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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 …

> 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…

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 cak…

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 gener…

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 p…

> 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 …

The relevant clip from the last episode of QI. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipFIxrsYSxs#t=3m40s