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The Dematerialization (and Digitization) of Life or “Hey, Where’d All My Stuff Go?”

April 6th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Idea Nuggets

I’m a huge proponent of digitizing my life as much as possible. When the data of my life is available as bits, its also searchable, sharable, and can be mined to ask interesting questions. One possible drawback I’ve noticed though is that, when the objects of my life are physically present in my immediate environment, [...]

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Thoughts on Randomness

February 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Idea Nuggets

1) Randomness is, in a sense, a measure of compressibility. A physically random system is one whose dynamics we cannot predict and that we must simulate in order to know. It is temporally incompressible. Of course, in reality, physical processes tend to exhibit degrees of randomness, so that we can say some things about them, [...]

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