New research finds that the historical background of Google’s PageRank algorithm is richer than previously suspected.
We can only learn through crisis and disruption to existing assumptions and patterns of knowledge.
Five percent of malformed data packets on the internet cannot be explained - they cannot be traced to tampering or software and hardware glitches. Is this evidence that the internet is evolving…
See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself above the London cloud bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on…
The logical positivist movement stemming from the Vienna Circle is famous for its empiricist approach to scientific rationality and a theory of meaning based around the principle of verification.…
As the English language evolves and morphs, there is considerable tension between retaining the humble apostrophe and getting rid of it altogether.
Economics in its traditionally enshrined format is an awkward relic of a twisted history.
Maybe the Discovery One really should have headed to Saturn rather than Jupiter and beyond the Infinite? The North pole of Saturn is surrounded by a massive hexagonal structure which was first…
The state of science education in New Zealand, is in dire need of a massive creative rejuvenation, but it can only occur to it's fullest once there is widespread knowledge of an irreconcilable crisis…
Thinking more about Wikipedia, and the kind of content disputes that seem to demarcate in terms of specialist/expert vs non-specialist/layman, led me to wonder whether there…
Charles Limb and Allen R. Braun have been observing the brains of jazz musicians when they improvise.
Donald Kunth – “I remain convinced that the patent policy most fair and most suitable for the world will regard mathematical ideas (such as algorithms) to be not subject to proprietary patent rights.”
So I've started another website, a kind of ongoing accident, with the idea echoing so intensely during Webstock as I culled together my 8x5 presentation, it just seemed to burst out of my brain and…
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