles of modality are, however, not objectively synthetical, for the predicates of possibility, reality, and necessity do not in the least augment the conception of that of which they are affirmed, inasmuch as they contribute nothing to the representation of the object. But as they are, nevertheless, always synthetical, they are so merely subjectively. That is to say, they have a reflective power, and apply to the conception of a thing, of which, in other respects, they affirm nothing, the faculty of cognition in which the conception originates and has its seat. So that if the conception merely agree with the formal conditions of experience, its object is called possible; if it is in connection with perception, and determined thereby, the object is real; if it is determined according to conceptions by means of the connection of perceptions, the object is called necessary.
The principles of modality therefore predicate of a conception nothing more than the procedure of the faculty of cognition which generated it. ” (emphasis mine).
--- Immanuel Kant, “The Critique of Pure Reason.”
== possible - impossible
== existing - non-existing
== necessary - contingent
The principles of modality need to be stated explicitly when making predictions, i.e. we have to specify methods and related potential failure of imagination, esp. wrt possibility.
TIL: Generative Effect
It's quite a neat idea to show how we can discover or generate an emergence effect by joining systems.
from Fong & Spivak, Seven Sketches in Compositionality.
from Fong & Spivak, Seven Sketches in Compositionality.
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Capitalism is dead
Schumpeter: "capitalism is a form of private property economy in which innovations are carried out by means of borrowed money, which in general, though not by logical necessity, implies credit creation."
In the VC-based innovation model — the most successful innovation strategy to-date — startups don't borrow money and as a result, there's no credit creation. The entire process of value creation in hi-tech is fundamentally different from what is being covered in mainstream economics/finance.
I wonder whether the progressive bend of most successful technology companies originates in their own experience that has little to do with classical capitalism.
In the VC-based innovation model — the most successful innovation strategy to-date — startups don't borrow money and as a result, there's no credit creation. The entire process of value creation in hi-tech is fundamentally different from what is being covered in mainstream economics/finance.
I wonder whether the progressive bend of most successful technology companies originates in their own experience that has little to do with classical capitalism.
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Recent elections show that people think of Reality TV as a product (Reality x TV), rather than a coproduct (Reality ∐ TV).