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Monthly Archives: May 2008
EMERGENT IDEA FOR YOU…
Interesting: I was recently asked why I used the term “emergent” in a statement on development in the central nervous system. I thought it the right word in fit, form and function but preceded to look it up in several … Continue reading
What’s Going on here?
Phone rings. I pick up the phone without call identity. A voice I don’t recognize asks for me. “This is John” I reply. “Hi, this is Mike C…” The phone goes silent for a second or two that seems to … Continue reading
Posted in analysis of behavior, social networks
Tagged adventures, changes, friends, history, jealousy, reinforcement
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Game Show Problem, a common problem
The Ask Marilyn column in Parade magazine featured this question and answer in 1990 and 1991. It received over 10,000 responses and over 1000 from PhDs. Can you solve it and do you think Marilyn is right? (yes, this is … Continue reading
Posted in analysis of behavior, data mining, economics, science, speculation
Tagged chance, gambling, game show problem, odds, probability, uncertainty
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Fixed Action Patterns and Cellular Automata
It appears likely that cellular automata, even elementary CAs, can model Fixed Action Patterns. This is a potential area of study for me. However, my gut suggests this won’t be all that interesting in of itself. Now by cobbling together a … Continue reading
No Absolute Knowledge?
and more where that came from here. and even more to investigate. (not Bronowski)
Posted in analysis of behavior, philosophy, politics, science, time
Tagged ascent of man, bbc, jacob bronowski, knowledge, video
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Walden Two Communities
In further research (yes, me sidetracking), I found these two communities based on BF Skinner’s Walden Two and radical behaviorism concepts – an experimental analysis of behavior approach to building a community. Los Horcones and Twin Oaks Pretty neat real … Continue reading
Posted in analysis of behavior, politics, social networks
Tagged behaviorism, communities, walden two, worldview
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Sidetracked By Tools
A reflection on what happens so much in technology, science and, even, art. In technology we get “sidetracked by [our] tools–like a sculptor who spends all day sharpening her chisels but never sets one to marble, or a novelist who … Continue reading
Posted in analysis of behavior, science
Tagged get er done, getting it done, procrastination, research, sidetracked, spinning the drain
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Arrow of Time
Funny timing. Yesterday I wrote about our use of time cliches. This morning I finally opened my latest issue of Scientific American. Yup, there’s a lead article about the asymmetry of time (runs only forward). It asks this question: “The basic laws … Continue reading
Posted in analysis of behavior, philosophy, science, time
Tagged arrow of time, cosmology, paradox of time, time, time flies
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TPM will not end game piracy
ADDED 12:30PM: TPM – Trusted Platform Module – it’s a hardware based cryptology ADDED 11:45AM: I wanted to share a decent, but somewhat technical, research paper on downloading behavior. “The SCT view of media behavior suggests that the expected positive … Continue reading
Posted in analysis of behavior, economics, media, video games
Tagged atari, atari founder, drm, tpm, trusted computing, video games
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Time Flies When You Are…
This morning laying in bed I was thinking about time, as I often do. In common language, we talk about time as something unto itself. Time marches on, time flies, where has all the time gone… We all know what … Continue reading
Posted in analysis of behavior
Tagged cliche, events, rate of change, relativity, time, time flies
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