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Why We Need the New News Environment to be Chaotic « Clay Shirky
Having one kind of institution do most of the reporting for most communities in the US seemed like a great idea right up until it seemed like a single point of failure. As that failure spreads, the ne... Read more
http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2011/07/we-need-the-new-news-environment-to-be-chaotic/
Tags: via:packrati.us, news, shirky, media, newspapers, 104, 326, clay, clayshirky, complexity Saved by: admin at 10 Jul 2011
Having one kind of institution do most of the reporting for most communities in the US seemed like a great idea right up until it seemed like a single point of failure. As that failure spreads, the ne... Read more
http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2011/07/we-need-the-new-news-environment-to-be-chaotic/
Tags: via:packrati.us, news, shirky, media, newspapers, 104, 326, clay, clayshirky, complexity Saved by: admin at 10 Jul 2011
CompSci 101 - Big-O notation
Basics of Big O notation...
http://recursive-design.com/blog/2010/12/07/comp-sci-101-big-o-notation/
Tags: algorithms, programming, bigo, compsci, development, big-o, computerscience, mathematics, academic, complexity Saved by: admin at 08 Dec 2010
Basics of Big O notation...
http://recursive-design.com/blog/2010/12/07/comp-sci-101-big-o-notation/
Tags: algorithms, programming, bigo, compsci, development, big-o, computerscience, mathematics, academic, complexity Saved by: admin at 08 Dec 2010
Building the Simple Enterprise
Linked, because it's wrong in so many ways. It begins: "In the enterprise, simplicity simply doesn’t sell. Complexity, on the other hand, justifies costly software licenses and a swat team of consul... Read more
http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/07/building-the-simple-enterprise/
Tags: business, enterprise, via:packrati.us, development, programming, enterprise2.0, entrepreneurship, management, software, complexity Saved by: admin at 08 Nov 2010
Linked, because it's wrong in so many ways. It begins: "In the enterprise, simplicity simply doesn’t sell. Complexity, on the other hand, justifies costly software licenses and a swat team of consul... Read more
http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/07/building-the-simple-enterprise/
Tags: business, enterprise, via:packrati.us, development, programming, enterprise2.0, entrepreneurship, management, software, complexity Saved by: admin at 08 Nov 2010
Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » P vs. NP for Dummies
"Here are four informal interpretations of the P vs. NP problem that people give, and which I can endorse as capturing the spirit of what’s being asked:"
http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=459
Tags: algorithm, math, computer, computerscience, pvsnp, theory, tutorial, blogs, complexity, computing Saved by: admin at 16 Aug 2010
"Here are four informal interpretations of the P vs. NP problem that people give, and which I can endorse as capturing the spirit of what’s being asked:"
http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=459
Tags: algorithm, math, computer, computerscience, pvsnp, theory, tutorial, blogs, complexity, computing Saved by: admin at 16 Aug 2010
BBC News - Brain works more like internet than 'top down' company
The brain appears to be a vastly interconnected network much like the Internet, according to new research. That runs counter to the 19th-Century "top-down" view of brain structure. A novel technique... Read more
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10925841
Tags: brain, internet, neuroscience, psychology, science, research, via:packrati.us, complexity, connections, management Saved by: admin at 11 Aug 2010
The brain appears to be a vastly interconnected network much like the Internet, according to new research. That runs counter to the 19th-Century "top-down" view of brain structure. A novel technique... Read more
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10925841
Tags: brain, internet, neuroscience, psychology, science, research, via:packrati.us, complexity, connections, management Saved by: admin at 11 Aug 2010
Plain english explanation of Big O - Stack Overflow
Traditional computers can solve problems in polynomial time. Certain things are used in the world because of this. Public Key Cryptography is a prime example. It is computationally hard to find two pr... Read more
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/487258/plain-english-explanation-of-big-o/487278#answer-487278
Tags: programming, algorithms, algorithm, big-o, complexity, reference, stackoverflow, math, bigo, education Saved by: admin at 17 Jul 2010
Traditional computers can solve problems in polynomial time. Certain things are used in the world because of this. Public Key Cryptography is a prime example. It is computationally hard to find two pr... Read more
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/487258/plain-english-explanation-of-big-o/487278#answer-487278
Tags: programming, algorithms, algorithm, big-o, complexity, reference, stackoverflow, math, bigo, education Saved by: admin at 17 Jul 2010
How Dr. Seuss would prove the halting problem undecidable
’m sure you can guess. By reductio, there cannot possibly be a procedure that acts like the mythical P. You can never discover mechanical means for predicting the acts of computing machines. It’s... Read more
http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/01/19/how-dr-suess-would-prove-the-halting-problem-undecidable/
Tags: logic, complexity, humor, computer, science, funny, haltingproblem, computerscience, theory, linguistics Saved by: admin at 06 May 2010
’m sure you can guess. By reductio, there cannot possibly be a procedure that acts like the mythical P. You can never discover mechanical means for predicting the acts of computing machines. It’s... Read more
http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/01/19/how-dr-suess-would-prove-the-halting-problem-undecidable/
Tags: logic, complexity, humor, computer, science, funny, haltingproblem, computerscience, theory, linguistics Saved by: admin at 06 May 2010
The Collapse of Complex Business Models « Clay Shirky
"When societies fail to respond to reduced circumstances through orderly downsizing, it isn’t because they don’t want to, it’s because they can’t … the whole edifice becomes a huge, interloc... Read more
http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/04/the-collapse-of-complex-business-models/
Tags: business, media, economics, complexity, history, shirky, innovation, change, strategy, collapse Saved by: admin at 02 Apr 2010
"When societies fail to respond to reduced circumstances through orderly downsizing, it isn’t because they don’t want to, it’s because they can’t … the whole edifice becomes a huge, interloc... Read more
http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/04/the-collapse-of-complex-business-models/
Tags: business, media, economics, complexity, history, shirky, innovation, change, strategy, collapse Saved by: admin at 02 Apr 2010
Intractability of Financial Derivatives | Freedom to Tinker
A new result by Princeton computer scientists and economists shows a striking application of computer science theory to the field of financial derivative design. The paper is Computational Complexity ... Read more
http://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/appel/intractability-financial-derivatives
Tags: finance, derivatives, economics, complexity, cryptography, research, intractability, business, computation, encryption Saved by: admin at 16 Oct 2009
A new result by Princeton computer scientists and economists shows a striking application of computer science theory to the field of financial derivative design. The paper is Computational Complexity ... Read more
http://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/appel/intractability-financial-derivatives
Tags: finance, derivatives, economics, complexity, cryptography, research, intractability, business, computation, encryption Saved by: admin at 16 Oct 2009
The Status of the P Versus NP Problem | September 2009 | Communications of the ACM
Suppose we have a large group of students that we need to pair up to work on projects. We know which students are compatible with each other and we want to put them in compatible groups of two. We cou... Read more
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/9/38904-the-status-of-the-p-versus-np-problem/fulltext
Tags: math, p=np, algorithms, cs, algorithm, np, science, complexity, article, computerscience Saved by: admin at 27 Aug 2009
Suppose we have a large group of students that we need to pair up to work on projects. We know which students are compatible with each other and we want to put them in compatible groups of two. We cou... Read more
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/9/38904-the-status-of-the-p-versus-np-problem/fulltext
Tags: math, p=np, algorithms, cs, algorithm, np, science, complexity, article, computerscience Saved by: admin at 27 Aug 2009