27 APR 2013 by ideonexus
Handling Self Doubt
I think the more you know, the more you realize just how much you don't know. So paradoxically, the deeper down the rabbit hole you go, the more you might tend to fixate on the growing collection of unlearned peripheral concepts that you become conscious of along the way.
That can manifest itself as feelings of fraudulence when people are calling you a "guru" or "expert" while you're internally overwhelmed by the ever-expanding volumes of things you're learning that you don't know.
However, ...Folksonomies: learning cognitive bias
Folksonomies: learning cognitive bias
1 When dealing with self-doubt about one's abilities, remember that what you don't know is a treasure map that less-skilled people don't have.
04 JAN 2012 by ideonexus
Computers and Creative Writing
And for all their power and speed, today’s digital machines have shown little creative ability. They can’t compose very good songs, write great novels, or generate good ideas for new businesses. Apparent exceptions here only prove the rule. A prankster used an online generator of abstracts for computer science papers to create a submission that was accepted for a technical conference (in fact, the organizers invited the “author” to chair a panel), but the abstract was simply a series ...Folksonomies: writing automation
Folksonomies: writing automation
1 A computer successfully got a paper accepted to a technical conference by stringing technical jargon together, which is similar to a scientist who once got a nonsense post-modernist paper published in a journal, but computers can write sports news stories due to their formulaic nature.
03 JAN 2011 by ideonexus
The Market is Not Darwinian
What is a market? And what does it have to do with the Internet? The fashion right now, one I follow, is to think of the Internet as a living environment, a place for societies, communities, and institutions to grow--rather than as something constructed, a superhighway, for example. That leads to appropriate metaphors, looking at the Net as something to be cultivated and nurtured rather than built or engineered. (Only its rules need to be designed so that it can grow in good health.) The stru... 1 
notes
notesThe marketplace is not survival of the fittest, where an invisible hand allows for the emergence of the best strategies, but an artificial system where strategies, good or bad, are perpetually nurtured.
