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Are you good at parsimony?

Here's a simple test:

Let's say some people are really good at navigation, and always know where they are (this is called "dead reckoning").

They all seem to speak a certain kind of language, which handles space and direction in a special way.

Three kinds of language exist in this particular respect.

What is more parsimonious from the following?

Boosts welcome

#Science #Occam #Parsimony

I've come to the conclusion that conspiracy theorists bypass #Occam's razor in favour of Occam's epilator!

London-based defence tech startup Occam has raised EUR 3 million in pre-seed funding after its autonomous drone software passed field evaluation through Ukraine's Brave1 platform. The software operates under live fire without GPS or external connectivity. https://www.startupreporter.eu/occam-says-its-drone-ai-actually-works-in-combat/ #Tech #Startup #News #DefenseTech #Occam

@paw While I generally agree with this analysis, in Luxon's case it seems possible that he just said something stupid without thinking it through. #Occam

#Occam doesn't need 5 blades.

Not a golang expert, but my hot take from this: https://gaultier.github.io/blog/a_million_ways_to_data_race_in_go.html is that it might have taken channels from CSP, but if you only take that, you’re missing out on much more. #occam

I've come to the conclusion that #conspiracy theorists bypass #Occam's_razor in favour of Occam's epilator!

Given that we live in the stupidest timeline[1], I thought this might be useful in reasoning about the world around you ...

Occam's Butterknife: With all else being equal, the stupidest explanation is likely the correct one. [2]

[1] You may have noticed a lot of people have expressed this observation in the last month or so...
[2] I don't care if Steve Sailer has used this term for something else.

#stupid #stupidest #explanation #timeline #occam #OccamsButterknife #StupidestTimeline #reason #reasoning

@Aqsaqal celebrating his latest PragProg release -
Seven Obscure Languages in Seven Weeks

Let seven older, obscure languages open your eyes to new ways of thinking about programming, and change the way you code today.

http://pragprog.com/titles/dzseven
#Forth #Occam #APL #Simula #SNOBOL #Starset #m4 #7in7

#gun #cat razor #law #chekhov #schrodinger #occam #murphy #humor

Gun, Cat, Razor, Law
by
-- Chekhov's,
-- Schrodinger's,
-- Occam's,
-- Murphy's.

Check attached picture

Транспьютеры — революция многопроцессорных систем, которой не случилось

В самом начале 80-х годов двадцатого столетия, как и много раз в более поздние годы, возникло мнение, что обычные процессоры достигли предела своей производительности. Тогда, по крайней мере, к этому имелись все предпосылки: имевшиеся на тот момент технологии уже не позволяли разместить больше логических схем на одном кристалле. Традиционные компьютеры с архитектурой CISC приблизились к пределу своих вычислительных возможностей, и было неясно, можно ли его преодолеть. Именно тогда на свет появились транспьютеры — чипы с принципиально новой архитектурой, которую сразу же окрестили научно-техническим прорывом, революционной разработкой и будущим компьютерных технологий. О самих транспьютерах и о том, как сложилась их судьба — наш сегодняшний рассказ.

https://habr.com/ru/companies/serverspace/articles/844638/

#Транспьютер #INMOS #Ян_Бэррон #Elliott_803 #Modular_One #MISC #oslink #Occam #CSP

I passed #kripke enterprises on the way home. They do everything possible with aluminum, including a joint partnership with #occam for closer shaves.

https://www.kripke.com/

If you missed the latest episode of the Wisdom for Life radio show when it ran, or you'd like to see Dan and I in the conversation, here's the show recording of the episode, where we looked at a number of philosophical ideas people get mixed up about!

https://youtu.be/AcAo99tszHU
#Occam #Whitehead #Plato #Aristotle #Hume #Sartre #Philosophy #WisdomForLife #Radio #Video

This print "Occam's Razor" is about the Law of Economy or Parsimony postulated by Scholastic philosopher William of Ockham (1287–1347), "pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate" or entities should not be needlessly multiplied. More simply this law, or really, rule of thumb is that the simplest explanation is usually right. 🧵1/n
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#linocut #printmaking #Occam #Ockham #OccamsRazor #typography #sciArt #philosophy #histstm #imaginaryfriends #science #cryptids #MastoArt

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

✧ Sagan standard ✧

The Sagan standard is the aphorism that "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence". It is named for Carl Sagan (pictured), who used the phrase in his 1979 book Broca's Brain. The standard has been described as fundamental to the scientific method and is regarded as encapsulating the basic principles of scientific skepticism. The ...

#Sagan #BrocaBrain #ThéodoreFlournoy #Occam #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagan_standard

Thoroughly shuffled and cut the Aquarian #Tarot taking care not to even see the cards’ faces given that I want a clean initial reading without preconceptions.

#Occam
#Jungian

Research argues that #Occam's razor is an 'essential factor that distinguishes #science from #superstition'

#ibn_al_Haytham

https://phys.org/news/2023-12-occam-razor-essential-factor-distinguishes.html

Razors should not be multiplied without necessity.

#Occam's razor is the only razor in town (See, it even shaves itself!)

Me to my husband just now: “It’s like an Occam folding editor!” as I try to explain cut/spoiler sections in DreamWidth blog posts. That won’t make any sense except to fellow computer scientists possibly of a certain vintage. But sharing for them! I can still vividly remember coding Occam in the Edge basement Sun lab on the Scores in St Andrews in the early 1990s.
#Occam #ProgrammingLanguages #ComputerScience #StAndrews #FoldingEditors #Dreamwidth

At last, my #transputer project is ready to share!

I've written a program in the #occam language that uses a network of seven transputers ('80s/'90s UK CPUs for parallel processing) to simulate a flying flag --- much faster than the IBM PC/AT 286 host computer could do it, I think! (So #doscember too!)

I've also written a long writeup on how it works, with background on transputing and occam.

This was a really enjoyable project, so I hope it makes for fun reading!

YouTube teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY-cUEJT1XQ
Writeup@GitHub: https://github.com/stepleton/flag/blob/main/README.md

Hello,

I am working on an automated domain of reasoning called Occam. Here are some links:

https://occam.science
https://openmathematics.org

Partial lift off will happen in the coming months. One of the reasons I am here is to announce that. However, there are perhaps two or three years to go before things are ready for a wider audience.

#introduction
#occam
#openmathematics