Notebooks

Burned all my notebooks
What good are notebooks
If they won't help me survive?
But a curiosity of my type remains after all the most agreeable of all vices — sorry, I meant to say: the love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 45

They're, well, notebooks — things I find amusing, outrageous, strange or otherwise noteworthy; notes towards works-in-glacial-progress; hemi-demi-semi-rants; things I want to learn more about; lists of references; quotations from the Talking Heads where appropriate. If you can help with any of these, I'd be grateful; if you can tell me of anything I can profitably prune, I'd be even more grateful.

There is a list of frequently asked questions (FAQ), along with answers, and a colophon, which explains more than anyone would want to know about how these pages are put together. If your question isn't answered in either place, feel free to write, though, sadly, I can't promise a timely reply.

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Random Feature Regularization (01 May 2025 10:01)
Myths, and Mythologies as Meta-Myths (28 Apr 2025 10:00)
Recommended Science Fiction (26 Apr 2025 16:02)
Economic Networks (26 Apr 2025 14:20)
Neural Nets, Connectionism, Perceptrons, etc. (25 Apr 2025 08:12)
Spin Glasses (25 Apr 2025 08:01)
Social Networks (24 Apr 2025 14:25)
Density Estimation (24 Apr 2025 11:14)
"Attention", "Transformers", in Neural Network "Large Language Models" (24 Apr 2025 10:58)
Uncertainty for Neural Networks, and Other Large Complicated Models (23 Apr 2025 13:12)
Independence Tests, Conditional Independence Tests, Measures of Dependence and Conditional Dependence (23 Apr 2025 12:54)
Stochastic Differential Equations (23 Apr 2025 12:22)
Conformal Prediction (23 Apr 2025 10:42)
Neuroscience (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Recovering Networks from Noisy Observations (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
The Renaissance (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Otto Neurath, 1882--1945 (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Ilya Prigogine (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Landauer's Principle (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Socialism, Market Socialism (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Joint Modeling of Texts and Networks (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Kernelized Factor Models (Thinking Aloud) (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Programming (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Math I Ought to Learn (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Maya civilization (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Scientific Thinking (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
State-Space Reconstruction (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Arturo Rosenblueth Sterns (1900--1970) (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Relational Learning (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Sociology (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
The Welfare State (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
General Systems Theory (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Some Unattractive Meta-Ethical Positions, Free to a Good Home (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Sociology of Science (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Transmission of Inequality (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Text Mining (and Information Retrieval) (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Mysteries (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
The Late Bronze Age Collapse and Dark Age (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Statistical Computing and Programming (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Social Neuroscience (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Predation of Humans by Other Animals (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Topic Models (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Notes on "Repro Samples Method for Finite- and Large-Sample Inferences" (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Duality between Knowledge Centralization and Market Completeness? (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
The Primal Scene of Artificial Intelligence (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Pragmatism (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Optimal Linear Prediction and Estimation (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Population Genetics, Evolutionary Genetics (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Sequential Decision-Making Under Stochastic Uncertainty (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Slime Molds, especially Dictyostelium (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Monte Carlo, and Other Kinds of Stochastic Simulation (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Religion (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Leszek Kolakowski (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Semiotics (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Teaching Statistics (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Scientist Fiction (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Synchronization (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Visual Grammars (Shape, Image, Picture Grammars) (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Self-Organization (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
VC Dimension and Evolving Cellular Automata (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Yi-Fu Tuan (1930--2022) (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Political elites (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
A. R. Luria (1902--1977) (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Mean Field Games and Mean Field Control (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Random Matrix Theory (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Network Comparison (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
H. P. Lovecraft (1890--1937) (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Poetry, Poets (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Learning in Games (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Multi-Agent Systems (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Structuralism (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Symmetries of Neural Networks (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Random Boolean Networks, Nk Networks (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Totalitarianism, Especially Its Intellectual and Social Roots (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Technology and Society (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Experiments on Social Networks (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Propagation of Error to the Rescue? A Naive Baseline for Quantifying the Uncertainty of Complex Predictive Models Fit by Smooth Minimization (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Statistical Mechanics (and Condensed Matter) (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Partisanship (Yet Another Inadequate Placeholder) (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Thought and Society (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
The Schelling Model (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Occam's Razor (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Positivism (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
I. A. Richards, 1893--1979 (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Recommended Novels (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Moral Psychology and Naturalized Ethics (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Science Fiction (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Terrorism, state or independent (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
"Occam"-style Bounds for Long Programs (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Stochastic Block Models (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Self-Organized Criticality (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Value-Added Measures in Education (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Sufficient Statistics (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Political Decision-Making, Social Choice, Public Policy (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Neural Modeling and Data Analysis (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Neuropsychology (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Mathematical Logic (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Two-Sample Tests (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Post-Model-Selection Inference (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Linguistics (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
The Scientific Revolution (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Variable or Feature Selection for Regression and Classification (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Power Law Distributions, 1/f Noise, Long-Memory Time Series (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Sung Dynasty China (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Postmodernism, Poststructuralism, etc. (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Yet Another Information Matrix (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Large Deviations (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Judgment, Choice, Human Decision-Making (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Low-Regret Learning (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
What Is the Right Null Model for Linear Regression? (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Nonequilibrium Statistcal Mechanics and Thermodynamics (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Norbert Wiener (1894--1964) (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Herbert Simon, 1916--2001 (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
William James (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Scientific Method, and Philosophy of Science (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Karl Marx (1818--1883) (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Reductionism (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Parallel and Distributed Computing (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Space Travel, Extraterrestrial Life, SETI (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Physics of Computation and Information (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Lucretius (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
The Minority Game (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Learning Theory (Formal, Computational or Statistical) (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
State Formation and Development (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Marxism(s) (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Universal Prediction Algorithms (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Machine Learning, Statistical Inference and Induction (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Knowledge and Intelligence as Factors of Production (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Statistics on Manifolds (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
The Thomson Ability-Sampling Model (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Influence of Network Topology on Synchronization (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Possession, Multiple-Personality Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Operator Semigroups (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Measurement, Especially in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Psychotherapy, Psychiatry, Mental Illness (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Mixing and Weak Dependence of Stochastic Processes (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Inference for Stochastic Differential Equations (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Spatial-Temporal Statistics (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Planned Economies (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Stochastic Processes (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Persianate Culture (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Information Technology Before the Electronic Computer (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Persuasion (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Rhetoric (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Multiple Testing, Multiple Comparisons (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Stability and Complexity of Ecosystems (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Millenarianism (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Networks of Political Actors (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Peasant Revolts, Rural Insurgencies, etc. (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Projectivity in Statistical Models (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
New Mexico (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
World History, Macrohistory (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Partial Identification of Parametric Statistical Models (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Methodology for the Social Sciences (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Synchronization and Functional Connectivity in Neural Systems (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Liberalism (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Logical Positivism (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Political Philosophy and Political Theory (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky (1896--1934) (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Maximum Entropy Methods (MaxEnt) (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Literary Criticism and Theory of Criticism (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Characterizing Mixtures of Processes by Summarizing Statistics (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
The University-Industrial Complex (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Mori-Zwanzig Formalisms (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Koopman Operators for Modeling Dynamical Systems and Time Series (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Stochastic Approximation Algorithms (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Recommender Systems and Collaborative Filtering (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Visualizing Network Data (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Prediction Processes; Markovian (and Conceivably Causal) Representations of Stochastic Processes (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Mixture Models (in Statistics) (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
"Math Methods" (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Management; Manangement Fads and Witch-Doctoring (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Optimization (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Statistics (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Random Fields (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Turbulence, and Fluid Mechanics in General (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Particle-Based Computation (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
The Phylogenetic Comparative Method and Evolving Cellular Automata (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Multiple or Vector Time Series (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844--1900 (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Quantum Mechanics (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Recurrence Times of Stochastic Processes (also Hitting, Waiting, and First-Passage Times) (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Mesopotamia, especially Sumeria (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
The Soviet Union, 1917--1991 (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Nonparametric Confidence Sets for Functions (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
The Minimum Description Length Principle (MDL) (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Random Time Changes for Stochastic Processes (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Nuclear Weapons (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
The Romanticists (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
(Decision, Classification, Regression, Prediction) Trees in Statistics and Machine Learning (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Reception and Appropriations of Classical Culture (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Plato (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Physical Principles and Biology (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
A very naive approach to held-out likelihood for topic models (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Nationalism (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Statistics with Structured Data (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Symbolic Dynamics (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Assortative Social Networks and Neutral Cultural Evolution (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
The Socialist Calculation Debate (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Nearest Neighbor Methods in Statistics and Data Mining (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Jack Vance (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Pattern formation (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Literacy, Reading, Writing (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Time Series, or Statistics for Stochastic Processes and Dynamical Systems (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Learning Statistical Models Which Predict Well Across Many Rare Categories (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Tsallis Statistics, Statistical Mechanics for Non-extensive Systems and Long-Range Interactions (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Regression, especially Nonparametric Regression (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Laplace Approximation (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Markov Models (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Role-Playing Games (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Recommended Mystery Novels (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Psychoceramics (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Titan (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Analysis of Network Data (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
The Right, Conservativism, Reaction (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Race and Racism (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Random Feature Methods in Machine Learning (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Statistical Emulators for Simulation Models (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Law and Jurisprudence (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Calculating Macroscopic Consequences of Microscopic Interactions (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Manifold Learning (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Signal Transduction, Control of Metabolism, and Gene Regulation (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Simulation-Based Inference (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Neural Coding (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Pre-Columbian Civilizations (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Probability Theory (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Computational Models of Linguistic Evolution (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Mechanistic Explanations (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Social Contagion, Information Cascades, Diffusion of Innovations, Etc. (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
The "Satanic Panic" of the 1980s and Recovered Memories (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Foundations and History of Statistical Mechanics (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Forecasting Non-Stationary Processes, and Estimating Their Parameters (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
The Left (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Neural Control of Action, Especially of Rapid Motor Sequences (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Kernel Methods in Statistic and Machine Learning (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Point Processes (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Memes, and Related Ideas about the Evolution of Culture (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Spatial Statistics (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Model Selection (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
W. Ross Ashby, 1903--1972 (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Spatial Patterns in Crime, Especially Clustering/Concentration (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Gygax Texts, Gygax Confidence Sets (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
The Role of Experts and Science in Democracy (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Ecology (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Alchemy (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Evolving Local Rules to Perform Global Computations (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Diversity (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Grammatical Inference (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Convergence of Stochastic Processes (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Evolutionary Design (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Epidemics (or Epidemic Models) on Networks (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Causal Inference (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Additive Models for Regression, Generalized Additive Models, etc. (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Ethical and Political Issues in Data Mining, Especially Unfairness in Automated Decision Making (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Economists in Politics (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Interpretation (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Campaign Finance in US Politics (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Collective Action (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Statistical Learning Theory with Dependent Data (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Graph Spectra (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
History of Science (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Antarctica (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Decision Theory (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Bootstrapping, and Other Resampling Methods (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Community Discovery Methods for Complex Networks (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
IQ, and Mental Testing More Generally (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Classical era, Mediterranean (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Clustering (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
The United States Congress, How It Works and For Whom (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Compartment Models (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Adversarial Examples in Machine Learning (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Statistical Inference for Markov and Hidden Markov Models (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Bertrand Russell (1872--1970) (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Ernest Gellner, 1925--1995 (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Blackouts (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Cybernetics (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Development Economics and Economic Growth (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Homophily and Influence in Social Networks (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Evolutionary Economics (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Historical Materialism (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Communism (1917--) (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Cities, Urban Form (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Developmental Biology (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
When Do Physical Systems Compute? (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Evolutionary Epistemology (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Ergodic Theory (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Afghanistan (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
The Cold War (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Institutions and Organizations (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Gene Expression Data Analysis (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
On the Asymptotics of an Infinite-Dimensional Stochastic Dynamical System (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Fluctuation-Response Relations (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Graph Sampling Algorithms (Yet Another Inadequate Placeholder) (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Evolutionary Game Theory (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Cross-Validation (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Imagination (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Cumulants, and Cumulant Generating Functions (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Computers in Education (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Basis Selection in Function Decomposition (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Heritability and Its Estimation, Especially in Humans (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Interacting Particle Systems (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
History of India (and the rest of the subcontinent) (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Frequentist Consistency of Bayesian Procedures (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Chains with Complete Connections (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Graph Theory (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Intellectual Property (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Ethics, Game Theory and Biology (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Intellectual standards and competence (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Guerilla Warfare, Counter-Insurgency, etc. (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Data Mining (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Jorge Luis Borges (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Biological computers (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Dynamical Systems (Including Chaos) (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
C. J. Cherryh (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Becker Economies, i.e., Microeconomics Based on Random Choice within Constraints (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Half-Truths (at Best) about Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Analytical Marxism, a.k.a. "No Bullshit" Marxism (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Information in Games and Decision-Making (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Causal Discovery Algorithms (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Economics (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Islamic Spain, al-Andalus (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Factor Models in Statistics (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Evolution of Complexity (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Classifiers and Clustering for Time Series (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Actually, "Dr. Internet" Is the Name of the Monsters' Creator (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Gödel's Theorem (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Graphical Models (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Some Notes on Influence Functions and Targeted Learning (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGMs) (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Cognitive science (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Chinese philosophy of the Warring States period (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Agent-Based Modeling (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Chinese History (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Information Geometry (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Frequently Asked Questions about the Notebooks (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Recommended Fantasy Books (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Artificial Intelligence (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Complexity Measures (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
The Authoritarian Personality (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models in Macroeconomics (DSGEs) (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Graph Limits and Infinite Exchangeable Arrays (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Project Cybersyn (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Excitable Media (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Flocking and Models of Animal Swarms (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Deviation Inequalities in Probability Theory (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Democracy (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Architecture and design (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
America, United States of (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Confidence Sets, Confidence Intervals (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Artificial life (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Biofilms and Other Cooperative Microbial Assemblages (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Hayek, F. A. von (1899--1992) (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Computational Complexity (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
"The Edge of Chaos" (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Human Ecology (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Inferring Networks from Non-Network Data (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Climate Networks (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Causality (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Cuvier, Totality, Marxism (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Astrophysics and Cosmology (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Algorithmic Information Theory (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Foreign Policy (American) (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Emotion (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Concentration of Measure (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Interpolation in Statistical Learning, or, Memorizing the Training Data (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
The Frankfurt School (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Filtering, State Estimation, and Other Forms of Signal Processing (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Islamic Law (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Archaeology (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Emergent Properties (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Clinical and Actuarial Judgment Compared (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Corporations, Corporate Governance, Corporate Finance (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Cultural Criticism (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Ideal Types, Vector Bases, and Convex Combinations (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Early Modern Europe (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Ergodic Theory of Markov and Related Processes (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Exponential Families of Probability Measures (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Globalization (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Consistency (in statistics) or "Probably Approximately Correct" (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Diversity in Machine Learning and Multi-Agent Systems (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Biochemical Network Evolution (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Persian Empire, Ancient (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
The American Dilemma (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Historical Genetics (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Daniel Dennett (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Human Evolution and Paleoanthropology (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Conspiracy Theories (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Climate Change, and General Climatology (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Cellular Automata (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Citations and Citation Networks (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Estimating Entropies and Informations (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Complexity (and/or "Complex Systems") (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Empirical Process Theory (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
China Since Mao (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Change-Point Problems (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Information Flow (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Central Asia (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
The Enlightenment (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Central Limit Theorem(s) (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Fantasy (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Embedding Networks in Hyperbolic Spaces (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Education, Academia (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Ancient Chinese Bronzes (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control Theory (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Empires and Imperialism (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Density Estimation on Graphical Models (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Exchangeable Random Sequences (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Directed Information and Transfer Entropy (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Generative Diffusion Models (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Evolutionary psychology (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Collective Cognition (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Ensemble Methods in Machine Learning (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
China in the 20th Century (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, 1466--1536 (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Indirect Inference (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Equations of Motion from a Time Series (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Finance, Banking, "the Markets" (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Karel Čapek, 1890--1938 (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Demography, Demographic Modeling (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Epidemic Models (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
The Dying Earth (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Branching Processes (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Empirical Likelihood (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Hilbert Space Methods for Statistics and Probability (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Information Theory and Large Deviations in the Foundations of Statistics (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Intellectuals (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
The Genealogy of Complexity (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Goddess, The (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Path Integrals and Feynman Diagrams for Classical Stochastic Processes (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Joan Didion (1934--2021) (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Graphical Causal Models (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Factor Models for High-Dimensional Time Series and Spatio-Temporal Data (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Islamicate Civilization, from the Beginning to European Colonialism (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Expressive Power vs. Learnability (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Computation, Automata, Languages (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Feminism (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
The Interaction of Evolution and Development in Biology ("Evo-Devo") (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
ibn Khaldûn, 'Abd-ar-Rahmân Abû Zayd ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad, 1332--1406 (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Biological Order, or Levels of Organization (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Information Theory (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Evolution (of Organisms) (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Instrumental Variables (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Hidden Markov Models, a.k.a. State-Space Models (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Computational Statistics (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Mircea Eliade (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Complex Networks (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Gnosticism (21 Apr 2025 21:17)
Properties versus Principles in Defining "Good Statistics" (21 Jun 2011 19:51)
Dynamics in Cognitive Science (17 Dec 2004 09:10)
Counter-Enlightenment (03 Oct 2004 12:17)
Political Islamism (22 Sep 2004 11:14)
Iran (20 Sep 2004 11:26)
Decadence and Depravity as a Theme in Western Culture since the 19th Century (14 Sep 2004 10:46)
Political Foundations, Think-Tanks, Advocacy Groups and NGOs (26 Aug 2004 12:22)
Symbolic Correlations (23 Aug 2004 16:10)
ibn Rushd, Abu al-Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad, a.k.a. Averroes, 1126--1198 (01 Aug 2004 11:55)
"Pre-Cognitivism": Anticipations of Cognitive Science in the Early 20th Century (28 Mar 2004 15:54)
Military-industrial complexes (03 Mar 2004 17:05)
Transducers (03 Mar 2004 16:20)
Control Theory, Especially Distributed and Decentralized Control (03 Mar 2004 16:13)
Hu Shih (02 Mar 2004 19:40)
Arthur Waley (02 Mar 2004 19:26)
Su T'ung-po (02 Mar 2004 19:13)
L. ("Lizzie") Susan Stebbing, 1885--1943 (02 Mar 2004 19:01)
Baruch Spinoza, Benedictus Spinoza (02 Mar 2004 18:26)
Omar Khayyam (02 Mar 2004 17:39)
Jean Piaget (02 Mar 2004 17:35)
Li Po and Tu Fu (02 Mar 2004 17:26)
Chuang Tzu (or Zhuangzi) (02 Mar 2004 17:19)
Henri Poincaré (02 Mar 2004 17:07)
The Thousand and One Nights (02 Mar 2004 16:48)
Gore Vidal (02 Mar 2004 16:42)
Asceticism and Self-Mortification (02 Mar 2004 15:16)
Field Theory, Especially Quantum Field Theory (14 Feb 2004 10:55)
Environmentalism (18 Jan 2004 12:05)
Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of gzip (02 Dec 2003 13:38)
Probably Algorithmically True (17 Nov 2003 19:28)
Plagues (06 Nov 2003 12:54)
Bootstrapping Entropy Estimates (31 Oct 2003 12:46)
Jacques Barzun (20 Sep 2003 17:09)
Revolutions and Revolutionaries (23 May 2003 17:42)
Karl Popper, 1902--1994 (14 Apr 2003 14:00)
Analogy and Metaphor (16 Feb 2003 16:27)
Discourses on Method (09 Feb 2003 16:18)
Modernity, Post-Modernity and All That (03 Feb 2003 17:01)
Prophecy (19 Jan 2003 12:57)
War (14 Jan 2003 12:50)
The Ainu (30 Dec 2002 00:37)
Technological Change (01 Dec 2002 14:07)
Italo Calvino (23 Nov 2002 19:24)
Bioinformatics (04 Oct 2002 14:31)
Pornography (15 Apr 2002 12:58)
Novels (13 Oct 2001 15:57)
Simulations, Models, Forecasts (17 Apr 2001 12:16)
QWERTY, Lock-In and Path Dependence (16 Mar 2001 13:00)
Willard Van Orman Quine, 1908--2000 (07 Mar 2001 10:43)
Social Construction of Reality (30 Dec 2000 21:16)
Narratives (30 Dec 2000 21:11)
Narrative Communities (10 Dec 2000 02:12)
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, 1860--1948 (23 Jul 2000 17:03)
Ernst Cassirer, 1874--1945 (01 Jun 2000 14:00)
Philosophies' Evil Twins (14 Nov 1999 02:58)
Computational Mechanics (12 Jul 1999 19:33)
Noam Chomsky (24 Oct 1998 21:13)
Demonology (09 Oct 1998 14:32)
Indices, Indexing (07 Oct 1998 13:34)
UFOs, Ufology, Alien Abductions, etc. (11 Jun 1998 17:28)
Multi-Level Marketing (11 Jun 1998 17:15)
Evolutionary computation (13 May 1998 18:20)
John Holland (13 May 1998 17:58)
Networks as Provinces of the Commonwealth of Letters (29 Apr 1998 11:53)
Dealing with Huge Amounts of Information (28 Apr 1998 18:58)
Ernest Bramah (07 Apr 1998 16:06)
Brahmanical Proverbs (07 Apr 1998 16:06)
Joseph Campbell (26 Nov 1997 21:51)
Claude Bernard, 1813--1878 (31 Oct 1997 13:23)
Armchair Travel (29 Oct 1997 12:11)
Charles Darwin, 1809--1882 (23 Oct 1997 12:52)
The Information Society and the Information Economy (10 Oct 1997 19:44)
The Manhattan Project (25 Sep 1997 18:03)
The Witch-Craze and the Witch-Cult (01 Jul 1997 12:28)
Unions, Labor Movements, Labor (13 May 1997 11:03)
John von Neumann (1903--1957) (06 May 1997 14:36)
Futurism (05 May 1997 17:41)
Adaptation (05 May 1997 15:22)
Julian Jaynes (05 May 1997 15:16)
John Tyler Bonner (03 May 1997 12:20)
Dangers of Natural Foods (09 Apr 1997 11:14)
Superstition (07 Apr 1997 16:07)
Sigmund Freud, 1856--1939 (03 Apr 1997 10:25)
Notes on a Talk Entitled ``Is the Brain Critical?'' by Per Bak, 18 March 1997 at the Santa Fe Institute (24 Mar 1997 12:37)
Dissipative structures (28 Jan 1997 13:34)
Voltaire, 1694--1778 (30 Nov 1996 05:57)
Memories (27 Jun 1996 22:58)
Notes on a Lecture on "Origins of an Embodied Cognition: Moving, Perceiving, and Thinking in Infancy" (20 May 1996 01:34)
Darwin Machines, Universal Darwinism (11 Mar 1996 01:32)
Fritz Machlup, the ``Knowledge Industry,'' and Alvin Toffler (28 Feb 1996 17:14)
Campus architecture and student revolts (18 Feb 1996 17:54)
International arms trade (16 Feb 1996 18:46)
Computer networks (23 Jan 1996 16:12)
Fatima Mernissi (21 Aug 1995 17:02)
The Czech Legions (19 Aug 1995 17:19)
Jung (19 Aug 1995 15:31)
Menstruation (17 Aug 1995 19:07)
Radiation and Health (17 Aug 1995 16:51)
Nimrod and the Tower of Babel (17 Aug 1995 15:51)
Modern architecture and design (16 Aug 1995 21:25)
Neuropsychiatry (25 Mar 1995 15:11)
Universal Images and Cultural Universals (22 Mar 1995 18:15)
Artificial Intelligence and Natural Folly (22 Mar 1995 17:30)
Winding Number and Topological Explanations (22 Mar 1995 11:54)
Catholics and Cyberspace (19 Mar 1995 20:24)
Renormalized Semiotics (16 Mar 1995 06:50)
Nanotechnology (16 Mar 1995 05:06)
Tubal-Cain (16 Mar 1995 04:50)
e. e. cummings (13 Mar 1995 21:01)
Complex Adaptive Systems (13 Mar 1995 20:53)
Shamanism (13 Mar 1995 19:04)
Christopher Alexander (13 Mar 1995 18:48)
Science (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Singapore (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Philosophical Taoism (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Scientific instruments (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Alfred North Whitehead (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
William Carlos Williams (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
``Swarm'' theories (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Soviets, councils, etc. (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
The Wild Hunt (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Southeast Asia (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Zen or Chan (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Yi the Archer (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Sufism (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Spies, Secrecy, Intelligence (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Vampires (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Vergil: medieval legends (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Whole Earth Catalog (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Social Engineering (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Theocracy in Tibet (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
New Age music, electronic music (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Republics (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Charles Sanders (Santiago) Peirce, 1839--1914 (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Mass Culture, Popular Culture (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Migraine headaches (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
The Middle East (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Post-industrialism (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Madison, Wisconsin (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Regulation (of Markets, etc.) (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Mu'tazila and Mu'tazilites (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Pseudo-events (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Molecular Biology (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Ichiro Ozawa (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Edna St. Vincent Millay (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Mass media (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
San Francisco and the Bay Area (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
The Ottoman Empire (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Marshall McLuhan (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Religious conversion (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Philosophy of Mind (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Personal Violence (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Lumpenproletariat, the underclass (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
``Naturalist'' philosophy in ancient China (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Mysticism (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Neutral monism (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Proto-industrialism (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Physiological effects of TV (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
"The New Physics" (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Mass Hysteria, Mass Panics, Contagious Mental Conditions (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Schizophrenia (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Magic (supernatural) (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Sardinia (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Jeremy Rifkin (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Particle physics (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Phoenicians (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Potentially Runaway Technologies (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Ancient Rome and the Roman Empire (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Physics (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Joseph Needham (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Julian Offray de la Mettrie (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
"Intellectual immune systems" or "intellectual self-defense" (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Goliards, medieval wandering scholars (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Genocide: history (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
History, Historiography, Uses of the Past (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Etruscans (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Import of Eastern religions to Europe (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Robert Graves (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Gardens (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
``Future shock'' (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Epidemiology (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Exile, Exiles (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, etc. (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Japan (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
The Finns (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
David Hume (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Islam (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Intelligence augmentation (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
The End of the World, II: Oppenheimer (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Liquid Crystals (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Initiation rites (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Lost Tribes of Israel (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Frivolous elites (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
The End of the World, I: Jehovah (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Anatole France (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Galileo (Galileo Galilei, 1564--1642) (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Hildegard of Bingen (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Literature (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Shirley Jackson (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Input-Output Models in Economics (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Epics and Oral Poetry (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Hypertext (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
History of Technology (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
The End of the World, III: Nemesis (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Epicureanism (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
G. C. Lichtenberg (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Sir James Frazer (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Russell Jacoby (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Human simulacra (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Ionia (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Intellectual frauds, II: The rabble (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Intellectual frauds, I: Famous and profound (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Automata (Mechanical) (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Ancient trade (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Thomas Browne, 1605--1682 (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Abyssal Vents (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Cultural minorities (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Clockwork (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Cults, Enthusiasts (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Astrology (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Authors (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Confucius and Confucianism (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
The École des Beaux-arts (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Adorno (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
California (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Denis Diderot (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Analytical Philosophy (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Hannah Arendt (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Charles Babbage (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
``The biological expansion of Europe'' (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Drugs (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Biotechnology (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Alexander the Great (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Biological Design (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Books and Their History (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
The Berbers (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Electronic media, esp. portable ones, and demand for, expectation of continuous entertainment (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
The Counter-culture (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Complex Systems (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
The East Asian Economic Miracle (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Classical era, world-wide (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Atomism (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Norman Cohn (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Eastern Europe, circa 1900 (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Bohemia (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Richard Dawkins (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Umberto Eco (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Artistic Modernism (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
``Directed evolution'' in biochemistry (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Bosnia, and the Former Yugoslavia Generally (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Berkeley, California (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Armageddon (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
William Calvin (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Computers (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Censorship (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Ancient metallurgy (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Ancient China (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
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