Entries from December 2001

Evolutionary AI

Comments   0   Date Arrow  December 12, 2001 at 12:18pm   User  by Psybertron

Interesting “evolutionary” AI views suggested by Leon.in Out of Control by Kevin Kelly – Addison WesleyQuote “no logic except bio-logic can assemble a workable system of any magnitude”

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Business Process Modelling Initiative

Comments   0   Date Arrow  December 12, 2001 at 12:14pm   User  by Psybertron

Business Process Modelling Initiative in XML WorldLarge number of significant members (but not Microsoft).(Compare with KnoW Project I4)

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Alt Ref – Dawkins / Meme / Blackmore / Stewart / Gleick

Comments   0   Date Arrow  December 11, 2001 at 3:07pm   User  by Psybertron

Basic Meme / Memetics ReferencesThe Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins (originated term meme)The Meme Machine – Susan Blackmore Alternative Chaos ReferenceChaos – James Gleick

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Tartt’s Secret History

Comments   0   Date Arrow  December 6, 2001 at 12:15pm   User  by Psybertron

An apt quote, given my current thread on formal logic vs chaotic approach to knowledge, from The Secret History by Donna Tartt (p.28) : I was charmed by his conversation, and despite its illusion of being rather modern and digressive (to me, the hallmark of the modern mind is that it loves to wander from [...]

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Blog Pages Update

Comments   0   Date Arrow  December 6, 2001 at 11:50am   User  by Psybertron

All links to pages accompanying this web-log now active.Feedback page now also open for business.

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Chaos by Ian Stewart

Comments   0   Date Arrow  December 1, 2001 at 12:54pm   User  by Psybertron

Does God Play Dice – The New Mathematics of Chaos by Ian StewartPublished Penguin Mathematics 1989 / 1990, Chaos reference workFundamentals – quasi-periodicity, strange attractors and Poincarre sections.Lots of good further reading references too.

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