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John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
There is no Newtonian law of markets; they are all ephemeral relationships in a sea of noise and the only way you can do that and capture non-linearity and complexity is with a system that is rich enough to be able to contain all the models, so a universal approximator—that’s what neural nets are—and allows you to do that.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
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Brandon Marcus • 15 cards
In the shooter hypothesis, a good marksman shoots at a target, creating a hole every ten centimeters. Now suppose the surface of the target is inhabited by intelligent, two-dimensional creatures. Their scientists, after observing the universe, discover a great law: “There exists a hole in the universe every ten centimeters.” They have mistaken the
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how to write algorithms that could change their code and get smarter as they develop. We now call this evolutionary programming.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality
