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pretendscholar | 2 years ago

What exactly are these first principles everyone keeps talking about? Kind of like how everyone keeps talking about updating Bayesian priors without ever actually using bayes rule.

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MrDresden|2 years ago

According to Wikipedia[0]:

> In philosophy and science, a first principle is a basic proposition or assumption that cannot be deduced from any other proposition or assumption.

In that sense the OP's comment might read as Carmack partnering up with someone who has a strong foundational understanding of hight level mathematics (if my understanding of the term and OP's post is correct).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_principle?wprov=sfla1