by espeed on Feb 16, 2018 03:59:04 UTC 1518753544 | parent | context | on: Mathematical Foundations of the GraphBLAS [pdf]
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by espeed on Feb 16, 2017 23:39:34 UTC 1487288374 | parent | context | on: None
Are you familiar with Jonathan Haidt's work on the psychology of morality and the formation of superorganisms?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Haidt

Here is one of Haidt's TED talks that touches on the ideas of cooperation, group selection, and the free-rider problem:

http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_humanity_s_stairway_...

His Edge article on "Contingent Superorganism" https://www.edge.org/response-detail/10386

NB: Also see this recent post on "information theory and the foundations of life" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13496133

by espeed on Feb 16, 2017 23:29:50 UTC 1487287790 | parent | context | on: None
The figures ("pictures") aren't part of the proof, they're part of the presentation, and Figure 6, as stated in the paper, is included as a reference to an analogous work.
by espeed on Feb 16, 2017 08:22:16 UTC 1487233336 | parent | context | on: Scalable All-Pairs Similarity Search in Metric Spaces (2013) [pdf]
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by espeed on Feb 16, 2017 03:58:41 UTC 1487217521 | parent | context | on: P-Adic Stability in Linear Algebra [pdf]
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by espeed on Feb 16, 2017 02:06:52 UTC 1487210812 | parent | context | on: Entropy in Social Networks [pdf]
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by espeed on Feb 16, 2012 19:21:36 UTC 1329420096 | parent | context | on: None
I wonder if Google had Firefox-Dart support in mind when they put together the deal to pay Firefox $1 billion over the next three years (http://venturebeat.com/2011/12/22/google-firefox-deal/).
by espeed on Feb 16, 2012 17:18:52 UTC 1329412732 | parent | context | on: None
> I've been following the heated discussions on both sides. Personally, I think it's damaging to both your publicizing efforts.

Actually, it probably helps both publicizing efforts. As the Internet-wide debate becomes "Backbone vs Ember," it puts the focus on those two techs and leaves other competitors out of the conversation.