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Notes on Quantum: the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
Thirteen years younger, Boltzmann followed in Maxwell’s footsteps to help shore up the kinetic theory of gases. In the 1870s he went one step further and developed a statistical interpretation of the second law of thermodynamics by linking entropy with disorder. According to what became known as Boltzmann’s principle, entropy is a measure of the probability of finding a system in a particular state.
Notes on Quantum: the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
Thirteen years younger, Boltzmann followed in Maxwell’s footsteps to help shore up the kinetic theory of gases. In the 1870s he went one step further and developed a statistical interpretation of the second law of thermodynamics by linking entropy with disorder. According to what became known as Boltzmann’s principle, entropy is a measure of the probability of finding a system in a particular state.
Notes on Quantum: the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
That evening Planck decided to have a go at constructing the formula that would reproduce the energy spectrum of blackbody radiation. He now had three crucial pieces of information to help him. First, Wien’s law accounted for the intensity of radiation at short wavelengths.
Notes on Quantum: the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
That evening Planck decided to have a go at constructing the formula that would reproduce the energy spectrum of blackbody radiation. He now had three crucial pieces of information to help him. First, Wien’s law accounted for the intensity of radiation at short wavelengths.
Notes on Quantum: the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
According to Clausius, entropy was the price for whether something happened or not. In any isolated system only those processes, transactions, in which entropy either stayed the same or increased were allowed. Any that led to a decrease of entropy were strictly forbidden.
Notes on Quantum: the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
According to Clausius, entropy was the price for whether something happened or not. In any isolated system only those processes, transactions, in which entropy either stayed the same or increased were allowed. Any that led to a decrease of entropy were strictly forbidden.
Notes on “What technology wants”
“Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. We multiply manufactured artifacts and spread ideas and memes” – Kevin Kelly
Notes on “What technology wants”
“Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. We multiply manufactured artifacts and spread ideas and memes” – Kevin Kelly
Notes on “What Technology Wants”
“Do you think technology is making things better or worse?” Lucas’s [George] answer: If you watch the curve of science and everything we know, it shoots up like a rocket. We’re on this rocket and we’re going perfectly vertical into
Notes on “What Technology Wants”
“Do you think technology is making things better or worse?” Lucas’s [George] answer: If you watch the curve of science and everything we know, it shoots up like a rocket. We’re on this rocket and we’re going perfectly vertical into
Notes on “What technology wants”
“The philosopher Martin Heidegger suggested that technology was an “unhiding” – revealing – of an inner reality. That inner reality is the immaterial nature of anything manufactured.”
Notes on “What technology wants”
“The philosopher Martin Heidegger suggested that technology was an “unhiding” – revealing – of an inner reality. That inner reality is the immaterial nature of anything manufactured.”
Notes – An open universe III
“Biological evolution is the open-ended evolution of DNA units breeding new DNA units in a library that is ever-expanding and without known boundaries.” “Gerald Joyce, the molecular breeder, says he is happily into “evolving molecules for fun and profit.” But
Notes – An open universe III
“Biological evolution is the open-ended evolution of DNA units breeding new DNA units in a library that is ever-expanding and without known boundaries.” “Gerald Joyce, the molecular breeder, says he is happily into “evolving molecules for fun and profit.” But
Notes – An open universe II
“This was the future of software programming! Define a problem and the machine will find a solution while the engineers play golf. But the solution Koza’s machine found tells us a lot about the handiwork of evolution. Here’s the equation
Notes – An open universe II
“This was the future of software programming! Define a problem and the machine will find a solution while the engineers play golf. But the solution Koza’s machine found tells us a lot about the handiwork of evolution. Here’s the equation
Notes – An open universe
“Nature is an ever-expanding library of possibilities. It is an open universe.” “The consequence of an open genome is open evolution.” “There is more than one way to organize an open genome. In 1990, Karl Sims took advantage of the
Notes – An open universe
“Nature is an ever-expanding library of possibilities. It is an open universe.” “The consequence of an open genome is open evolution.” “There is more than one way to organize an open genome. In 1990, Karl Sims took advantage of the
Notes – Artificial Evolution VII
Danny Hillis has come to the same conclusion. He is serious when he says he wants his Connection Machine to evolve commercial software. “We want these systems to solve a problem we don’t know how to solve, but merely know
Notes – Artificial Evolution VII
Danny Hillis has come to the same conclusion. He is serious when he says he wants his Connection Machine to evolve commercial software. “We want these systems to solve a problem we don’t know how to solve, but merely know
Free mind on "free space" 