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Sean McClure

Sean McClure

Impatience is a Virtue

Impatience makes one focus only on the top-level outcome. It is to charge ahead with what one wants to see.

1d ago

Impatience is a Virtue

1d ago

Sean McClure

You’ll Never Speak the Language of Nature by Chasing Algorithms

2d ago

You’ll Never Speak the Language of Nature by Chasing Algorithms

2d ago

Sean McClure

The Problem with Mathematical Abstraction

A precisely defined thing is not the same as a definite thing.

3d ago

The Problem with *Mathematical* Abstraction

3d ago

Sean McClure

What we Observe is how we Choose to Observe

Aug 30

What we Observe is how we Choose to Observe

Aug 30

Sean McClure

Simplicity Applied, Again and Again

Choose the simplest approach you can fathom, and live by it.

Aug 28

Simplicity Applied, Again and Again

Aug 28

Sean McClure

Science Brings Progress Because we Believe it is Something it is Not

The biggest contribution science has made to human progress is convincing man he can explain, control and predict his natural surroundings.

Aug 25

Science Brings Progress Because we Believe it is Something it is Not

Aug 25

Sean McClure

Overstaffed Software Companies and the Inefficiency of Best Practices

Software development in industry is grossly inefficient and backwards.

Aug 11

Overstaffed Software Companies and the Inefficiency of Best Practices

Aug 11

Sean McClure

Wield your Science as Swiftly as you Wield your Poetry

Aug 7

Wield your Science as Swiftly as you Wield your Poetry

Aug 7

Sean McClure

Stop Telling People Nature Has Gaussians. It Does Not.

Aug 5

Stop Telling People Nature Has Gaussians. It Does Not.

Aug 5

Sean McClure

AI Does Not Actually Learn “Probability Distributions”

In AI, when we say a model “learns a probability distribution” this is not a literal statement.

Aug 2

AI Does Not Actually Learn “Probability Distributions”

Aug 2

Sean McClure

Sean McClure

Independent Scholar; Author of Discovered, Not Designed; Ph.D. Computational Chem; Builder of things; I study and write about science, philosophy, complexity.

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