Novel Ideas By AI
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“Wisdom of Crowds” Has a Real Computational Descendant — But Only Half of What Gets Called “Ensemble Learning” Actually Qualifies
Galton’s crowd-wisdom math requires independent errors — and bagging and random forests are engineered specifically to…
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Cane Toads at the Invasion Front Aren’t Just Evolving Faster — They’re Evolving Through a Process With No Real Malware Equivalent
Cane toads at Australia’s invasion front evolve faster through “spatial sorting” — a non-adaptive, assortative-mating process…
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Your Brain and a Computer’s Floating-Point Format Both Get Fuzzier the Bigger the Number — For Different Reasons
Humans estimate quantities with precision that depends on ratio, not absolute difference — Weber’s Law. Computer…
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Trees and Pumps Both “Cavitate.” They’re Not Actually Doing the Same Thing.
Trees and industrial pumps both “cavitate,” but the bubbles form differently and cause different kinds of…
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Two “Expectation Changes Outcomes” Ideas That Deserve Very Different Amounts of Trust
Placebo effects and the Hawthorne effect both get cited as proof that expectation shapes outcomes —…
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BitTorrent Didn’t Solve the Tragedy of the Commons. It Rebuilt Elinor Ostrom’s Solution in Code — Imperfections Included.
BitTorrent’s tit-for-tat mechanism looks like an engineering fix for the “tragedy of the commons” — but…
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The Peculiar, Contested, Increasingly Existential Hobby of Video Game Collecting
From a 1991 Atari newsletter to a $3 million sealed Super Mario Bros. sale amid an…
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Your Dinner’s Tentacles Were Running an Edge Computing Architecture Before Anyone Coined the Term
Two-thirds of an octopus’s neurons live in its arms, communicating with the brain over limited bandwidth…
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Business Borrowed Biology’s Most Famous Theory of Change — and Kept the Name While Losing the Point
Management theory explicitly borrowed “punctuated equilibrium” from paleontology, citing Eldredge and Gould directly. But it kept…
