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| Friday |
the Twelfth of September, 2003 |
My internal Bayesian
filters are kicking in - typing up a database structure
from a printout, my eyes kept skipping past lines beginning with "Enlargement"
because they were spam.
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| Wednesday |
the Tenth |
Also from Douwe Osinga's site - Archean
is a gorgeous bit of lava-lamp-looking software that demonstrates the
boot-strapping emergent complexity discussed in Stuart Kaufman's
At Home
in the Universe (that given enough randomly interconnected systems,
a stable feedback pattern is almost certain to emerge).
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The Mind World Map
is doing what the Smaller
Picture project did last year - evolving a map of the world a pixel
at a time, according to user votes - but with a larger board, nicer
colours and far more success. Very impressive.
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| Monday |
the Eighth |
"... taxation, pressure of terrorism, tiredness of life,
totalitarianism, treason, tristesse, two-front war, underdevelopment,
useless diet, usurpation of all powers by the state, vaingloriousness,
villa economy, vulgarization."
210 Reasons
for the decline of the Roman Empire - a handy tickbox checklist
for America. [via Rogue Semiotics]
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