[http://www.groovyactors.org/ ] Refreshed my link with Gerald “[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensegrity tensegrity]” de Jong, triggered by a blog entry from TED titled [http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TEDBlog/~3/152990430/theo_jansen.php Creatures on the beach] from the Dutch sculptor Theo Jansen which instantly reminded me of Gerald’s [http://sourceforge.net/projects/fluidiom/ Fluidiom] and [http://www.darwinathome.org Darwin at Home] projects. Gerald’s email signature also mentioned [http://www.groovyactors.org/ Groovy Actors]: :In a nutshell …
Author Archives: Martien van Steenbergen
Gödel op televisie
[http://whoisgodel.com/ ] Martijn tipte me op een film over Gödel op donderdag 6 september om 00.15 uur op Nederland 2. De [http://www.wiskundemeisjes.nl/20070904/godel-op-televisie/ Wiskundemeisjes] schrijven hierover. Opnemen en kijken dus. Mooie quotes: :”Tijd heeft zijn beste tijd gehad…” :”Nu en over 40 jaar zijn hetzelfde, begrijp je?”
Erlang distributed concurrent programming
A new programming language? Well, at least one I never heard of until today. It’s called [http://www.erlang.org/ Erlang] and one of the interesting aspects are that it eases ”’concurrent programming”’ and ”’distributed processes”’. Erlang is a programming language designed at the Ericsson Computer Science Laboratory. Open-source Erlang is being released to help encourage the spread …
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The Science Delusion?
Wonderful rebuttal by Deepak Chopra: [http://www.intentblog.com/archives/2007/09/deepaks_article.html The Science Delusion? Review of Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion]. Materialism vs. spiritualism and God. And resonating with [[Einstein’s God, or The Hopes for Secular Spirituality]]. Thank you Richard Dawkins, for writing your “The God Delusion” for it creates enormous attention for this ever important subject. You make people …
Einstein’s God, or The Hopes for Secular Spirituality
Wonderful and clear visions on Einstein and God, rational science and spirituality. Chopra uses the term ”’secular spirituality”’. A pretty paradoxal pearl. If Einstein pointed the way to a new form of spirituality through his comment on Buddhism in which he gave the key criteria for a “”’cosmic religion of the future”’.” Such a religion, …
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Collective Intelligence
[http://wiki.aardrock.com/Collective_Intelligence ] Converted my [http://wiki.aardrock.com/Collective_Intelligence highlights from Pierre Lévy’s Collective Intelligence]—Mankind’s emerging world in cyberspace to my wiki. Pierre Lévy’s vision towards the noosphere… Key words: ”’nomadic earth, molar technologies, anthropological spaces, collective intellect, informational universe, commodity space, knowledge space, molecular politics, preceding spaces, collective intelligence, agent intellect, territorial space, intelligent city, fourth space, angelic …
LiveJournal Creator Maps the Long Road to Open Social Networks
:[http://bradfitz.com/social-graph-problem/ LiveJournal Creator Maps the Long Road to Open Social Networks]: “People are growing weary of registering and re-declaring their friends on every new social networking site. But Brad Fitzpatrick, creator of LiveJournal and OpenID, says that the tools to build a decentralized social network don’t yet exist. (Source: [http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/topheadlines/~3/146726716/brad-fitzpatric.html Wired]) Wow. About time. Since …
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How to create Hot Crowds
[http://www.crowdsourcingdirectory.com/?p=57 How to create Hot Crowds]: Hot Groups are high performing teams with six characteristics: #Hot teams are highly dedicated to end results and are enthusiastic #They thrive on ridiculous deadlines and high hurdles to take #They are irreverent and non-hierarchical, playing around and having fun #They are made up of widely divergent disciplines and …
Sociale Databank Nederland en Grondvest
Gisteren tijdens de bijeenkomst van [http://www.ecoduso.org/ EcoDuSo] danwel de Happy Planet Group werdt ik voor het eerst geconfronteerd met de [http://www.sdnl.nl/ Sociale Databank Nederland]. Interessante bronnen en groepen mensen. Veel inspiratie voor [http://aardsource.org Aarde]. M.n. zaken zoals een Algemeen Basis Inkomen en [http://www.sdnl.nl/gv-1k03b.htm Belasting Ontrokken Waarde]. Ik herinner me dat Eckart Wintzen daar een keer …
CrowdSpirit
[http://www.crowdspirit.org/how-it-works/ ] [http://www.crowdspirit.org/how-it-works CrowdSpirit] looks like an interesting platform for crowdsourcing. Somewhat similar to [http://www.cambrianhouse.com/how-it-works/ Cambrian House] workings. Stumbled across it through