#1073 David Wolpert: History as a Stochastic Process
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Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricard Lopson. Today I'm joined by Doctor David Walport. He is professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Most of his work is in thermodynamics of comput computation, foundations of physics, dynamics of social organizations, machine learning, game theory, and distributed optimization slash control. And today we're going to focus on a paper of his titled The Past as a Stochastic Process. So, Doctor Walport, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to everyone. It's a pleasure to be here. Very good to meet you.
And everybody else. Unlocked. Yeah. So just to introduce the topic, what is a stochastic process? Hm okay, so um a deterministic process. is something that is governed, for example, by uh differential equations.
Um, it is something where The state of a system right now and this Um uh The definition of state might be somewhat elaborate, but the state of the system right now.
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