Albert Einstein and the origins of modern cosmology

A great review of Einstein’s contributions to cosmology.

Understanding the history of a field is essential to understanding the evolution of ideas therein. I had not realized how rigorous Einstein had been in deriving his cosmological models. It is much rewarding to reflect upon how Einstein abandoned a static model of the cosmos. The review also explains how the emergent universe idea makes use of Einstein’s cosmology.

It is mind bending and required reading. Enjoy.

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Eray Özkural has obtained his PhD in computer engineering from Bilkent University, Ankara. He has a deep and long-running interest in human-level AI. His name appears in the acknowledgements of Marvin Minsky's The Emotion Machine. He has collaborated briefly with the founder of algorithmic information theory Ray Solomonoff, and in response to a challenge he posed, invented Heuristic Algorithmic Memory, which is a long-term memory design for general-purpose machine learning. Some other researchers have been inspired by HAM and call the approach "Bayesian Program Learning". He has designed a next-generation general-purpose machine learning architecture. He is the recipient of 2015 Kurzweil Best AGI Idea Award for his theoretical contributions to universal induction. He has previously invented an FPGA virtualization scheme for Global Supercomputing, Inc. which was internationally patented. He has also proposed a cryptocurrency called Cypher, and an energy based currency which can drive green energy proliferation. You may find his blog at http://log.examachine.net and some of his free software projects at https://github.com/examachine/.

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