Tuesday, July 15, 2008
I swear--by my life and my love of it--that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. --John Galt's Oath from Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"
I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need. --Howard Roark from Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead"
"If you want my advice, Peter," he said at last, "you've made a mistake already. By asking me. By asking anyone. Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?" --Howard Roark from Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead"
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I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need. --Howard Roark from Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead"
"If you want my advice, Peter," he said at last, "you've made a mistake already. By asking me. By asking anyone. Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?" --Howard Roark from Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead"
Download The Virtue of Selfishness MP3 AudioBooks
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Sunday, July 13, 2008
Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo.
Thanks @mpesce for link
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Monday, June 30, 2008
We live in a world of polarized opinions. We consider ourselves to be largely rational, yet the basis of most of our biases come from knowledge we acquire from other people's findings and research. Often, we vehemently prepare defenses against opposing biases, disregarding our own. Robin Hanson, associate professor of Economics at the George Mason University, cites a handful of interesting examples of common biases and argues that we need to overcome them.
A bias is a systematic tendency to produce error of judgement. An error is a gap between the truth and our estimation of it. Whether it is project scheduling, voting for a government, a belief that life is just like the movies, or even our bias about sex as aesthetically depicted in pornography, we scarcely realize that our biases are irrational. Our inclinations secure a private advantage to us at a social cost. When an incorrect bias is fostered, the results can be damaging to the society at large -- from the selection of an incompetent government to projects going amiss.
The problem is vicious and deep-rooted. With a sense of urgency, Hanson suggests interesting approaches such as prediction markets to promote honesty and overcome the pernicious effects of bias.
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Sunday, June 1, 2008
Mark Pesce, Technology Futurist speaks about the Digital Media Revolution at the SAGEM conference, April 2008.
Part 1
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Labels: digital media, interestingness, social media, social networking
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Saturday, May 31, 2008
A fantastic presentation from Mark Pesce on Mob Rules on how self-empowered self-organisation of networks of humans empowered by pervasive always on technologies will subvert any hierarchy that exists today... Also very funny :)
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Sunday, May 25, 2008
TED: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world
The focus of Stamets' research is the Northwest's native fungal genome, mycelium, but along the way he has filed 22 patents for mushroom-related technologies, including pesticidal fungi that trick insects into eating them, and mushrooms that can break down the neurotoxins used in nerve gas.
There are cosmic implications as well. Stamets believes we could terraform other worlds in our galaxy by sowing a mix of fungal spores and other seeds to create an ecological footprint on a new planet.
"Once you’ve heard 'renaissance mycologist' Paul Stamets talk about mushrooms, you'll never look at the world -- not to mention your backyard -- in the same way again."Linda Baker, Salon.com
Labels: ecology, Ideas, interestingness
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