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🎯 Tracking enemy aircraft with math? Enter the godfather of cybernetics Norbert Wiener.
During WWII, MIT mathematician Norbert Wiener (1894–1964) was tasked with a critical challenge: predict the future position of German bomber aircraft using only past radar observations.
📡 The result?
John von Neumann, neo-Luddite:
(von Neumann was, of course, one of the arch-technologists of all human history - contributing to the creation of everything from the digital computer to the hydrogen bomb to weather forecasting...) https://t.co/vwTqHNamjo
Oldies but goldies: N Wiener, Extrapolation, Interpolation, and Smoothing of Stationary Time Series, 1949. Introduces Wiener interpolation (aka Kriging) and filtering, which founded with C. Shannon modern communication theory. https://t.co/PiJkIkzANE https://t.co/5XP1lxRK6f
Gabriel Peyréx.com
Perhaps the greatest “phase transition” in our thinking that such an approach could engender is the maturation in our willingness to live with relatively high levels of uncertainty in the domains of complex phenomena—and thus give up on ideas like complete “cures,” the elimination of “risk,” the design of perfect “stability,” and achieving total
... See moreJessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
emergent phenomena, ergodicity, radical uncertainty, and computational irreducibility.