The Reality Master: Ontological Mathematics for Engineers.

Ontological Math Snigglets # 3 On Mike Hockney Mike Hockney: the ultimate OBFH *1. * 1 Opinionated Bastard from Hell. Quotes Desperation is the world's worst cologne. - Debbie Hunt I'm not afraid of the day a computer passes the Turing test. I'm afraid of the day it intentionally fails it. - From the internet I like to drink moderately. As a matter of fact, I have a case of the stuff backstage right now. - Dean Martin You cannot reason someone out of something they were not reasoned into. - Johnathan Swift Metcalfe's Law Metcalfe's law says that the value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of nodes in the network. So a network that has twice the number of nodes, doesn't merely have 2x the utility, but 4x. Not only that, consider a network of 7 nodes that goes to 8 nodes. The utility of the first network is 7 * 7= 49, and of the second 8 * 8=64, for an absolute utility gain of 64 -49= 15. Now consider a network of 1000 nod...

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. - Albert Einstein The truth is the best adventure. - Jordan Peterson Atheists are right. Just not fully right. - Unknown Introduction The sub-title of this blog is "Ontological Mathematics for Engineers". Usually, I don't emphasize the engineering side of this equation too much, since I assume most of my readers are non-engineers interested in Ontological Math (OM). However, in this post we're going to get a little technical, so it's probably going to mostly appeal to people with an engineering/technical background. Per usual however, if you're not technical, hang in there -- I think you'll still find some useful ideas. The only thing in this article that might scare off some people is the concept of a y-combinator , which comes from fundamental computer Science. But we will only deal with the essence of what it represents, and I promise, you won't have to know ...