Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by rich_sasha 1510 days ago
It all goes in waves.

Renaissance, Enlightenment and Modernism were famous for bringing science and reason mainstream, but they were surrounded by the Middle Ages, Counter-Reformation and Romanticism etc. These periods were surely not devoid of intellectuals making great strides, just, as you say, hidden deep inside academic meetings.

I think the stochastic pendulum is clearly thinking about slowly turning around; if it is though, it also means it is currently at an extreme.

1 comments

Can it really be considered a pendulum if it’s stochastic?
The Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, for example [1], is fully stochastic, but drifts back towards an equilibrium.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornstein%E2%80%93Uhlenbeck_pro...