Without Notes October 13 {PersonalInformationStream}

• Blood-sucking botnet narrowly escapes extermination, lives to leech again by Dan Goodin, Ars Technica September 2013
• Fingerprints are Usernames, not Passwords by Dustin Kirkland, From the Canyon Edge October 2013
• Software Engineering: Evolving Computer Programs by Stephanie Forrest, SFI Ulam Lecture September 2013
  • mention of SFI study on the power grid
  • evolutionary computing applied to bug fixing (thanks to regression suites)
  • software package http://dijkstra.cs.virginia.edu/genpr
  • http://www.cs.unm.edu/~forrest/
  • see also ProvingDarwin or ProbablyApproximatelyCorrect
  • Programming
• The Complex Science of Cyberdefense: Computer Immunology by Stephanie Forrest, SFI Ulam Lecture September 2013
  • MaliciousSoftwareAndItsUndergroundEconomy
• Modeling Computer Networks from Chips to the Internet by Stephanie Forrest, SFI Ulam Lecture September 2013
• Moritz Erhardt: the tragic death of a City intern by Elizabeth Day, The Observer October 2013
• The Ultimate Bitcoin Question: Can the Feds Spend $3.3M in Seized Digital Currency? by Robert McMillan and Cade Metz, Wired Enterprise for Wired.com October 2013
• The Mathematics of History by Alex Mayyasi, Priceonomics.com October 2013
• A Diamond Insurance Plan by Alex Mayyasi, Priceonomics.com October 2013
• Warfare and the Evolution of Social Complexity: A Multilevel-Selection Approach by Peter Turchin, 2011
  • Wikipedia:Group_selection#Multilevel_selection_theory
    • relevance to ExtendedLayeredModel and StructuralInformationAsymmetries knowing that they both require an evolutionary pressure framework?
  • Wikipedia:Price equation
  • no mention of Benoit Dubreuil regarding the evolution of hierarchies
    • cf http://www.cambridge.org/tw/academic/subjects/archaeology/prehistory/human-evolution-and-origins-hierarchies-state-nature
    • http://bdubreuil.quebecdoc.com
• Will GOTCHAs Replace CAPTCHAs?, Technology From the arXiv for MIT Technology Review October 2013
• Google's Quantum Computer in Limbo After Government Shutdown by Robert McMillan, Wired Enterprise for Wired.com October 2013
• Arduino creator explains why open source matters in hardware, too by Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica October 2013
• To reduce its tax burden, Google expands use of the “Double Irish” by Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica October 2013
• Warmaking and Statemaking as Organized Crime by Charles Tilly, 1982
  • 4 functions
    • War making (maintaining borders)
    • State making (within borders)
    • Protection (for their clients)
    • Extraction (to fuel the other three)
  • motivated by Peter Turchin's quote
  • see also Profits from Power, Protection Rent and Violence-Controlling Enterprises by Frederick C. Lane, 1979
• ‘Pushback’: Resisting the life of constant connectivity by peter Kelley, UW Today October 2013
  • Pushback:

The growth of expressions of resistance to constant online connectivity in Research - S.L. Morrison

• Does Your iPhone Have Free Will?, The Physics arXiv Blog for Medium October 2013
  • on Seth Lloyd's A Turing test for free will
• Bitcoin Says Goodbye To Silk Road And Hello To Baidu, China's Google by Kashmir Hill, Forbes October 2013
• I Bought Bitcoin In Person And Here's What Happened by Lauren Orsini, ReadWrite October 2013
• This Chinese Exchange Just Pushed the Value of Bitcoins Over $200 by Robert McMillan, Wired Enterprise for Wired.com October 2013
• McDonald's Tells Its Employees to Sign Up for Food Stamps by Jordan Weissmann, The Atlantic October 2013
• The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think by James Somers, The Atlantic October 2013
  • cf IAmAStrangeLoop
• POWERPLAY: Training an Increasingly General Problem Solver by Continually Searching for the Simplest Still Unsolvable Problem by Jürgen Schmidhuber, 2011
  • published in 2013 alongside experiments
  • see also Wikipedia: General Game Playing
• AI startup Vicarious claims to have a system that can solve… by Yann LeCun, October 2013
• Painting robot sparks 'what is art?' debate, The Local October 2013
  • http://www.informatik.uni-konstanz.de/en/edavid/
• As Data Floods In, Massive Open Online Courses Evolve by Tom Simonite, MIT Technology Review October 2013
• RIAA: Bitcoin Makes it Hard to Track or Seize Pirate Bay Donations by Ernesto, TorrentFreak October 2013
• Thorium backed as a 'future fuel' by Roger Harrabin, BBC News October 2013
• Is Listening to Audio Books Really the Same as Reading? by Olga Khazan, Forbes 2011
• Advertising turned anti-consumerism into a weapon by Adam Corner, Aeon November 2013
• The Phylogeny of Little Red Riding Hood by Jamshid J. Tehrani, PLOS ONE November 2013
  • cf own question on Quora http://www.quora.com/Fables/Is-there-a-phylogeny-of-fables

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