unimath

—so uh, you’re covering ‘quite a lot of ground’ there chap – are you sure that you’re not ‘overstretching yourself’? right? so let’s cover some fundamental intuitions first not polymath; unimath hear me out As a species, we tend to distinguish and identify phenomena by differences – the characteristic elements of each, which the other does not posses. This is for good reason: Top-down – we might observe that biology tends to optimise for frugality, but more fundamentally; Bottom-up – the simplest implementation is more likely to evolve (defined in terms of minimal-viable iterations from prior) As a consequence, when we consider two distinct domains of intellectual concern, we immediately become aware of a vast expanse of irreconcilable detail between each – and we might easily imagine how complicated the task of understanding both must be...

December 21, 2023 · 606 words