[Rhodes22-list] Chaos

[Bill Effros]

Ron,

Why do you think it works better?  (Not a challenge, an honest 
question.)  What is who doing that makes it work?

Bill Effros

PS -- I'm happy to thank anyone who helped.



Ronald Lipton wrote:
> As long as you are thanking DARPA, you should also thank Particle 
> Physicists
> and CERN, which invented and promulgated the HTTP protocols and web 
> standards.
>
> I have been working on projects related to some DARPA-funded initiatives 
> and have been
> impressed by how focussed and effective much of the DARPA-funded work 
> is.  It
> is very different then the usual peer review system for funding grants.  
> The government
> funded work is also one of the only things keeping at least some high 
> tech industry
> onshore.
>
> Ron
>
>
> Bill Effros wrote:
>   
>> Brad,
>>
>> It is really remarkable that we can have an open conversation like this 
>> all over the world virtually simultaneously at no cost.
>>
>> (Thank you big government and DARPA -- some of this shit works!)
>>
>> Have you read Chaos by James Gleick?  I am totally absorbed by it, and 
>> it is changing my life (as my best friend who has been trying to get me 
>> to read it for the past 20 years told me it would.)
>>
>> The name is good for selling books, but bad for describing the concept.
>>
>> It is all I've been thinking about lately--the election is just a side-show.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
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