MathematicalArt

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I'm actively developing and socializing a thought pattern at this moment that directly addresses this called omnidisciplinary thinking (or Thinking OMNI). Omnidisciplinary thinking is a generic, holistic, nonlinear thought pattern that focuses on blending insights between two or more areas which seem unrelated yet actually share a thought pattern structure by focusing on the similarities between them. In essence, instead of trying to learn many things, learn the patterns of information and how to apply those patterns.

MathematicalArt

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We do have the right math. It’s just that no one is using it. The planet is focused on differential and metric invariants (differential algebraic equations and statistics) and should be leveraging topological approaches to analyzing dynamical systems and networks. Almost no one is doing the latter yet there is already enough research to start applying the theory.

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The “shape-shifting” organization. At the moment, organizational dynamics are largely created and maintained by gut feeling, rules of thumb, and inertia. There will be a shift towards flexible organizations that can purposefully change form in response to needs internal and external.

Consider one common pattern. Startup CEO grows successful startup, then the board inevitably replaces said CEO with a more traditional CEO and organization structure. What made the company innovative then slowly goes away as it becomes entrenched in the same paradigm as the established companies the startup had been disrupting. Rinse and repeat.

Why must this evolution be so one-way and so rigidly predictable? Eventually, organizations will be able to flexibly shift to nearly any reasonable state, identifying which resources are needed to initiate such a change as well as when and where to apply them.

MathematicalArt

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Interesting take. However, consider that if one could learn multiple lifetimes of knowledge in one, it might achieve the same result. I’ve been developing a mindset called omnidisciplinary thinking (or “Thinking OMNI”) which encourages us to Engage with the Root of ideas and thought patterns in order to recognize and leverage their interconnectedness. The Root assumptions we make influence heavily how we can express and explore ideas. One can only express in a given language what that language allows. Right now, we have a boundary- and disciplinary-driven engagement with both knowledge and organizational structures which while a valid way to see the world isn’t the only way. The Thinking OMNI thought pattern is being made rigorous as we speak, yet even an intuitive understanding of it can help you today to manage complexity and reduce uncertainty.

Check us out on YouTube—“Omni Artisans”. If one could reduce the amount of effort it takes to accrue knowledge and drive powerful experiences, would one need to live forever per se?

MathematicalArt

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In “Culture’s Consequences”, Hofstede mentions five key aspects of culture based on extensive research.

1. Individualism (IDV)

2. Masculinity (MAS)

3. Power Distance (PDI)

4. Uncertainty Avoidance (UAI)

5. Long-Term Orientation (LTO)

Furthermore, there is a distinction made between values and practices. Practices are comprised of symbols, heroes, and rituals. Whereas values refer to the meaning to people of their practices. People can thus have the same practices (watching same TV shows, dressing similarly, leisure activities) while have drastically different values. Values and practices together define key aspects of the organization.

Values are more important as you move towards national identities whereas practices tend to dominate at the organizational level. Furthermore, values tend to be instilled earlier in life through family and community while practices are learned later in life, for instance, once one enters the workforce itself.

Some factors of practice include professionalism, distance from management, trust in colleagues, orderliness, hostility, and integration. Likewise, some factors in values include personal need for achievement, need for supportive environment, machismo, workaholism, alienation, and authoritarianism.

The main thesis of this comment is that if one understands the factors that go into culture, one can be better equipped to actually probe the organization thoughtfully and develop their own questions in order to do so.

MathematicalArt

5 yıl öncediscuss

I recommend “How to Read a Book” by Mortimer Adler. In short, not every sentence, paragraph, chapter, or even book is of equal informative importance. To read all literature as if everything is equally important is really a mistake. Once one recognizes this, it is then ideal to read only at the level of detail and focus as is required for the particular work.

What does it mean to have read a book? To read every single word and symbol? To understand the key ideas and points?

Is every book going to be one hundred percent new ideas to you or are there thematic riffs that allow you to shortcut portions of it without loss of understanding of the entire work?

MathematicalArt

5 yıl öncediscuss

Confidence also feels a certain way. When you are confident, there is a certain tightness in your chest that you “hang from” in a sense. You should feel confident that you could physically hang from this confidence were it to physically manifest. There’s a stability in stance, a sureness. And when your confidence wavers, this sureness and stability wavers.

While balance is key, there is merit to taking steps to stay in this confident body language as it translates to the confidence you have in your beliefs, actions, and statements. People can and do tune into this. When they are feeling a lack of confidence in whatever you are conveying, you surety can put them at ease. The only other thing for you to do is to make sure you are actually correct in being confident, because we should be confident and correct.

MathematicalArt

5 yıl öncediscuss

As an example, there are only 16 categorical manifestations of software exceptions based on the following categories:

- Synchronicity, Scope, Origin

For Synchronicity we have:

- Synchronicity

- Asynchronicity

For Scope we have:

- Process-specific

- Cross-process

For Origin we have:

- Data origin

- Temporal origin

- External origin

- Process origin

Then you combine them such as "Synchronous-CrossProcess-Temporal Origin." The total is 16 ways. Even if something were somehow to be missing from this categorization scheme, it would only add a finite amount of possibilities to the permutations. Yet this taxonomy seems quite complete as is.

See: “Error Handling in Process Support Systems” by Casati & Cugola.

MathematicalArt

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Actually, there are only finite ways to fail. It just happens to be a large number. Thinking of interactions of the world as propagations of signals and considering Kolmogorov-style descriptions of entropy would lead one to this conclusion of finiteness. See: "Kolmogorov complexity"

Further, there are a finite number of patterns of failure, which is of course less than the number of absolute ways things could fail.

The biggest detriment is not that things can fail, but that people get overwhelmed by believing that such things are infinite in scale.

MathematicalArt

5 yıl öncediscuss

Desired Position: Chief of Staff (or similar executive role)

Location: USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: No

Applied Philosophies: Organizational Psychology, Behavioral Psychology, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Art & Expression, B2B Consulting, Category Theory

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About: I have developed a novel thought pattern called omni-disciplinary thinking (“Think OMNI”) which helps companies and individuals better engage with complexity by blending philosophies in order to lower the energy/effort required to deal with them.

Results in:

    - risk mitigation
    - innovation in saturated, complex markets
    - identification/integration of holistic talent
    - pooled insights between industries, disciplines, and domains
    - "Think inside of _all_ the boxes"

This Think OMNI thought pattern is exactly what modern companies need to drive their organizations forward in our complex and interconnected world. I would like to help you steer your organization with powerful and internalized insights.

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Resume: Please contact HN.<my username>@gmail.com

Email: HN.<my username>@gmail.com

Website: mathis.art

Xavier Waller

MathematicalArt

6 yıl öncediscuss

INTRO

To answer this question, one must first operantly define what mastery is. So what is mastery? To start, mastery is something on which one can be on the path towards, yet mastery is also a thing which has been achieved. So we need to talk about flow along a path and achievement of the objective.

PATH

The path to mastery is characterized by humility and child-like exploration combined with an intrinsic drive to integrate learning a and take paths that make individual sense to one on the apprentice’s path towards mastery. It is concerned with thoughtful action and adaptation. The ultimate focus is on the seeking of truth (an intrinsic reward) rather than and sometimes at the detriment to receiving external rewards (accolades, financial renumeration, and other materialistic artifacts). Such sacrifices and focus is made early in the mastery process and pay off once one inevitably achieves it. This is a pattern common in most individuals we would consider to be masters and the difficulty lies in staying on such a path despite internalized intuitions and the listening to an internal voice/drive pulling us away from society, the majority of who are not on the path at any given time. Mastery is high risk because it a deviant process often focusing on long term rewards rather than instant gratification or even short-term survival.

ACHIEVEMENT OF

What can a master do? Why is that beneficial?

Mastery is the seamless ability to fuse the intuitive with the rational while performing and understanding at a high level of competency in a given discipline or domain. It manifests as as such a deep internalization of a domain that one is able to spend cognitive effort on seamless cross-pollination between other disciplines, sculpting domains at will. Mastery is only achieved through embracing the humane, which means internalizing the fact that what makes us human is the blending of the rational (a step-by-step-step process) with the intuitive (a distributed and probabilistic process).

MASTERY IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

What is engineering? What is software? What commonalities do they share?

Given a definition of mastery, we see that the question of what engineering and software are next to be defined. These three questions should serve to form a foundation for discussion.

Engineering is the process of designing reliable processes and systems given constraints on resources, tools, and available thought patterns. It is also fundamentally concerned with risk management on the path to achieving an objective.

Software is a system which interfaces with either humans, machines, or both to achieve an objective. It serves as a medium for sending conceptual communicative signals across, within, and between various levels of abstraction to include physical computing done at the level of hardware.

As an aside, it must be stated that the delineation we place between software and hardware is an arbitrary though sometimes useful fiction to allow us to get tasks done. With this being stated, such a simplification is often over-used to our collective detriment.

The master software engineer understands hardware and software deeply at both the intuitiveness rational levels in order to design systems and process to specifications and with clarity to both machines and humans alike. This ability to provide and communicate with clarity is especially important when we consider that our colloquial models of machines themselves are over-simplified, a fact that one will quickly become aware of when trying to design applications across platforms that perform “low level” file system operations. In this case, it becomes apparent that even operations such as opening and closing files, tasks which one would think are stable and solved problems, have such variability that cross-platform development is more challenging than it should seem.

Not only does a master software engineer have the ability to communicate at different levels of abstraction of hardware and software—such a master also recognizes that communication is the operant word. Communication is signal propagation, filtering, and more, occurring at the personal, interpersonal, and organizational level as well. The master software engineer is seamlessly able to apply all principles of software development to psychological phenomena as well. To such an individual, there is no difference conceptually from a root pattern perspective.

MathematicalArt

6 yıl öncediscuss

Hi! I am Xavier, Mathematical Artist and am leading an initiative to do just that with a form of thinking called “Omnidisciplinary Thinking” or Thinking OMNI. The intent is to encourage people and organizations/groups to identify the root structure of concepts (“Engage with the Root”) and to use any shared structures to help them reason quickly and accurately across, within, and between domains, disciplines, and industries.

The applications of this are intended at the personal, interpersonal, and social levels. At the personal level, the mindset can be used to make sense of complexity and for self-understanding. At the interpersonal level, such a mindset is useful for finding common ground/understanding between philosophies such that we can have difficult conversations with those who seem most different from us. And at the social level, we have many applications such as more efficient and rich education, and for companies and job seekers we get better talent recognition and integration into organizations (e.g. removing the keyword bingo everyone must play on resumes).

Please feel free to check out the site: mathis.art and subscribe to our newsletter. Also feel free to reach out. We have a passionate team working on content to help people understand this way of thinking, its utility, and its ability to help one to express!

Think OMNI

MathematicalArt

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Great points. Do note that while a "sheer volume” approach to knowledge would indeed make becoming a polymath in today’s time quite intractable, there are other more efficient approaches to knowledge acquisition and synthesis that vastly decrease the amount of “things” you need to know in order to know.

There are many people today with fluid enough interactions with knowledge and the world to classify as polymaths. The might of our institutions can suppress the fact that such individuals even exist due to a high propensity towards linearization and other attempts at reducing complexity and chaos. Knowledge work is fundamentally chaotic as opposed to neat algorithmic assembly line tasks/models.

I am Xavier Waller, Mathematical Artist, and we have recently begun an initiative to show people how to think in what is referred to as an “omnidisciplinary” manner. The main idea behind omnidisciplinary thinking is that there are shared structures between our concepts (Roots). By tapping into those common structures, we get to take advantage of shared reasoning between domains. This is called taking an "omnidisciplinary leap”. The end result is that instead of learning say art and engineering, you get to think at the intersection of both to solve problems or reason in either. Ultimately, everything is a dynamical system and is information across, within, and between such systems. And there are only so many ways to propagate and structure signals.

We have just released a YouTube video showing a taste of how to use this in the real world. The link is here [1]. Keep in mind that thinking OMNI is for everyone of all capabilities and backgrounds, and not everyone is incredibly technical. To be accessible and inclusive means to tap into intuition first. Formal logic and mathematical representations come later after the intuition is conveyed.

Please also see the website here[2]. We are ramping that up to show people in various areas of society, in multiple capacities and use cases, and more how to think OMNI!

Also feel free to follow the newsletter at this link [3].We need more integrated and holistic approaches to solving problems to be more mainstream because just as learning multiple subjects as if they are separate takes way too long, solving the species' biggest problems one at a time as if they are separate also takes way too long. We need to think in an omnidisciplinary manner!

[1]: https://youtu.be/sCti2BMvqXA

[2]: mathis.art

[3]: https://art.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=3e713d195d864abb...

MathematicalArt

6 yıl öncediscuss

The following is a link to the Mathematics Subject Classification [1]. There are thousands of lines, with each line being a different area of specialization in the disciplines of math. Every time you think we are close to "running out" of ideas, things to do, or things to learn, I ask that you pull this up. Even if we limit to mathematics and don't talk about things like agriculture, psychology, and so forth, you have so many possible things to do with your life that even if everyone picks one thing and specializes in it, there will still be something unique for you to explore. Consider that something like machine learning is largely applied statistics, optimization, linear algebra, and a few other things and then look at this list with those things omitted! There is still a lot left. We are nowhere close to having worked on all the interesting problems or running out of things to discover.

[1]: https://cran.r-project.org/web/classifications/MSC-2010.html

MathematicalArt

6 yıl öncediscuss

Thank you for the feedback. The post I made here is the focus for now. This was the site as it was a few years ago when I was experimenting with the idea and the question “Should an artist be egotistical?” After all, is such a site about exploring one’s self? Regardless, the site is now about how we all can think moving forward, so it is no longer an individual expression of myself.

I am currently working on a complete redesign as we speak. The only reason I even mentioned it here was the timeliness of the General Post. The site as it is needs to at least have the information I posted here, which it does not. Please consider it Under Construction. It currently is not related to the campaign at all.

Also, a thought experiment for you to ponder: Must art leave an artifact? Who made that restriction? If an artifact and a conversation have the same effects on the world, is one more artful than the other? Is the creator/instigator of a response more worthy when there is a tangible thing?

These sorts of questions are not what “Think OMNI” is about, though. Think OMNI is about eating, raising a family, engaging with neighbors. Pondering art is for after Breathing Room has been developed.

MathematicalArt

6 yıl öncediscuss

Currently looking for 3D visualizers to turn complex shapes into others. Grassroots at the moment, so would need volunteers.

MathematicalArt

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I am Xavier, Mathematical Artist. And we are currently running a campaign called “Think OMNI” to introduce the entire US (for now) to a form of thinking that I call Omnidisciplinary Thinking. This form of thinking entails intuitively decomposing ideas into their root forms in order to efficiently use knowledge across, within, and between boundaries, disciplines, and industries. In essence, the boundaries that we put around our thoughts and ideas are useful tools yet we forget that such boundaries do not truly exist.

Think OMNI aims to show people how to use Omnidisciplinary Thinking pragmatically today! in order to provide solutions in three areas: personal, interpersonal, social.

Personal: Powerfully reason by analogy to better understand the world and one’s true capabilities

Interpersonal: Engage with Root of discussions to better communicate with others, especially when their views seem in opposition to one’s own. By decomposing to the Root and reconstructing, we can avoid rhetorical blocks and have difficult conversations.

Social: at this point, this is two-pronged. One is to show companies how to decompose talent because Keyword Bingo doesn’t work when entire industries need to shift into others. Furthermore, training efforts need to build on whatever is already there with a person’s skills rather than start from scratch.

At its most pragmatic, an Omnidisciplinary Thinker should be able to leverage every single piece of knowledge and experiences that one possesses to figure out how to meet basic needs in order to build Breathing Room to pursue other things. In general, it will allow for people to seamlessly blend insights across all disciplines. And the ultimate Omnidisciplinary minds will be able to powerfully and accurately draw insights from incredibly disparate subjects for pragmatic outcomes. (Imagine reasoning about medicine in terms of painting.)

Leading into the US election, the intent is that people of all social-political backgrounds, ages, etc. can use this to have the difficult discussions that we were not able to and still are not able to have with one another today. As a response to COVID, this tool must help employers and job seekers be more fluid with what a person’s skills actually are and what a role entails. In the longer term, this is expected to be a powerful thought tool to be leveraged by people around the world.

I may be contacted at [email address redacted].

MathematicalArt

6 yıl öncediscuss

The university track will already put him on rails for a while. I believe your instinct on the encyclopedia should be followed because he should gain breadth early on to be sure that he has enough insight not to prematurely specialize.

It depends on your budget, but I would recommend the 10-volume set of “Encyclopaedia of Mathematics” (spelled just like that), which is a translation of the Soviet mathematics version. I have found that this is the resource I turn to when I want to quickly explore some new area of mathematics.

Because there are many books with this title, I will link to Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopaedia-Mathematics-Michiel-Haz...

MathematicalArt

6 yıl öncediscuss

You might be interested in this: https://www.categoricaldata.net/. Categorical Query Language (CQL).

MathematicalArt

7 yıl öncediscuss

Any engineering books on control theory and signal processing is systems theory using mathematics such as linear algebra, differential equations, etc. The reason why books like Meadow’s are so light on the math is that there is already a large body of works that use the mathematics. Books light on the math are meant to accessibly extend the philosophy to those who may feel they do not have the proper math background.

“Modern Control Theory” by Katsuhiko Ogata applies the theory to thermal systems, fluid systems, mechanical, electrical, etc.

“Discrete-Time Signal Processing” by Alan V. Oppenheim is a great book on its subject.

Both are related to analytical approaches to systems thinking.

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