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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Statistical Mechanics (and Condensed Matter) (13 Dec 2024 22:18)
General Systems Theory (13 Dec 2024 22:13)
Recommended Novels (13 Dec 2024 22:05)
Scientist Fiction (13 Dec 2024 22:05)
Graphical Causal Models (13 Dec 2024 21:59)
Otto Neurath, 1882--1945 (13 Dec 2024 21:58)
Causal Inference (13 Dec 2024 21:51)
Causal Discovery Algorithms (13 Dec 2024 21:39)
Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky (1896--1934) (13 Dec 2024 21:36)
The Soviet Union, 1917--1991 (13 Dec 2024 21:23)
Statistics (13 Dec 2024 21:14)
State-Space Reconstruction (13 Dec 2024 21:11)
Spatial-Temporal Statistics (13 Dec 2024 21:05)
Spatial Statistics (13 Dec 2024 21:03)
The Scientific Revolution (13 Dec 2024 21:01)
The Schelling Model (13 Dec 2024 20:56)
Point Processes (13 Dec 2024 20:36)
Physics of Computation and Information (13 Dec 2024 20:35)
Moral Psychology and Naturalized Ethics (13 Dec 2024 20:28)
Logical Positivism (13 Dec 2024 20:13)
Kernel Methods in Statistic and Machine Learning (13 Dec 2024 20:11)
Gnosticism (13 Dec 2024 20:08)
Nonequilibrium Statistcal Mechanics and Thermodynamics (13 Dec 2024 20:07)
Ergodic Theory of Markov and Related Processes (13 Dec 2024 20:03)
Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGMs) (13 Dec 2024 20:00)
Epidemic Models (13 Dec 2024 20:00)
Complexity (and/or "Complex Systems") (13 Dec 2024 19:55)
Emergent Properties (13 Dec 2024 17:13)
Foundations and History of Statistical Mechanics (13 Dec 2024 17:05)
Prediction Processes; Markovian (and Conceivably Causal) Representations of Stochastic Processes (13 Dec 2024 16:43)
Instrumental Variables (13 Dec 2024 15:35)
Partial Identification of Parametric Statistical Models (13 Dec 2024 10:53)
Information in Games and Decision-Making (13 Dec 2024 10:43)
Learning in Games (12 Dec 2024 11:15)
Climate Networks (12 Dec 2024 11:05)
Astrophysics and Cosmology (12 Dec 2024 10:44)
sThe Cold War (12 Dec 2024 10:30)
The Genealogy of Complexity (12 Dec 2024 10:23)
Recommender Systems and Collaborative Filtering (12 Dec 2024 09:58)
Deviation Inequalities in Probability Theory (12 Dec 2024 09:56)
The Late Bronze Age Collapse and Dark Age (11 Dec 2024 15:56)
H. P. Lovecraft (1890--1937) (11 Dec 2024 15:35)
Citations and Citation Networks (11 Dec 2024 15:31)
Topic Models (11 Dec 2024 15:27)
"Math Methods" (11 Dec 2024 15:27)
Mixture Models (in Statistics) (11 Dec 2024 15:25)
Kernelized Factor Models (Thinking Aloud) (11 Dec 2024 15:21)
Physical Principles and Biology (11 Dec 2024 15:18)
Compartment Models (11 Dec 2024 15:10)
Epidemics (or Epidemic Models) on Networks (11 Dec 2024 15:01)
"Attention", "Transformers", in Neural Network "Large Language Models" (11 Dec 2024 14:57)
Interpolation in Statistical Learning, or, Memorizing the Training Data (11 Dec 2024 11:39)
Text Mining (and Information Retrieval) (11 Dec 2024 10:47)
Independence Tests, Conditional Independence Tests, Measures of Dependence and Conditional Dependence (11 Dec 2024 10:43)
Population Genetics, Evolutionary Genetics (11 Dec 2024 10:06)
The Interaction of Evolution and Development in Biology ("Evo-Devo") (11 Dec 2024 10:05)
Multiple Testing, Multiple Comparisons (11 Dec 2024 10:04)
Computational Complexity (11 Dec 2024 10:00)
Frequently Asked Questions about the Notebooks (11 Dec 2024 09:59)
Random Boolean Networks, Nk Networks (11 Dec 2024 09:54)
Spatial Patterns in Crime, Especially Clustering/Concentration (10 Dec 2024 10:10)
Optimal Linear Prediction and Estimation (10 Dec 2024 09:14)
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (09 Dec 2024 16:17)
Turbulence, and Fluid Mechanics in General (09 Dec 2024 11:12)
Climate Change, and General Climatology (09 Dec 2024 11:08)
Pattern formation (08 Dec 2024 15:06)
Statistical Inference for Markov and Hidden Markov Models (08 Dec 2024 12:25)
Path Integrals and Feynman Diagrams for Classical Stochastic Processes (08 Dec 2024 12:24)
Project Cybersyn (08 Dec 2024 12:24)
Statistical Learning Theory with Dependent Data (08 Dec 2024 12:22)
Hilbert Space Methods for Statistics and Probability (08 Dec 2024 12:22)
Stochastic Differential Equations (08 Dec 2024 12:22)
Learning Statistical Models Which Predict Well Across Many Rare Categories (08 Dec 2024 12:21)
A very naive approach to held-out likelihood for topic models (08 Dec 2024 12:21)
Factor Models for High-Dimensional Time Series and Spatio-Temporal Data (08 Dec 2024 12:20)
Islamicate Civilization, from the Beginning to European Colonialism (08 Dec 2024 12:18)
Characterizing Mixtures of Processes by Summarizing Statistics (08 Dec 2024 12:18)
Structuralism (08 Dec 2024 12:17)
Value-Added Measures in Education (08 Dec 2024 12:16)
On the Asymptotics of an Infinite-Dimensional Stochastic Dynamical System (08 Dec 2024 12:16)
Statistics with Structured Data (08 Dec 2024 12:14)
Computational Models of Linguistic Evolution (08 Dec 2024 12:13)
Manifold Learning (08 Dec 2024 12:11)
Operator Semigroups (08 Dec 2024 12:09)
Koopman Operators for Modeling Dynamical Systems and Time Series (08 Dec 2024 12:09)
Synchronization and Functional Connectivity in Neural Systems (08 Dec 2024 12:05)
Visualizing Network Data (08 Dec 2024 12:04)
Exchangeable Random Sequences (08 Dec 2024 12:04)
Information Technology Before the Electronic Computer (08 Dec 2024 12:04)
Biochemical Network Evolution (08 Dec 2024 12:03)
The "Satanic Panic" of the 1980s and Recovered Memories (08 Dec 2024 12:02)
The Socialist Calculation Debate (08 Dec 2024 12:02)
Fluctuation-Response Relations (08 Dec 2024 12:00)
Islamic Law (08 Dec 2024 12:00)
Post-Model-Selection Inference (08 Dec 2024 11:59)
Algorithmic Information Theory (08 Dec 2024 01:16)
Karl Marx (1818--1883) (08 Dec 2024 01:15)
Measurement, Especially in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (08 Dec 2024 01:15)
Mixing and Weak Dependence of Stochastic Processes (08 Dec 2024 01:13)
Blackouts (08 Dec 2024 01:09)
Sufficient Statistics (08 Dec 2024 00:59)
Persianate Culture (08 Dec 2024 00:58)
Consistency (in statistics) or "Probably Approximately Correct" (08 Dec 2024 00:58)
Mean Field Games and Mean Field Control (08 Dec 2024 00:57)
Yi-Fu Tuan (1930--2022) (08 Dec 2024 00:56)
Joan Didion (1934--2021) (08 Dec 2024 00:54)
Gygax Texts, Gygax Confidence Sets (08 Dec 2024 00:53)
Role-Playing Games (08 Dec 2024 00:53)
Knowledge and Intelligence as Factors of Production (08 Dec 2024 00:51)
Analytical Marxism, a.k.a. "No Bullshit" Marxism (08 Dec 2024 00:51)
Cuvier, Totality, Marxism (08 Dec 2024 00:49)
The Minority Game (08 Dec 2024 00:49)
Information Theory and Large Deviations in the Foundations of Statistics (08 Dec 2024 00:48)
Nonparametric Confidence Sets for Functions (08 Dec 2024 00:48)
The Primal Scene of Artificial Intelligence (08 Dec 2024 00:46)
Propagation of Error to the Rescue? A Naive Baseline for Quantifying the Uncertainty of Complex Predictive Models Fit by Smooth Minimization (08 Dec 2024 00:45)
Empirical Process Theory (08 Dec 2024 00:44)
Demography, Demographic Modeling (08 Dec 2024 00:41)
Plato (08 Dec 2024 00:40)
Mori-Zwanzig Formalims (08 Dec 2024 00:39)
Spin Glasses (08 Dec 2024 00:38)
Symmetries of Neural Networks (08 Dec 2024 00:38)
History of India (and the rest of the subcontinent) (08 Dec 2024 00:37)
Ethics, Game Theory and Biology (08 Dec 2024 00:36)
Equations of Motion from a Time Series (08 Dec 2024 00:36)
Partisanship (Yet Another Inadequate Placeholder) (08 Dec 2024 00:35)
Political Philosophy and Political Theory (08 Dec 2024 00:34)
Uncertainty for Neural Networks, and Other Large Complicated Models (08 Dec 2024 00:34)
Transmission of Inequality (08 Dec 2024 00:32)
Estimating Entropies and Informations (08 Dec 2024 00:31)
Inference for Stochastic Differential Equations (08 Dec 2024 00:30)
Embedding Networks in Hyperbolic Spaces (08 Dec 2024 00:29)
Projectivity in Statistical Models (08 Dec 2024 00:28)
Chains with Complete Connections (08 Dec 2024 00:28)
Economists in Politics (08 Dec 2024 00:27)
Change-Point Problems (08 Dec 2024 00:26)
Multiple or Vector Time Series (08 Dec 2024 00:23)
The Thomson Ability-Sampling Model (08 Dec 2024 00:22)
Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models in Macroeconomics (DSGEs) (08 Dec 2024 00:12)
Ensemble Methods in Machine Learning (08 Dec 2024 00:12)
Heritability and Its Estimation, Especially in Humans (08 Dec 2024 00:11)
Branching Processes (08 Dec 2024 00:09)
Bootstrapping, and Other Resampling Methods (08 Dec 2024 00:05)
Frequentist Consistency of Bayesian Procedures (08 Dec 2024 00:05)
Actually, "Dr. Internet" Is the Name of the Monsters' Creator (08 Dec 2024 00:05)
Confidence Sets, Confidence Intervals (08 Dec 2024 00:05)
Concentration of Measure (08 Dec 2024 00:04)
When Do Physical Systems Compute? (08 Dec 2024 00:04)
Collective Cognition (08 Dec 2024 00:01)
Central Limit Theorem(s) (08 Dec 2024 00:01)
C. J. Cherryh (08 Dec 2024 00:00)
Karel Čapek, 1890--1938 (08 Dec 2024 00:00)
Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control Theory (08 Dec 2024 00:00)
Historical Genetics (07 Dec 2024 23:59)
Half-Truths (at Best) about Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control (07 Dec 2024 23:59)
Graph Limits and Infinite Exchangeable Arrays (07 Dec 2024 23:58)
Grammatical Inference (07 Dec 2024 23:58)
Expressive Power vs. Learnability (07 Dec 2024 23:58)
Exponential Families of Probability Measures (07 Dec 2024 23:58)
Ethical and Political Issues in Data Mining, Especially Unfairness in Automated Decision Making (07 Dec 2024 23:57)
Directed Information and Transfer Entropy (07 Dec 2024 23:57)
Cumulants, and Cumulant Generating Functions (07 Dec 2024 23:57)
Conformal Prediction (07 Dec 2024 23:56)
Ideal Types, Vector Bases, and Convex Combinations (07 Dec 2024 23:56)
Indirect Inference (07 Dec 2024 23:56)
Information Flow (07 Dec 2024 23:55)
Landauer's Principle (07 Dec 2024 23:55)
Laplace Approximation (07 Dec 2024 23:54)
Liberalism (07 Dec 2024 23:54)
Marxism(s) (07 Dec 2024 23:54)
Mathematical Logic (07 Dec 2024 23:53)
Maximum Entropy Methods (MaxEnt) (07 Dec 2024 23:49)
Forecasting Non-Stationary Processes, and Estimating Their Parameters (07 Dec 2024 23:47)
I. A. Richards, 1893--1979 (07 Dec 2024 23:46)
Relational Learning (07 Dec 2024 23:43)
Low-Regret Learning (07 Dec 2024 23:42)
Stochastic Block Models (07 Dec 2024 23:42)
Some Unattractive Meta-Ethical Positions, Free to a Good Home (07 Dec 2024 23:41)
Random Feature Methods in Machine Learning (07 Dec 2024 23:40)
Planned Economies (07 Dec 2024 23:40)
Notes on "Repro Samples Method for Finite- and Large-Sample Inferences" (07 Dec 2024 23:39)
Simulation-Based Inference (07 Dec 2024 23:38)
Random Matrix Theory (07 Dec 2024 23:38)
Recovering Networks from Noisy Observations (07 Dec 2024 23:38)
(Decision, Classification, Regression, Prediction) Trees in Statistics and Machine Learning (07 Dec 2024 23:36)
Additive Models for Regression, Generalized Additive Models, etc. (05 Dec 2024 11:17)
Recommended Science Fiction (05 Dec 2024 09:40)
Information Theory (04 Dec 2024 18:47)
Cybernetics (04 Dec 2024 18:32)
Excitable Media (04 Dec 2024 10:48)
Neural Nets, Connectionism, Perceptrons, etc. (04 Dec 2024 10:17)
Data Mining (04 Dec 2024 10:13)
Economics (04 Dec 2024 10:11)
Evolutionary Economics (04 Dec 2024 10:01)
Institutions and Organizations (04 Dec 2024 09:55)
Empirical Likelihood (04 Dec 2024 09:33)
Chinese philosophy of the Warring States period (01 Dec 2024 14:03)
Myths, and Mythologies as Meta-Myths (25 Nov 2024 23:11)
Mircea Eliade (25 Nov 2024 23:10)
Stability and Complexity of Ecosystems (25 Nov 2024 22:53)
Regression, especially Nonparametric Regression (25 Nov 2024 22:22)
Developmental Biology (25 Nov 2024 20:21)
W. Ross Ashby, 1903--1972 (25 Nov 2024 20:15)
Self-Organization (25 Nov 2024 20:13)
Signal Transduction, Control of Metabolism, and Gene Regulation (25 Nov 2024 19:32)
Large Deviations (25 Nov 2024 10:41)
Monte Carlo, and Other Kinds of Stochastic Simulation (25 Nov 2024 10:30)
Social Contagion, Information Cascades, Diffusion of Innovations, Etc. (23 Nov 2024 16:51)
Artificial Intelligence (20 Nov 2024 14:56)
Herbert Simon, 1916--2001 (20 Nov 2024 14:55)
Computation, Automata, Languages (19 Nov 2024 19:24)
America, United States of (17 Nov 2024 19:35)
Interacting Particle Systems (13 Nov 2024 14:54)
Filtering, State Estimation, and Other Forms of Signal Processing (13 Nov 2024 14:42)
Graphical Models (12 Nov 2024 09:28)
Hayek, F. A. von (1899--1992) (10 Nov 2024 19:08)
Cognitive science (10 Nov 2024 19:05)
Agent-Based Modeling (10 Nov 2024 19:01)
Daniel Dennett (10 Nov 2024 18:50)
Duality between Knowledge Centralization and Market Completeness? (10 Nov 2024 18:49)
Scientific Method, and Philosophy of Science (10 Nov 2024 18:47)
Sociology of Science (07 Nov 2024 10:19)
Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844--1900 (06 Nov 2024 15:10)
Conspiracy Theories (06 Nov 2024 15:03)
Slime Molds, especially Dictyostelium (05 Nov 2024 21:09)
Space Travel, Extraterrestrial Life, SETI (05 Nov 2024 14:24)
The Renaissance (04 Nov 2024 18:19)
Recommended Fantasy Books (01 Nov 2024 15:26)
Early Modern Europe (25 Oct 2024 14:20)
Evolution (of Organisms) (25 Oct 2024 09:27)
Evolutionary Game Theory (24 Oct 2024 19:16)
Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena (24 Oct 2024 11:07)
Complexity Measures (24 Oct 2024 11:07)
Evolution of Complexity (24 Oct 2024 10:34)
Central Asia (23 Oct 2024 13:38)
Decision Theory (23 Oct 2024 10:37)
Learning Theory (Formal, Computational or Statistical) (23 Oct 2024 10:03)
Optimization (23 Oct 2024 10:01)
Complex Networks (21 Oct 2024 11:28)
Methodology for the Social Sciences (21 Oct 2024 10:30)
"The Edge of Chaos" (18 Oct 2024 10:07)
Homophily and Influence in Social Networks (18 Oct 2024 09:48)
Ergodic Theory (17 Oct 2024 09:03)
Machine Learning, Statistical Inference and Induction (15 Oct 2024 14:28)
Communism (1917--) (15 Oct 2024 13:25)
Power Law Distributions, 1/f Noise, Long-Memory Time Series (10 Oct 2024 13:29)
Stochastic Processes (10 Oct 2024 10:10)
Probability Theory (10 Oct 2024 10:09)
Sociology (10 Oct 2024 09:04)
Networks of Political Actors (08 Oct 2024 15:53)
Time Series, or Statistics for Stochastic Processes and Dynamical Systems (07 Oct 2024 11:17)
Causality (07 Oct 2024 11:12)
Mysteries (07 Oct 2024 11:11)
Classical era, Mediterranean (07 Oct 2024 10:59)
Chinese History (07 Oct 2024 10:56)
Maya civilization (07 Oct 2024 10:47)
The Frankfurt School (02 Oct 2024 16:14)
World History, Macrohistory (02 Oct 2024 11:29)
Ecology (02 Oct 2024 11:03)
Math I Ought to Learn (02 Oct 2024 10:02)
What Is the Right Null Model for Linear Regression? (30 Sep 2024 10:48)
Clustering (30 Sep 2024 10:47)
Factor Models in Statistics (30 Sep 2024 10:41)
Analysis of Network Data (29 Sep 2024 15:08)
Markov Models (29 Sep 2024 14:13)
Symbolic Dynamics (19 Sep 2024 09:29)
Computational Statistics (18 Sep 2024 10:22)
Universal Prediction Algorithms (17 Sep 2024 11:29)
Education, Academia (09 Sep 2024 16:14)
New Mexico (05 Sep 2024 14:16)
Science Fiction (05 Sep 2024 13:32)
Literary Criticism and Theory of Criticism (05 Sep 2024 13:30)
Parallel and Distributed Computing (05 Sep 2024 11:12)
Neuroscience (05 Sep 2024 11:09)
Tsallis Statistics, Statistical Mechanics for Non-extensive Systems and Long-Range Interactions (05 Sep 2024 10:36)
Graph Sampling Algorithms (Yet Another Inadequate Placeholder) (05 Sep 2024 10:04)
Nuclear Weapons (26 Aug 2024 15:30)
Psychoceramics (26 Aug 2024 11:30)
Empires and Imperialism (23 Aug 2024 15:10)
Memes, and Related Ideas about the Evolution of Culture (12 Aug 2024 14:26)
Convergence of Stochastic Processes (25 Jul 2024 09:15)
Calculating Macroscopic Consequences of Microscopic Interactions (23 Jul 2024 13:50)
Sequential Decision-Making Under Stochastic Uncertainty (17 Jul 2024 10:53)
The Romanticists (23 Jun 2024 13:56)
Imagination (23 Jun 2024 13:56)
Antarctica (20 Jun 2024 14:09)
Evolutionary psychology (18 Jun 2024 09:55)
History of Science (18 Jun 2024 09:26)
Fantasy (18 Jun 2024 09:25)
Democracy (16 Jun 2024 22:06)
Norbert Wiener (1894--1964) (16 May 2024 14:46)
Arturo Rosenblueth Sterns (1900--1970) (16 May 2024 14:45)
Quantum Mechanics (14 May 2024 11:18)
The United States Congress, How It Works and For Whom (09 May 2024 10:23)
The Role of Experts and Science in Democracy (09 May 2024 09:07)
Foreign Policy (American) (08 May 2024 22:48)
Social Networks (18 Apr 2024 13:41)
Network Comparison (17 Apr 2024 23:14)
Linguistics (03 Apr 2024 09:33)
The American Dilemma (02 Apr 2024 08:42)
The Dying Earth (11 Mar 2024 22:35)
Random Fields (10 Mar 2024 21:50)
Community Discovery Methods for Complex Networks (05 Mar 2024 11:42)
Density Estimation (05 Mar 2024 10:00)
Statistical Emulators for Simulation Models (29 Feb 2024 11:16)
Adversarial Examples in Machine Learning (25 Feb 2024 14:35)
Nearest Neighbor Methods in Statistics and Data Mining (24 Feb 2024 17:24)
Postmodernism, Poststructuralism, etc. (24 Feb 2024 17:04)
Reception and Appropriations of Classical Culture (11 Feb 2024 09:39)
Some Notes on Influence Functions and Targeted Learning (19 Jan 2024 09:51)
Classifiers and Clustering for Time Series (07 Jan 2024 14:23)
Socialism, Market Socialism (04 Jan 2024 11:15)
Afghanistan (02 Jan 2024 13:35)
IQ, and Mental Testing More Generally (08 Dec 2023 12:21)
Recommended Mystery Novels (31 Oct 2023 14:14)
Occam's Razor (27 Oct 2023 11:21)
Intellectuals (26 Oct 2023 09:17)
Positivism (25 Oct 2023 22:15)
Human Ecology (25 Oct 2023 22:06)
Political elites (25 Oct 2023 22:02)
Race and Racism (18 Oct 2023 14:54)
Graph Theory (18 Oct 2023 13:23)
Clinical and Actuarial Judgment Compared (05 Oct 2023 13:45)
Religion (21 Sep 2023 09:39)
William James (21 Sep 2023 09:36)
Dynamical Systems (Including Chaos) (13 Sep 2023 20:48)
The Left (13 Sep 2023 20:29)
Totaliatiarianism, Especially Its Intellectual and Social Roots (30 Aug 2023 15:01)
The Right, Conservativism, Reaction (30 Aug 2023 14:47)
The Enlightenment (30 Aug 2023 09:41)
Mesopotamia, especially Sumeria (27 Aug 2023 10:09)
Goddess, The (20 Aug 2023 15:42)
Historical Materialism (25 Jul 2023 10:47)
Pragmatism (24 Jul 2023 22:54)
Millenarianism (21 Jul 2023 11:33)
Thought and Society (10 Jul 2023 20:24)
Cellular Automata (09 Jul 2023 12:55)
Multi-Agent Systems (09 Jul 2023 11:48)
Corporations, Corporate Governance, Corporate Finance (09 Jul 2023 11:31)
Terrorism, state or independent (07 Jul 2023 20:51)
Cross-Validation (28 Jun 2023 12:45)
Finance, Banking, "the Markets" (23 Jun 2023 13:49)
Political Decision-Making, Social Choice, Public Policy (16 Jun 2023 23:22)
Poetry, Poets (06 May 2023 17:58)
ibn Khaldûn, 'Abd-ar-Rahmân Abû Zayd ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad, 1332--1406 (04 May 2023 20:57)
Random Time Changes for Stochastic Processes (04 May 2023 15:23)
Model Selection (04 May 2023 11:53)
Neural Modeling and Data Analysis (04 May 2023 11:34)
Stochastic Approximation Algorithms (06 Apr 2023 18:36)
Information Geometry (02 Apr 2023 01:16)
Archaeology (30 Mar 2023 10:46)
China in the 20th Century (21 Mar 2023 15:24)
Rhetoric (20 Feb 2023 12:52)
Interpretation (02 Jan 2023 23:52)
Scientific Thinking (02 Dec 2022 10:06)
Predation of Humans by Other Animals (19 Nov 2022 15:16)
Persian Empire, Ancient (26 Oct 2022 06:27)
Alchemy (23 Oct 2022 22:20)
Technology and Society (23 Oct 2022 14:58)
Literacy, Reading, Writing (23 Oct 2022 14:51)
Development Economics and Economic Growth (23 Oct 2022 14:44)
Human Evolution and Paleoanthropology (23 Oct 2022 12:56)
Bertrand Russell (1872--1970) (14 Jul 2022 10:45)
Reductionism (10 Jul 2022 23:44)
The Welfare State (02 Jul 2022 23:38)
Inferring Networks from Non-Network Data (27 May 2022 09:39)
Intellectual standards and competence (26 May 2022 23:04)
Ernest Gellner, 1925--1995 (18 Apr 2022 13:12)
Gene Expression Data Analysis (14 Apr 2022 23:28)
Leszek Kolakowski (11 Apr 2022 11:10)
State Formation and Development (24 Mar 2022 16:56)
Cities, Urban Form (21 Mar 2022 20:57)
Mechanistic Explanations (05 Mar 2022 23:09)
China Since Mao (05 Mar 2022 11:29)
Titan (26 Feb 2022 16:03)
Possession, Multiple-Personality Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder (26 Jan 2022 20:35)
Cultural Criticism (26 Nov 2021 16:50)
Teaching Statistics (27 Sep 2021 17:01)
"Occam"-style Bounds for Long Programs (23 Sep 2021 13:40)
Influence of Network Topology on Synchronization (30 Aug 2021 10:40)
Neural Coding (30 Aug 2021 10:21)
Psychotherapy, Psychiatry, Mental Illness (07 Aug 2021 18:01)
Globalization (04 Nov 2020 12:01)
Law and Jurisprudence (01 Nov 2020 20:36)
Lucretius (21 Aug 2020 10:13)
Variable or Feature Selection for Regression and Classification (23 Jul 2020 17:27)
Joint Modeling of Texts and Networks (04 Feb 2020 12:38)
Two-Sample Tests (26 Oct 2019 14:14)
Guerilla Warfare, Counter-Insurgency, etc. (29 Sep 2019 09:20)
Judgment, Choice, Human Decision-Making (24 Sep 2019 00:35)
Sung Dynasty China (23 Aug 2019 20:55)
Architecture and design (23 Aug 2019 17:58)
Hidden Markov Models, a.k.a. State-Space Models (22 Aug 2019 16:26)
Statistical Computing and Programming (22 Aug 2019 15:07)
Feminism (22 Aug 2019 14:54)
Collective Action (22 Aug 2019 14:25)
Neuropsychology (22 Aug 2019 13:28)
Management; Manangement Fads and Witch-Doctoring (22 Aug 2019 13:22)
Graph Spectra (02 Aug 2019 10:26)
Assortative Social Networks and Neutral Cultural Evolution (30 Apr 2019 09:59)
Gödel's Theorem (12 Jan 2019 16:00)
Pre-Columbian Civilizations (05 Jan 2019 21:38)
Recurrence Times of Stochastic Processes (also Hitting, Waiting, and First-Passage Times) (08 Dec 2018 11:37)
Ancient Chinese Bronzes (28 Mar 2018 15:22)
The Minimum Description Length Principle (MDL) (24 Jan 2018 15:37)
Neural Control of Action, Especially of Rapid Motor Sequences (13 Jan 2018 19:48)
Jack Vance (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Yet Another Information Matrix (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
VC Dimension and Evolving Cellular Automata (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
The University-Industrial Complex (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Synchronization (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Statistics on Manifolds (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Semiotics (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Social Neuroscience (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Self-Organized Criticality (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Ilya Prigogine (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Programming (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
The Phylogenetic Comparative Method and Evolving Cellular Automata (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Peasant Revolts, Rural Insurgencies, etc. (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Persuasion (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Particle-Based Computation (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Experiments on Social Networks (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Nationalism (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Intellectual Property (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Flocking and Models of Animal Swarms (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Evolutionary Epistemology (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Evolving Local Rules to Perform Global Computations (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, 1466--1536 (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Emotion (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Evolutionary Design (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Diversity (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Diversity in Machine Learning and Multi-Agent Systems (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Density Estimation on Graphical Models (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Computers in Education (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Basis Selection in Function Decomposition (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Biofilms and Other Cooperative Microbial Assemblages (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Jorge Luis Borges (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Campaign Finance in US Politics (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
The Authoritarian Personality (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Artificial life (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Islamic Spain, al-Andalus (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
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)
Biological Order, or Levels of Organization (11 Oct 1998 11:00)
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)
Brahmanical Proverbs (07 Apr 1998 16:06)
Ernest Bramah (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)
William Carlos Williams (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Alfred North Whitehead (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
``Swarm'' theories (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Spies, Secrecy, Intelligence (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Science (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Social Engineering (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Vergil: medieval legends (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Singapore (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Southeast Asia (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Sufism (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Vampires (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Whole Earth Catalog (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
The Wild Hunt (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Zen or Ch'an (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Yi the Archer (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Philosophical Taoism (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Theocracy in Tibet (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Soviets, councils, etc. (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Scientific instruments (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Jeremy Rifkin (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Molecular Biology (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Magic (supernatural) (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Physiological effects of TV (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Religious conversion (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Republics (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Marshall McLuhan (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
The Ottoman Empire (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Migraine headaches (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Julian Offray de la Mettrie (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Schizophrenia (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
The Middle East (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Lumpenproletariat, the underclass (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Personal Violence (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Particle physics (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Regulation (of Markets, etc.) (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Mass Hysteria, Mass Panics, Contagious Mental Conditions (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Mu'tazila and Mu'tazilites (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
``Naturalist'' philosophy in ancient China (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Edna St. Vincent Millay (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Potentially Runaway Technologies (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Proto-industrialism (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Phoenicians (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Physics (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
New Age music, electronic music (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Ichiro Ozawa (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Madison, Wisconsin (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Pseudo-events (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Philosophy of Mind (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Mysticism (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Neutral monism (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
San Francisco and the Bay Area (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Charles Sanders (Santiago) Peirce, 1839--1914 (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Post-industrialism (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Sardinia (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Mass Culture, Popular Culture (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Mass media (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
"The New Physics" (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Joseph Needham (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Ancient Rome and the Roman Empire (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
The Finns (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
The End of the World, I: Jehovah (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Epics and Oral Poetry (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Islam (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Literature (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
History of Technology (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Shirley Jackson (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
David Hume (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Intellectual frauds, II: The rabble (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Epidemiology (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Import of Eastern religions to Europe (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Intellectual frauds, I: Famous and profound (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
``Future shock'' (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Frivolous elites (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
The End of the World, II: Oppenheimer (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Russell Jacoby (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Genocide: history (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Intelligence augmentation (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Robert Graves (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
"Intellectual immune systems" or "intellectual self-defense" (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Galileo (Galileo Galilei, 1564--1642) (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Etruscans (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Sir James Frazer (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Ionia (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Japan (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Gardens (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
G. C. Lichtenberg (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Epicureanism (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Hypertext (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Initiation rites (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, etc. (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Liquid Crystals (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Lost Tribes of Israel (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Exile, Exiles (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
History, Historiography, Uses of the Past (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Hildegard of Bingen (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Human simulacra (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Goliards, medieval wandering scholars (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Input-Output Models in Economics (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
The End of the World, III: Nemesis (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Anatole France (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Ancient trade (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Biological Design (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Analytical Philosophy (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Armageddon (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Eastern Europe, circa 1900 (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Confucius and Confucianism (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
The Counter-culture (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Drugs (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Computers (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Charles Babbage (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Biological computers (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
The Berbers (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
``The biological expansion of Europe'' (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
The East Asian Economic Miracle (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Astrology (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Complex Systems (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Artistic Modernism (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
California (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Bohemia (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Adorno (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Books and Their History (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Electronic media, esp. portable ones, and demand for, expectation of continuous entertainment (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Richard Dawkins (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Automata (Mechanical) (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Ancient metallurgy (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Ancient China (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Berkeley, California (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
William Calvin (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Umberto Eco (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Atomism (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Thomas Browne, 1605--1682 (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Bosnia, and the Former Yugoslavia Generally (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Denis Diderot (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Abyssal Vents (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Clockwork (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Alexander the Great (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
The École des Beaux-arts (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Biotechnology (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Hannah Arendt (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Cultural minorities (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
``Directed evolution'' in biochemistry (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Censorship (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Norman Cohn (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Cults, Enthusiasts (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Authors (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Classical era, world-wide (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
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