Information Distributed Fractally in the Market
Last week I couldn’t get to sleep because I was thinking about economics. I stumbled upon an interesting theory. If you believe in the Efficient Market Hypothesis, and you believe Mandelbrot when he says that a stock price moves up…
Self Replicating Robots
I had a nice discussion with Elvee today about robots. One of the problems with robots is that of self-replication. In order to create an electronic life-form, we need to gift robots with the ability to reproduce on their own….
Anthropology class in High School
In thinking a bit more about Brin’s Earth and The Postman, I thought that people should really be given more education in High School. Specifically we should be teaching ourselves about Logic and Reasoning, Dialect, Rhetoric and Propaganda, and Psychology…
Invasion
I’ve just finished my reading of David Brin’s The Postman and had this delightful insight about the invasion of other countries. In many stories of war, an occupational force must set up its own command system to control the recently…
Circular Searching
Yesterday, at work I was surfing the web to try and figure out how I to setup my machine so that I could use my CAC card to login (at the kdm prompt). So, using google to search for things…
Google Uprising
I had an interesting thought today as I was surfing the net about business culture and eXtreem Programming. I ran across a news item about Guido van Rossum finally finishing up a his first project since getting hired at Google….