Sublime

Hence all mathematical derivation can be viewed simply as change in representation,

By physics, I mean approximation, compression, mechanism, optimization. Data science is not that. Data science is not science. I think it’s important that we make that statement.

Ce professeur nous donna, par la suite, l’origine de l’expression « problèmes de Fermi ». Il nous expliqua qu’Enrico Fermi – qui fabriqua le premier réacteur nucléaire sous le terrain de football de l’université de Chicago – notait constamment des estimations au dos d’une enveloppe chaque fois qu’il devait résoudre un problème.4 La morale ultime de

Feynman’s approach encouraged him to follow his interests wherever they might lead. He posed questions and constantly scanned for solutions to long-standing problems in his reading, conversations, and everyday life. When he found one, he could make a connection that looked to others like a flash of unparalleled brilliance.

Everything is made of atoms. That is the key hypothesis. The most important hypothesis in all of biology, for example, is that everything that animals do, atoms do. In other words, there is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics. This was not

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 “s