Can we think through the *generative* model that would have generated our world? What causal relationships are at play? > He's famous for one particular obsession of his that turned out to be unprecedentedly fruitful: using math to describe the world. > - Paul Graham on Isaac Newton --- Date: 20221222 Links to: Tags: #review References: * [#036 - Max Welling: Quantum, Manifolds & Symmetries in ML - YouTube](https://youtu.be/mmDw5glry9w?t=2788) * [The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius](http://www.paulgraham.com/genius.html?viewfullsite=1)