Whachu Talkin' 'bout?

Live and let live, am I right? That seems to be a pretty sound principle for navigating through this world with so many people who are different from one in one way or another.

Then of course, the exceptions start coming in, eventually, like all ``short'' enough principles.

The problem with ``short'' enough principles is related to the whole issue relating to information transmission/understanding in general. The chunking nature of memory combined with the pattern recognition architecture of the mind means that humans tend to find low Kolmogorov complexity concepts much easier to retain, retrieve, and apply as compared to the high Kolmogorov one. This is just a long-winded technical way of saying we prefer simple concepts over those that require us to keep track of ``too many'' attributes/properties before reaching a conclusion.

Reality is nuance filled---it is, therefore, high Kolmogorov complexity in general. It takes an entire Universe to represent the universe, and so far, our attempts at ``compressing'' the information contained in the universe isn't fantastic. We do have quite a few physical laws that we have divined from observation and experimentation, but those are inductive in nature---they do not contain the so-called seed information that is needed that can kick start the entire process of generating the Universe from ``scratch'', which allows us to predict all the associated emergent behaviour. By constraining ourselves to various subsets of the Universe though, we do manage to get pretty good ``compression'' of the information of that localised system, examples of which include the Newtonian mechanics and quantum mechanics.

And that's what models do. They provide a ``compression'' of the strongly localised region [of the Universe], where the number of seed attributes is much easier to comprehend/control, from which the inductive laws can be applied to predict the behaviour from the statistical perspective.

``Models'' is just the technical term. In the context of this blog entry, the ``principles'' that are referred to can be considered as a concrete version of a type of ``model''.

Anyway, I lost track of what I wanted to get at---maybe there isn't anything that I want to get at in the first place. My mind is drifting off into finding convex hulls in 3-space, and maybe I shouldn't have started this blog entry at the time I did.

But eh, it's me ranting/intellectually masturbating. Gotta have my daily writing fun anyway. Till the next update or something.