Doug Hofstadter’s 6 word autobiography, according to XKCD. I’m so META, even this acronym. aka “The reference implementation of the self-referential joke.” Thanks to Psybertron Jr for spotting it. Even as recently as two of the last three posts, the word has been meta and the reference has been Hofstadter. Meta has been the word [...]
Entries from June 2011
I’m So META
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June 28, 2011 at 5:41am
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Plus Ca Change
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June 27, 2011 at 10:45am
by Psybertron
Prompted by an F-something-or-other (*1) screaming overhead and out into the North Sea, I was reminded of recent Norwegian and Dutch colleagues mentioning that Russian “reconnaisance” intrusions into northern NATO controlled airspace were happening again – just like the old cold-war days. Fylingdales isn’t what it used to be, but we didn’t have Google then. This [...]
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Managing Complexity
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June 27, 2011 at 8:25am
by Psybertron
Been a trend in the day job to look at complexity as a subject in itself. Whether Oil&Gas or Nuclear Power, the systems view seems to acknowledge complexity as an explicit variable to be addressed. Thanks to David Gurteen for the link to this piece by Nick Milton – knowledge management, whatever you believe that [...]
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Smart People
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June 27, 2011 at 7:49am
by Psybertron
Thanks to Dave Gurteen for Tweeting to his LinkedIn stream a link to a Michael Sampson post reviewing a Rajesh Setty post on why “Smart People” sometimes appear bad at sharing knowledge. It’s because what passes for knowledge becomes removed from current activities. Computation as compression – efficiency in the evolutionary arms race. The more [...]
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Time In
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June 27, 2011 at 5:19am
by Psybertron
I’ve become rather lazy with blogging recently, a whole month since I last posted and a low rate of posting for several months now. Partly because the day-job work-load has become focussed and intense, so I feel more guilty just browsing and commenting in the blogosphere, partly because the smaller trivial titbits fit more directly [...]
