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Posted on December 27, 2009July 29, 2019 by: Leona

Running scared of ‘Precious’?

I don’t know why I’m writing this now, having seen this movie yonks ago… but I was recently thinking about it so I might as …

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Posted on December 22, 2009June 16, 2019 by: Leona

We of bounded rationality

I came across a fascinating article at the Communications of the ACM site about negotiation agents. I quote:

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Posted on December 18, 2009June 16, 2019 by: Leona

Complex accounting is routing strategy. It’s here to stay.

[updated : 2009-12-19] The only thing that’s interesting about the copenhagen climate summit is the strategies that nations employ to wriggle out of real and …

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Posted on December 15, 2009July 11, 2019 by: Leona

Poor directional hearing : a maladaptation that works?

I recently learned that, under certain circumstances, poor directional hearing can be a bit of a blessing. It works kind of like “ignorance is bliss”. …

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Posted on December 5, 2009June 16, 2019 by: Leona

Festival of the Gynnies

I was doing some research on bots (specifically androids/gynoids) to help get me back into this short story I was writing. I love anything to …

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Posted on November 15, 2009June 16, 2019 by: Leona

Failure nets : the ‘dark matter’ of complex systems

A thought: Complex systems are prone to fail and, knowing that, we build into them every manner of defense against such outcomes. If we consider …

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Posted on November 11, 2009July 29, 2019 by: Leona

Scribblenauts, and the law of requisite variety

When I came across the game scribblenauts – or more specifically, when enraptured, evangelising s’nauting colleagues at work jumped me and made me partake – …

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Posted on November 2, 2009June 16, 2019 by: Leona

Utility socialising : the future of social media?

Extrapolating from the ways in which social media has grown, what might a futurist’s view of things look like, given 5, 10 or 15 years …

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Posted on October 17, 2009July 29, 2019 by: Leona

In flagrante delirium : my 5AM mind-body crunch

I had a bad dream.But the thing is, I knew I was about to have one; I had a rough outline of what was gonna …

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Posted on October 14, 2009June 16, 2019 by: Leona

Malicious engineering

Quivering there in the shadows of an axed registry, lying low, this little app has to hide itself, feed itself, load itself, talk to its …

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