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    Fermat's Library‏ @fermatslibrary Jan 14
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    "Truth... is much too complicated to allow for anything but approximations" - John von Neumannpic.twitter.com/PWHORBcp1y

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      2. Tamás Görbe‏ @TamasGorbe Jan 14
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        An anecdote from my favourite documentary about von Neumann https://youtu.be/Y2jiQXI6nrE pic.twitter.com/NN5mwAtfQC

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      3. Neil Gunther‏ @DrQz Jan 14
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        My fave anecdote: Working with a colleague on a difficult problem during WWII, vN saw a path to the solution but had to depart suddenly to travel somewhere. By the wee hours of the next day the colleague finally had the solution and immediately phoned vN, who exclaimed ...

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      1. Scientific Gems‏ @ScientificGems Jan 14
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        Well, THAT was certainly an approximation to the truth. I believe that the actual quote is more like "mathematics ... is a relatively good approximation to truth—which is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations."https://books.google.com/books?id=MY2_V2BfP5cC&pg=RA1-PA626 …

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      1. Seth Kostek‏ @sethkostek Jan 14
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        Truth is the unlimited, ungraspable, certain, infinite potential of Consciousness. The illusion of finite is made of the ignorance of this ∞ Truth. Thus limited probability describing the bounded finite, is necessarily incomplete (Gödel), and uncertain.

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      2. les paul junior  🍔 🍺 🎸 🚍 🐕‏ @lespauljunior3 Jan 14
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        Approximations are usually good enough to be serviceable though. Quite the thinker - fundamental computing architecture and game theory.

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      3. Clare Frances‏ @missdaisyfdoo Jan 14
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        I guess maybe where issues arise is where we mistake approximations for absolute truth.

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      1. Scamper Jones‏ @Scamper_Jones Jan 14
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        Jazz might be a close approximation @bluenoterecords

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      1. Roger Sauer‏ @rsauer3473 Jan 14
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        That seems about right.

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      1. Kouros‏ @KourosMohit Jan 14
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        May be that’s why it’s to hard to prove that absolute zero exist and that we can only approach it from the positive or negative sides.

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      1. pure light = pure consciousness‏ @entropysyntropy Jan 14
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        This statement is far from the truth. Allow yourself that truth reveals you the truth.

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