- Oct 2020
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www.researchgate.net www.researchgate.net
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Walter Pitts was pivotal in establishing the revolutionary notion of the brain as a computer, which was seminal in the development of computer design, cybernetics, artificial intelligence, and theoretical neuroscience. He was also a participant in a large number of key advances in 20th-century science.
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- Aug 2020
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designinghappiness.substack.com designinghappiness.substack.com
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See it as an experiment where failure yields valuable insights 🔬.
Try and figure out when you actually are the most productive. When your usage of tools actually works. The insight you gain there could help you figure out what your ideal "productivity situation" is.
Side note, just realized this is a perfect application of cybernetics (at least as far as I understand it so far).
- Apply a system
- Observe myself within that system
- Gain feedback by observing how I behave in that system
- Use that feedback to tweak that system until I've achieved my desired goal
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- Jul 2020
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arena-attachments.s3.amazonaws.com arena-attachments.s3.amazonaws.com
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first-order cybernetics is “the science of observed systems,” while second-order cybernetics is “the science of observing systems.
Inception, but make it Cybernetic.
When observing a system, it's important to also observe the observer of the system
This is important because the observer is directly influencing the observation of said system. One must consider any implicit bias the system's observer may introduce in what they're observing.
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If shared conceptual models applicable to solving problems in many sciences could be found, then “by agreeing on the usefulness of these models, we get glimpses of a new lingua franca of science....
Cybernetics is key in that it allows for models of thought to be transferred across areas of knowledge
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- Jan 2020
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www.amazon.com www.amazon.com
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Norbert Wiener was a mathematician with extraordinarily broad interests. The son of a Harvard professor of Slavic languages, Wiener was reading Dante and Darwin at seven, graduated from Tufts at fourteen, and received a PhD from Harvard at eighteen. He joined MIT's Department of Mathematics in 1919, where he remained until his death in 1964 at sixty-nine. In Ex-Prodigy, Wiener offers an emotionally raw account of being raised as a child prodigy by an overbearing father. In I Am a Mathematician, Wiener describes his research at MIT and how he established the foundations for the multidisciplinary field of cybernetics and the theory of feedback systems. This volume makes available the essence of Wiener's life and thought to a new generation of readers.
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- Mar 2019
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nautil.us nautil.us
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at the Second Cybernetic Conference, Pitts announced that he was writing his doctoral dissertation on probabilistic three-dimensional neural networks.
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Thus formed the beginnings of the group who would become known as the cyberneticians, with Wiener, Pitts, McCulloch, Lettvin, and von Neumann its core.
Wiener always did like cyberneticians for it's parallelism with mathematicians....
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- Feb 2019
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trans.hackmeeting.org trans.hackmeeting.org
- Jan 2019
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static1.squarespace.com static1.squarespace.com
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ybernetics
Meaning: "the science of communications and automatic control systems in both machines and living things."
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- Jul 2018
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joi.ito.com joi.ito.com
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The Practice of Change Joi's Keio University Graduate School of Media and Governance PhD Dissertation.
Joi Ito's dissertation, openly licensed CC BY.
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- May 2018
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ijirse.com ijirse.com
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FPGA BASED BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE SYSTEM
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- Jan 2014
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blog.ingineering.it blog.ingineering.it
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I was surprised to encounter empathy again in the context of cybernetics. This rediscovery happened thanks to a Twitter exchange with @seungchan. Cybernetics tells us that, in order for any one or any thing to function, it must have a relationship with other people and/or things.
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