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Rohan Light

Rohan Light

I help the good build the worthwhile. Doing #progressive, thinking #resilience, learning #DataOps, reading #history, governing #data, loving #physics

Explained but not understood

Explained but not understood

(An exploratory essay; last updated 4 December 2020) When we lose track of whose version of a story to trust, paranoia ensues. It seems no coincidence that we find ourselves in an epistemological crisis several years into what is frequently described as a “crisis in the humanities”, the very subjects

Lab notes Rovelli 11/11

I'm in my lab to get my head around #quantumcomputing and using Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time to melt my brain to an appropriate state

Rovelli Lab Notes 10/11

I'm in my lab to get my head around #quantumcomputing [https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=quantumcomputing&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6702009941915377664] and using Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time to melt my brain to an appropriate state "How does one describe a

Lab notes - Rovelli - 9/11

I'm in my lab to get my head around #quantumcomputing and using Carlo Rovelli's *The Order of Time* to melt my brain to an appropriate state "The fact that we cannot arrange the universe like a simple orderly sequence of times does not mean that

Lab notes - Rovelli - 8/11

I'm in my lab to get my head around #quantumcomputing quantum computing and using Carlo Rovelli's *The Order of Time* to melt my brain to an appropriate state. Episode 8/11 "The difference between things and events is that things persist in time; events have

Claims that can't be tested are worthless

Claims that can't be tested are worthless

I have to remind myself what theory of change (ToC) is every time I go to use it. There's something vague about it that's unsettling. That sense of vagueness is uncertainty. We can reduce uncertainty through measurement, which has a close relationship with taking action. We

Don't use shortcuts taking the test of experience

Don't use shortcuts taking the test of experience

A theory of change helps apply the test of experience to our ideas and in so doing enables them to be deemed empirical.