DJ Strouse

My Goodreads Review
rating: 4 of 5 stars
A lost gem among the wonderful flood of books merging biology, mathematics, and computers following Norbert Weiner’s “Cybernetics” in the 1960s. The only reason I discovered it is because the author is a professor at my university.
I suspect that the very reason I gave this [...]

My Goodreads Review
rating: 3 of 5 stars
Thoughts on accelerated change, the singularity, neuroscience, evolution, and more from a man who refers to the last decade of the 19th century as “the nineties”.
This book is the forerunner to a line of fantastic (yet, at times, exaggerated) works straddling mathematics, machines, and biology, known as the [...]

My Goodreads Review
rating: 3 of 5 stars
I read this book in the midst of a wave of readings on viewing the world as information (cybernetics, thermodynamics, information theory). I can’t say it introduced many new concepts to this conversation, but more importantly, Seth Lloyd is a wizard with strange analogies that cast old ideas [...]