I thought of it some more… Don’t think of probability as a way to represent ignorance. Probability represents a kind of knowledge.
I’ll be specific. Shannon entropy represents ignorance. The bigger it is, the more ignorant you are.
Well, that doesn’t seem very useful as per Wei Dai example...
Why not look at the methods people actually employ to approximate and guess math when they can’t quite compute something? Applied mathematics is an enormously huge field.
I’ll be specific. Shannon entropy represents ignorance. The bigger it is, the more ignorant you are.
Well, that doesn’t seem very useful as per Wei Dai example...
Why not look at the methods people actually employ to approximate and guess math when they can’t quite compute something? Applied mathematics is an enormously huge field.