blog.bookmach.com » Analysis http://blog.bookmach.com life is a series of tubes Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:31:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Large Collisions http://blog.bookmach.com/2010/12/large-collisions/ http://blog.bookmach.com/2010/12/large-collisions/#comments Thu, 09 Dec 2010 01:01:36 +0000 Brian Fox Dougherty http://blog.bookmach.com/?p=1123

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Forensics of the economic meltdown. NSFW language.

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A brilliant lecture from Douglas Adams.

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Part 2
Part 3

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]]> http://blog.bookmach.com/2010/02/feynman-on-fire/feed/ 0 Default Triumph http://blog.bookmach.com/2009/06/default-triumph/ http://blog.bookmach.com/2009/06/default-triumph/#comments Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:40:03 +0000 Brian Fox Dougherty http://blog.bookmach.com/?p=947 A fantastic piece from Kevin Kelly on how our lives drift and flux from engineering decisions:

Systems are not neutral. They have natural biases. We tame the cascading choices we gain from accelerating technology by introducing small nudges — by deliberating embedding our own biases (also called a default) into the system here and there. We wield biases within inevitable technologies to aim them towards our common goals — increasing diversity, complexity, specialization, sentience, and beauty.

read it all

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