Despite Bayes' usefulness, Ronald Fisher started attacking Bayes in the 1920s and '30s and theoretician 's attitudes about Bayes changed from tepid toleration to outright hostility.One of the reasons is that Ronald Fisher was a giant. He was a superb geneticist. He founded
It's made by atoms, whatever you want. I'm a theoretician . You have to ask the people doing technology, if it's actually doable as people hope, or it is more hard than one would expect.
Whenever I say baloney, you know what I mean, all right? So that theoretician and academics are full of baloney because we have a view of the formulas we use that is organic, bottom up. And this led to "Antifragile," where I was explaining that architects always do a better job when they don't use Euclidean geometry,
again philosophy of technology here. Rousseau, Voltaire, you know? There's lot of theoreticians that thought about indigenous people as the pure ones. The ones who somehow avoided the complex corruption of our crazy technological advanced society. So I'm intrigued with turning that upside down and saying,
But there was also the fact, I believe, that what Turing had done was not appreciated that much by the other people around him because they were the pure theoreticians , and Turing was more of an engineer, if I can use that term, even though he never built anything, much like the conflicts that we've seen in computer science in recent days between the people who are the pure theorists and the people who are actually
strange phenomena occurring in which objects or people seem to emerge and get larger and then disappear. And then theoreticians say there must be another dimension. And although this seems very counterintuitive to the people on Flatland.
was to be derivatives, that a lot of things that we think, that we believe come from top down knowledge and theoretical knowledge effectively come from tinkering, dressed up later as having been developed by theoreticians , which includes these corners up here.
a very beautiful place. So island to island, Manhattan to Tanna; I'm thinking a lot more social capital, cultural capital", which a lot of people in the West are now studying rigorously. Pierre Bourdieu, who is a French cultural theoretician , and there is an economist
notion of global finance and the virtualization of banking, which if you think about it, your credit card status and your social security number, even if of course we're here at Google, the digitization of the landscape that goes into GPS maps, all of that means that the data self, the second self that theoreticians like Arthur Kroker and Marilouise Kroker like to call them C Theory, the second self. Your data, you know, the things that define you to the various
a very beautiful place. So island to island, Manhattan to Tanna; I'm thinking a lot more enabler, a foundation, a platform. We're going to be inviting artists, writers, composers, theoreticians out to the island to hang out but not just hang out