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Monthly Archives August 2010

Partitioning idea spaces into containers

Some scattered thoughts on idea flows. The global idea space is partitioned in various ways. One example would be peoples speaking different languages. English speakers all understand each other, Japanese speakers all understand each other, but there are relatively few people who speak Japanese and English very well. We can understand this situation in an […]

Posted 29 August 2010 † johan § Philosophy ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Multiplayer protein folding game

You read it here first – Monomorphic predicted this development in February. In a recent Nature article, researchers describe a multiplayer online graphical protein folding game, in which players collaborate against the computer to fold a protein correctly quickly. (Also: NYTimes article.) It turned out that the human players were successful compared to the computers, […]

Posted 10 August 2010 † johan § Computer science ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Rasmus Fleischer’s postdigital manifesto

In his highly timely and readable 2009 book “The Postdigital Manifesto”, Swedish writer and historian Rasmus Fleischer discusses the effects of the digital on our relation to music and sets out his vision for how we can make music listening more meaningful. Fleischer is a prolific blogger (almost exclusively in Swedish) at Copyriot, and is […]

Posted 09 August 2010 † johan § Life § Philosophy ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: , , , , ,