"Even the most sophisticated machines engineered to date lack an experience of meaning or purpose as integral to their actions. The central feature of specifically human intelligence is things *matter* to a human being. By contrast, things do not matter to a computing machine"
Theodore M. Porter on the history of statistics, it's so good.
"The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820–1900 explores the history of statistics from the field’s origins in the nineteenth century through to the factors that produced the burst of modern statistical innovation in the early twentieth century. Theodore Porter shows that statistics was not developed by mathematicians and then applied to the sciences and social sciences. Rather, the field came into being through the efforts of social scientists, who saw a need for statistical tools in their examination of society. Pioneering statistical physicists and biologists James Clerk Maxwell, Ludwig Boltzmann, and Francis Galton introduced statistical models to the sciences by pointing to analogies between their disciplines and the social sciences. A new preface by the author looks at how the book has remained relevant since its initial publication, and considers the current place of statistics in scientific research."
https://t.co/rRlhB8jkeG
New Symbolic World article. Cormac Jones decodes my retelling of Snow White, tracing the textual arrangement, chiasms, nested arcs, and typology.
Hazarding to Turn a Mirror to the Beauty of ‘Snow White and the Widow Queen’ (link below)
Nietzsche haklıydı:
Hayatta net bir amacı olan kişiler, stresli durumlarla karşılaştıklarında kaçınmak, duygusallaşmak veya şikayet etmek yerine sorunu çözmeye ve yeniden çerçevelemeye odaklanırlar; ve bu strateji onları daha mutlu yapıyor.
Reality, Information & Frequency.
All physical phenomena can be described as information carried by waves: frequency and amplitude.
In this visualization, we see the conceptual descent from high-frequency components (fine detail, rapid oscillations) to lower-frequency, longer-wavelength behavior that appears as macroscopic “form” or matter.
A Fourier Transform decomposes any signal into its frequency components: revealing the hidden frequencies that build the observable world.
Higher frequencies carry sharper details and rapid changes. Lower frequencies shape the overall structure.
This powerful mathematical tool is fundamental in physics, from quantum mechanics to signal processing, showing how complex reality emerges from simpler wave patterns.
Mycena subcyanocephala is a rare, minuscule fungus found in Taiwan's tropical forests, recognized as one of the world's smallest mushrooms at only 1mm tall.
It’s so rare to see Gothic architecture paired with Orthodox artwork.
The Chapel of the Holy Trinity (14th century) in Lublin Castle, Poland is a breathtaking East-West fusion.