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| See Plinko Probability 2.02 | A working replica of the machine | (following a slightly modified design.) |
There is this randomness that seems to take hold over my thoughts regarding probability. The thoughts question how we can even know with certainty when something is going end in a result. To know this before hand.
In a way this is what drew me to outcomes seen and expressed as scenarios given in context of Game theory in terms of negotiation. I would like to give a little shout out to the work John Baez is doing in that regard.
Predicting economic events with some certainty(?) and here the questions of Nassim Taleb and the Black Swan raises its head again. Fractal Antennas. A lot of things have elevated the discussion for me as to wonder how we have graduated to a degree to a level of perception that was not so obvious before.
Both the theorists and the experimentalists looked only at the pile of tokens that landed in a particular slot at the bottom of the Plinko board. While the experimentalists had a set of guidelines about how the tokens should have gotten there and excluded any tokens that didn’t follow the rules, the theorists didn’t care as much about that. They were primarily concerned with the mass of the initial particles, the mass of the final particles and the ratio between them.
When the initial massive particles decay into lighter ones, the total energy must be conserved. Sometimes this energy goes missing; if the missing energy adds up to a certain amount, it could mean that a supersymmetric particle carried it away without being detected.See:Keep it simple, SUSY
It also deals with Particle physics and collision processes as the link suggests at the bottom of this entry. So it seems we are getting some kind of hold on this probability and outcome in terms of what was a random act can now become specific and predictable.
If you get the opportunity to watch the latest show of Touch I thought it interesting, as I see this fellow searching all over for a machine that is mechanical and not electronic, to use for a project for Amelia.
What is capture in the picture here below is what made this interesting. While a fictional story, Amelia is capable of being able to determine the randomness of a dropped ball, even before the result is known. This kidnapping is somehow recognized as a necessary evil when taking Amelia. They want to teach another computer to be able track the neurons as she relays the pockets with which the balls drop as some underlying algorithmic process sequencing.
The idea for me while it is nice it is so plain that we could map such an abstract mind to have encompassed such probabilities. It is again with such forth sight that I came to such a vision as an encompassing one, held above such statistics. Natures way. If you must, a overlord position using the recognition of Powers of ten, for as such a view is to contain, all must contain such outcomes.
So this part of this post is not finished, as ideas will spring up as people and scientists talk about different things. For me, it is about seeing these "abstract things" as viable entries into the recognizable as functions of our everyday lives.
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