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Lovecraft’s cosmic horror resonates because it taps into something formally provable: complete knowledge is impossible.
Not as a practical limitation. Not as epistemological humility. As a mathematical …
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.”
— H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
Lovecraft understood something profound: complete …
This problem set covers the E-M algorithm for right-censored normal data with known variance.
In [1], the authors present a method for constructing a symbolic (nominal) representation for real-valued time series data. A symbolic representation is desirable because then it becomes possible to use many of the effective algorithms that require …
This problem set covers sampling from a Gamma distribution using Metropolis-Hastings and acceptance-rejection methods.
Cancer gives you a lot of time to think about suffering—its nature, its purpose (if any), and whether it reveals anything fundamental about reality.
One way to think about suffering: it’s how certain patterns of …
The Call of Asheron is fantasy written by someone who thinks magic should have computational rigor.
Magic in this world isn’t mysterious power—it’s natural philosophy, the systematic study of reality’s …