tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55558672024-03-07T04:51:20.432-05:00Remembering the FutureThoughts on memory, time and changeGuyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12350491125793506623noreply@blogger.comBlogger468125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555867.post-13539732617577878162015-04-04T09:43:00.000-05:002015-04-04T09:43:33.461-05:00Compression and representationIn a maximally lossless compressed representation all relationships are preserved and the loss of any bit will result in the loss of information. Therefore the evolution of a representation can be analyzed in terms of lossy and noloss compression. If there is a compression to a region of a space, this can be described in terms of minimizing entropy.
You want to reduce the size of semantic Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12350491125793506623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555867.post-49149981973660474422015-03-06T09:22:00.000-05:002015-03-06T09:22:13.866-05:00Boundaries and prototypesPrototypes should trace the edges of a boundary, with positive errors inside and negative errors outside. Balancing to zero
Topics: representation | neural networks Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12350491125793506623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555867.post-72181893034424366412015-03-06T08:56:00.001-05:002015-03-06T09:13:12.869-05:00Dimensional transformationsNot only must input prototypes be cultivated to support a compressed representation, but multiple outputs can be generated to provide multiple sources of error from different overlapping lower order projections.
Topics: neuralnetworks | representation Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12350491125793506623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555867.post-81715177304730043462015-02-21T15:19:00.000-05:002015-02-21T15:20:06.537-05:00Fractal dimensionality as a requirement for learningUnder what conditions is self organization possible? What are the constrains on the search space that are needed for exponential rates of increased learning?
While learning may be impossible in an exponentially large multidimensional space, learning may be possible if the interesting points in the space can be compressed to a more compact volume of the space as a starting point for search.
Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12350491125793506623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555867.post-74582744000529923142014-06-02T14:28:00.004-05:002015-03-06T09:23:37.206-05:00Conservation laws and self-organizationperturb
compensate
overshoot
compensate
overshoot more (feed-forward)
. . .
reach limit
compensate
overshoot less (feed-back)
compensate
balance
centrifugal/evolution
centripetal/involution
relationship to symmetry and conservation laws using 3D editing as a metaphor:
Shift 3D scene to allow 2D symmetry enhancement from a limited view
If the alignment is wrong then the local symmetry can Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12350491125793506623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555867.post-39944995937194811842014-05-31T19:18:00.001-05:002015-03-06T09:24:15.394-05:00Anatomy Of A Dance HitAnatomy Of A Dance HitLast month neuroscientists at Aarhus University in Denmark a study showing that danceable grooves have just the right amount of gaps or breaks in the beats. Your brain wants to fill in those gaps with body movement, says the study's lead author, .
"Gaps in the rhythmic structure, gaps in the sort of underlying beat of the music — that sort of provides us with an opportunityGuyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12350491125793506623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555867.post-55298200583571212752014-03-17T08:48:00.001-05:002014-03-17T08:48:37.715-05:00Meaning and Destiny
If you pour water on the ground and it spells out your name, the information is not in the water, but in the contours of the surface of the ground. Quantum fields can be thought of as the probabilistic contours of superposition, or attractors, that define the information of evolving life. We trace the contours of our mind in order to reveal the pattern of our life. Any deviation, through Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12350491125793506623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555867.post-18181028017449336302013-02-17T11:45:00.001-05:002013-02-17T11:48:57.949-05:00Innovation as evolution on the edge of dimensional chaosMapping the product/market space – an hallucination
Imagine a vast multi-dimensional space. Each point of it represents a specific need that a specific person has, an iota of utility.
1) A bad idea for a product business pops into quantum reality and immediately gets sucked into the huge black hole of a nearby product that is very flexible.
2) Much later, a second person (maybe after talking inGuyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12350491125793506623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555867.post-8106670827900059882012-12-24T10:13:00.000-05:002012-12-24T10:13:07.298-05:00Organic Form
Organic form is always evolutionary form. It must develop in space and time in a way that continuously maintains a sense of provisional balance. This balance is captured in a kind of ultimate conservation law, where every evolutionary expansion maintains its equilibrium with its existing structure, but moves as a whole, in the direction defined by hidden dimensions of conservation, that define Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12350491125793506623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555867.post-71806832398066429902012-07-01T15:59:00.001-05:002012-07-01T15:59:38.587-05:00The future of artInstead of an attractor, think of a center. An attractor is always a center of centripetal force. A true center can be a center of centripetal or centrifugal force, depending on its position in its life-cycle of birth, growth, and death (transformation). A center should be a point of symmetry -- a constraint, a link to a common identity -- a point of balance and conservation expressing a hiddenGuyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12350491125793506623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555867.post-52303427343748459762011-11-12T20:10:00.002-05:002012-07-01T15:26:53.333-05:00One of those AHA moments (hope this doesn't turn out to be too embarrassing)Entropy, information and evolution
Entropy and information
Entropy and information both attempt to take the qualitative concepts of variety and constraint and provide a quantitative measure, using mathematical concepts. Thermodynamic entropy has the dimension of energy divided by temperature, and a unit of joules per kelvin (J/K). In information theory, entropy and information are measured in Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12350491125793506623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555867.post-28860753221345178792011-09-12T08:48:00.000-05:002011-09-12T08:48:47.398-05:00A Social Media Brand PrimerHanselman
Human behavior governs the system, the tools only magnify and accelerator the results. Is your social media expert telling you how the tools work and showing your what buttons to click, or are they talking about the larger picture?
Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12350491125793506623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555867.post-29880130655946860372010-07-18T07:58:00.004-05:002010-07-18T08:03:23.468-05:00Code Contracts to autogenerate test casesJörg W Mittag
If you want to know what Bertrand Meyer, the inventor of Design by Contract, thinks about combining TDD and DbC, there is a nice paper by his group, called Contract-Driven Design = Test-Driven Development - Writing Test Cases. The basic premise is that contracts provide an abstract representation of all possible cases, whereas test cases only test specific cases. Therefore, a Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12350491125793506623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555867.post-29893931295380198872010-07-06T07:31:00.002-05:002010-07-06T07:46:27.623-05:00MetaModeling SystemElastic Modeling Languages
Declarative models are useful ways to drive complexity out of IT application design and configuration, in favor of more concise statements of intent. Given a declaration of preferences or constraints, an IT management system can compose multiple models together much more effectively than if the models were predominantly procedural, and also formally verify for conflictsGuyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12350491125793506623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555867.post-79477627718177933242010-07-05T13:32:00.003-05:002010-07-05T13:43:56.672-05:00Process programming for evolving stateWhat if you could backtrack (prolog) through a collection of processes (workflow) to evolve the state of a system (ets) where truth was replaced by satisfying the process contract pre-conditions and post-conditions (code contracts). A process is a function that transforms state from time t to t+1.
Topics:
evolutionary
| programing
| workflow
Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12350491125793506623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555867.post-63513405894123248012010-05-21T12:32:00.002-05:002010-05-21T12:36:30.505-05:00Cilantro Lime Rum CoolerRafah
Here is the Cilantro recipe. Only change I make is that I blend the ice with the first blend. OK, 2 changes. I don't blend it the second time, I just hand mix it. The second time you blend it, it makes a lot of froth probably because of the lime juice. I also do the entire Cilantro stick, not just the leaves and I do 2 batches with the same cilantro leaves and I mix the 2 batches, why Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12350491125793506623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555867.post-43121327824533337892010-05-11T11:08:00.003-05:002010-05-11T11:16:52.582-05:00HTML5 and the [mobile] Webvia Tim Bray
What’s the best thing that could happen? Some widely-interoperable dialect of HTML5 becomes broadly usable quicker than expected, and we get decent tooling around it quicker than expected, and the nature of the devices evolves slowly enough so as not to outpace heavyweight browser technology. In this world, software user experience is on average better and development cost is on Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12350491125793506623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555867.post-2205805050537433472009-08-27T09:11:00.003-05:002009-08-27T09:19:04.106-05:00New Measure of Human Brain Processing Speedvia Nat Torkington
[The brain is] clocked at 60 bits/second, according to this MIT Technology Review article. Their approach eventually led to Hick's Law, one of the few laws of experimental psychology. It states that the time it takes to make a choice is linearly related to the entropy of the possible alternatives. The results from various reaction-time experiments seem to show that this is Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12350491125793506623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555867.post-3334061738256519362009-08-06T13:35:00.001-05:002009-08-06T13:37:45.109-05:00Does "Linked Data" have to be RDFRob Styles
Ian is saying a spreadsheet isn’t Linked Data, even if it’s on the web and even if it’s linked to. The only standard for describing how one resource relates to others using URIs is RDF. Sure, you can put URIs into a spreadsheet, but there is no standard interpretation of what the sheets, rows and columns mean.
Topics:
RDF
| LinkedData
Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12350491125793506623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555867.post-3954499085572502992009-08-06T07:52:00.002-05:002009-08-06T07:55:43.245-05:00Philosophy, Science, Sociology and IDFrancis Williamson
Even within an immanent teleological schema of the Aristotelean sort there are going to be things best explained as the result of regularities in nature (efficient causes), such as the tides of the sea or the orbits of the planets, whilst others are best explained by reference to actual mental states (desires/intentions/goals/plans) of agents, such as my writing these very Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12350491125793506623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555867.post-62034457229093841592009-06-25T07:10:00.002-05:002009-06-25T07:24:20.490-05:00Session Attacks and ASP.NETSANS
If the attacker can fixate, hijack, or steal a Session from the victim, this type of attack will succeed no matter if the web site uses Forms Authentication, Windows Authentication, Client Certificates, etc. It doesn’t matter. As long as the attacker also has an account in the system as well as the victim’s Session ID, they can take over the session…that is unless the developer adds some Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12350491125793506623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555867.post-43378155420337829712009-06-12T09:13:00.001-05:002009-06-12T09:15:08.948-05:00Data vs. Model Driven ProgrammingMSDN
But whereas the phrase “data-driven” implies the use of data as the driving mechanism, a model-driven application is one in which the data is exposed and consumed as models, highly structured, interoperable data. Furthermore, while we often described the use to which data is put with the words “application state” data or “metadata,” in truth data is data. Application and state data (as well Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12350491125793506623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555867.post-18980435628145834272009-05-19T09:11:00.003-05:002009-06-12T09:18:32.277-05:00Big Data and the problem of metadataJon via Michael E. Driscoll
The meta-data problem is enormous. Say you’ve got a field called “diagnosis date” for some disease. It’s in a database with a date type, so there’s no format issue. What exactly does that date mean? First appointment with a family doctor? First appointment with a specialist? Is it self-reported? Has the date always meant the same thing, or did the meaning of the Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12350491125793506623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555867.post-8579710688797605762009-03-09T11:14:00.003-05:002009-03-09T11:24:38.717-05:00Open Data DefinedOpen Government Data project
Open Government Data Principles
Government data shall be considered open if they are made public in a way that complies with the principles below:
1. Complete
All public data are made available. Public data are data that are not subject to valid privacy, security or privilege limitations.
2. Primary
Data are collected at the source, with the finest possibleGuyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12350491125793506623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555867.post-15621369385354701122009-01-26T21:18:00.002-05:002009-01-26T21:21:35.523-05:00Build Metadata-Based Applications With The “Oslo” PlatformChris Sells
In fact, .aspx files aren't too useful without ASP.NET, and XOML files without WF would be much less compelling.
There are a number of runtimes and services being developed that will take advantage of "Oslo." These include a new version of ASP.NET supporting the MWeb Domain Specific Language (DSL) and the "Quadrant" Web editor, the "Dublin" Windows Server extensions supporting the "Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12350491125793506623noreply@blogger.com0