April 2012
19 posts
2 tags
“what is probably most impressive is the workload these little animals deal with....”
– Moritz from Germany on The Listserve
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“What is a system? A system is a network of interdependent components that work...”
– Systems Thinking | MetaFilter
(via Sean Blanda)
“What game theory does is to unify and systematize such intuitions. Then the...”
– American Experience | A Brilliant Madness | Special Features
“…make it possible to expect the unexpected when it comes to analyzing...”
– The Programmer-Reporter | The Scoop
“I think the problems go deeper. I don’t think Silicon Valley and all the other...”
– The Jig Is Up: Time to Get Past Facebook and Invent a New Future - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
“He showed examples of ways people can understand information in a more “calm”...”
– Notes from Malofiej 20 speakers: visualization, truth and beauty
Andrew Vande Moere
“Books are historically lousy calls to action because they tend not only to be...”
– http://blog.findings.com/post/20527246081/how-we-will-read-clay-shirky
“Being bored is a kind of diagnostic for the gap between what you might be...”
– http://blog.findings.com/post/20527246081/how-we-will-read-clay-shirky
“Institutions will try to preserve the problem for which they are the solution....”
– http://blog.findings.com/post/20527246081/how-we-will-read-clay-shirky
“It’s a funny thing with print vs. ebooks; the digital age is supposed to be all...”
– http://blog.findings.com/post/17661615384/how-we-will-read-an-interview-with-stevenbjohnson
“Cellist Yvonne Caruthers says you can find a ton of connections between music...”
– NSO Transforms Math Into Music And Music Into Math | WAMU 88.5 - American University Radio
“In molecular biology the word “motif” can mean different things, but in the...”
– Motifs in Wagner’s ‘Ring’ Cycle, and in Our DNA - NYTimes.com
“We realized that we needed to show students computer science is not all about...”
– Giving Women the Access Code - NYTimes.com
“they both died working on biology, and I think they would be immediately...”
– A Universe Of Self-replicating Code | Conversation | Edge
“It’s an unbelievably interesting time to be a digital biologist or a digital...”
– A Universe Of Self-replicating Code | Conversation | Edge
“Very few people are looking at this digital universe in an objective way. Danny...”
– A Universe Of Self-replicating Code | Conversation | Edge
“But what we’re missing now, on another level, is not just biology, but...”
– A Universe Of Self-replicating Code | Conversation | Edge
“What’s, in a way, missing in today’s world is more biology of the Internet. More...”
– A Universe Of Self-replicating Code | Conversation | Edge
“Everything we love and use today is, in a lot of ways, self-reproducing exactly...”
– A Universe Of Self-replicating Code | Conversation | Edge 