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Category Archives: Geek-ness
“Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software”
With some interruption this month, I finished reading Steven Johnson‘s book “Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software“. I watched a Long Now Foundation Seminar About Long-term Thinking given by the author that I found interesting, and … Continue reading
Posted in Geek-ness, Science, Social Web
Tagged CAS, complex adaptive systems, complex systems, complexity theory, emergence, self-organization, steven johnson
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“The Long Tail: Why The Future of Business Is Selling Less of More”
Right before Christmas break, I finished reading Chris Anderson‘s book The Long Tail: Why The Future of Business Is Selling Less of More. I’d heard about this book from various sources, such as my Wired Magazine subscription, and through related … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Geek-ness, Innovation, Nifty
Tagged Amazon, Benoît Mandelbrot, Books, Chris Anderson, demand, eBay, economics, filter, Fooled By Randomness, Google, information technology, iTunes, markets, Movies, Music, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Netflix, power law, Rhapsody, search, supply, the long tail, The-Mis-Beahvior of Markets, Wikipedia, wired, YouTube
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“SYNC: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order”
I finally resumed and finished reading Steven Strogatz‘s book “SYNC: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order“. Dr. Strogatz is a professor at Cornell University, and has had a prolific career examining complex systems in diverse fields such as circadian rhythms, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Geek-ness, Innovation, Math, Science
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“The Colours of Infinity: The Beauty and Power of Fractals”
I somewhat recently read “The Colour of Infinity: The Beauty and Power of Fractals“; I studied Chaos and Fractals a bit back in MSSM, but in the past decade surely there has to have been advancements. The book is broken … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Education, Geek-ness, Math, Nifty
Tagged Arthur C. Clarke, Benoît Mandelbrot, fractals, geometry, self-similarity, web
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