2024/04/20

 

What Would the Father of Cybernetics Think About A.I. Today?

Norbert Wiener's legacy by Seth Lloyd. I reread "Human Use of Human Beings" last year and agree with most, though Wiener was correct about authoritarianism: Whether bottom-up or top-down, we are controlled and not as free as we could given what cybernetics gave us. Still, true that he would be happy that we are still alive!

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2024/04/13

 

Modeling systems

Pi the Movie

Fibonacci Sequence

The magic of Fibonacci numbers by Arthur Benjamin


Peter Hilton (1923-2010) discusses intriguing number tricks that can be explained by analysing the properties of Fibonacci numbers and the related Lucas numbers. The explanations themselves benefit from further explanations which, in their turn, lead to further discoveries. Recorded at Imperial College London during the 1996 London Mathematical Society Popular Lecture series.


D'Arcy Thompson

Patterns of Life – D’Arcy Thompson, Structuralism and the Shape of Life


Treasures of the Library 5. D'Arcy Thompson, On growth and form


BLOOMS: Strobe Animated Sculptures Invented by John Edmark from Charlie Nordstrom on Vimeo. "This series of 3D printed sculptures was designed in such a way that the appendages match Fibonacci's Sequence, a mathematical sequence that manifests naturally in objects like sunflowers and pinecones. When the sculptures are spun at just the right frequency under a strobe light, a rather magical effect occurs: the sculptures seem to be animated or alive!"

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