- Oct 2023
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Plex is a scientific philosophy. Instead of claiming that science is so powerfulthat it can explain the understanding of understanding in question, we takeunderstanding as the open question, and set about to determine what scienceresults. [It turns out to be precisely the science we use every day, so nothingneed be discarded or overturned - but many surprises result. Some very simpleexplanations for some very important scientific observations arise naturally inthe course of Plex development. For example, from the First Definition, thereare several Plex proofs that there was no beginning, contrary to StephenHawking's statement that "this idea that time and space should be finite withoutboundary is just a proposal: it cannot be deduced from some other principle."(A Brief History of Time, p. 136.) The very concept of a "big bang" is strictlyan inherent artifact of our science's view of the nature of nature. There was no"initial instant" of time.]Axioms are assumptions. Plex has no axioms - only definitions. (Only) Noth-ing is assumed to be known without definition, and even that is "by definition" ,
It doesn't claim that science can explain everything, but rather, it uses science to explore and understand our understanding of the world. The surprising part is that the science it uses is the same science we use daily, so nothing new needs to be learned or old knowledge discarded.
One example of a surprising discovery made through Plex is that, contrary to Stephen Hawking's theory, there was no beginning to time and space. This contradicts the popular "big bang" theory, which suggests there was an initial moment when time and space began. According to Plex, this idea of a "big bang" is just a result of how our current science views the nature of the universe.
Plex also differs from other scientific approaches in that it doesn't rely on axioms, which are assumptions made without proof. Instead, Plex only uses definitions, meaning it only accepts as true what can be clearly defined and understood.
We're saying let's consider the concept of a "big bang". In traditional science, we might assume the existence of a "big bang" like this:
instead of thinking
big_bang = TrueBut in Plex, we would only accept the "big bang" if we can define it:
python def big_bang(): # Define what a "big bang" is # If we can't define it, then it doesn't exist in Plex passLet's not assume reality but rather just try to define the elements we need to use
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- Dec 2020
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The Globe and Mail reports that Element AI sold for less than $500 million USD. This would place the purchase price well below the estimated valuation that the Montréal startup was said to have after its $200 million CAD Series B round in September 2019.
This was a downround for them in a sense that eventhough they sold for USD$500M their post-money round in Sep 2019 was CAD$200M meaning that they did not improve on their valuation after one year. Why?
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Despite being seen as a leader and a rising star in the Canadian AI sector, Element AI faced difficulties getting products to market.
They had faced productisastion problems, just like many other AI startups.It looks like they have GTM problems too,
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Element AI had more than 500 employees, including 100 PhDs.
500 employees is indeed large. A 100-person team of PhDs is very large as well, They could probably tackle many difficult AI Problems!
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n 2017, the startup raised what was then a historic $137.5 million Series A funding round from a group of notable investors including Intel, Microsoft, National Bank of Canada, Development Bank of Canada (BDC), NVIDIA, and Real Ventures.
This was indeed a historic amonunt raised! Probably because of Yoshua Bengio one of the god fathers of AI!
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