Q: Did Conway tell you how he came up with the specific transition rules in the Game of Life? A: All Conway would say is that he experimented with a wide...
New report about the RAD lab from the ROC people at Berkeley (RAD Reliable, Adaptive and Distributed systems Laboratory ROC Recovery Oriented Computing) ...
Bugs dominate life - is life based on software ? ;-) http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2006/06.15/03-biodiversity.html Taking a look at how ant (and human)...
Nature.com article from Philip Ball http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060703/full/060703-17.html Kolmogorov scaling in impassioned van Gogh paintings ...
"At the beginning of a life the newly fertilized egg divides and becomes two cells, then four, eight, and so on. At first, all the cells are alike. Later,...
Stephen Hawking has posted a question on Yahoo Answers, a new feature in which anyone can pose a question for fellow internet users to try to answer. By Friday...
The law of indispensable or requisite variety from William Ross Ashby states simply that only variety in a system itself can successfully counter a variety of...
Wesley Salmon said about explanation: "..explanation involves revealing the mechanism at work in the world. Mere subsumption of phenomena under generalizations...
There is an interesting flash presentation constructed to sell a book at http://www.tenthdimension.com We know the normal three or four dimensions well: 1-dim...
Ooops, there was an error. A point is certainly not a 1-dim space since it has no extension or size. The correct sequence is: 0-dim space: a point 1-dim space:...
George Berkeley (1685-1753) (in "A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge") "We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see." ...
The better Windows looks and works, the worse is the situation under the hood. Will Microsoft come to grips with the ever-growing complexity of the Windows OS...
The Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra, Portugal (http://www.dei.uc.pt) has created a new Ph.D. Program in Information Science...
Intentional programming is meant to capture the intentions and goals of the programmer. In intentional programming, ideally you write something like <<print...
From the Google research blog: "We programmers need all the help we can get, and we should never assume otherwise. Careful design is great. Testing is great....
MMORPGs are getting better and better. Games I would like to play if I had more time (the problem is that they are very addictive) Cabal Online - A new, fast...
Master of Spam http://j-walk.com/other/spamu/courses.htm The 3rd Annual Nigerian EMail Conference http://j-walk.com/other/conf/index.htm Google Content Blocker...
I have never clicked on a Google ad, neither an AdSense advertising nor an AdWords advertising, and I know no one who has. Have you ? Even Eric Schmidt ...
And, indeed, where is Europe in all this? There was a time when good movies came from Germany and France (they still do, but not very frequently). Is European...
I think Wolfram's NKS idea of exploring computational universes is fascinating. Again he has attracted a lot of smart people for his NKS conference. Some...
"Although the definition of life is notoriously controversial, there is general agreement that a localized molecular assemblage should be considered alive if...
The Princeton Webcasts have several new additions: http://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia/lectures/ The lecture series from David Gross, Professor of Physics at UC...
A new paper about explaining the patterns on the leopard and the jaguar with diffusion-aggregation processes: R.T. Liu, S.S. Liaw, P.K. Maini, "Two-stage...
A course about "Complex Systems" http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~comp4001/ begins with the follwing conclusions after the first lecture: -Complex systems are the...
If any one person can be said to have set off the personal computer revolution, it might be Steve Wozniak. He designed the machine that crystallized what a...
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