December 2011
2 posts
Commiting to post writing on this blog as opposed to a continuation of content without context. Right now: treading water. More to come soon.
Surfing on entropy
I consistently come back to this 1995 Wired interview with Brian Eno:
“Has computer science influenced you any?
Cybernetician Stafford Beer had a great phrase that I lived by for years: Instead of trying to specify the system in full detail, specify it only somewhat. You then ride on the dynamics of the system in the direction you want to go. He was talking about heuristics, as opposed...