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Power-law — “A functional relationship between two quantities, where a relative change in one quantity results in a proportional relative change in the other quantity, independent of the initial size of those quantities: one quantity varies as a power of another.” (related: Pareto distribution; Pareto principle — “for many events, roughly 80% of
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How could the inflaton field have wound up high on its energy hill in the first place? This is where the no-boundary proposal comes in.
Thomas Hertog • On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
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
Each notation renders certain operations, statements and thoughts about numbers simpler than others, and hence it embodies a theory about which relationships between numbers are useful or interesting.)