Dear reader,

Here is essentially everything I know, distilled into a handful of pages. It is a high-level map of how to model anything and how to learn from data. It is intentionally general, though it may be possible to generalize further. I’ll probably expand this writing over time, including by writing expositions to the mathematical concepts I have utilized in conveying these ideas and perhaps by providing illustrations and examples. I may also expand it as I learn more about systems, optimization, and agents.

The final section contains a summary of my philosophical commitments, none of which has any bearing on the mathematical formalism in the preceding sections. That is to say, the formalism informs the philosophy, but the formalism itself is a synthesis of standard mathematics and systems theory.

Best,
Mark