Classical Mechanics Is Still Fundamental
May 18, 2020

Archived from an original LinkedIn post by Brian Greenforest.

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Just keep watching. It's easy. Absorb. This theory is really fundamental for everything your passion is at right now. Don't let the name "Classical Mechanics" confuse you that "It's about Newton, and I already know that". If you're keep being confused by how mathematically (or computationally) correctly calculate these entangled qubits and teleport them across temporal correlations to the future, make sure you understand Virtual Velocities pioneered by Huygens, formalized by Lagrange, named by Euler (Calculus of Variations), and finally systematized the virtual work principle and made explicit the concept of infinitesimal displacement by Bernoulli.

These Variational Work, Euler-Lagrange equations, Hamilton's variational principle stuff in Quantum Mechanics is just from here. If you need to understand how Schrodinger equation works, you need this stuff.

How are you going to understand Friston's Free Energy formulation for consciousness and train your best neural network without this formalism? It all builds on Calculus of Variations and Lebesgue Integration (the "measure theory").

Just. Keep. Watching.

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