Following up a previous post about the topic, here there is the second (and maybe the last one) essay. What is the technological singularity and is this a real issue? Again, a perspective from #complexity#science, with a travel through #cybernetics, slime molds and black-hole computers.
💪 Flexible systems | jordankaye.dev
"Given that many decisions will need to be adapted to changing requirements or unforeseen constraints, it is more prudent to focus on the ease of modifying decisions rather than striving for perfection at any given point. Taking this idea a step further involves identifying the fundamental properties that are believed to be resistant to change over time — Pareto’s “vital few”." #Pareto #Complexity #SoftwareDevelopment https://jordankaye.dev/posts/flexible-systems/
IMO bardzo ladny gest ze strony organizatorow, bo Jason jest jednym z najwiekszych pasjonatow i zajawkowiczow CS-a, ktory mimo pasma niepowodzen dalej stoi murem za swoja organizacja - do tej pory pamietam, jak ogladal walke Complexity w MCK Katowice w 2019 roku, z trybun, z widzami i przezywal kazdego fraga - zaszczyt wniesienia trofeum czesciej powinien przypadac takim ludziom, niz politykom 🙃
It's a know phenomena of self-organization in birds and an example in emerging phenomena in complexity:
How do flocking birds move in unison? https://earthsky.org/earth/how-do-flocking-birds-move-in-unison/
"We’ve all seen flocks of birds wheeling and swooping in unison, as if choreographed. How do they do this? Zoologists say they aren’t simply following a leader or their neighbors. If they were, the reaction time of each bird would need to be very fast. In fact, it would have to be faster than birds can react, according to scientists who’ve studied the reaction times of individual birds in laboratory settings." #complexity#self-organization #flocking#birds#biology
I'm going to attempt to do something kind of different with my thesis; people will be able to go through it as an interactive experiment. If you'd like to muck around in the unknown for research, I'll be putting out a call for study participants this fall if all goes to plan. In the meantime, I'd like to put this out into the world: Hawthorn, my thesis' big idea translated into a game.
"With every additional character you type, you're increasing the likelihood of a mistake.
This is true when it comes to typos, sure. But typos tend to be easy to catch and fix. The really troublesome bugs — the ones that tend to break user experiences for weeks as developers pass the support ticket around like a hot potato — are often caused by too much complexity, not too many characters."
➥ Josh Comeau
There is a simple function that is multiplicative for both the determinant and permanent simultaneously, namely (\det(A \oplus B) = \det(A)\det(B)) and (perm(A \oplus B)=perm(A)perm(B)).
The map (A,B \mapsto A \oplus B) is a projection in Valiant's sense - every coordinate of the output is either one of the input coordinates or a constant.
Morning mood: the CNN situation makes it pretty clear that as Canadians, we're going to have to think about what it is going to be like living next to a brutal dictatorship with the disappearance of the rule of law, complete compromise of the courts, and probably mass executions, prison camps, and a flood of refugees coming to our border. It seems inevitable that this is where America is headed. We are witnessing the death of democracy in real-time. The media is once again going to aid and abet it's destruction in a race for ratings
As you might guess, I'm in a pretty pissy mood this morning.
@jimcarroll@aadmaa I share the general sentiment of your fine mornings' rant, as well as your concern that some worst-case outcomes are absolutely possible. But I do think positive outcomes are also possible, and even more likely than the negative. I think ,y sense of US politics is a bit different from yours - and in particular I don't buy that a black swan event is needed to to bring America back from the Trump era.
I believe we can draw an analogy to time series analysis of ECG or EEG data. When you are about to have certain types of cardiac events or seizures, the dimensionality of the space drops. The can signal loses its complexity and become very simple, like going from an orchestral concert to the simplicity of a dull, regular drum beat. THUD THUD THUD THUD... And then, cue the cardiac event/seizure.
The dimensionality of the space of US political discourse can be measured as a behavior. (See e.g. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2205791119 - check out "A General Definition of Dimensionality in Behavior") You'd see that the dimensionality has collapsed - i.e., the number of functions of past behavior needed to predict future behavior becomes very low. Because you can predict way too much knowing way too little.
In this sense exactly, I believe what's been happening in US politics is analogous to a seizure or a heart attack: the orchestral complexity has collapsed into a dull THUD, THUD of very low dimension. And while a seizure can kill us, can hurt us, it's quite likely that we survive, and that after it passes as a seizure does, complexity of thought will reemerge naturally. Because we are many thoughtful, creative, independent/dependent/interdependent minds after all.
The game of Go has no hidden information, it's just so complex that the human mind cannot comprehend it all at once. I think that's what makes it so beautiful. The rules are as simple as they possibly can be. At the same time, there is practically no limit to improving in it. #go#baduk#igo#gameofgo#gogame#complexity
「 A common trap we have in software design comes from focusing on how "simple" we find it to read and interpret a given piece of code. Focusing on simplicity is fraught with peril because complexity can't be removed: it can just be shifted around. If you move it out of your code, where does it go? 」
— @mononcqc
"Much of the attention of methodologists has focused on how to recognize and control for unwanted factors that can affect outcomes of interest. But psychology is also important: it tells us that own human biases can be just as important in leading us astray"
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