on sunday we’re going to have a brainstorm about the choza and international collaborative spacse with todd and a new friend, ulrich. ulrich has a property in bocas del torro that he’s also interested in using for the purposes of creating community around smart, driven people. this means we have a really exciting opportunity to think [...]
Death of The Institution
a rather one-sided <rant> for Todd. (think i missed something? (impossible!) disagree? (i dont believe it!). throw your counter arguments below).
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the bay area is full of geeks. but not just tech geeks– life geeks. people who treat life and society as a platform for innovation and experimentation. and if there’s one thing that the contrast [...]
Word Profiles of Two-way Relationships
as a researcher, i’m interested in the ways that we can measure human behaviour and identify patterns in it. we have data today that is fine grained enough that it can give insight into multiple scales of behaviour at the same time, perhaps finally enabling us to build frameworks for understanding non-linear relationships between local [...]
Survival and Diversity
one of the topics that often comes up amongst my friends is the survival of humanity.
it’s interesting that if you push people on their goals, push them beyond the point where they give you the typical answers about money or fun, even beyond the point where they talk about family, or quality of life for [...]
Data Love
One of my favourite things about working with large data sets is the ‘getting to know you’ phase. This is the casual, exploratory part where you start to understand this new resource.
First I always look at it raw. What does it look like, what’s the data format (tab- or comma-delimited, json, xml, binary…), what are [...]
