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Category Archives: information theory
modes of paradigm shift
1. Incremental “Quantity has a quality all its own” – Joseph Stalin This is the kind of paradigm shift where a large number eventually becomes a mass. Often it involves emergence (where relationships or patterns form that weren’t visible or … Continue reading
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limits of science
“Moving from classical to quantum mechanics required scientists to ab andon their hopes for absolute measurement precision to gain much greater statistical predictive power.” Pg 278; north and macal- managing business complexity, 2007
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communication
Inspired in Theories of Communication class by reference to an experiment (performed by one Festinger) which shows that performing a behavior has more effect on one’s thoughts/feelings about the behavior than do logic, culture, preconcieved notions, etc, I went back … Continue reading
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evolution of hyperlinks
browsing through wikipedia, I wondered who adds all those links down towards the bottom of the page… they’re generally pretty thorough, perhaps too much so as they often lead me down an hour’s worth of tangential-path exploration during my research. … Continue reading
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decoupling intuitive relations from complex calculations in mathematics education
Got my hair cut by a european lady with an advanced degree in mathematics this morning, and we managed to find a lot to agree about but it seems I need to work on this idea about a new conception … Continue reading
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hans reiser
This guy hans reiser, apparently some kind of hard-core coder, has an interesting observation on information theory: if you add to the length of time it takes to access a piece of info, you divide the number of people who … Continue reading
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archives
Are there any types of information which are not currently being collected and recorded? Or is the question more about how to make information – which has already been abstracted out of reality – more accessible?
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superficiality
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. -Martin Luther King, Jr., civil-rights … Continue reading
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overwhelmed
Yesterday I was more stressed out than I’ve ever been because of systems. Today we gave the presentation (the final is in 3 weeks) and I’m taking 20 minutes to relax before I get back to work. I’m pondering again … Continue reading
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