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Nov. 13th, 2004 09:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
guslGood stuff from Cosma Shalizi. I want to be like him: I want to work on philosophical questions (or simply highly conceptual questions) on a technical/mathematical level.
Machine Learning, Statistical Inference and Induction
Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of gzip, where he criticizes physicists using this approach. What I don't understand is when physicists would want to calculate the entropy of a source.
and his review of "Jorma Rissanen - Stochastic Complexity in Statistical Inquiry"
The Backwards Arrow of Time of the Coherently Bayesian Statistical Mechanic
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As I recently found out, Herbert Simon is also someone I really look up to. Besides pioneering cognitive science, which aims for a coherent computational theory of cognition, and in particular high-level "chunking" and "rules of the mind", he studied human decision-making and wrote a book called "Administrative Behavior", which examines rationality and decision-making... the sort of question I want to give consult about.
Machine Learning, Statistical Inference and Induction
Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of gzip, where he criticizes physicists using this approach. What I don't understand is when physicists would want to calculate the entropy of a source.
and his review of "Jorma Rissanen - Stochastic Complexity in Statistical Inquiry"
The Backwards Arrow of Time of the Coherently Bayesian Statistical Mechanic
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As I recently found out, Herbert Simon is also someone I really look up to. Besides pioneering cognitive science, which aims for a coherent computational theory of cognition, and in particular high-level "chunking" and "rules of the mind", he studied human decision-making and wrote a book called "Administrative Behavior", which examines rationality and decision-making... the sort of question I want to give consult about.