How local information leads to global coordination
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This seems like a fascinating book.
I wrote a research paper on how local information leads to global coordination, and seems very relevant to the topics covered in the book.
The idea is to take an array of nodes which are in one of two states. Each node can tell the state of only a few neighbors on either side. The idea is to find a cellular automata rule so that all states in the array converge to one state (this is known as the density classification task). This is the "local information can lead to global wisom" idea as stated in the review and is relevent to a score of biological and economic decentralized systems. I used genetic algorithms to solve this problem.
I was a semi-finalist in the Siemens-Westinghouse contest and submitted the paper to the Intel Talent Search (yet to be judged). A pdf can be found at http://www.chem-phys.com/intel/alex.pdf
Has anyone else noticed the increasing trend toward specialized parts and non-lego lego products? I've begun to lose faith in lego as they continue to market Bionicle or lego computer games or lego or the lego products with the creative elements removed. I miss the lego where you could be creative -- where you could actually build! Mindstorms is one of the all time great lego products and to see it replaced by bionicle and such saddens me.
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This seems like a fascinating book. I wrote a research paper on how local information leads to global coordination, and seems very relevant to the topics covered in the book. The idea is to take an array of nodes which are in one of two states. Each node can tell the state of only a few neighbors on either side. The idea is to find a cellular automata rule so that all states in the array converge to one state (this is known as the density classification task). This is the "local information can lead to global wisom" idea as stated in the review and is relevent to a score of biological and economic decentralized systems. I used genetic algorithms to solve this problem. I was a semi-finalist in the Siemens-Westinghouse contest and submitted the paper to the Intel Talent Search (yet to be judged). A pdf can be found at http://www.chem-phys.com/intel/alex.pdf
Has anyone else noticed the increasing trend toward specialized parts and non-lego lego products? I've begun to lose faith in lego as they continue to market Bionicle or lego computer games or lego or the lego products with the creative elements removed. I miss the lego where you could be creative -- where you could actually build! Mindstorms is one of the all time great lego products and to see it replaced by bionicle and such saddens me.