Johannes Ernst on October 22nd, 2004

Rick Cattell, Distinguished Engineer at Sun quotes Bob Taylor, manager of Xerox PARC CS Lab: Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If they’re really good ideas, you usually have to cram them down their throats.

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I’m reading this report because someone I know, and I have great respect for, Tara Lemmey, was involved in its creation. One thing that’s great and unique about the United States is that groups like this spring up basically on their own, and they produce high-quality work. Whether it will be applied by the powers-to-be [...]

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Johannes Ernst on October 19th, 2004

Bob Lechner, one of the old CDIF people (my Intro to CDIF, although mostly only of historical interest now, is still on-line), gave me this picture taken at a CDIF meeting which took place — if I recall this correctly — in January 1996. It was taken on the deck of the Del Coronado Hotel, [...]

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Johannes Ernst on October 16th, 2004

Axelrod’s famous book "The Evolution of Cooperation" has been one of my all-time favorites for a long time. SmartMobs now reports via Wired that a new successful strategy has been found for the iterated prisoners’ dilemma that is different from Tit-for-Tat. This strategy basically steps out of the original system by having prior knowledge of [...]

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