竹叶青

After three cups, the way Francis sees the question is (1) metaphor, (2) science of networks, (3) social networks, and […]

组织形式

部落,制度性机构,市场,网路,这是兰德David Ronfeldt对社会组织形式的分类(PDF)。

水,信息

小波浪苦恼地问大波浪: ”为什么你这样大?而我却这样小?“ (苦恼由没有清楚存在的本质而生。) ”那本质是什么呢?“小波浪问。 ”你们都是水啊。“ (蔡志忠的《禅说》,是那次归程唯一的行装。)

Wheeler’s Questions

You have met him in the winter of 1984. Twenty years later, sitting by the Spieker Pool, you are again […]

Old man river

Francis recommended this reading last week: “He don’t plant ‘tatos Don’t plant cotton Them that plants them is soon forgotten […]

Murray on CAS

The following text is from “Complexity and Complex Adaptive Systems.” The common feature of all these process is that in […]

相变和瀑布

“合作“的起源和演化固然迷人,在信息通讯技术猛进的今天格外重要。深究下去,信息”瀑布传播“的相变效应似乎是根本所在。新的”合作“模式的涌现或者可以看作是网路系统的相变过程,而临界条件,相关尺度,耦合强度,正反馈和稳定性等等概念则可能有切实的意义。

Flip Side of Complex System

Complex connected system: “more is different” How does individual behavior aggregate to collective behavior? Biology: Although genes, like people, exist […]

Bootstraping

听到这个词许多次了,在CITRIS的会上听到Douglas Engelbart的介绍,才知道他的研究所名字就是”Bootstrapping”。