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December 2010 Blog Posts (4)

Principles of Research: Albert Einstein

In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither. Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior intellectual power; science is their own special sport to which they look for vivid experience and the satisfaction of ambition; many others are to be found in the temple who have offered the products of their brains on this…

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Added by Reid Cornwell on December 27, 2010 at 11:30am — No Comments

Live With the WikiLeakable World or Shut Down the Net. It's Your Choice

'Never waste a good crisis" used to be the catchphrase of the Obama team in the runup to the presidential election. In that spirit, let us see what we can learn from official reactions to the WikiLeaks revelations.

The most obvious lesson is that it represents the first really sustained confrontation between the established order and the culture of the internet. There have been skirmishes before, but this is the real thing...

There is a delicious irony in the fact that it… Continue

Added by Reid Cornwell on December 13, 2010 at 8:28am — No Comments

The Medium is the Massage: What does this mean?

What is the Meaning of

"The Medium is the Message?"

In a culture like ours, long accustomed to "Insplitting and dividing all things as a means of control, it is sometimes a bit of a shock to be reminded that, in operational and…

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Added by Reid Cornwell on December 7, 2010 at 1:00pm — 1 Comment

New Psychology Theory Enables Computers to Mimic Human Creativity

ScienceDaily (Dec. 2, 2010) — A dealer in antique coins gets an offer to buy a beautiful bronze coin. The coin has an emperor's head on one side and the date "544 B.C." stamped on the other. The dealer examines the coin, but instead of buying it, he calls the police. Why?

Solving this "insight problem" requires creativity, a skill at which humans excel (the coin is a fake -- "B.C." and Arabic numerals did not exist at the time) and computers do not. Now, a new explanation of how… Continue

Added by Reid Cornwell on December 3, 2010 at 9:30am — No Comments