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Raw Thoughts on Mass (updated)
Published on 21 Dec 2007 at 2:18 am.
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Filed under Philosophy, Physics, Probability, Research.
What good is a cortex if it doesn’t dream a little?
I have been thinking about Ariel Caticha and Carlo Cafaro’s derivation of Newton’s Second Law from probability theory (http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.1071). In this derivation, they assume three things:
There exist basic entities called particles
There is an intrinsic uncertainty about a particle’s position
There is change… not time necessarily, but change.
The first thing I […]
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Information Physics
Published on 11 Oct 2007 at 12:01 am.
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Filed under Information, Physics, Probability, Research.
Three of us here at the University at Albany are becoming collectively known as the Albany Group: Ariel Caticha, Carlos Rodriguez and myself. We three are exploring some relatively radical ideas about information, probability, geometry and physics, and often we find our ideas converging in unexpected ways.
One convergence that I am particularly interested in is […]
MaxEnt 2007
Published on 14 Jul 2007 at 2:11 am.
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Filed under Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics, Probability, Research.
Friday marked the closing session of the 27th International Workshop on Bayesian and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering (MaxEnt 2007). I had the great pleasure to host this year’s meeting in the lovely city of Saratoga Springs. We had approximately 100 participants from almost 25 countries spanning all six of the populated continents!
This year […]
