Ideas that like the artist-formerly-known-as-Prince, are made out of a bit of everything.
Paradigm shifts, Creative destruction, call it what you will. The end of store in America, how can an employee hourly model compete with an online no-rent/no-brick model. Commercial landlords in malls must be scratching their heads as my beloved Barnes & Noble is. What survives will likely be a hybrid -> commission sales based / … Read more
Finance ‘storming’ here… Is living on the top of a 10 story building exactly as safe as the 2nd floor? Can you say that 100 oranges are equal to 200 christmas cards. Is paramount pictures worth as much as a mining company? Is there true fungibility. Is one slightly riskier than the other and is … Read more
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/10/nyregion/eight-charged-in-45-million-global-cyber-bank-thefts.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 This was an interesting article, there is a certain meritocracy in people using information more adeptly and cleverly than others, likely in this case the others being gulf banks, with laggard security systems and high networth Emirati accounts. Brainstorm time:: Reading about quantum computing stuff right now ::: we are close but still far … Read more
Luckily the world is mostly full of ‘white hats’ as the term is used. In a day to day / data form driven world. The sweet spot of rigorous authentication while allowing people to forget passwords doesn’t really take into account the ‘systemic’ risk of standardizing authentication questions and other unique ways to identify you … Read more
Found an old pic from Montreal Barcamp… Sneaksend was a steganography app which embedded images by appropriating the least significant bits in an octet of an image. For eg. 11110101 and using the last digits (0101) to encode information. Ran on Django+Chery.py — will have to recreate one day. Sneaksend from guest779445
The watchmaker analogy as it is known, made by William Paley states that a complex design, such as an eye, implies a designer…. For whatever reason, this thought popped into my head one day while in the shower*. The role of ‘feature level’ in discussing how a machine is naturally selected and evolves is critical. … Read more
The cord juts out on the current model in a not-so-subtle way that makes it prone to break. A. This version would wrap the cord around a middle groove. B. The cord coming out would be angled in such a way that it never needs to point in any other direction.
Don’t have this figured out.. but what is the relationship between america’s first founders and silicon valley, when it comes to self-governance. There seems to be one, but it is across so many different ‘dimensions’ that its tough to describe. Successful self-governance between many parties is almost landing a bowling ball on a pin. The … Read more
The word for horse probably comes from word for hair right? english: hair –> horse spanish: cabello –> caballo french: cheveux –> cheval Guessing, hair came first and was later used to describe a horse (ie. running mane) –??? oui?
The new business cards are in.
…If you had a parent living in a house, who locked their children up in the basement, provided no school, no health, no care, no nursing, allowing a dank basement as the only place to be, living in derelict conditions. Almost all of society would condemn this as unfit parenting and yet it is what … Read more
We are just entering a time period, whereby people’s lives, songs, videos photos, documents (classified or declassified) are entering into the public record. History is much more real, when you can see and hear in film what things were like. Recently I’ve been immersed daily in both reading and watching of early 20th century american … Read more
I’ve been using Siri and Text Recognition Programs such as Dragon Dictation. Great Programs. Today, i dictated the telephone number and text message with my phone. 100 other programs exist as stand alone applications. Does this technology make captcha irrelevant now (at least with the listen features). a. hook up voice recognition to any audio … Read more
For anyone that knows me, they know that I am a huge van gogh fan. I learned something about van gogh today which was very moving. His variations seem never to be shown together, ever, one beside the other. Just like all his series: the sunflowers, potato eaters, violets, fields, shoes, etc. all seem to … Read more
And all other fourway sports… but soccer seems as good a candidate as any. The teams are aligned opposites face one another. Game Theory meets Bicycle Kicks.. teams can help each other out, encouraged, but not required. Teams with the highest score wins. A,B,C,D this encourages cooperation up to a certain point which is advantageous. … Read more
I’ve finally caught up on some reading. Some of the more interesting by-products of today’s deep thoughts and reading are listed below: drone subs: at any given second, we can see drone planes whizzing around, but there must be enumerable drone subs combing the bottom of the sea too. both commercial and military. Looking for … Read more
Out of the thousands of videos on Netflix, off the beaten path, i found these and would recommend them to you. They more or less revolve around my passions: tennis, space, art/business, real-life (ie. the other side of the tracks). Honorary mention should go to Glass (about philip glass), Derrida (about jacques derrida), Word Wars … Read more
Here was my letter to Toronto Mayor David Miller in response to Les Klein’s idea to build a green roof over top of the Gardiner: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/putting-the-garden-back-in-the-gardiner/article1188258/ Dear Mayor David Miller, I am a great fan of yours and love our city very much. I think you have done an excellent job. Thank you so much … Read more
Why are some organizations efficient and others not? It occurred that possibly the best way of analyzing and finding inefficiencies in an organization is to use vectors. Like electricity, macro-economics and swimming, aggregate/net action is really the most important thing. Measurement of energy versus application is easily seen with vector relationships. If bureacracy brings you … Read more
This one-off may not make sense, without knowing who these people are, but here goes… It occurred that Wolfram cellular automata have within their domain, all Turing Machines, and is a more vivid representation of them outside of binary rules. Wolfram’s work is an extension of Turing’s, which is not something that i think is … Read more
Not sure why I like this so much, but I do. The world’s most advanced straw. enjoy.
Are repeating numbers symptomatic of partial dimensionality?? Like in flatland, when something is at right angles to your dimension, are you unaware of it (or there is no apparent pattern to it?).
I’m reading about Mandelbrot right now, which is making me think about a lot about high frequency feedback loops right now. They abound in nature, and no one really wanted to look at them until Mandelbrot came along. He is this kind of anti-clean, anti-ascetic temperment personality which i really enjoy, the more i get … Read more