"The Loud Will Take Care Of Itself"


"The Loud Will Take Care Of Itself"

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Identical Companions : Reasoning Under Uncertainty 

"It is remarkable that a science which began with the consideration of games of chance should become the most important object of human knowledge ... The most important questions of life are, for the most part, really only problems of probability." (Laplace)

"All of the time, agents are forced to make decisions based on incomplete information. Even when an agent senses the world to find out more information, it rarely finds out the exact state of the world. A robot does not know exactly where an object is. A doctor does not know exactly what is wrong with a patient. A teacher does not know exactly what a student understands. When intelligent agents must make decisions, they have to use whatever information they have."  (artint.info)

Music: I Know You Know / Exposé 
https://youtu.be/SGLB2ewS3Dc

The hardest work of the last quarter of the twentieth century is to find
An edge in the middle. When something explodes, for example,
Nobody is confused about what to do - you look toward it.
Loud is a magnet. But the laws of magnetism are more complex.
One might just as well try this: When something explodes,   
Turn exactly opposite from it and see what there is to see.
The loud will take care of itself, and everyone will be able to say   
What happened in that direction. But who is looking
The other way? Nature, that magician and author of loud sounds,   
Zookeeper and cook, electrician and provocateur—
Maybe these events are Nature’s sleight of hand, and the real   
Thing that’s happening is in the other hand,
Or behind or above or below or inside us.

The smallest muscle in the human body is in the ear.
It is also the only muscle that does not have blood vessels;
It has fluid instead. The reason for this is clear:
The ear is so sensitive that the body, if it heard its own pulse,
Would be devastated by the amplification of its own sound.   
In this knowledge I sense a great metaphor,
But I do not want to be hasty in trying to capture or describe it.   
Words are our weakest hold on the world.
( Excerpts from: Some Extensions on the Sovereignty of Science / A. RÍOS)

Image: Jackson Pollock : Blind Spots / Tate)

Computer algorithm can accurately identify Jackson Pollock paintings : "Since Pollock painted very recently, however, it's relatively easy for a forger to match his materials. Whether they match his style or not is debatable given the disagreements noted above about whether there's a distinctive style involved at all. The idea that an artist paints in ways that create a distinctive style that's possible to identify based on multiple paintings isn't at all controversial. The question is whether that style can be reduced to a value through the mathematical processing of the information in an image of those paintings.  

(For the curious, these include Chebyshev statistics, a statistical analysis of the Fourier transform, Haralick textures, and Zernike polynomials taken from other image transforms.) It's not clear whether these are simply different ways of identifying a limited number of stylistic features or whether Pollock's style is multidimensional. In any case, it's clear that there's something distinctive there. Whether you like it or not is a separate issue. 
(Full story: 
http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/02/computer-algorithm-can-accurately-identify-jackson-pollock-paintings /J. Timmer)

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