Epstein Secrets

y puzzling methods of statistical mechanics (see Lawrence Sklar, 1993). These statistical theories eschew t

ystems. We should expect rapidly diminishing explanatory returns from increasingly explicit microfoundations. [Wright 2009] And a shorter one from Von Neumann, reported by Claude Shannon: "My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it 'information', but the word was overly used, so I de

me ill-advised early experiments, such as buzzing Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory with one of his self-flying s

log communication degraded with distance, analog computing (like the Differential Analyzer) degraded with time, accumulating errors as it progressed. Von Neumann presented in 1952 a result corresponding to Shannon’s for computation (they had met at the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton), showing that

me ill-advised early experiments, such as buzzing Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory with one of his self-flying s

log communication degraded with distance, analog computing (like the Differential Analyzer) degraded with time, accumulating errors as it progressed. Von Neumann presented in 1952 a result corresponding to Shannon’s for computation (they had met at the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton), showing that