Month: January 2021
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Big sky theory
Bob Cringely was writing about the concept of big sky in one of his recent columns and I thought that it was worthwhile sharing here. Origins of big sky theory in early flight Big Sky theory came from early aviation. The main problem pilots faced was crashing into the ground rather than a mid-air collision.…
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Knowledge economy + more things
How does the UK rank as a knowledge economy? – Soft Machines – The big story is the huge rise of China, and in this context, inevitable that the rest of the world’s share of the advanced economy has fallen. But the UK’s fall is larger than competitors (-46%, cf -19% for the USA and…
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Christmas songs and other things that caught my eye this week
Cheddar put together an interesting study into popular Christmas songs. I really like that Cheddar put their sources including The Wall Street Journal and other news sources. I’d love to see more people do this on YouTube videos. The start of popular Christmas songs took off with recording music and the move away from religious…
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CD ROM history + more news
CD ROM reflections How “God Makes God” is a 1993 CD ROM about probability, game theory, genetic algorithms, and evolutionary strategies | Boing Boing – I remember having my mind blown by this CD ROM at college. It reminded me of Jostein Gaarder’s book Sophie’s World in terms of its approach to making philosophy entertaining…