In 1665 the Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens noticed that two pendulum clocks in his room tended to swing in synch. The same happens with fireflies, cardiac pacemaker cells, walking, dancing, circadian rhythms in animals and people in a crowd.
When the Parts are closely connected, the Whole behaves the Same as the Parts. If this happens [...]
About Coupled Oscillators (Part 1)
By August 26th, 2010, underAbout Understanding Mathematics
By July 1st, 2010, underWhen I was a student I made some money by helping young people to understand Mathematics. I Listened to the way they tried to Solve the Puzzles their Teachers gave them and tried to find out their Personal Way of Reasoning.
When I found their reasoning problem I gave them a new Way to Think.
This approach was very effective. [...]
About Smart Computing
By June 16th, 2010, underWhen a Search Engine crawls the web and indexes information so that you can access it quickly, the search engine is doing Proactive Computation.
Servers don’t wait for you to execute a search query to start crawling the web; they are being proactive because it takes Too Much Time to find and index what you want.
The [...]
About Darwin’s Superorganism
By May 8th, 2010, underMany people believe that the theory of Evolution is based on the concept of competition. They believe that every gene, every cell, and every organism is designed to promote its own evolutionary success at the expense of others.
The big problem with this concept is that it does not explain the enormous amount of cooperation that [...]
