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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Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky (1896--1934) (04 Jun 2023 23:17)
Marxism(s) (04 Jun 2023 23:17)
Evolutionary psychology (04 Jun 2023 23:11)
Random Feature Methods in Machine Learning (04 Jun 2023 23:05)
Independence Tests, Conditional Independence Tests, Measures of Dependence and Conditional Dependence (04 Jun 2023 23:02)
Multiple or Vector Time Series (04 Jun 2023 23:02)
Collective Cognition (04 Jun 2023 23:00)
"Attention", "Transformers", in Neural Network "Large Language Models" (04 Jun 2023 22:59)
Social Networks (04 Jun 2023 22:54)
Ethical and Political Issues in Data Mining, Especially Unfairness in Automated Decision Making (04 Jun 2023 22:50)
Learning Theory (Formal, Computational or Statistical) (04 Jun 2023 22:43)
Koopman Operators for Modeling Dynamical Systems and Time Series (04 Jun 2023 22:40)
Artificial Intelligence (04 Jun 2023 22:38)
Symmetries of Neural Networks (01 Jun 2023 22:26)
Actually, "Dr. Internet" Is the Name of the Monster's Creator (01 Jun 2023 22:10)
Conformal Prediction (01 Jun 2023 16:18)
Neural Nets, Connectionism, Perceptrons, etc. (28 May 2023 09:40)
Graphical Causal Models (27 May 2023 12:20)
History of Science (23 May 2023 13:58)
Islamicate Civilization, from the Beginning to European Colonialism (23 May 2023 13:57)
The Renaissance (23 May 2023 13:57)
Empires and Imperialism (22 May 2023 14:23)
Grammatical Inference (21 May 2023 12:33)
Memes, and Related Ideas about the Evolution of Culture (13 May 2023 13:27)
Psychoceramics (13 May 2023 13:26)
Social Contagion, Information Cascades, Diffusion of Innovations, Etc. (13 May 2023 13:25)
Pragmatism (13 May 2023 12:38)
Additive Models for Regression, Generalized Additive Models, etc. (10 May 2023 14:09)
Causal Discovery Algorithms (10 May 2023 14:05)
Regression, especially Nonparametric Regression (10 May 2023 13:54)
Nonparametric Confidence Sets for Functions (10 May 2023 09:49)
Self-Organization (09 May 2023 22:35)
Linguistics (09 May 2023 10:27)
Factor Models in Statistics (08 May 2023 23:32)
Measurement, Especially in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (08 May 2023 23:18)
Learning Statistical Models Which Predict Well Across Many Rare Categories (08 May 2023 23:16)
Information Theory and Large Deviations in the Foundations of Statistics (08 May 2023 23:14)
Dynamical Systems (Including Chaos) (08 May 2023 15:15)
Economics (08 May 2023 15:14)
The Minority Game (08 May 2023 15:14)
Learning in Games (08 May 2023 15:14)
The Left (06 May 2023 19:16)
Complexity (06 May 2023 19:15)
Random Boolean Networks, Nk Networks (06 May 2023 19:15)
Spin Glasses (06 May 2023 19:15)
Computation, Automata, Languages (06 May 2023 19:02)
The Schelling Model (06 May 2023 19:01)
Empirical Process Theory (06 May 2023 18:46)
Information Theory (06 May 2023 18:45)
Cuvier, Totality, Marxism (06 May 2023 18:26)
Poetry, Poets (06 May 2023 17:58)
Political Philosophy and Political Theory (06 May 2023 17:57)
Liberalism (05 May 2023 11:33)
Analysis of Network Data (04 May 2023 21:43)
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)
The Role of Experts and Science in Democracy (04 May 2023 12:05)
Spatial Statistics (04 May 2023 11:54)
Spatial-Temporal Statistics (04 May 2023 11:54)
Model Selection (04 May 2023 11:53)
Statistics (04 May 2023 11:53)
Frequentist Consistency of Bayesian Procedures (04 May 2023 11:39)
Neural Modeling and Data Analysis (04 May 2023 11:34)
Point Processes (04 May 2023 11:29)
Sequential Decision-Making Under Stochastic Uncertainty (02 May 2023 21:43)
Symbolic Dynamics (02 May 2023 21:24)
Time Series, or Statistics for Stochastic Processes and Dynamical Systems (02 May 2023 21:19)
Complexity Measures (02 May 2023 21:16)
Political Decision-Making, Social Choice, Public Policy (02 May 2023 17:24)
Causal Inference (02 May 2023 17:14)
Conspiracy Theories (02 May 2023 16:51)
The Genealogy of Complexity (02 May 2023 16:41)
Quantum Mechanics (01 May 2023 15:52)
Causality (01 May 2023 15:51)
Clustering (29 Apr 2023 08:38)
Mixture Models (in Statistics) (29 Apr 2023 08:36)
H. P. Lovecraft (1890--1937) (28 Apr 2023 15:24)
Statistical Learning Theory with Dependent Data (21 Apr 2023 21:42)
Filtering, State Estimation, and Other Forms of Signal Processing (21 Apr 2023 21:41)
Space Travel, Extraterrestrial Life, SETI (21 Apr 2023 21:29)
The Frankfurt School (21 Apr 2023 21:28)
Socialism, Market Socialism (21 Apr 2023 21:26)
Science Fiction (21 Apr 2023 21:24)
Historical Materialism (21 Apr 2023 21:16)
Analytical Marxism, a.k.a. "No Bullshit" Marxism (21 Apr 2023 21:16)
Literary Criticism and Theory of Criticism (21 Apr 2023 09:38)
Recommended Fantasy Books (21 Apr 2023 09:35)
The Soviet Union, 1917--1991 (21 Apr 2023 09:28)
Central Asia (21 Apr 2023 09:27)
The Scientific Revolution (18 Apr 2023 16:31)
History of India (and the rest of the subcontinent) (10 Apr 2023 11:50)
The American Dilemma (10 Apr 2023 11:43)
Text Mining (and Information Retrieval) (10 Apr 2023 11:35)
Stochastic Approximation Algorithms (06 Apr 2023 18:36)
Prediction Processes; Markovian (and Conceivably Causal) Representations of Stochastic Processes (05 Apr 2023 14:52)
Democracy (05 Apr 2023 09:27)
Agent-Based Modeling (03 Apr 2023 10:03)
Information Geometry (02 Apr 2023 01:16)
The Right, Conservativism, Reaction (30 Mar 2023 10:55)
America, United States of (30 Mar 2023 10:50)
Archaeology (30 Mar 2023 10:46)
Maya civilization (30 Mar 2023 10:41)
Partial Identification of Parametric Statistical Models (30 Mar 2023 10:35)
Large Deviations (28 Mar 2023 14:44)
Power Law Distributions, 1/f Noise, Long-Memory Time Series (25 Mar 2023 11:00)
Partisanship (Yet Another Inadequate Placeholder) (25 Mar 2023 10:55)
Methodology for the Social Sciences (23 Mar 2023 13:12)
China in the 20th Century (21 Mar 2023 15:24)
Fantasy (21 Mar 2023 15:10)
Antarctica (21 Mar 2023 14:37)
Intellectuals (20 Feb 2023 12:53)
Rhetoric (20 Feb 2023 12:52)
Clinical and Actuarial Judgment Compared (15 Feb 2023 15:08)
Sociology of Science (06 Feb 2023 00:07)
Historical Genetics (05 Feb 2023 23:53)
Planned Economies (05 Feb 2023 23:51)
Myths, and Mythologies as Meta-Myths (29 Jan 2023 22:19)
Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control Theory (29 Jan 2023 22:15)
Political elites (17 Jan 2023 23:24)
Postmodernism, Poststructuralism, etc. (17 Jan 2023 00:11)
Math I Ought to Learn (09 Jan 2023 10:13)
Optimization (09 Jan 2023 10:12)
Sociology (08 Jan 2023 22:03)
Education, Academia (07 Jan 2023 14:54)
Reception and Appropriations of Classical Culture (02 Jan 2023 23:53)
Interpretation (02 Jan 2023 23:52)
Recommended Science Fiction (02 Jan 2023 23:51)
Transmission of Inequality (28 Dec 2022 21:59)
Recommender Systems and Collaborative Filtering (02 Dec 2022 11:02)
Afghanistan (02 Dec 2022 10:30)
Scientific Thinking (02 Dec 2022 10:06)
Predation of Humans by Other Animals (19 Nov 2022 15:16)
Plato (19 Nov 2022 15:12)
Millenarianism (18 Nov 2022 19:26)
Hayek, F. A. von (1899--1992) (18 Nov 2022 15:04)
Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models in Macroeconomics (DSGEs) (09 Nov 2022 10:47)
Persian Empire, Ancient (26 Oct 2022 06:27)
Alchemy (23 Oct 2022 22:20)
Knowledge and Intelligence as Factors of Production (23 Oct 2022 21:16)
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)
Classical era, Mediterranean (23 Oct 2022 13:39)
Imagination (23 Oct 2022 13:13)
Scientific Method, and Philosophy of Science (23 Oct 2022 13:00)
Human Evolution and Paleoanthropology (23 Oct 2022 12:56)
Neuroscience (23 Oct 2022 12:55)
The Cold War (23 Oct 2022 12:50)
Chinese History (23 Oct 2022 12:37)
Gnosticism (23 Oct 2022 12:18)
Role-Playing Games (05 Oct 2022 15:19)
Gygax Texts, Gygax Confidence Sets (21 Sep 2022 16:47)
Economists in Politics (18 Sep 2022 15:49)
Random Fields (13 Sep 2022 14:45)
Decision Theory (04 Sep 2022 23:28)
Arturo Rosenblueth Sterns (1900--1970) (31 Aug 2022 18:23)
Norbert Wiener (1894--1964) (31 Aug 2022 18:07)
Confidence Sets, Confidence Intervals (31 Aug 2022 11:38)
Joan Didion (1934--2021) (31 Aug 2022 11:36)
Yi-Fu Tuan (1930--2022) (31 Aug 2022 10:49)
Bootstrapping, and Other Resampling Methods (17 Aug 2022 13:16)
Community Discovery Methods for Complex Networks (04 Aug 2022 10:16)
Climate Change, and General Climatology (27 Jul 2022 00:36)
Evolution (of Organisms) (27 Jul 2022 00:33)
Evolutionary Economics (27 Jul 2022 00:20)
Nonequilibrium Statistcal Mechanics and Thermodynamics (27 Jul 2022 00:19)
Convergence of Stochastic Processes (26 Jul 2022 23:40)
Foreign Policy (American) (26 Jul 2022 23:23)
Adversarial Examples in Machine Learning (25 Jul 2022 09:52)
Cognitive science (23 Jul 2022 23:01)
Emergent Properties (23 Jul 2022 22:58)
Mean Field Games and Mean Field Control (22 Jul 2022 23:03)
Foundations and History of Statistical Mechanics (22 Jul 2022 11:29)
Universal Prediction Algorithms (22 Jul 2022 10:04)
Equations of Motion from a Time Series (21 Jul 2022 09:16)
Epidemic (Models) on Networks (20 Jul 2022 11:43)
Maximum Entropy Methods (MaxEnt) (20 Jul 2022 11:20)
State-Space Reconstruction (20 Jul 2022 11:12)
Ensemble Methods in Machine Learning (19 Jul 2022 09:57)
Consistency (in statistics) or "Probably Approximately Correct" (19 Jul 2022 09:54)
Probability Theory (18 Jul 2022 21:03)
Cross-Validation (17 Jul 2022 15:24)
Low-Regret Learning (17 Jul 2022 15:21)
Compartment Models (17 Jul 2022 15:00)
Interacting Particle Systems (17 Jul 2022 14:57)
Calculating Macroscopic Consequences of Microscopic Interactions (17 Jul 2022 14:56)
Algorithmic Information Theory (14 Jul 2022 14:33)
Machine Learning, Statistical Inference and Induction (14 Jul 2022 14:29)
Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGMs) (14 Jul 2022 14:27)
Bertrand Russell (1872--1970) (14 Jul 2022 10:45)
Density Estimation (11 Jul 2022 12:08)
Stochastic Differential Equations (11 Jul 2022 00:11)
Path Integrals and Feynman Diagrams for Classical Stochastic Processes (11 Jul 2022 00:07)
Reductionism (10 Jul 2022 23:44)
Physics of Computation and Information (10 Jul 2022 23:27)
Persianate Culture (10 Jul 2022 19:46)
Ecology (10 Jul 2022 19:41)
Mesopotamia, especially Sumeria (08 Jul 2022 10:20)
Demography, Demographic Modeling (03 Jul 2022 11:38)
Communism (1917--) (03 Jul 2022 10:30)
The United States Congress, How It Works and For Whom (03 Jul 2022 10:04)
The Welfare State (02 Jul 2022 23:38)
Graph Theory (02 Jul 2022 22:44)
Relational Learning (28 Jun 2022 10:12)
Totaliatiarianism, Especially Its Intellectual and Social Roots (18 Jun 2022 15:52)
Sufficient Statistics (15 Jun 2022 14:53)
Epidemic Models (15 Jun 2022 14:24)
Blackouts (06 Jun 2022 09:06)
Recommended Mystery Novels (29 May 2022 00:51)
William James (29 May 2022 00:48)
Karl Marx (1818--1883) (29 May 2022 00:45)
Climate Networks (27 May 2022 09:39)
Inferring Networks from Non-Network Data (27 May 2022 09:39)
The Late Bronze Age Collapse and Dark Age (27 May 2022 09:13)
Intellectual standards and competence (26 May 2022 23:04)
Thought and Society (26 May 2022 16:26)
Deviation Inequalities in Probability Theory (26 May 2022 10:31)
Some Unattractive Meta-Ethical Positions (26 May 2022 10:05)
Goddess, The (17 May 2022 16:55)
Heritability and Its Estimation, Especially in Humans (17 May 2022 11:05)
Projectivity in Statistical Models (25 Apr 2022 10:11)
Stochastic Processes (25 Apr 2022 10:04)
Citations and Citation Networks (24 Apr 2022 21:32)
Institutions and Organizations (23 Apr 2022 12:10)
Markov Models (18 Apr 2022 18:35)
Ernest Gellner, 1925--1995 (18 Apr 2022 13:12)
The "Satanic Panic" of the 1980s and Recovered Memories (18 Apr 2022 11:31)
Gene Expression Data Analysis (14 Apr 2022 23:28)
Biochemical Network Evolution (14 Apr 2022 18:13)
Concentration of Measure (14 Apr 2022 11:08)
Graph Limits and Infinite Exchangeable Arrays (12 Apr 2022 22:49)
Factor Models for High-Dimensional Time Series and Spatio-Temporal Data (11 Apr 2022 19:51)
What Is the Right Null Model for Linear Regression? (11 Apr 2022 12:22)
Leszek Kolakowski (11 Apr 2022 11:10)
Estimating Entropies and Informations (11 Apr 2022 10:14)
State Formation and Development (24 Mar 2022 16:56)
Cities, Urban Form (21 Mar 2022 20:57)
When Do Physical Systems Compute? (21 Mar 2022 09:40)
Ergodic Theory (19 Mar 2022 00:20)
Graph Sampling Algorithms (13 Mar 2022 14:10)
Mechanistic Explanations (05 Mar 2022 23:09)
China Since Mao (05 Mar 2022 11:29)
Titan (26 Feb 2022 16:03)
World History, Macrohistory (09 Feb 2022 09:12)
Nuclear Weapons (05 Feb 2022 15:53)
Project Cybersyn (30 Jan 2022 11:39)
The Socialist Calculation Debate (30 Jan 2022 11:38)
Possession, Multiple-Personality Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder (26 Jan 2022 20:35)
Evolutionary Game Theory (29 Nov 2021 23:08)
Cultural Criticism (26 Nov 2021 16:50)
Early Modern Europe (26 Nov 2021 16:46)
Indirect Inference (17 Nov 2021 21:33)
Information Flow (04 Oct 2021 11:20)
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)
Parallel and Distributed Computing (30 Aug 2021 10:21)
Directed Information and Transfer Entropy (13 Aug 2021 20:54)
Psychotherapy, Psychiatry, Mental Illness (07 Aug 2021 18:01)
Homophily and Influence in Social Networks (22 Jul 2021 11:39)
Graphical Models (09 Jul 2021 11:56)
Inference for Stochastic Differential Equations (28 Jun 2021 00:18)
Statistical Inference for Markov and Hidden Markov Models (28 Jun 2021 00:17)
Instrumental Variables (28 May 2021 10:42)
Forecasting Non-Stationary Processes (19 May 2021 22:51)
Data Mining (17 May 2021 10:41)
Tsallis Statistics, Statistical Mechanics for Non-extensive Systems and Long-Range Interactions (13 May 2021 10:28)
Islamic Law (09 May 2021 16:15)
Mysteries (03 May 2021 10:23)
Mori-Zwanzig Formalims (01 May 2021 10:52)
Fluctuation-Response Relations (17 Apr 2021 17:27)
IQ, and Mental Testing More Generally (23 Dec 2020 11:33)
Post-Model-Selection Inference (07 Nov 2020 10:56)
Globalization (04 Nov 2020 12:01)
Law and Jurisprudence (01 Nov 2020 20:36)
Occam's Razor (28 Sep 2020 10:19)
Lucretius (21 Aug 2020 10:13)
Variable or Feature Selection for Regression and Classification (23 Jul 2020 17:27)
Branching Processes (11 May 2020 12:07)
Physical Principles and Biology (11 May 2020 11:45)
The Dying Earth (11 Apr 2020 10:16)
Change-Point Problems (16 Mar 2020 10:07)
Joint Modeling of Texts and Networks (04 Feb 2020 12:38)
New Mexico (28 Oct 2019 21:59)
Two-Sample Tests (26 Oct 2019 14:14)
Network Comparison (26 Oct 2019 14:13)
Terrorism, state or independent (29 Sep 2019 09:31)
Guerilla Warfare, Counter-Insurgency, etc. (29 Sep 2019 09:20)
Judgment, Choice, Human Decision-Making (24 Sep 2019 00:35)
"Math Methods" (23 Sep 2019 22:14)
Corporations, Corporate Governance, Corporate Finance (09 Sep 2019 15:34)
Herbert Simon, 1916--2001 (01 Sep 2019 11:51)
Characterizing Mixtures of Processes by Summarizing Statistics (27 Aug 2019 12:39)
Finance, Banking, "the Markets" (23 Aug 2019 22:15)
Sung Dynasty China (23 Aug 2019 20:55)
Architecture and design (23 Aug 2019 17:58)
Astrophysics and Cosmology (22 Aug 2019 16:51)
Pattern formation (22 Aug 2019 16:36)
Turbulence, and Fluid Mechanics in General (22 Aug 2019 16:26)
Hidden Markov Models, a.k.a. State-Space Models (22 Aug 2019 16:26)
Signal Transduction, Control of Metabolism, and Gene Regulation (22 Aug 2019 15:10)
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)
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (22 Aug 2019 12:43)
Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844--1900 (22 Aug 2019 12:12)
Classifiers and Clustering for Time Series (14 Aug 2019 14:00)
Information Technology Before the Electronic Computer (14 Aug 2019 13:26)
Exchangeable Random Sequences (09 Aug 2019 12:31)
Monte Carlo, and Other Kinds of Stochastic Simulation (02 Aug 2019 11:04)
Complex Networks (02 Aug 2019 10:39)
Graph Spectra (02 Aug 2019 10:26)
The Enlightenment (22 May 2019 20:30)
Exponential Families of Probability Measures (15 May 2019 13:46)
Hilbert Space Methods for Statistics and Probability (15 May 2019 13:45)
Kernel Methods in Statistic and Machine Learning (15 May 2019 13:38)
Assortative Social Networks and Neutral Cultural Evolution (30 Apr 2019 09:59)
Chains with Complete Connections (10 Apr 2019 11:54)
Visualizing Network Data (30 Jan 2019 13:31)
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)
Ergodic Theory of Markov and Related Processes (08 Dec 2018 11:35)
Mixing and Weak Dependence of Stochastic Processes (08 Dec 2018 11:19)
Statistical Emulators for Simulation Models (18 Oct 2018 20:28)
Synchronization and Functional Connectivity in Neural Systems (30 May 2018 11:02)
Ancient Chinese Bronzes (28 Mar 2018 15:22)
Networks of Political Actors (28 Mar 2018 14:42)
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)
Recommended Novels (11 Dec 2017 10:52)
The Thomson Ability-Sampling Model (13 Nov 2017 13:30)
On the Asymptotics of an Infinite-Dimensional Stochastic Dynamical System (13 Nov 2017 11:43)
Embedding Networks in Hyperbolic Spaces (08 Nov 2017 10:58)
Moral Psychology and Naturalized Ethics (10 Oct 2017 16:12)
Ethics, Game Theory and Biology (23 Aug 2017 09:45)
VC Dimension and Evolving Cellular Automata (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Jack Vance (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Yet Another Information Matrix (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Value-Added Measures in Education (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
The University-Industrial Complex (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Statistics on Manifolds (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Synchronization (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Statistics with Structured Data (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Structuralism (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Stochastic Block Models (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Slime Molds, especially Dictyostelium (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Social Neuroscience (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Self-Organized Criticality (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
The Romanticists (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
I. A. Richards, 1893--1979 (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Ilya Prigogine (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Programming (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Positivism (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
The Phylogenetic Comparative Method and Evolving Cellular Automata (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Operator Semigroups (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Peasant Revolts, Rural Insurgencies, etc. (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena (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)
Multi-Agent Systems (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Manifold Learning (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Landauer's Principle (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Computational Models of Linguistic Evolution (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Intellectual Property (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Information in Games and Decision-Making (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Human Ecology (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Flocking and Models of Animal Swarms (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Excitable Media (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
"The Edge of Chaos" (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Emotion (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Evolutionary Design (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, 1466--1536 (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Evolutionary Epistemology (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Evolution of Complexity (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Evolving Local Rules to Perform Global Computations (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)
Diversity (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Computers in Education (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Computational Statistics (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Karel Čapek, 1890--1938 (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Cellular Automata (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Chinese philosophy of the Warring States period (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Biofilms and Other Cooperative Microbial Assemblages (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Campaign Finance in US Politics (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Basis Selection in Function Decomposition (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
The Authoritarian Personality (27 Feb 2017 16:30)
Jorge Luis Borges (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)
Mathematical Logic (08 Sep 2004 11:07)
Political Foundations, Think-Tanks, Advocacy Groups and NGOs (26 Aug 2004 12:22)
Symbolic Correlations (23 Aug 2004 16:10)
Daniel Dennett (22 Aug 2004 12:30)
Duality between Knowledge Centralization and Market Completeness? (01 Aug 2004 11:55)
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)
Frequently Asked Questions about the Notebooks (06 Mar 2004 14:20)
Semiotics (04 Mar 2004 11:33)
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)
Logical Positivism (02 Mar 2004 18:59)
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)
Developmental Biology (20 Jan 2004 08:50)
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)
Statistical Mechanics (and Condensed Matter) (01 Apr 2003 09:01)
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)
Cybernetics (16 Oct 2002 15:27)
Bioinformatics (04 Oct 2002 14:31)
Pornography (15 Apr 2002 12:58)
Mircea Eliade (22 Nov 2001 14:26)
Scientist Fiction (13 Oct 2001 15:57)
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)
C. J. Cherryh (15 May 2000 14:39)
W. Ross Ashby (29 Nov 1999 17:38)
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)
Otto Neurath, 1882--1945 (25 Jul 1997 12:48)
The Witch-Craze and the Witch-Cult (01 Jul 1997 12:28)
General Systems Theory (15 May 1997 15:42)
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)
Singapore (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
The Wild Hunt (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Vergil: medieval legends (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Southeast Asia (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
William Carlos Williams (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Science (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Scientific instruments (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Alfred North Whitehead (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Philosophical Taoism (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Theocracy in Tibet (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
``Swarm'' theories (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Whole Earth Catalog (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Vampires (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Zen or Ch'an (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Social Engineering (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Yi the Archer (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Spies, Secrecy, Intelligence (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Soviets, councils, etc. (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
Sufism (03 Oct 1994 12:03)
"The New Physics" (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Marshall McLuhan (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Edna St. Vincent Millay (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Charles Sanders (Santiago) Peirce, 1839--1914 (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Mass media (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Mysticism (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Regulation (of Markets, etc.) (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
``Naturalist'' philosophy in ancient China (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Republics (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
The Ottoman Empire (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Julian Offray de la Mettrie (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
San Francisco and the Bay Area (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Mass Culture, Popular Culture (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Ichiro Ozawa (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Jeremy Rifkin (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Religion (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Philosophy of Mind (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Race and Racism (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Mass Hysteria, Mass Panics, Contagious Mental Conditions (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Particle physics (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Ancient Rome and the Roman Empire (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Migraine headaches (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Sardinia (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Schizophrenia (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Mu'tazila and Mu'tazilites (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Potentially Runaway Technologies (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Religious conversion (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Physics (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
New Age music, electronic music (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Pseudo-events (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Personal Violence (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Lumpenproletariat, the underclass (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Madison, Wisconsin (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Proto-industrialism (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Molecular Biology (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
The Middle East (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Magic (supernatural) (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Phoenicians (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Post-industrialism (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Physiological effects of TV (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Joseph Needham (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Neutral monism (03 Oct 1994 12:02)
Japan (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Frivolous elites (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Hypertext (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Galileo (Galileo Galilei, 1564--1642) (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Lost Tribes of Israel (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
The End of the World, I: Jehovah (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Russell Jacoby (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
David Hume (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
History of Technology (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
History, Historiography, Uses of the Past (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Initiation rites (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
G. C. Lichtenberg (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Goliards, medieval wandering scholars (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Hildegard of Bingen (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Ionia (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
``Future shock'' (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Intellectual frauds, I: Famous and profound (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Gardens (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
The Finns (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Epics and Oral Poetry (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Exile, Exiles (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Genocide: history (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, etc. (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Literature (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
"Intellectual immune systems" or "intellectual self-defense" (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
The End of the World, II: Oppenheimer (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Epicureanism (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Shirley Jackson (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Input-Output Models (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Sir James Frazer (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Intelligence augmentation (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Anatole France (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
The End of the World, III: Nemesis (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Etruscans (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Epidemiology (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Robert Graves (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Liquid Crystals (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Intellectual frauds, II: The rabble (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Import of Eastern religions to Europe (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Human simulacra (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Islam (03 Oct 1994 12:01)
Norman Cohn (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Biotechnology (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Hannah Arendt (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Atomism (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
``Directed evolution'' in biochemistry (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Computers (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
The École des Beaux-arts (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Biological Design (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Bosnia, and the Former Yugoslavia Generally (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Electronic media, esp. portable ones, and demand for, expectation of continuous entertainment (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
William Calvin (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Eastern Europe, circa 1900 (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
The Counter-culture (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Authors (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Cults, Enthusiasts (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
The East Asian Economic Miracle (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Charles Babbage (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Drugs (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Automata (Mechanical) (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Ancient trade (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Adorno (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Analytical Philosophy (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Astrology (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Classical era, world-wide (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Denis Diderot (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Umberto Eco (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Censorship (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Cultural minorities (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
``The biological expansion of Europe'' (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Ancient metallurgy (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Books and Their History (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Clockwork (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Bohemia (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
The Berbers (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
California (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Thomas Browne, 1605--1682 (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Berkeley, California (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Abyssal Vents (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Artistic Modernism (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Complex Systems (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Richard Dawkins (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Ancient China (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Alexander the Great (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Armageddon (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Biological computers (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
Confucius and Confucianism (03 Oct 1994 12:00)
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