Re: Another challenge for the conventionalists: the monster group

2020-09-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 15 Sep 2020, at 12:57, Lawrence Crowell > wrote: > > The number 196883 and 196884 comes from the Klein j-invariant function that > for q = e^{2πiτ} is such that > > j(τ) = q^{-1} + 744 + 196884q + 21493760q^2 + 864299970q^3 + …, The most famous modular form, probably. > > where

Re: Another challenge for the conventionalists: the monster group

2020-09-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 15 Sep 2020, at 20:16, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > wrote: > > > > On 9/15/2020 5:04 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >>> On 14 Sep 2020, at 19:32, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On 9/14/2020 2:27 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > So if the axioms are

Percolation explains the origin of life

2020-09-16 Thread smitra
But it was not possible to explain this all that well in the time limit of ten minutes. What is missing from the talk is that the aggregate of percolation clusters of organics ends up implementing a very sophisticated machine learning system that ends up building the machinery of life step by