Maxwell's daemon, the Turing machine, and Jaynes' robot A review of Jaynes' posthumous book "Probability Theory--The Logic of Science." I use scientific and personality elements gathered from other papers by Jaynes to help throw light on the origins of Jay...

Tommaso Toffoli
Maxwell's daemon, the Turing machine, and Jaynes' robot
2004

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One white nonbinary person and one man, both holding out the left underside of their forearms to reveal tattoos with Bayes' Theorem. The nonbinary person is laughing and the man is making a funny face.

I found my Bayes' Theorem tattoo twin!

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