Sorry for the late response, I was on vacation. I think Telmo is right, by "abstracting" something you create an interface that hide the details of an...
Grady Booch about "Software Archeology": "The moment you write a line of code, it becomes legacy. If the cumulative mass of that legacy is small, then there is...
Amazing what wide range of mobile social networks already exists: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/10_mobile_social_networks.php Another form of mobile...
Slides which describe the LinkedIn Architecture originally (2003-2005), advanced (2006) and today (2007-2008). It is interesting to see the evolution of the...
Hi, Interesting indeed, Jochen, thanks. Also interesting how C++ is still the right tool for computationally demanding problems: # The cache is implemented in...
According to Sandra Mitchell and her book "Biological Complexity and Integrative Pluralism", (Cambridge University Press, 2003), a complex system can be...
A strange attractor is an attractor with chaotic dynamics or non-integer dimensions, examples are the well-known Hénon, Rössler, and Lorenz attractors. An...
Are the following phenomena good examples for emergent properties? - a "who eats whom" foodweb is an emergent property of a complex ecosystem. It emerges as a ...
Hi Jochen, I agree with the first two but am not so sure about the strange attractor. Isn't the strange attractor just a description of the system's behavior,...
Hi Jochen, Telmo, I think of emergence as something that persists, where the persistence is a result either of the existence of an energy well (static...
Hi Jochen, et al, I've been lurking here for a couple of months. Interesting forum, thanks for hosting it and making it generally available. Some thoughts ...
Here is another example of emergence: PageRank "a Web page, when taken by itself, is hard to evaluate regarding its usefulness, correctness, and popularity....
I think the interesting cases of emergence happen if two worlds are in coincidence with each other, or if two universes meet each other: if there is an item...
In functional programming languages, functions can accept data in form of parameters blocks: function method(data) { return .. } In modern dynamical languages...
Cloud computing - a new trend.. http://www.google.com/trends?q=Cloud+Computing ..always a good sign for a buzzword: people ask "what the heck is it?" and try...
Does the point of "peak oil" correspond to the beginning of global warming? If the last drop of oil is burnt, the amount of CO2 has obviously reached the...
In his book "Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the Machine", J. Storrs Hall argues that we will soon be able to build machines that possess general...
What will happen if the first "strong" AI with human-level intelligence and self-consciousness is created? I think.. - it will be just a confused as we are ...
No computer has ever been designed that is aware of what it's doing, but it is possible to build a large distributed system of computers which is mabye able to...
Michael Gazzaniga about the problem of the self: "You make your own decisions.. But who is 'you'? 'You' is this person with this brain that has been ...
After infectuously cute giant Microbes in the form of plush toys .. http://www.giantmicrobes.com/health/ ..we now have the complete subatomic particle zoo ...
The Chinese room experiment from John Searle says that syntax is not the same as semantics: a a symbol-processing machine like a computer can never be properly...
"Ant colonies operate without central control; there is no one in charge and no ant directs the behavior of others. Colonies perform many tasks including...
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