Daily Archives: August 11, 2025

Recompense Is My Way To Freedom

Posted on August 11, 2025 by nathanalbright

When I was a 9th grader beginning high school, a close friend of mine gave me a copy of “Jesus Freak,” the breakout album of Christian contemporary group DC Talk. I listened to that album often during that time and … Continue reading →

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White Paper: The Relevance of the No Free Lunch Theorems to Unguided Stepwise Searches for Solutions

Posted on August 11, 2025 by nathanalbright

Abstract The No Free Lunch (NFL) theorems, originally formulated in the context of optimization and machine learning, establish that averaged over all possible objective functions, all search and optimization algorithms perform equally well. Any algorithm’s advantage in one class of … Continue reading →

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White Paper: How Fermat Might Have Thought He Could Prove His Last Theorem

Posted on August 11, 2025 by nathanalbright

Abstract Fermat’s Last Theorem — the assertion that there are no nonzero integer solutions to the equation x^n + y^n = z^n for n > 2 — remained unproven for 358 years. Pierre de Fermat’s marginal note in his copy … Continue reading →

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