We report verbatim a 1998 article A Survey of “Complexity Measures” by David P. Feldman and Jim Crutchfield. A more adequate title for this evasive article would be “A Survey of How Science Avoids to Measure Complexity”. Once you’ve read it, ask yourself this: can I use any of these measures to actually measure the…
Not everything that counts can be measured and not everything that can be measured counts. This variation of a quote by Einstein is often used as an excuse in order to confine things that may be quantified into the realm of the intangible. The act of measurement is not just laborious. It is also risky.…
IBM has recently announced a new “way to program computers” – the so-called “cognitive computing” – see here – which uses “visual analytics” techniques to process (and display) data. The method of “Visual Analytics” has been pioneered by Ontonix over a decade ago when we introduced and patented (in 2005) our model-free technique of…
