Mathematics as a lossy compression algorithm gone wild - LessWrong
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x Mathematics as a lossy compression algorithm gone wild — LessWrong Occam's Razor Epistemology Frontpage 54 Mathematics as a lossy compression algorithm gone wild by Shmi 6th Jun 2014 6 min read 82 54 This is yet another half-baked post from my old draft collection, but feel free to Crocker away. There is an old adage from Eugene Wigner known as the " Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics ". Wikipedia: the mathematical structure of a physical theory often points the way to further advances in that theory and even to empirical predictions. The way I interpret is that it is possible to find
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