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Do Elite Universities Need To Limit the Number of Seats at the Table?
Kerry Washington’s inspiring acceptance speech inspired me. She talks about marginalized groups that have often been pitted against one another (Malloy, 2015). “””Now you would think that those of us who are kept from our full rights of citizenship would band together and fight the good fight. But history tells us that no, often weContinue reading “Do Elite Universities Need To Limit the Number of Seats at the Table?”
Evolution as Computation
Three Parts of a Computation Input Information (encoded as a pattern)a) Encodings that represent entities, attributes, and relationshipsb) Encodings that represent instructions (e.g. software) Information Manipulation (encoded in states of the machine) Output Information (encoded as a pattern) Computations With Memory Many computer programs update databases, but they are still deterministic. Database inputs and outputs.–Continue reading “Evolution as Computation”
The Knowledge of Value and the Value of Knowledge
Notes on Kenneth E. Boulding’s article: The Knowledge of Value and the Value of KnowledgeCollected Papers Volume IV p. 87 I. The Image is the view of the universe held by an organism. II. Our image of the universe consists of two major components: A. Image of Facts – our concepts of space, time,Continue reading “The Knowledge of Value and the Value of Knowledge”
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