2025 Nov 26
- Large Language Models and Emergence: A Complex Systems Perspective - “Minimally, emergence describes the reorganization of a system that can support a new, often smaller description, that screens off microscopic details not essential to predicting the future of a system. Emergence matters because it leads to an enormous cost saving in how systems are described, predicted, and controlled. We do not need to use quantum mechanics to build a bridge because the classical world emerges from the quantum—a fact exploited by engineers.”
- My Life Is a Lie - “Altruism is a function of surplus. It is easy to be charitable when you have excess capacity. It is impossible to be charitable when you are fighting for the last bruised banana.”
- The Trillion-Dollar Cost of IT’s Willful Ignorance - "It may be a forlorn request, but surely it is time the IT community stops repeatedly making the same ridiculous mistakes it has made since at least 1968, when the term “software crisis” was coined. Make new ones, damn it."