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boyd’s rant

boyd’s rant

The Australian Ugliness, by Robin Boyd: (the above a “quality” institutional building at the university)
SO…
Written in 1960, it might have been professional courtesy to slog…

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consumers of knowledge

consumers of knowledge

Social phenomena.  Wealth and attitude.  Learning for a purpose.
Many articles regarding America’s “consumer culture” exist.  There are articles about America’s 40 year process of switching from “saving”…

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provocative urban living

provocative urban living

These thoughts have been prompted by technical analysis, social evaluations, political observations and philosophical insights of others:

Growth, Innovation, Scaling, and the Pace of Life in Cities, by…

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nice prototype

nice prototype

First carbon fiber prototype fender Scott Padiak and I made… check it out.  What you can’t see it?  Yes it’s micro, but also super high performance.  We…

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contents of the business network

contents of the business network

The Santa Fe Institute hosted one of it’s Business Network Theme Weeks on September 14th through the 18th, 2009.  It was a great event and among many, many…

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day five

day five

Roger Burkhart, Joe Lambke, Alfred Hubler, Massimiliano SpazianiBrunella, & Joris Prikken
todays discussion of “scientific consulting” competition space:
Media Lab/MIT
CANet/Northwestern
BizNet/SFI
All provide a means for corporations…

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day four

day four

a prediction about the future:
knowledge gained about complex system behavior makes moral obligations obsolete by 2070
moral obligations are represented by the thinking that “one should…

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day one

day one

Prediction and Forecasting. Not to be confused with ‘arm waving’ versus numerical data. The latest quantitative predictive modeling, appears to be limited to predicting movements with in…

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