Yeah dude, that enlargement at the bottom is my work. It's the map of our blog.
It really does remind me of the universe though. Is this the only way of understanding the internet? or is it some kind of analogy?
Would I be mistaken if I said that it seems that computer science is the new elite in hard sciences (in math, for example)? Astrophysics seems really outdated to me.
Yeah but astrophysics and feilds related to space travel are more directly linked the survival of our species of the next million years.
I think its just a convient way to map a complicated system. It also looks reasonably similiar to a map of the human body that only shows, say, nerve endings and the circulatory system.
My doubt though is the linking here and what it signifies. I think the 'web' would be more splotchy. With relatively few websearch programs providing (primerily) the only links between very different subject matters. But that's just my suspicion.
The most important thing for human life in the long-run is alternative energy sources, namely fusion.
COmputer science isn't really elite at all, especially in web type applications, which is why popular publications can actually delve into it. Try finding a nice article in NewsWeek describing String Theory reasonably well.
I don't think this really serves any purpose other than a fun way of visualizing a difficult pattern. I think it looks like those pictures of of the brain's synapses firing.
I would have thought there would be a few large hub sites, like Google and MySpace and Youtue, and smaller branches off of that. Papers and presentations I've seen tend to agree, so this may have eliminated those links?
It was a actually just an impression I got from talking to a prof at MIT, but I guess that was in math. I think there must be an elite section of comp science, or something.
Do you guys believe this string theory biznas? Do you guys like the idea of a definable origin? It seems that's what people think of this theory, but I could totally be wrong (I read that article, thanks jeff).
I agree with the brain and the body as well. I really think this way of representing the internet is interesting.
What are those math picture things that look like I'm on acid? I like this whole computer visualization thing. Is this map of the internet is/supposed to be 3-D? How many dimensions can a computer think in?
Also, where does science come from? Have any of you read anything on the history of science (i.e. Kuhn)? I bought the book but haven't read it.
Math on acid is "Mandelbrot set." It's funny because wikipedia's picture of the day today was one of them. The map of the internet was the picture of the day too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set
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Well, it might not tell you anything but to the people who have to lay out and connect all those tubes...
Matt, could you circle our blog for us?
Yeah dude, that enlargement at the bottom is my work. It's the map of our blog.
It really does remind me of the universe though. Is this the only way of understanding the internet? or is it some kind of analogy?
Would I be mistaken if I said that it seems that computer science is the new elite in hard sciences (in math, for example)? Astrophysics seems really outdated to me.
Yeah but astrophysics and feilds related to space travel are more directly linked the survival of our species of the next million years.
I think its just a convient way to map a complicated system. It also looks reasonably similiar to a map of the human body that only shows, say, nerve endings and the circulatory system.
My doubt though is the linking here and what it signifies. I think the 'web' would be more splotchy. With relatively few websearch programs providing (primerily) the only links between very different subject matters. But that's just my suspicion.
The most important thing for human life in the long-run is alternative energy sources, namely fusion.
COmputer science isn't really elite at all, especially in web type applications, which is why popular publications can actually delve into it. Try finding a nice article in NewsWeek describing String Theory reasonably well.
I don't think this really serves any purpose other than a fun way of visualizing a difficult pattern. I think it looks like those pictures of of the brain's synapses firing.
I would have thought there would be a few large hub sites, like Google and MySpace and Youtue, and smaller branches off of that. Papers and presentations I've seen tend to agree, so this may have eliminated those links?
Scott, was your first comment just a joke?
It was a actually just an impression I got from talking to a prof at MIT, but I guess that was in math. I think there must be an elite section of comp science, or something.
Do you guys believe this string theory biznas? Do you guys like the idea of a definable origin? It seems that's what people think of this theory, but I could totally be wrong (I read that article, thanks jeff).
I agree with the brain and the body as well. I really think this way of representing the internet is interesting.
What are those math picture things that look like I'm on acid? I like this whole computer visualization thing. Is this map of the internet is/supposed to be 3-D? How many dimensions can a computer think in?
Also, where does science come from? Have any of you read anything on the history of science (i.e. Kuhn)? I bought the book but haven't read it.
Math on acid is "Mandelbrot set." It's funny because wikipedia's picture of the day today was one of them. The map of the internet was the picture of the day too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set
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