Musings
MUSINGS?
Science is not "just a job" for me. Science is my passion, a life dedication, a devotion to overcoming political, societal, monetary, and historical biases and accept nothing else but the one shortest, observation-based explanation that minimizes the amount of ambiguity and contradiction. This is my definition of the truth. I never stopped being curious and for me, science, like nothing else explains the WHY questions. Seek the longest chain of shortest responses to why questions. Here is an example:
Q.: Why does the apple fall from the tree?
A: Because of gravity.
Q: Why do we have gravity?
A: Because the universe tends towards equilibrium
Q: Why does the universe tend towards equilibrium?
A: Because the universe is expanding as a whole and since energy conservation holds, objects need to contract (i.e., attract each other).
Q: Why is the universe expanding?
A: Because we never observe anything but increase of description length (second law of thermodynamics).
Then and only then, the tedious work begins to check if the math works out and which assumptions (this is, believes) have to be put into the equations. We want a mathematical description because it's usually the shortest.
YouTube Mini Lectures
If you are interested in my thoughts, check out my ever exapnding YouTube mini-lecture series. It contains topics like:
- Why are we forced to have prime numbers?
- How does information, algorithms, data, uncertainty, information and energy connect?
- What is a science?
Check out the first one on the right.
Discussion Group:
Random Open Questions:
- What happens if we connect a battery to a Turing Machine?
- Can we find an operational definition for "uniformly random"?
- How does AI become self-reflecting?
A Book Suggestion: