Predicting the Future
Memes about entropy, probability, statistics, Bayesian modeling, and generally predicting the future.
Folksonomies: statistics prediction future chaos theory probability
Memes
24 DEC 2013
You Can't Predict What You Are Going to Do
In the physical world, the only way to learn tomorrow’s weather in detail is to wait twenty-four hours and see, even if nothing is random at all. The universe is computing tomorrow’s weather as rapidly and as efficiently as possible; any smaller model is inaccurate, and the smallest error is amplified into large effects. At a personal level, even if the world is as deterministic as a computer program, you still can’t predict what you’re going to do. This is because your prediction method wou...Folksonomies: predictability modeling
Folksonomies: predictability modeling
Rudy Rucker on why our brains are like the weather, so complex that only the actual system can run the computation.
16 MAY 2012
If We Knew the Outcome of a War, There Would be No Need t...
The determining cause of most wars in the past has been, and probably will be of all wars in the future, the uncertainty of the result; war is acknowledged to be a challenge to the Unknown, it is often spoken of as an appeal to the God of Battles. The province of science is to foretell; this is true of every department of science. And the time must come—how soon we do not know—when the real science of war, something quite different from the application of science to the means of war, will mak...Quote from Sir Michael Foster Times Literary Supplement, 28 Nov 1902, 353-4.
References
19 DEC 2013
This Will Make You Smarter
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Brockman , John (2012-02-14), This Will Make You Smarter, HarperCollins, Retrieved on 2013-12-19Source Material [books.google.com]
Folksonomies: science
Folksonomies: science