I feel like a Rube-Goldberg device would be a good intuition pump here. How can we describe a Rube-Goldberg device in terms of correlations? What is a good way to break it into chunks, and then also a good way to connect those chunks? Since they are usually built of simple machines, everything is mathematically tractable—we have a good grip on those.
I feel like a Rube-Goldberg device would be a good intuition pump here. How can we describe a Rube-Goldberg device in terms of correlations? What is a good way to break it into chunks, and then also a good way to connect those chunks? Since they are usually built of simple machines, everything is mathematically tractable—we have a good grip on those.