Figures and Formulas
A long while back, I remember reading about Stallman proposing a change to copyright time. I thought that the setting of a particular figure, and then refining it was an absurd solution. In my opinion a much better solution is…
What’s the diff?
It was about 12am, and I was driving home listening to A Farewell to Kings, after having talked to a drunk all day about conspiracy theories and loss of the American Dream. I was thinking about Language and yesterday’s failure…
CS and Game Theory
I read Papadimitriou’s article on Algorithms, Games, and the Internet, and found it to be a rather nice overview strongly hinting at future emphasis within the Theoretical Computer Science community. I’ve long thought that a good game theoretic background would…
The Situation with Iraq
Yesterday, a nice youth visited my dad’s weekly gathering. At 22 he brought back pictures of the death and carnage that he’s witnessed as part of his tour in the Mid-East. Now, I dislike the idea of war, and the…
The Cambrian Explosion
Today I watched the Evolution section of a Discovery program about the 100 Greatest Discoveries. In it Bill Nye talked about the Cambrian Explosion and the Burgess shale. I remember that back in High School I had an argument with…
Descriptive Hierarchies
Today, I was reading Sipser’s Theory of Computation and in chapter 6 it said: For statement 3 (Machines cannot self-reproduce) we make the following argument that machines cannot self-reproduce. Consider a machine that constructs other machines, such as an automated…
Stock Market 2.0
I was reading Andreessen’s thoughts about Web 2.0 and had a nice thought myself: Wall Street is behind. They have giant festering piles of business and financial logic, and are falling behind on the internet front. What is needed is…
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…
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…