Wow its been a long time since I wrote anything! For those of you visiting here may be pleased to know that I’m finally getting round to writing again, but before a post with any real content I just wanted to mention a few things.

From time to time, I get absorbed by questions for no clear reason. This is one of these times – you have been warned. So here is the question: can I use a logistic map to encode an arbitrary list of 1s and 0s into a single float, and generate back the series by applying the logistic map? I don’t think there is a clear theoretical or practical interest in this question, but for some reason I couldn’t shake it off, and had to do it. Just to clarify a bit what I have in mind, here is the expression for the[...]