http://blog.why.id.au Your friend, the monkey Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:04:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So I'm back at school and despite good intentions, not writting in this blog at all. There's too much to do, no matter how much I do do it's not enough, and I'm very tired and ever more angry at my discipline. I went to Florida and saw many interesting things. ... http://blog.why.id.au/?p=12 Personal notes for jogging my memory later: If Pete Richerson is right, there's been little genetic cognitive adaptation in the last several hundred thousand years of hominid evolution - just a few minor changes, a general increase in size and an evolution of context -> culture. If that's so, one of the ... http://blog.why.id.au/?p=11 I've been working on a model of social interactions recently.I'm trying to see what happens when 1) your friends influence what you believe and 2) what you believe influences how many friends you have. It's an analytical / simulation combo, I've been trying to work it out algabraicly, on paper, and ... http://blog.why.id.au/?p=7 A young lady and I were in a second hand bookshop, across the street from a "Brewing, 'Bacco and Barber" shop - where if we'd been inclined we could have bought all our beer and wine brewing supplies, local and imported tobaccos and had our hairs cut all at once. ... http://blog.why.id.au/?p=4 I've arrived back in Melbourne and have finally slipped into the first extended mental break I've had in well over a year. Who knew that eventually school got hard? Now suddenly the holidays have arrived. I've forced myself to ignore work and found mysef, unexpectedly, with time to spare on romance, ... http://blog.why.id.au/?p=3