A BBC article says "Silicon Valley has seen many high tech companies, from Netscape to Pets.com, which in their heyday appeared to be unbeatable, but are now...
"... we must counterpose the overwhelming judgment provided by consistent observations and inferences by the thousands. The earth is billions of years old and...
The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. - Frank J. Dobie Of course there's a lot of knowledge in...
"When great thinkers think about problems, they start to see patterns. They look at the problem of people sending each other word-processor files, and then...
The science of complexity fascinates me tremendously, it looks like it has the potential to make big advances in our understanding of everything. I've been...
The instruments and tools of engineering are often also used as models in science. This means the same tools are not only used to master and to change the...
The CSRG Complex Systems Reading Group at the University of Michigan, organized by Aaron L. Bramson, is discussing this paper in their meeting on Tuesday: ...
One could also add: 1. cultural revolution: everything has a soul (and a body) 2. industrial revolution: everything is a machine 3. digital revolution:...
The ultimate goal of the scientist is to find the fundamental equation behind it all: the theory of everything which explains the whole world with only one...
I guess the main problem in the case you described - "to influence people to change their lifestyles in order to live a healthier life - is the motivation ...
"Perhaps the most pertinent distinction is that between scientific and engineering disciplines. That distinction lies not so much in the activities of the ...
Another interesting quote from this article: "A toolmaker succeeds as, and only as, the users of his tool succeed with his aid." An engineer is only successful...
Christopher Langton's Ant and John Von Neumann's self-reproducing automata belong to the classic examples of "emergence", besides Conway's Game of Life. ...
It is much easier to talk of a "New Kind of Science" or to invent a new "X-Computing" initiative (e.g. autonomic computing) than actually realizing it....
At the weakend I was in the theater and watched an outstanding performance of Verdi's Troubadour. The conductor was sweating already after 5 minutes, and...
But, as you said, "I never made it beyond the group of the "second violin". Why was that? Maybe you didnt understand what the conductor was trying to achieve? ...
For various reasons. The main reason was not any difficulty with the conductor, I broke my left arm when I was 7, and it never regained the old flexibility and...
James Surowiecki writes in his book "The Wisdom of Crowds" http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385721706/sr=1-1/qid=1139303851 on page 208/209 about the...
Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG) are in many ways interesting, not only for players, but also for developers. They use the latest middleware...
Perhaps the answer is the orchastra needs a conductor in order to have consistent feedback. As you said, some of the roles of a conductor are "to set the...
Yes, sometimes the conductor is needed for synchronization purposes (especially at the beginning and during rehearsal) but perhaps you see it a bit too...
For the scientist, complex means interesting and fascinating, but for the engineer, complex means often exhausting and frustrating. Working with complex...
Hi, The Institute for Quantitative Social Science and the Program on Networked Governance, Harvard University have put up "Complexity and Social Networks ...
Ah, I see. Well, of course, I know very little about actual music and such, so I was concentrating more on the "in theory" part. It seems the group, then,...
Very interesting. It has an entry about the danish carton controversy. It is interesting how a few insignificant cartoons posted in a minor newspaper in a tiny...
Interesting indeed. I agree for the fact that the news of the cartoons being reprinted acted as a self-reinforcing mechanism. But then this was just a reason...
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