Pursuant to the last note, it is interesting to ask the following question: if human discovery of a game space like the one in go centers around what could be a local maxima, and computers can help us find other maxima and so play in an "alien" way -- i.e. a way that is not… Fortsätt läsa Jottings II: Style of play, style of thought – human knowledge as a collection of local maxima
Månad: juli 2019
Jottings I: What does style of play tell us?
If we examine the space of all possible chess games we should be able to map out all games a really played look at how they are distributed in the game space (what are the dimensions of a game space, though?). It is possible that these games cluster in different ways and we could then… Fortsätt läsa Jottings I: What does style of play tell us?
Authority currencies and rugged landscapes of truth (Fake News Notes #9)
One model for thinking about the issue of misinformation is to say that we are navigating a flat information desert, where there is no topology of truth available. Now hills of fact, no valleys of misinformation. Our challenge is to figure out a good way to add a third dimension, or more than one single… Fortsätt läsa Authority currencies and rugged landscapes of truth (Fake News Notes #9)
Innovation III: What is the price of a kilo of ocean plastic?
A thought experiment. What would happen if we crowdsourced a price - not just a sum - per kilo of ocean plastic retrieved? This would require solving a few interesting problems along the way but would not be impossible. First, we would need to develop a means to crowdsourced prices rather than sums. What we… Fortsätt läsa Innovation III: What is the price of a kilo of ocean plastic?
Future of work – second take
When we speak about the future of work we often do this: we assume that there will be a labor market much like today, and that there will be jobs like the ones we have today, but that they will just be different jobs. It is as if we think we are moving from wanting… Fortsätt läsa Future of work – second take
Innovation and evolution I: Speciation rates and innovation rates
As we explore analogies between innovation and evolution, there are some concepts that present intriguing questions. The idea of a speciation rate is one of these concepts and it allows us to ask questions about the pace of innovation in new ways. Are speciation rates constant or rugged? That is: should we expect bursts of… Fortsätt läsa Innovation and evolution I: Speciation rates and innovation rates