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| User: | mapjunkie (4398515) Learning at the Societal Level
When Decentralization is the song stuck in your head |
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| Name: | Mapjunkie | |
| Website: | http://mapjunkie.livejournal.com/ | |
| Location: | Champaign, Illinois, United States | |
| Bio: | "Don't become a well-rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and dull. Become a thoroughly spiky person. Grow spikes from every angle. Stick in their throats like a pufferfish. If you want to woo the muse of the odd, don't read Shakespeare. Read Webster's revenge plays. Don't read Homer and Aristotle. Read Herodotus where he's off talking about Egyptian women having public sex with goats. If you want to read about myth don't read Joseph Campbell, read about convulsive religion, read about voodoo and the Millerites and the Munster Anabaptists. There are hundreds of years of extremities, there are vast legacies of mutants. There have always been geeks. There will always be geeks. Become the apotheosis of geek. Learn who your spiritual ancestors were. You didn't come here from nowhere. There are reasons why you're here. Learn those reasons. Learn about the stuff that was buried because it was too experimental or embarrassing or inexplicable. "-Bruce Sterling I endevour to be such a spiky person, mixing statistical investigation with culture theory criticism and embedding them in the fabric of daily life. In other words, I build tools to help people figure out how to do meaningful things. I'm particularly interested in * open scenarios * immersive environments for futurists * participatory (analytical/deliberative) democracy platforms * social decision problems * read/write urbanism * collaborative evaluation systems And married to beadgalsarita. *Smootch* | |
| Interests: | 150: acid jazz, adaptive personalized information environments, ai, algorithms, ambient situatedness, architecture, art of noise, artificial economies, asm, autonomic computing, bashing on ayn rand, bayesian networks, being a diva, brand, cartography, catholic worker movement, clay shirky, coffee, cognitive architectures, collaborative filtering, coltrane, compilers, composing computer music, computational learning theory, computational mechanics, concept formation, constructivism, creativity, culture studies, customer relationship management, cybernetics, dark chocolate, data mining, data structures, data visualization, databases, david foster wallace, decentralization, decentralized decision making, decision making, decision theory, designing, dinosaur comics, distributed systems, doug engelbart, downtown champaign, downtown urbana, dutch architectural theory, dynamic programming, econometrics, economics, egovernment, experimental cooking, fashion, feed the hungry, foucault, free jazz, futures studies, game studies, genetic programming, geography, gis, health care, hidden markov models, hofstadter, human-futures interaction, immersive futurism, improving the world, improvisation, incentive-centered design, intelligence amplification, iron chef, jamais cascio, java, jazz, knowledge representation, learning, leary, lisp, machine learning, manufacturing, mechatronics, memetics, mennonite, minsky, mistakes, mmw, neo-modernism, neural networks, neuro-dynamic programming, neuroeconomics, npr, nukees, online deliberation, optimal auctions, participatory gis, pattern recognition, percolation theory, planning, playing bass, playing piano, prediction markets, probabilistic reasoning, programming, progress, public participation gis, puzzle movies, quant, quantitative immersive futurism, r0ml, randomized algorithms, reading, real intelligence, real-time systems, reductions, reinforcement learning, reverse reductionism, schizogeography, scrabble, sequence mining, serious games, service design, simulation, sleeping, social networks, social software, sonic youth, spimes, statistical physics, statistical theology, statistics, stochastic processes, subsumption, sudoku, synthetic worlds, tagging, temporal logic, tetris attack, text, theoretical neuroscience, theory, time, time intervals, time series, trip-hop, typography, urban computing, wallace and grommit, wittgenstein, writing | |
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| Account type: | Basic Account | |
