Archive for 'Emergent properties'
Admit complexity and fear not being wrong
Everyone in the world should watch this: It echoes the messages of The Black Swan a bit, but makes more of a point that you can find solutions without having to completely understand them with trial and error. (Which is how genetic algorithms work!) Really great stuff. Hope to read his book at some point!
Posted: July 16th, 2011 under Emergent properties, Philosophy.
Tags: Tim Harford
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Five ideas to change the way you see the world
1. The idea of emergence 2. There are no secrets to success 3. School is stupid 4. There’s no such thing as a genius 5. There’s no such thing as a teenager Here are my top five worldview convictions; ideas that I was not raised believing but came to accept through thought, observation, and communication [...]
Posted: February 15th, 2011 under Emergent properties, Non-fiction books, Philosophy.
Tags: adolescence, Complexity: A Guided Tour, Daniel Coyle, David Shenk, emergence, generative systems, John H. Holland, Melanie Mitchell, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, problem of induction, Robert Epstein, school, The Black Swan: the Impact of the Highly Improbable, The Case Against Adolescence, The Genius in All of Us, The Talent Code
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Popularity is meaningless
I came across the following video from a blog post by Derek Sivers: Firstly, I’m not really sure that’s at all a “new” way to think about creativity. Secondly, there seems to be an unspoken assumption that she makes. Not just her, actually, but I think the audience is making it too. In fact, [...]
Posted: September 6th, 2009 under Emergent properties, Philosophy.
Tags: creativity, Elizabeth Gilbert
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Generative systems, games, and music
Posted: August 23rd, 2008 under Computer games, Computer music, Emergent properties, Writing.
Tags: Brian Eno, David Cope, generative systems, Oberon's Paradise, Spore, Will Wright
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