Lee Cronin
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um i suppose mathematically but yeah i still i still wake up some days and go to think to myself what is an object because it's it's it's a non-trivial um question persists over time i'm quoting from the paper here an object that's finite is distinguishable i'm sure that's a weird adjective distinguishable
um i suppose mathematically but yeah i still i still wake up some days and go to think to myself what is an object because it's it's it's a non-trivial um question persists over time i'm quoting from the paper here an object that's finite is distinguishable i'm sure that's a weird adjective distinguishable
We've had so many people offering to rewrite the paper after it came out, you wouldn't believe it's so funny.
We've had so many people offering to rewrite the paper after it came out, you wouldn't believe it's so funny.
We've had so many people offering to rewrite the paper after it came out, you wouldn't believe it's so funny.
I'm happy with both depending on the day.
I'm happy with both depending on the day.
I'm happy with both depending on the day.
Yep.
Yep.
Yep.
So the assembly index, if you're to take the object apart and be super lazy about it or minimal, it's like you've got a really short term memory. So what you do is you lay all the parts on the path and you find the minimum number of steps you take on the path to add the parts together to reproduce the object. And that minimum number is the assembly index. It's a minimum bound.
So the assembly index, if you're to take the object apart and be super lazy about it or minimal, it's like you've got a really short term memory. So what you do is you lay all the parts on the path and you find the minimum number of steps you take on the path to add the parts together to reproduce the object. And that minimum number is the assembly index. It's a minimum bound.
So the assembly index, if you're to take the object apart and be super lazy about it or minimal, it's like you've got a really short term memory. So what you do is you lay all the parts on the path and you find the minimum number of steps you take on the path to add the parts together to reproduce the object. And that minimum number is the assembly index. It's a minimum bound.
And it was always my intuition, the minimum bound in assembly theory was really important. And I only worked out why a few weeks ago, which is kind of funny. Because I was just like, no, this is sacrosanct. I don't know why. It will come to me one day. And then when I was pushed by a bunch of mathematicians, we came up with the correct physical explanation, which I can get to.
And it was always my intuition, the minimum bound in assembly theory was really important. And I only worked out why a few weeks ago, which is kind of funny. Because I was just like, no, this is sacrosanct. I don't know why. It will come to me one day. And then when I was pushed by a bunch of mathematicians, we came up with the correct physical explanation, which I can get to.
And it was always my intuition, the minimum bound in assembly theory was really important. And I only worked out why a few weeks ago, which is kind of funny. Because I was just like, no, this is sacrosanct. I don't know why. It will come to me one day. And then when I was pushed by a bunch of mathematicians, we came up with the correct physical explanation, which I can get to.
But it's the minimum. And it's really important. It's the minimum. And the reason I knew the minimum was right is because we could measure it. So almost before this paper came out, We've published papers explaining how you can measure the assembly index of molecules.
But it's the minimum. And it's really important. It's the minimum. And the reason I knew the minimum was right is because we could measure it. So almost before this paper came out, We've published papers explaining how you can measure the assembly index of molecules.
But it's the minimum. And it's really important. It's the minimum. And the reason I knew the minimum was right is because we could measure it. So almost before this paper came out, We've published papers explaining how you can measure the assembly index of molecules.