Bayesian Priors and Quantum Mechanics
I was reading The Quantum Times, and it occurred to me that much of the stuff about Alice and Bob sharing a Quantum State, and then Alice changing Bobs particle by measuring hers, strikes me as counter-intuitive. It seems to…
Humanity’s self-conception
In most of the Sci-Fi that I’ve read humans are depicted primarily as a wild unknown of unequalled potential. When Jane and the Bugger Queen discuss humanity, it is pointed out that humans have a crude system by which many…
Alan Kay
I recently watched Alan Kay: The Computer Revolution hasn’t happened yet. Keynote 00PSLA 1997 and Alan Kay: Graphical User Interfaces. (Both available through Google Video) What a cool guy. The videos of computer interfaces from the 70’s and 60’s make…
The Sins of Public Education
I was reading Why Geography Matters by de Blij, and in the first chapter (page 15) he says But, as so often happens when social engineers get hold of a system that’s working well, the wheels came off. Professional educators…
The P vs. NP Continuum Hypothesis
Abstract: This paper presents an isomorphism between the set of problems in P and the Natural Numbers, and an isomorphism between the set of problem in NP and the powerset of the Naturals. Using these isomorphisms the properties of the…