Gaussianitis: compulsive disorder characterised by a subject’s compulsive use of ‘Normal’ statistics in order to get away with the complexity and ambiguity of life How does Gaussianitis work? Let me give you a couple of examples The interview with Nick Clegg (the LibDem leader) in GQ Magazine has stimulated a flurry of articles on sexual […]
In a nice article on the pitfalls of statistics published today on KnowledgeWharton (The Use — and Misuse — of Statistics: How and Why Numbers Are So Easily Manipulated – http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1928) there is an interesting discussion on statistics and how tricky it actually is. Nice, but it doesn’t go far enough. How do we usually […]
On the New York Times (March 30) there is an interesting article on micro-projectors “The (micro)projectors may be particularly useful for business presentations — for example, when road warriors need to show a product video to small groups. No coordination would be needed to arrange for a screen. Instead, a patch of wall within a […]
Nearly all biological traits and many products for particular markets and functions, began life as something different. Feathers were selected for thermal insulation, microwave ovens started life as radar magnetrons and gin&tonic was a concoction to mask the unacceptable quinine taste to British troups in India. The analysis of history of technology and biological evolutions […]
A few weeks ago Nature published an interesting article on a the memory of slime mould, a common bacterial film. Bacteria form aggregates with emergent properties, one of which is memory. This triggers some interesting considerations, some of which should not surprise complexity sympathisers. Bacteria are close to zero intelligent agents, like certain financial traders […]
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