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Speculation. How did we learn as infants? We learn by a combination of: innate curiosity, innate drives, mimicking the people around us. We do the same as adults at a subconscious level. Eg: The concept of an anthropomorphic god can be a useful mental device. Eg: Cat raised by pitbulls. Link. Read more

Entropy Power Inequality

Ref: “On the similarity of the Entropy Power Inequality and the Brunn Minkowski inequality” by Costa, Cover. “The Convolution Inequality for Entropy Powers” by Blachman. “Simple Proof of the Concavity of the Entropy Power with respect to added Gaussian Noise” by Dembo. “Stochastic Models, Information Theory, and Lie Groups, Vol 1” by Ch... Read more

Cartan-Dieudonne

Ref: Marc van Leeuwen’s answer here: Link. Let ${ E }$ be an ${ n }$ dimensional Euclidean space. What are the origin and distance preserving maps ${ f : E \longrightarrow E }$? Obs: Let ${ E }$ be an ${ n }$ dimensional Euclidean space. Let ${ f : E \longrightarrow E . }$ Then the following are equivalent: ${ \lVert f(x) - f(y) \rVe... Read more

Theoretical Minimum

Link to Courses: Link. ROUGH NOTES (!) Updated: 4/4/25 The Milky Way Galaxy. Read more

CS50

Link to Course: Link. ROUGH NOTES (!) Updated: 5/4/25 Week 0. Scratch. What is Computer Science? Computer Science is the study of information. How we represent it, and how we process it. What is Problem Solving? \[{ \text{Input} \to \blacksquare \to \text{Output}. }\] Can we represent the inputs and outputs? Eg: Consider counting, repr... Read more