proponents of “intelligent design” continue to insist that natural selection is unable to explain some prominent instances of evolutionary change. Their skepticism is based on alleged examples of “irreducible complexity”—an
Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is: who will have to deal with it—the user, the application developer, or the platform developer? Larry Tesler Modern distributed systems architectures notoriously fail in novel ways that no one is able to predi...
By breaking up into irreducible components we may assume that is irreducible (this requires some control on the number and complexity of these components, but this is available, as discussed in this previous post). For each , the fibre is either one-dimensional (and thus all of ) or zero-...
because while the basic structure of the four mental micro-activities was adopted top-down from the previous studies, their inner differentiation was still undetermined. What stands out and can be considered an important result of this study is the high differentiation of...
A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible. Primary The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system, such as a planet in relation to its satellites. Primary A primary school. Primary (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird. Primar...
it’s basically just sampling from the typical complexity one sees in the computational universe, picking out pieces whose behavior turns out to overlap what’s needed. And in a sense, therefore, the possibility of machine learning is ultimately yet another consequence of the ...
There's only one definition of randomness (divided into the finite and the infinite case for technical reasons): something is random if it is algorithmically incompressible or irreducible. More precisely, a member of a set of objects is random if it has the highest complexity that is possible ...
Convex duality More generally, a (closed, bounded) convex body in a vector space can be described either by listing a set of (extreme) points whose convex hull is , or else by listing a set of (irreducible) linear inequalities that cut out . The fundamental connection between the two is...
(geometry) Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of each complementary region is incompressible by disks and monogons in the complementary region, and no leaf is a sphere or a torus bounding a solid torus in the manifold. Difference between 1 and 2 Essence (philosophy...
A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible. Prime To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes water to become mixed with, and be carried along with, the steam that is formed. Primary The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system, ...