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Distributed Computing and Societal Networking: The Divine Random in Physics
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Exploring collaboration, consensual wisdom, online voting, and the future of virtual societies. Wednesday, August 28, 2013. The Divine Random in Physics. A place where gently blowing semi-trees. Stand constant in the changing sands,. And pretty birds flying flawless paths. A while back, I sat in a conference room with a group of smart software engineers discussing randomness. Our new distributed software product relied very heavily on being able to generate truly. Star System Arp 194 (Courtesy NASA).
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Distributed Computing and Societal Networking: Do We Have Consensus?
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Exploring collaboration, consensual wisdom, online voting, and the future of virtual societies. Friday, February 24, 2012. Do We Have Consensus? In particular, the Ethosphere improves upon many other social choice systems in at least four major ways:. We will choose a voting method that is less susceptible to strategic/dishonest voting and fairer with respect to minority opinions. Every vote can be examined and audited by any member. The single choice, yea/nay votes are the easiest to get right, in so fa...
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Distributed Computing and Societal Networking: 02/01/2014 - 03/01/2014
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Exploring collaboration, consensual wisdom, online voting, and the future of virtual societies. Monday, February 17, 2014. This chapter concerns the second time I created something smarter than me. The first such occasion, the birth of my only son, was not entirely my doing as my wife had a rather significant contribution too. But the second creation was all mine. It was a computer program that played the strategy board game Othello, also known as Reversi. What makes an idea clever? And then the light bu...
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Distributed Computing and Societal Networking: Teaching Robots to Sneeze
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Exploring collaboration, consensual wisdom, online voting, and the future of virtual societies. Sunday, November 17, 2013. Teaching Robots to Sneeze. Modern digital computers are not designed to do unexpected things. When they do occur, these are usually called "failures.". But, as I discussed in The Divine Random in Physics. I will discuss the relationship between computability and randomness in more detail later on.). But they are in no way truly. Random. Think of the successive digits of the numbe...
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Distributed Computing and Societal Networking: The Truth and Nothing But...a Good Story
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Exploring collaboration, consensual wisdom, online voting, and the future of virtual societies. Thursday, May 10, 2012. The Truth and Nothing But.a Good Story. A few months ago, a friend of mine who leans to the right politically shared a post on Facebook that started out like this:. Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the last Presidential election:. Number of States won by: Obama: 19 McCain: 29. Be true, and in ...
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Distributed Computing and Societal Networking: Satnam and Other Dangers
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Exploring collaboration, consensual wisdom, online voting, and the future of virtual societies. Wednesday, March 16, 2011. Satnam and Other Dangers. The idea of a True Name. For something or someone is very old. A true name captures the essence, the intrinsic identity of something in a short moniker that is distinguished from every other name. For centuries, mankind has recognized the fascinating duality that one's true name is both a treasure and a vulnerability. The true name of true names I guess.
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Distributed Computing and Societal Networking: The Divine Random in Computing
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Exploring collaboration, consensual wisdom, online voting, and the future of virtual societies. Tuesday, December 31, 2013. The Divine Random in Computing. We'll find all its secrets and make them our own;. A yarn to weave and be woven. We'll choose among the least likely chosen. And build a castle stone by stone. Alan Turing - Superhero. Thus freeing Allied shipping and supply lines from the dreaded U-Boats and saving England from the arch-villain Adolph Hitler. Replica of Turing's 'Bombe' Code Breaker.
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Distributed Computing and Societal Networking: 05/01/2014 - 06/01/2014
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Exploring collaboration, consensual wisdom, online voting, and the future of virtual societies. Saturday, May 3, 2014. The Divine Random in Mathematics. I am the rock, you the stone,. Together we ballast reality. Steady toward uncertain destiny,. Whither the sheets above us are blown. In English, are as follows:. The natural numbers contain the number 1. Every natural number has a successor, the next natural number. The number 1 is not the successor of any natural number. From this small set of seemingly...
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Distributed Computing and Societal Networking: Plan to Fail
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Exploring collaboration, consensual wisdom, online voting, and the future of virtual societies. Wednesday, February 16, 2011. During a particularly intense design session the other day, one of my more brilliant engineers and co-architect of CAStor asked what he thought to be a rhetorical question. If we can provide a deterministic algorithm that completely solves a problem except for failures. Shouldn't we do that? Can get one of these, you know. The answer I wish I had given is, not always. The land of ...
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Distributed Computing and Societal Networking: Consensual Wisdom
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Exploring collaboration, consensual wisdom, online voting, and the future of virtual societies. Saturday, September 15, 2012. I have a theory that almost all of us agree on almost everything. But we're wired somehow to zero in on the things we disagree. But what if there were an environment where we were rewarded for finding our kernel of consensus? Perhaps I'm wrong though. Maybe, if all the religions of the world were to somehow identify their kernel of consensus, it would turn out to be trivial; s...