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The Beauty of Phase Spaces
Phase Spaces: Mapping Complex Systems I’ve spent the day on cloud computing. Yes, there will be a course on it at GMU this Fall of 2010. And cloud computing is simply a technology; a means of getting...
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The Origin of Wealth – and Phase Transitions in Complex, Nonlinear Systems Once again, after a nearly two-year hiatus (off by only a week from my first posting on this in May of 2010), I’m getting...
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What Makes a Metastable State Happen?
Metastable States – the Meltdown Precursors I’ve just read a recent column by JL, one of the editors from Taipan Daily. He states, in his column “There Will Be Blood in Europe”: Stepping back a bit:...
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Correspondence Between Free Energy, Belief Propagation, and Markov Random Field Models As a slight digression from previous posts – re-reading the paper by Yedidia et al. on this morning on...
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GPUs, CPUs, MIPS, and Brain-Based Computation
GPUs, CPUs, MIPS, and Brain-Based Computation Quick links to useful diagrams: Michael Galloy has produced a good chart showing increase in GPU vs CPU processing over this past decade; nicely continues...
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Making Sense: Extracting Meaning from Text
Making Sense: Extracting Meaning from Text by Matching Terms and Entities to Ontologies and Concepts Text analytics is the means by which computer algorithms can extract meaning and useful insights...
View Article"Origins of Wealth"– A (Multi-Part) Critical Review
Over the last few months, questions of not only wealth and finances, but the underpinnings of our entire financial structure, have become paramount in many of our minds. We — that usually means you and...
View ArticleModeling Nonlinear Phenomena
Modeling Nonlinear Phenomena – What is “X”? Many of us grew up hating word problems in algebra. (Some of us found them interesting, sometimes easy, and sometimes fun. We were the minority.) For most of...
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Statistical Mechanics, the Future of AI, and Personal Stories
Statistical Mechanics and Personal Stories (On the Same Page!) Yikes! It’s Thursday morning already. I haven’t written to you for three weeks. That’s long enough that I have to pause and search my...
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