Sometimes, in trying to capture a large, patterned thing using a software design (for example, all of the samples in a piece of music or all of the pixels in a large explorable world map), your architecture looks like a directed acyclic context-free grammar ( Read more... )

I'm currently obsessed with portable design - portable across languages / frameworks, I mean ( Read more... )

Kant said something about us having blinkers on, viewing the world in terms of time and (3d) space. That's moderately reasonable in terms of evolution, and there's some no-free-lunch argument that anything that deserves the name 'sensor' would have a similar fact-about-the-world embedded in it, a "prior ( Read more... )

Aside regarding the subject; there is a long tradition within computer science of "Foo considered harmful" essays. Some of these, such as Dijkstra's original "Goto considered harmful" are arguments trying to persuade the reader that Foo is, in fact, harmful. Others, such as Pierce's "Types considered harmful" are more like temporarily focusing on ( Read more... )

A couple years ago, I proposed a little AI architectureI think you can do the same thing with corporate governance (and really, both the AI idea and the corporate-governance variant come from the same origin - Robin Hanson's writing on prediction markets for corporate governance ( Read more... )

Okay, I assume you know what a prediction market is - Robin Hanson, Surowieki's Wisdom of Crowds, Iowa Electronic Market's presidental election markets - basically, information elicitation from a crowd of potential experts by subsidized betting ( Read more... )

Okay, what is venture accounting ( Read more... )

( You were probably bored with the very first post; this is just more of the same. )

Okay, additive abstractions are used in artificial intelligence, particularly puzzle solving ( Read more... )

An animal is trying to live. It has inflows and outflows of various things - it eats things, it drinks water, it shits. Temperature might flow in or out too ( Read more... )