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Revisiting the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics

Question: On balance, with theoretical advances in algorithmic information theory and Quantum Computation it appears that the remarkable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences is quite ...
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Where should I learn about Kolmogorov complexity of overlapping substrings?

I would like to know more about the relationship between the Kolmogorov complexity of a string and that of its substrings. The relation that up to an additive constant, $K(x,y) = K(x) + K(y\ |\ x, K(...
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compression of a Turing machine run sequence

consider a Turing machine with a set of states $s_n$ and alphabet symbols $a_n$. now consider a "run sequence" generated from a starting input in the following sense. the run sequence is defined as ...
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Reference request: Time and proofs of shared pasts

Is there research about structures for notions of time with distributed systems of information, as with blockchains? I am thinking of tuples $(I, T, P, A, \prec, s, \eta, u)$ where $I$, $T$ and $P$ ...
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