08 JUL 2016 by ideonexus
The Deletionist
The Deletionist is a concise system for automatically producing an erasure poem from any Web page. It systematically removes text to uncover poems, discovering a network of poems called “the Worl” within the World Wide Web.
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The Deletionist takes the form of a JavaScript bookmarklet that automatically creates erasures from any Web pages the reader visits. A similar method has been used in Ji Lee's Wordless Web, which removes all text from Web pages, as well as applets that turn web...Folksonomies: new media
Folksonomies: new media
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BIDS Approach to Understanding Intelligence
There is nothing really the matter with the concept of g; it is just that we have misused it by making it the omnipresent concept in our study of cognitive abilities. Intelligence is important on three levels, namely, brain physiology, individual differences, and social trends (collectively, BIDS). The core of a BIDS approach to intelligence is that each of those levels has its own organizing concept, and it is a mistake to impose the architectonic concept of one level on another. We have to ...Folksonomies: intelligence g-factor
Folksonomies: intelligence g-factor
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08 MAY 2015 by ideonexus
The Social Network Political Bubble
In the growing social media space, most users encounter a mix of political views. But consistent conservatives are twice as likely as the typical Facebook user to see political opinions on Facebook that are mostly in line with their own views (47% vs. 23%). Consistent liberals, on average, hear a somewhat wider range of views than consistent conservatives – about a third (32%) mainly see posts in line with their own opinions.
But that doesn’t mean consistent liberals necessarily embrace ...Folksonomies: politics confirmation bias
Folksonomies: politics confirmation bias
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notesLiberals are more likely to defriend conservatives, but Conservatives are less likely to have liberal friends to defriend in the first place.
08 AUG 2013 by ideonexus
The Siren Server
A Siren Server, as I will refer to such a thing, is an elite computer, or coordinated collection of computers, on a network. It is characterized by narcissism, hyperamplified risk aversion, and extreme information asymmetry. It is the winner of an all-or-nothing contest, and it inflicts smaller all-or-nothing contests on those who interact with it. Siren Servers gather data from the network, often without having to pay for it. The data is analyzed using the most powerful available computers, ... 1 notes
notesWeb services that entice people to contribute to them, and whose contributions are then aggregated in various forms for the profit of the server owner.
03 JAN 2012 by ideonexus
The Internet Fosters Collectivism
The way the internet has gone sour since then is truly perverse. The central faith of the web’s early design has been superseded by a different faith in the centrality of imaginary entities epitomized by the idea that the internet as a whole is coming alive and turning into a superhuman creature.
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he way we got here is that one subculture of technologists has recently become more influential than the others. The winning subculture doesn’t have a formal name, but I’ve sometimes ca... 1 notes
notesThe internet was supposed to empower individuals, but instead we see it as a collective, central point of all culture.
12 DEC 2011 by ideonexus
Implications of M-Theory
Whether M-theory exists as a single formulation or only as a network, we do know some of its properties. First, M-theory has eleven space-time dimensions, not ten. String theorists had long suspected that the prediction often dimensions might have to be adjusted, and recent work showed that one dimension had indeed been overlooked. Also, M-theory can contain not just vibrating strings but also point particles, two-dimensional membranes. three-dimensional blobs, and other objects that are more...Folksonomies: quantum physics m-theory
Folksonomies: quantum physics m-theory
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notesM-Theory allows for multiple Universes and 11 dimensions.
19 JUN 2011 by ideonexus
Juxtaposition is the Spice of Life
Let me suggest a new axiom: juxtaposition is the spice of life.
Humanity’s biggest talent, unique to us, is juxtaposing, finding and
operating novel relationships between things or ideas... Recent ideas on neural activity suggest that the brain operates
in a very associative way, with small neuron clusters containing
core concepts, rather in the way a battery holds a trickle charge.
These core concepts would be irreducibly small fragments of sounds
or sights, or any phenomena that you exper... 1 notes
notesThe brain can be wired more ways then there are atoms in the Universe, and new combinations create new ideas and innovations.
19 JUN 2011 by ideonexus
How Science Changes Society
Change is one of mankind’s most mysterious
creations. The factors that operate to cause it came
into play when man produced his first tool. With it he
changed the world forever, and bound himself to the
artifacts he would create in order, always, to make
tomorrow better than today. But how does change
operate? What triggers a new invention, a different
philosophy, an altered society? The interactive
network of man’s activities links the strangest,
most disparate elements, bringing togethe... 1 notes
notesScience brings change upon society, forcing society to adapt to technological change and forcing more technological change.
19 APR 2011 by ideonexus
The Mesh of Science
I do not think that truth becomes more primitive if we pursue it to simpler facts. For no fact in the world is instant, infinitesimal and ultimate, a single mark. There are, I hold, no atomic facts. In the language of science, every fact is a field—a crisscross of implications, those that lead to it and those that lead from it.
Truth in science is like Everest, an ordering of the facts. We organize our experience in patterns which, formalized. make the network of scientific laws. But scie... 1 notes
notesScience "articulates the movements of the world."
23 JAN 2011 by ideonexus
How Technology Makes Us Smarter and More Uncertain
When I do long division or even multiplication I don’t try to remember the intermediate numbers. Long ago I learned to write them down. Because of paper and pencil I am “smarter” in arithmetic. In a similar manner I now no longer to try remember facts, or even where I found the facts. I have learned to summon them on the Internet. Because the Internet is my new pencil and paper, I am “smarter” in factuality.
But my knowledge is now more fragile. For every accepted piece of knowledg... 1 notes
notesThe Internet is a cognitive prosthesis, helping our brains to summon facts, but it also makes us more uncertain about the facts we take for granted, because there are challenges to what we know everywhere online.
