distributed
Scientific institutions and mechanisms
Descriptive and normative
2021-08-24
– 2022-09-13Gaussian belief propagation
Least squares at maximal elaboration
2014-11-25
– 2022-09-01Project management
With special attention to speculative and innovative projects
2021-03-23
– 2022-08-28Elliptical belief propagation
Generalized least generalized squares
2022-08-22
– 2022-08-23Scenius
2020-01-26
– 2022-07-28Teamwork
2020-01-26
– 2022-07-28Diversity in teams
Multiculturalism, pluralism and eccentricity at small scale
2020-05-27
– 2022-07-28Designing social movements
Synthetic biology for utopian egregores
2021-05-01
– 2022-07-27Dilemmas of collective action
2014-11-25
– 2022-07-05Rituals and beliefs that bind
2021-05-01
– 2022-07-05Designing less toxic social media
2020-07-12
– 2022-06-11Pluralistic ignorance, silent majorities, spiral of silence, hidden tribes
We all believe that we all believe what we do not believe
2020-06-03
– 2022-06-11Crowd-sourced science
2015-08-10
– 2022-05-17Synchronising files across machines
Dropbox for Dropbox haters
2015-01-02
– 2022-05-01Casual anthropic principles
Convenience-sampling lived human experience
2020-02-15
– 2022-05-01SLAM
Simultaneous Location and Mapping
2014-11-25
– 2022-04-28Groupthink and the wisdom of crowds
Information cascades
2019-09-22
– 2022-04-22Particle belief propagation
Graphical inference using empirical distribution estimates
2014-07-25
– 2022-04-08Particle Markov Chain Monte Carlo
Particle systems as MCMC proposals
2014-07-25
– 2022-04-08Belief propagation
2014-11-25
– 2022-03-31Cloud ML compute vendors
2016-08-23
– 2022-03-29Journalism, normative
Sensors for the superorganism
2020-01-26
– 2022-03-04Symbolic and substantive insurrections
Sovereign citizens, LARPing insurgency, institution building
2022-02-20
– 2022-02-27Filter bubbles, fact checking and kompromat
Polarization and fragmentation on the basis of browser cookies
2017-02-12
– 2022-02-13Diversity in society
Pluralism, multiculturalism, tolerance, ghettoisation, xenophobic panic
2017-02-19
– 2022-02-13Sociology and politics of information
Epistemic democracy, cognitive democracy, the great society
2022-01-09
– 2022-02-02Dropbox if you must {#dropbox}
or gdrive, onedrive etc
2015-01-02
– 2022-01-11Synchronising config files across machines
2015-01-02
– 2022-01-11Statistical projectivity
2020-04-26
– 2022-01-11Gaussian Processes as stochastic differential equations
Imposing time on things
2019-09-18
– 2021-11-25Decentralized net services
a.k.a. web3, DEX, P2P, Peer-to-peer, friend-to-friend; Internet for an untrustworthy world
2017-09-18
– 2021-11-15Highly performative computing
In Soviet Russia, job puts YOU in queue
2018-03-09
– 2021-10-18DIY social networks and groupware
V. cypherpunk! much 733+!
2019-08-12
– 2021-09-05Governance of the commons
On the mysterious fact that most people get on with most of their neighbours most of the time
2014-10-29
– 2021-09-02Cloud machine learning
Cloudimificating my artificial data learning intelligence brain clever science analyticserisation
2016-08-23
– 2021-09-01Online whiteboards
2020-08-26
– 2021-07-30Morphogenesis
2011-01-19
– 2021-07-26Graph sampling
Estimating functionals of graphs
2020-02-15
– 2021-07-06Distributed sensing, swarm sensing, adaptive social learning
2014-10-13
– 2021-06-28Cryptographic tokens, distributed ledgers, and blockchain-like-things
When all you have is a hasher…
2016-10-15
– 2021-04-19Online collaboration
Remote work
2020-06-01
– 2021-02-03Online collaboration tools
2020-06-01
– 2021-02-03Secure Scuttlebutt
Social media for off-the-grid
2020-11-18
– 2020-11-18Economics of insurgence
2015-02-02
– 2020-07-01Inference on social graphs
Heterogeneous media and controls
2019-09-22
– 2020-06-03Link rot, mitigating
2020-05-27Internet for the occasionally online
Intermittency in your bandwidth not in your sanity
2017-04-09
– 2020-04-01DIY internet infrastructure
2019-10-27
– 2020-03-17Sneakernets
Intermittent connectivity, mesh networks and the Honda protocol
2015-10-03
– 2019-09-09Distributed statistica inference
2016-10-11Flocking
2011-04-19
– 2014-11-20Econophysics
2011-04-13