William Paley’s Watchmaker and Evolution

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

America’s Founding Fathers and Silicon Valley

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

La vie des Autres..

…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

Early 20th Century Innovators

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

Captcha Hack with Voice to Text

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

Van Gogh’s Variations

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

facts of life: random

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

Netflix Off-the-beaten track recommends: Unstrung; Art & Copy; Hubble’s Rescue; Sin Nombre

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

Building Public Space Under the Gardiner Express

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

Using vectors to measure organization’s efficacy

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

The path to AI. Comparing Pigs to Computers.

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