“While nothing is more uncertain than a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives.” Elizur Wright (father of life insurance) #NonErgodic

Reminds me of a Dr. Who quote that I love. “Human progress isn't measured by industry. It's measured by the value you place on a life... an unimportant life... a life without privilege.” 🖖

Some hashtags of my interests:
#entropy #language #Zipf #ergodic #nonergodic #mutual_information #information_theory #repetition #stochastic_process #excess_entropy #kolmogorov_complexity #algorithmic_randomness #large_language_model #neural_network #power_law #universal_coding #statistics #complexity #scaling #quantitative_linguistics