Re: Quote of the week

Posted by Steve Smith on Jun 06, 2011; 6:19pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Quote-of-the-week-tp6442957p6446335.html

Doug -

Is anybody else tickled at how this Quote Of The Week elicited a flood of philosophical observations?

--Doug

Utterly pink!  PINK I tell you!  And you are making it worse with your own tickling!  STOPPPP!

I just deleted one of my typical "DNRTL" (did not read, too long) missives and offer up instead a few simple relevant thoughts with links for the interested reader:

• Russel Akoff's hierarchy of Data->Information->Knowledge->Wisdom .
• Predictability as a dual of Banality
• Laplace's Daemon and Determinism vs Predictability
  
• Information theory in Cryptology: by expanding (or contracting) "the system" by as small of an amount as a decryption key, the (relative?) Entropy of a system goes from small to huge or vice-versa. 
  

Carry on!
 - Steve

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