Month: June 2025

  • What if novelty has a topology?

    What if novelty has a topology?

    Exploring Novelty Through Entropy: A Journey in Behavioral Diversity What if we could measure surprise itself? Not the subjective experience of it, but its mathematical essence, distilled into equations that guide us toward the genuinely unexpected? This question led me down a rabbit hole where information theory meets evolutionary computation, where the mathematics of uncertainty…

  • The Anvil vs. The Shield: What Mike Tyson and Floyd Mayweather Teach Us About Strategy

    The Anvil vs. The Shield: What Mike Tyson and Floyd Mayweather Teach Us About Strategy

    When I was in high school, everyone talked about Mike Tyson. I didn’t know much about boxing, but we all knew about Mike Tyson. His power was legendary: getting hit by him was described as “getting struck in the head by a good-sized anvil dropped from five feet.” From the moment he turned professional in…