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To predict the future of a curve is to carry out a certain operation on its past.
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Mr. Bigelow and I came to the conclusion that an extremely important factor in voluntary activity is what the control engineers term feedback.
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when we desire a motion to follow a given pattern the difference between this pattern and the actually performed motion is used as a new input to cause the part regulated to move in such a way as to bring its motion closer to that given by the pattern.
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Just as the amount of information in a system is a measure of its degree of organization, so the entropy of a system is a measure of its degree of disorganization; and the one is simply the negative of the other.
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