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vicio blog: March 2012
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Thursday, March 22, 2012. Were Just Getting Started: A Glimpse at the History of Uncertainty. We've had our cerebral cortex for several tens of thousands of years. We've lived in more or less sedentary settlements and produced excess food for 7 or 8 thousand years. We've written down our thoughts for roughly 5 thousand years. And Science? Is still far from us. What holds for science in general, holds also for the study of uncertainty. The ancient Greeks. That serious thought was directed to the systemati...
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vicio blog: We're Just Getting Started: A Glimpse at the History of Uncertainty
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Thursday, March 22, 2012. Were Just Getting Started: A Glimpse at the History of Uncertainty. We've had our cerebral cortex for several tens of thousands of years. We've lived in more or less sedentary settlements and produced excess food for 7 or 8 thousand years. We've written down our thoughts for roughly 5 thousand years. And Science? Is still far from us. What holds for science in general, holds also for the study of uncertainty. The ancient Greeks. That serious thought was directed to the systemati...
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vicio blog: September 2011
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Friday, September 30, 2011. The Pains of Progress. To measure time by how little we change is to find how little we've lived,. But to measure time by how much we've lost is to wish we hadn't changed at all. The last frontier is not the Antarctic, or the oceans, or outer space. The last frontier is The Unknown. We mentioned in an earlier essay. On our hearts and minds. Progress is accompanied by painful tensions. On the one hand, progress is nurtured by stability, cooperation, and leisure. On the ...Not a...
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vicio blog: December 2011
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Sunday, December 18, 2011. Jabberwocky. Or: Grand Unified Theory of Uncertainty? Lewis Carroll's whimsical nonsense poem, uses made-up words to create an atmosphere and to tell a story. "Billig", "frumious", "vorpal" and "uffish" have no lexical meaning, but they could. Have The poem demonstrates that the realm of imagination exceeds the bounds of reality just as the set of possible words and meanings exceeds its real lexical counterpart. Lots, and forever. Would we say that of physics? Which is where we...
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vicio blog: August 2011
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Sunday, August 21, 2011. Baseball and Linguistic Uncertainty. In my youth I played an inordinate amount of baseball, collected baseball cards, and idolized baseball players. I've outgrown all that but when I'm in the States during baseball season I do enjoy watching a few innings on the TV. That's baseball talk, but it stuck in my mind. Baseball pitchers must manage uncertainty! Take the word "liberal" as it is used in political discussion. For many decades, "liberals" have tended to support high taxes t...
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vicio blog: October 2011
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Sunday, October 30, 2011. The Language of Science and the Tower of Babel. And God said: Behold one people with one language for them all . and now nothing that they venture will be kept from them. . [And] there God mixed up the language of all the land. Language is power over the unknown. Mathematics is the language of science, and computation is the modern voice in which this language is spoken. Scientists and engineers explore the book of nature with computer simulations of swirling galaxies. Mathemati...
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Decisions and Info-Gaps: March 2012
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This blog discusses, in non-technical terms, issues relating to decisions under uncertainty, especially from an info-gap perspective. Thursday, March 22, 2012. We're Just Getting Started: A Glimpse at the History of Uncertainty. We've had our cerebral cortex for several tens of thousands of years. We've lived in more or less sedentary settlements and produced excess food for 7 or 8 thousand years. We've written down our thoughts for roughly 5 thousand years. And Science? Is still far from us. Thinkers ex...