Sublime

But I was reading The Guns of August, by Barbara W. Tuchman, with its implicit concept of multiple solutions to non-convex problems.

This paradox of comprehension was articulated explicitly by a great physicist of an earlier age: “Sir Isaac Newton, when asked what he thought of the infatuations of the people, answered that he could calculate the motions of erratic bodies, but not the madness of a multitude” (quoted from The Church of England Quarterly Review, 1850).

Value proposition is the theory; traction is the proof.

Martin Bojowald, Once before Time, is one of the most recent proponents of this approach.2

A metaphor is not merely a flawed and fuzzy model, nor is it a final answer. A useful metaphor is an invitation to hard work that can be indispensable to innovation.

with causal diagrams.

master algorithm is Bayes’ theorem and its derivates. Bayes’ theorem tells us how to incorporate new evidence into our beliefs, and probabilistic inference algorithms do that as efficiently as possible.