On July 15, 1848, Italian engineer, sociologist, economist, political scientist and philosopher Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto was born. He made several important contributions to economics, particularly in the study of income distribution and in the analysis of individuals' choices. The Pareto principle was named after him and built on observations of his such as that 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the population.
I believe that worse-is-better, even in its strawman form, has better survival characteristics than the-right-thing, and that the New Jersey approach when used for software is a better approach than the MIT approach.
Gaussian perspective of the world = built on atomism, privileging stability over instability, structure over process, objects over fields, and being over becoming. Paretian world = much more dynamic view of the world; looks for patterns in evolving relati
...we contemplate whether the social bookmarking space is a zero-sum game. Because of self-selection, having multiple social news sites may ultimately be a good thing...When you have more targeted sites you have better discussions, and more socializing be
...we contemplate whether the social bookmarking space is a zero-sum game. Because of self-selection, having multiple social news sites may ultimately be a good thing...When you have more targeted sites you have better discussions, and more socializing be
F. Castillo, A. Kordon, G. Smits, B. Christenson, and D. Dickerson. GECCO 2006: Proceedings of the 8th annual conference
on Genetic and evolutionary computation, 2, page 1613--1620. Seattle, Washington, USA, ACM Press, (8-12 July 2006)