Tag: optimal information

Circuits, Shortest Paths, and Capitalism

Shortest Paths

A few weeks back I mentioned a well known resource minimization problem called the Traveling Salesman, and a far out “solution” to an analogous problem (scavenging) leveraging life. Graph theory is an area rich in algorithms which are designed to yield optimal, or more often good enough answers to problems which can’t be computed exhaustively1. In this morning’s riff I’ll explore similarities between shortest paths, current flow and capitalism and hopefully learn a little in the process.

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Sparking Community Growth with Algorithms

Today’s post is inspired by an entrepreneur’s request for relevance signals, metrics, and algorithms for an under served market his team is targeting. I’ll generalize the suggestions I sent by email in the hopes that they’ll improve from critical review and serve a broader audience.

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A Novel Language, Spoken, Written, Optimal & Naturally Computer Friendly

peaceineverylanguage

While we share information in thousands of ways on Earth, languages have never been designed from the beginning with a focus on optimization of information transfer. More than just another outlandish concept, creating a pre-compressed (low or no redundancy, maximum information density) language to allow much faster transmission and reception of knowledge would provide the following advantages: (more…)