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 …
We of bounded rationality
I came across a fascinating article at the Communications of the ACM site about negotiation agents. I quote:
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 …
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”. …
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 …
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 …
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 – …
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 …
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 …
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 …