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Psyche is the operating system of the mind.
Formalization and de-generalization leads to inventions.
The machine cannot understand Chaos; neither can man! Both employ Order construction methods, stemming from self, which results in constructing arbitrary Order entities perceived from Chaos.
“There is nothing general except names.”
— John Stuart Mill
“We now understand how very complex and even apparently intelligent phenomena, such as genetic coding, the immune system, and low-level visual processing, can be accomplished without a trace of consciousness. But this seems to uncover an enormous puzzle of just what, if anything, consciousness is for. Can a conscious entity do anything for itself that an unconscious (but cleverly wired up) simulation of that entity couldn't do for itself?”
— Daniel Dennett
Machine is fast but stupid;
Man is intelligent but slow.
“There’s nothing inherently wrong with seeing a face in a taco shell; it’s just a by-product of our evolved perceptual systems, like many of the other illusions to which humans fall prey. Our skills in this regard are so nuanced and powerful that even multimillion-dollar petaflop supercomputers still struggle to match us.”
— Steven Novella, The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
“The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.”
— B. F. Skinner
Define define.
If I don't realize my vision, no one will.
Robustness versus brittleness
If a software system:
• can cope with errors
• can handle erroneous input
• allows modifications to its source code without losing reliability
it is said to be robust and not brittle.

Follow these principles to ensure robustness:
• Users may intentionally try to break your code
⇒ Disallow all such possibilities
• Users may try incorrect inputs
⇒ Display appropriate messages to inform the user
• When providing a higher level means to a lower level access, the interface may allow loopholes
⇒ Reenforce interfaces
• Nothing is impossible: the code may be modified later and this may turn an impossible case to a possibility
⇒ Treat impossibility as unlikely
Obeying artificial laws before personally concluding them is irrational.
A fair judge is an unbiased judge.
A self-aware subject is biased.
A subject cannot be a fair judge.
#Nile
Recur
- is a syntactic construct used in recursive functions, especially helpful in anonymous recursive functions and scripts:
{if x==0 return 0 else if x fits even return recur(x/2)/2 else return recur((x-1)/2)/2-0.5}
Formalization of the problem is how the machine understands it.
“Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.”
— Democritus
#mathematics
Tensor
Tensors are generalizations of scalars (that have no indices), vectors (that have exactly one index), and matrices (that have exactly two indices) to an arbitrary number of indices.
A tensor of rank|order n is a mathematical object that has n indices|dimensions|axes
• A scalar is a 0-dimensional tensor.
• A vector is a 1-dimensional tensor.
• A matrix is a 2-dimensional tensor.
• ...

Etymology: from the Latin word tendere meaning "to stretch"

Applications: data science, machine learning, computer vision, field theory, elasticity, fluid mechanics, general relativity, etc.
“The mind of man may be compared to a musical instrument with a certain range of notes, beyond which in both directions we have an infinitude of silence.”
— John Tyndall
“But still try, for who knows what is possible...”
— Michael Faraday
“We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.”
— Arthur Eddington