24 DEC 2013 by ideonexus
The Pareto Distribution
The Pareto distribution shows up in a remarkably wide array of complex systems. Together, “the” and “of” account for 10 percent of all words used in English. The most volatile day in the history of a stock market will typically be twice as volatile as that of the second-most volatile and ten times the tenth-most. Tag frequency on Flickr photos obeys a Pareto distribution, as does the magnitude of earthquakes, the popularity of books, the size of asteroids, and the social connectedness...Folksonomies: statistics
Folksonomies: statistics
1 Clay Shirky on what is also known as the "long-tail effect" or "90% of everything is crap" effect.
15 APR 2013 by ideonexus
Eclipse Phase References List
FICTION
Ian Banks: The “Culture” Series, Consider Phlebas, The Use of Weapons, The Player of Games, The State of the Art, Inversions, Excession, Look to Windward, Matter
Greg Bear: Moving Mars, Queen of Angels, Slant
David Brin: Earth, The “Earthclan” series, Startide Rising, The Uplift War, Sundiver
Paul Di Filippo: Ribofunk
Cory Doctorow: Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Eastern Standard Tribe
Greg Egan: Axiomatic, Diaspora, Distress, Permutation City, Quarantine
Warren Ellis: Cro...A fantastic collection ficition, non-fiction, comics, and movies for anyone looking to learn about transhumanism and futurist thought.
01 JAN 2010 by ideonexus
How the Global Brain Dehumanizes Us
Clay Shirky, a professor at New York University 1 
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notesThe idea that retweets, wiki-contributions, blog posts, all form a collective brain turns us into mere synapses in the machine.
