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Maxwell's daemon, the Turing machine, and Jaynes' robot

2004/10/19 by Tommaso Toffoli, Toffoli, Tommaso · 1 voice
Computer Science · Mathematics · #Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms #FOS: Mathematics #History and Overview (math.HO) #Probability (math.PR) #Statistics Theory (math.ST) #math.HO #math.PR #math.ST #stat.TH

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/0410411

3 pages, two-column latex

arxiv created 2004/10/19 · openalex publication_date 2004/10/19 · arxiv published 2004/10/19 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

A review of Jaynes' posthumous book "Probability Theory--The Logic of Science." I use scientific and personality elements gathered from other papers by Jaynes to help throw light on the origins of Jaynes' life quest.

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