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https://www.europesays.com/it/470358/ Neumann: e se servisse una coscienza per far esistere l’universo? #CollassoDellaFunzioneD'onda #coscienza #EugeneWigner #FisicaTeorica #IT #Italia #Italy #JohnVonNeumann #MeccanicaQuantistica #ParadossoDellaMisura #Science #ScienceAndTechnology #ScienceAndTechnology #Scienza #ScienzaETecnologia #ScienzaEtecnologia #Technology #Tecnologia #Universo
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Leben als Rechenprozess
Die Analogie von Organismus und Computer – Von Filosofaxen
Eine tiefverwurzelte Intuition lässt uns den Unterschied zwischen natürlicher und künstlicher Intelligenz als den Unterschied zwischen Lebens- und Rechenprozess empfinden. Wir sagen, KI-Systeme würden stur «mechanische» Regeln befolgen, und wir perpetuieren da-mit einen alten Gegensatz, der das philosophische Denken der Neuzeit tief prägt: den Gegensatz zwischen Lebewesen und Maschine, Organismus und Mechanismus. Tatsächlich aber weisen Entwicklungen in der KI-Forschung schon seit längerem darauf hin, dass – um es vorsichtig zu formulieren – die Grenze zwischen Lebens- und Rechenprozessen verschwimmt. Der Grundgedanke dazu stammt von zwei genialen Pionieren der Computertheorie. Alan Turing und John von Neumann schufen die konzeptuellen Voraussetzungen da-für, Wachstum, Selbstreplikation, Evolution als Rechenprozesse zu betrachten,
https://kaeser-technotopia.blogspot.com/2026/02/eduard-kaeser-leben-als-rechenprozess.html
#AlanTuring #Artikel #Computer #Filosofaxen #JohnVonNeumann #kaeserTechnotopiaBlogspot #Ki #LebenAlsRechenprozess #Organismus #Wissen -
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Entretient vidéo passionnant sur l'#agriculure sans labour, maraîchage sol vivant #msv, avec #FrançoisMulet qui a un parcours très étonnant : famille d'agriculteur, a vite bifurqué, a baigné dans le milieux du logiciel libre, s'est intéressé à la géopolitique, à la théorie de l'information, à la physique quantique, la thermodynamique..#MaxPlanck et #JohnVonNeumann le ramène à l'agriculture :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WbcJ1TadlkL'entretient complet (long mais très instructif sur le sujet !)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM-ZmeXYzXgépisode 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iby1PP_xq8gA écouter pour tous ceux qui veulent comprendre comment ça marche :)
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Entretient vidéo passionnant sur l'#agriculure sans labour, maraîchage sol vivant #msv, avec #FrançoisMulet qui a un parcours très étonnant : famille d'agriculteur, a vite bifurqué, a baigné dans le milieux du logiciel libre, s'est intéressé à la géopolitique, à la théorie de l'information, à la physique quantique, la thermodynamique..
#MaxPlanck et #JohnVonNeumann le ramène à l'agriculture :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WbcJ1TadlkL'entretient complet (long mais très instructif sur le sujet !)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM-ZmeXYzXgépisode 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iby1PP_xq8gA écouter pour tous ceux qui veulent comprendre comment ça marche :)
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Entretient vidéo passionnant sur l'#agriculure sans labour, maraîchage sol vivant #msv, avec #FrançoisMulet qui a un parcours très étonnant : famille d'agriculteur, a vite bifurqué, a baigné dans le milieux du logiciel libre, s'est intéressé à la géopolitique, à la théorie de l'information, à la physique quantique, la thermodynamique..
#MaxPlanck et #JohnVonNeumann le ramène à l'agriculture :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WbcJ1TadlkL'entretient complet (long mais très instructif sur le sujet !)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM-ZmeXYzXgépisode 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iby1PP_xq8gA écouter pour tous ceux qui veulent comprendre comment ça marche :)
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Entretient vidéo passionnant sur l'#agriculure sans labour, maraîchage sol vivant #msv, avec #FrançoisMulet qui a un parcours très étonnant : famille d'agriculteur, a vite bifurqué, a baigné dans le milieux du logiciel libre, s'est intéressé à la géopolitique, à la théorie de l'information, à la physique quantique, la thermodynamique..#MaxPlanck et #JohnVonNeumann le ramène à l'agriculture :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WbcJ1TadlkL'entretient complet (long mais très instructif sur le sujet !)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM-ZmeXYzXgépisode 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iby1PP_xq8gA écouter pour tous ceux qui veulent comprendre comment ça marche :)
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Entretient vidéo passionnant sur l'#agriculure sans labour, maraîchage sol vivant #msv, avec #FrançoisMulet qui a un parcours très étonnant : famille d'agriculteur, a vite bifurqué, a baigné dans le milieux du logiciel libre, s'est intéressé à la géopolitique, à la théorie de l'information, à la physique quantique, la thermodynamique..#MaxPlanck et #JohnVonNeumann le ramène à l'agriculture :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WbcJ1TadlkL'entretient complet (long mais très instructif sur le sujet !)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM-ZmeXYzXgépisode 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iby1PP_xq8gA écouter pour tous ceux qui veulent comprendre comment ça marche :)
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Besides the efficient subroutine nesting and the use of registers to reduce memory access, #RISC is very similar to #AEM. It is very interesting to observe that after 40 years of intense research, development, and engineering efforts, we came back to the point where we started. Are we much better than our fathers? (c-h t) #AdvancedElectronicsMachine #JohnVonNeumann
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Reading "The Maniac" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_MANIAC. I find it really excellent. #book #JohnVonNeumann
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Remarkable. He was eleven. One of those photographs where in memory one never is sure whether one really saw them or merely dreamt them.
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Remarkable. He was eleven. One of those photographs where in memory one never is sure whether one really saw them or merely dreamt them.
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Remarkable. He was eleven. One of those photographs where in memory one never is sure whether one really saw them or merely dreamt them.
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Remarkable. He was eleven. One of those photographs where in memory one never is sure whether one really saw them or merely dreamt them.
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Remarkable. He was eleven. One of those photographs where in memory one never is sure whether one really saw them or merely dreamt them.
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The first person to use the concept of a "singularity" in the technological context was the 20th-century Hungarian-American mathematician John von Neumann ... -
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The first person to use the concept of a "singularity" in the technological context was the 20th-century Hungarian-American mathematician John von Neumann ... -
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The first person to use the concept of a "singularity" in the technological context was the 20th-century Hungarian-American mathematician John von Neumann ... -
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The first person to use the concept of a "singularity" in the technological context was the 20th-century Hungarian-American mathematician John von Neumann ... -
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The first person to use the concept of a "singularity" in the technological context was the 20th-century Hungarian-American mathematician John von Neumann ... -
The Maniac
Dette er ikke en bog, du skal læse, hvis du nogensinde har været bange for, at der skulle gemme sig en matematiker i dit skab. Ikke at Benjamín Labatuts “The Maniac” er en horrorroman, men den har et budskab, og det er, at matematikere er sindssyge. Og hvis de ikke er det, så er det, fordi de er på vej til at blive det. Den er ikke helt sikker på, hvilken af de to der er værst.
Labatuts tidligere værk kom på dansk under titlen “Når vi ikke længere forstår verden” og var en række mere eller mindre fiktionaliserede biografiske tekster og forskellige videnskabsfolk (og den var fabelagtig) – “The Maniac” fortsætter lidt i samme spor, men her er det John von Neumann, der er i fokus. Det starter godt nok med en rimeligt gængs introduktion, hvor det er Paul Ehrenfest – og hans mord/selvmord af sin søn og sig selv – der gengives: “Paul or The Discovery of the Irrational” hedder kapitlet meget sigende. Dernæst skifter historien til John (or The Mad Dreams of Reason) og fortælles i en lang række kapitler, der skifter mellem stemmer – nogle er semipoetiske af en usynlig fortæller, mens andre tilhører folk, der kom i kontakt med videnskabsmanden på et eller andet punkt i deres liv. Familie, venner, skolekammerater, Richard Feynman og så videre.
Som titlen afslører, er det en historie om John von Neumann, men også (blandt andet) om MANIAC I.
Labatut kan et eller andet med at skrue virkeligheden sammen på overraskende måder. Ligesom i hans tidligere bog er det svært at se, hvor sammenføjningerne er – uanset hvor vilde de hændelser er, som han beskriver. Og “The Maniac” er vild – vild og voldsom og veritabelt berusende. Labatut kan noget med sine skift mellem stemmer (lidt i familie med Max Porter, faktisk), men også noget med at beskrive det menneskelige sind, så det fremstår så komplekst og absurd som det er – hvilket ikke er så lidt, når han har valgt at beskæftige sig med folk så monomane som dem, der bebor de yderste grænser af videnskaben.
Og der er ingen tvivl om, at von Neumann og mange af de mennesker, han omgiver sig med, er ekstreme spejdere udi kundskabens fjerneste, ukortlagte områder. I en sådan grad, at de ofte glemmer den noget mere konkrete verden bag dem, som andre mennesker lever i.
“The Maniac” er en af de bøger, der får én til at føle, man selv har begivet sig langt væk fra verden og ud i et dystert grænseområde, hvor reglerne er selvmodsigende, men med usigelig vigtighed. Det er en bog, der suger én ind og spytter én ud efter endt læsning, så man sidder lidt fortabt og ser sig omkring, fordi verden omkring én virker lidt mindre virkelig nu. Det er en rablende perfekt bog.
BONUS – nu opdager jeg lige, at den udkommer på dansk den 15. februar. Må den sælge mere end en vis Frederiks “Kongeord”.
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What would it take?
A little more than a decade ago I rediscovered my need for play. A few years ago I started working on my writing as a direct application of filtering and improving my thinking. All of that was built upon a lot of reading—a reimmersion of myself into reading as it were.
*sigh*There’s still, a bit more reading to do.Before he became unresponsive and refused to speak even to his family or friends, [John] von Neumann was asked what it would take for a computer, or some other mechanical entity, to begin to think and behave like a human being.
He took a very long time before answering, in a voice that was no louder than a whisper.
He said that it would have to grow, not be built.
He said that it would have to understand language, to read, to write, to speak.
And he said that it would have to play, like a child.
~ Benjamín Labatut from, A Brief History of the Mind in the Machine
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Grow, read, write, speak, play… There’s an immense variety of human beings resulting from that. There’d be an immense variety of those other beings too. Good!
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#7ForSunday #ArtificialIntelligence #BenjamínLabatut #JohnVonNeumann #OnWriting #Play
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John von Neumann (Manhattan Project): “What we are creating now, is a monster whose influence is going to change history, provided there is any history left, yet it would be impossible not to see it through, not only for military reasons, but it would also be unethical from the point of view of the scientists not to do what they know is feasible, no matter what terrible consequences it may have.”
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John von Neumann (Manhattan Project): “What we are creating now, is a monster whose influence is going to change history, provided there is any history left, yet it would be impossible not to see it through, not only for military reasons, but it would also be unethical from the point of view of the scientists not to do what they know is feasible, no matter what terrible consequences it may have.”
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John von Neumann (Manhattan Project): “What we are creating now, is a monster whose influence is going to change history, provided there is any history left, yet it would be impossible not to see it through, not only for military reasons, but it would also be unethical from the point of view of the scientists not to do what they know is feasible, no matter what terrible consequences it may have.”
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John von Neumann (Manhattan Project): “What we are creating now, is a monster whose influence is going to change history, provided there is any history left, yet it would be impossible not to see it through, not only for military reasons, but it would also be unethical from the point of view of the scientists not to do what they know is feasible, no matter what terrible consequences it may have.”
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John von Neumann (Manhattan Project): “What we are creating now, is a monster whose influence is going to change history, provided there is any history left, yet it would be impossible not to see it through, not only for military reasons, but it would also be unethical from the point of view of the scientists not to do what they know is feasible, no matter what terrible consequences it may have.”
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One of the fascinating books, "John von Neumann: Selected Letters", gives us a glimpse of the thinking von Neumann has about mathematics, physics, computer science, pure and applied sciences, science management, education, consulting, politics, and war. Readers of diverse backgrounds will find much interest in this first-hand look at one of the towering figures of twentieth-century science who integrated pure and applied sciences. #JohnVonNeumann #vonNeumann #Neumann #Polymath #SelectedLetters
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One of the fascinating books, "John von Neumann: Selected Letters", gives us a glimpse of the thinking von Neumann has about mathematics, physics, computer science, pure and applied sciences, science management, education, consulting, politics, and war. Readers of diverse backgrounds will find much interest in this first-hand look at one of the towering figures of twentieth-century science who integrated pure and applied sciences. #JohnVonNeumann #vonNeumann #Neumann #Polymath #SelectedLetters
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One of the fascinating books, "John von Neumann: Selected Letters", gives us a glimpse of the thinking von Neumann has about mathematics, physics, computer science, pure and applied sciences, science management, education, consulting, politics, and war. Readers of diverse backgrounds will find much interest in this first-hand look at one of the towering figures of twentieth-century science who integrated pure and applied sciences. #JohnVonNeumann #vonNeumann #Neumann #Polymath #SelectedLetters
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John von Neumann once claimed, "with 4 parameters, I can fit an elephant, and with 5, I can make him wiggle his trunk."
\[x(t)=\displaystyle\sum_{k=0}^\infty\left(A_k^x\cos(kt)+B_k^x\sin(kt) \right)\]
\[y(t)=\displaystyle\sum_{k=0}^\infty\left(A_k^y\cos(kt)+B_k^y\sin(kt) \right)\]
Here's a paper proving that von Neumann's claim is valid! 🔗 https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.3254017
#Neumann #JohnVonNeumann #VonNeumann #FourierSeries #parameters #complexparameters #parametrization #mathematics #maths -
John von Neumann once claimed, "with 4 parameters, I can fit an elephant, and with 5, I can make him wiggle his trunk."
\[x(t)=\displaystyle\sum_{k=0}^\infty\left(A_k^x\cos(kt)+B_k^x\sin(kt) \right)\]
\[y(t)=\displaystyle\sum_{k=0}^\infty\left(A_k^y\cos(kt)+B_k^y\sin(kt) \right)\]
Here's a paper proving that von Neumann's claim is valid! 🔗 https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.3254017
#Neumann #JohnVonNeumann #VonNeumann #FourierSeries #parameters #complexparameters #parametrization #mathematics #maths -
John von Neumann once claimed, "with 4 parameters, I can fit an elephant, and with 5, I can make him wiggle his trunk."
\[x(t)=\displaystyle\sum_{k=0}^\infty\left(A_k^x\cos(kt)+B_k^x\sin(kt) \right)\]
\[y(t)=\displaystyle\sum_{k=0}^\infty\left(A_k^y\cos(kt)+B_k^y\sin(kt) \right)\]
Here's a paper proving that von Neumann's claim is valid! 🔗 https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.3254017
#Neumann #JohnVonNeumann #VonNeumann #FourierSeries #parameters #complexparameters #parametrization #mathematics #maths -
John von Neumann once claimed, "with 4 parameters, I can fit an elephant, and with 5, I can make him wiggle his trunk."
\[x(t)=\displaystyle\sum_{k=0}^\infty\left(A_k^x\cos(kt)+B_k^x\sin(kt) \right)\]
\[y(t)=\displaystyle\sum_{k=0}^\infty\left(A_k^y\cos(kt)+B_k^y\sin(kt) \right)\]
Here's a paper proving that von Neumann's claim is valid! 🔗 https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.3254017
#Neumann #JohnVonNeumann #VonNeumann #FourierSeries #parameters #complexparameters #parametrization #mathematics #maths -
John von Neumann once claimed, "with 4 parameters, I can fit an elephant, and with 5, I can make him wiggle his trunk."
\[x(t)=\displaystyle\sum_{k=0}^\infty\left(A_k^x\cos(kt)+B_k^x\sin(kt) \right)\]
\[y(t)=\displaystyle\sum_{k=0}^\infty\left(A_k^y\cos(kt)+B_k^y\sin(kt) \right)\]
Here's a paper proving that von Neumann's claim is valid! 🔗 https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.3254017
#Neumann #JohnVonNeumann #VonNeumann #FourierSeries #parameters #complexparameters #parametrization #mathematics #maths -
It is just as foolish to complain
that people are
selfish & treacherous
as it is to complain
that the magnetic field
does not increase
unless the electric field has a curl.
Both are laws of nature.
#JohnVonNeumann 🎂
aka Dr. Strangelove
mathematician
physicist
computer scientist
engineer
polymath
comediantrying to impress #BettiePage
with the awesome power
of his massive computer
back in 1950s.
#mathematics -
It is just as foolish to complain
that people are
selfish & treacherous
as it is to complain
that the magnetic field
does not increase
unless the electric field has a curl.
Both are laws of nature.
#JohnVonNeumann 🎂
aka Dr. Strangelove
mathematician
physicist
computer scientist
engineer
polymath
comediantrying to impress #BettiePage
with the awesome power
of his massive computer
back in 1950s.
#mathematics -
It is just as foolish to complain
that people are
selfish & treacherous
as it is to complain
that the magnetic field
does not increase
unless the electric field has a curl.
Both are laws of nature.
#JohnVonNeumann 🎂
aka Dr. Strangelove
mathematician
physicist
computer scientist
engineer
polymath
comediantrying to impress #BettiePage
with the awesome power
of his massive computer
back in 1950s.
#mathematics -
It is just as foolish to complain
that people are
selfish & treacherous
as it is to complain
that the magnetic field
does not increase
unless the electric field has a curl.
Both are laws of nature.
#JohnVonNeumann 🎂
aka Dr. Strangelove
mathematician
physicist
computer scientist
engineer
polymath
comediantrying to impress #BettiePage
with the awesome power
of his massive computer
back in 1950s.
#mathematics -
It is just as foolish to complain
that people are
selfish & treacherous
as it is to complain
that the magnetic field
does not increase
unless the electric field has a curl.
Both are laws of nature.
#JohnVonNeumann 🎂
aka Dr. Strangelove
mathematician
physicist
computer scientist
engineer
polymath
comediantrying to impress #BettiePage
with the awesome power
of his massive computer
back in 1950s.
#mathematics -
"The truth of general relativity was established through experiment and was not contingent on whether the person who developed the theory was Jew or Gentile." -- Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future ( biography of John von Neumann)
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"The truth of general relativity was established through experiment and was not contingent on whether the person who developed the theory was Jew or Gentile." -- Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future ( biography of John von Neumann)
#quotes #books #science #JohnvonNeumann -
"The truth of general relativity was established through experiment and was not contingent on whether the person who developed the theory was Jew or Gentile." -- Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future ( biography of John von Neumann)
#quotes #books #science #JohnvonNeumann -
"The truth of general relativity was established through experiment and was not contingent on whether the person who developed the theory was Jew or Gentile." -- Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future ( biography of John von Neumann)
#quotes #books #science #JohnvonNeumann -
- #HomoNaledi discovered #fire at least 235k yrs ago
- #Explore the #RisingStar #cave #system
- New #antibiotic from #Neanderthal #DNA
- Study sheds doubt on #Clovis first #theory
- #PrisonersDilemma & #plants that #cooperate
- #JohnVonNeumann & #GameTheory
- #Complex tale of #human #migration to #SouthAmerica
- How #urban #enviroments impact #evolution
- #OhioValley's #IceAge #indigenous people
- 1 million yr old #HomoErectus in #China
These stories & more at:
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- #HomoNaledi discovered #fire at least 235k yrs ago
- #Explore the #RisingStar #cave #system
- New #antibiotic from #Neanderthal #DNA
- Study sheds doubt on #Clovis first #theory
- #PrisonersDilemma & #plants that #cooperate
- #JohnVonNeumann & #GameTheory
- #Complex tale of #human #migration to #SouthAmerica
- How #urban #enviroments impact #evolution
- #OhioValley's #IceAge #indigenous people
- 1 million yr old #HomoErectus in #China
These stories & more at:
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"The Man From the Future might also have pointed out that in many important aspects of his thoughts and desires, Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe is not von Neumann’s axiomatized man, and neither are we."
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/john-von-neumann/
#GameTheory
#EconomicBehavior
#Economics
#BoundedRationality
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"The Man From the Future might also have pointed out that in many important aspects of his thoughts and desires, Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe is not von Neumann’s axiomatized man, and neither are we."
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/john-von-neumann/
#GameTheory
#EconomicBehavior
#Economics
#BoundedRationality
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"The Man From the Future might also have pointed out that in many important aspects of his thoughts and desires, Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe is not von Neumann’s axiomatized man, and neither are we."
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/john-von-neumann/
#GameTheory
#EconomicBehavior
#Economics
#BoundedRationality
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"The Man From the Future might also have pointed out that in many important aspects of his thoughts and desires, Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe is not von Neumann’s axiomatized man, and neither are we."
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/john-von-neumann/
#GameTheory
#EconomicBehavior
#Economics
#BoundedRationality
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Une belle vidéo d'#Arte revient sur les automates cellulaires John von Neumann et de John Conway, et ses implication pour la réflexion sur le vivant, le déterminisme et l'aléatoire de l'univers
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Une belle vidéo d'#Arte revient sur les automates cellulaires John von Neumann et de John Conway, et ses implication pour la réflexion sur le vivant, le déterminisme et l'aléatoire de l'univers
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Une belle vidéo d'#Arte revient sur les automates cellulaires John von Neumann et de John Conway, et ses implication pour la réflexion sur le vivant, le déterminisme et l'aléatoire de l'univers
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3Blue1Brown on Wordle, probability, information theory, and expected value.
Or: Shannon, von Neumann, and Pascal walk into a word game...
Whether or not you've been sucked into this word game fad, this is a really good explanation of the relationships between probability and expected information value (I = -log2(p)), as well as how to optimally find one element within a known search space.
It explains the logic behind selecting starting words for Wordle, as well as how and why optimisers choose their own guesses, and what an optimal solver's ultimate limits would be.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=v68zYyaEmEA
HN discuussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30232413
#Wordle #3Blue1Brown #Video #InformationTheory #Probability #ClaudeShannon #JohnVonNeumann #BlaisePascal #ExpectedValue
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3Blue1Brown on Wordle, probability, information theory, and expected value.
Or: Shannon, von Neumann, and Pascal walk into a word game...
Whether or not you've been sucked into this word game fad, this is a really good explanation of the relationships between probability and expected information value (I = -log2(p)), as well as how to optimally find one element within a known search space.
It explains the logic behind selecting starting words for Wordle, as well as how and why optimisers choose their own guesses, and what an optimal solver's ultimate limits would be.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=v68zYyaEmEA
HN discuussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30232413
#Wordle #3Blue1Brown #Video #InformationTheory #Probability #ClaudeShannon #JohnVonNeumann #BlaisePascal #ExpectedValue