Utah prairie dog facing the curse of dimensionality
Simplicity provides natural relief for anxiety, but opens up major questions. Complexity only is meaningful, no escape from reality starts from simplified questions and odds and ends.
Simplicity provides natural relief for anxiety, but opens up major questions. Complexity only is meaningful, no escape from reality starts from simplified questions and odds and ends.
Cubism was fundamentally an art of caricature, an art of representing people and things through distortions, rather than more usual mimesis life-like forms of representation.
Complicated simplicity has been interested in art its whole life, that’s the whole point.
An error that can creep into a calculation, will dramatizing the relationship between art and its audiences.
Eubulides of Miletus, Knowledge is fun, but judging art is hopelessly subjective.
Why are ladybugs so cute? This is by far not the most bizarre traditional myth that most people belief.
A new scientific truth is not recognized as such by convincing its opponents and making them see the truth, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Max Planck, Good science and precious metals both shine.