TEDxGoodenoughCollege - Ole Peters - Time and Chance
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Uploaded by TEDxTalks on Apr 28, 2011
Ole Peters received a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Imperial College London in 2004. He then moved to the US, where he held a joint fellowship at the Santa Fe Institute and the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory. His work there focused on problems in statistical mechanics with an application to atmospheric physics, which later led him to join the Climate Systems Interaction group at UCLA. Following academic visits in Budapest, Beijing and Hamburg, he returned to Imperial College in 2009 and is currently a member of the Mathematics Department and the Grantham Institute for Climate Change. His most recent work is concerned with the conceptualisation of randomness in probability theory. In particular, he is interested in so-called non-ergodic random systems whose behaviour in time cannot be summarised by a probability distribution. When he doesn't think about ergodicity he spends as much time as he can in the ocean, recently on vessels ranging in size from a 5'4'' surfboard to a three-mast tall ship.
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Great talk. I especially enjoyed the closing remarks. We really do, as societies, look down on mediocrity -- while at the same time, the average acheivements of any society will inescapably be mediocre.
...and no matter how obvious that is, I've never even thought of it.
Banten 1 week ago
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headlocal 2 months ago
"Chance is a more fundamental conception than causality."~Max Born
alexandervorn 6 months ago