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Welcome to the Living Thing¶
Being a commonplace book of research into life on all scales, from cells to the global economy, from momentary through to geogenic time scales, specifically how it all works, and how we can keep having it in a form we don’t find repugnant.
Who am I? Dan MacKinlay, thank you for asking.
In progress¶
- field recording mashups, as parking sun.
- studies in complexity economics, as documented on this site.
- live audiovisual performance with Pattern Machine.
Past projects¶
- renovating the Centre for Policy Development website in collaboration with Owl and Fox and datakid
- interactive music for your phone
- creating a full-text search in mongodb for the Interaction Consortium
- massive data visualisations for the NSW government
- the website for the Centre for Policy Development
Browse within¶
Contents (new to old)¶
- Citation management software 2012/09/23
- Things to avoid so your PhD is not a trainwreck 2012/08/07
- Transfer Entropy 2012/07/26
- Knowledge topology 2012/05/23
- Disruptive Technology 2012/04/27
- Collective Cognition 2012/04/27
- Research question 2012/02/03
- Groysberg Traders 2012/02/03
- Soft methodology 2012/01/13
- Attention economy 2012/01/13
- Climate Change 2011/12/13
- String dynamics 2011/12/13
- A model of technology 2011/12/13
- Dunbar numbers 2011/12/09
- Free energy 2011/11/27
- Charles Sturt University 2011/11/25
- Category Theory 2011/11/25
- Complexity (What it is) 2011/11/25
- The Bumper Book of Informations 2011/11/25
- Colophon 2011/11/23
- Information Geometry 2011/10/21
- Material basis of the economy 2011/10/17
- Configuration space of the economy 2011/09/07
- Isotropic vectors 2011/08/10
- Science for Policy 2011/08/07
- R, the language 2011/08/07
- Post-normal science 2011/07/29
- Spatial statistics 2011/07/29
- Agent based models 2011/07/28
- Geometry of fitness landscapes 2011/07/27
- Niche construction 2011/07/26
- Pattern Machine 2011/06/27
- Supercollider 2011/06/20
- Broken ergodicity 2011/05/30
- Design grammars 2011/05/30
- Grammatical inference 2011/05/30
- picloud 2011/05/11
- Flocking algorithms 2011/04/19
- Nonparametric mutual information 2011/04/19
- Python 2011/04/18
- Statistics 2011/04/15
- Sustainability 2011/04/15
- Behavioural economics 2011/04/15
- Altruism 2011/04/15
- Framing 2011/04/15
- Risk 2011/04/14
- Human geography 2011/04/13
- Econophysics 2011/04/13
- Linear algebra 2011/04/06
- C++ 2011/04/06
- Genetic algorithms 2011/04/06
- Economics 2011/04/06
- Mathematica 2011/04/06
- What am I up to here? 2010/12/15
- Feral (An Rjdj scene) 2010/12/02
- Simulation for the social sciences 2010/09/28
- TODOs 2010/08/16
- What Is Thought? (2004) 2010/08/13
- SXSW from the gutter 2010/03/17
- Berlin 2010- Transmediale 2010/03/15
Contents (A-Z)¶
- Notebooks
- What Is Thought? (2004)
- A model of technology
- Agent based models
- Altruism
- Attention economy
- Behavioural economics
- Broken ergodicity
- Category Theory
- Charles Sturt University
- Citation management software
- Climate Change
- Collective Cognition
- Complexity (What it is)
- Configuration space of the economy
- C++
- Design grammars
- Disruptive Technology
- Dunbar numbers
- Economics
- Econophysics
- Flocking algorithms
- Framing
- Free energy
- Genetic algorithms
- Geometry of fitness landscapes
- Grammatical inference
- Human geography
- Iconoclasm as method
- Information Geometry
- The Bumper Book of Informations
- Isotropic vectors
- Knowledge topology
- Linear algebra
- Material basis of the economy
- Mathematica
- Niche construction
- Nonparametric mutual information
- picloud
- Post-normal science
- Pure, the language
- Python
- R, the language
- Risk
- Science for Policy
- Simulation for the social sciences
- Soft methodology
- Spatial statistics
- Statistics
- String dynamics
- Supercollider
- Sustainability
- SXSW from the gutter
- Things to avoid so your PhD is not a trainwreck
- TODOs
- Transfer Entropy
- Berlin 2010- Transmediale
- What am I up to here?
- Articles
- Review: Wade Marynowsky, the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie robot
- Sydney Dorkbot group show.
- Dorkbot group show 2012
- Honours thesis
- Jakarta Biennale 2009 - “Arena”
- Jakarta Biennale 2009 (Sentap! Magazine)
- Dancing Machine
- Second-life eco-management
- Filet électronique/island
- How to discover new media art on the web.
- The after party for the American Century (SXSW 2010)
- Time Machine 2012
- Electrofringe will eat itself.
- Sofa surfing Electrofringe 2009
- Projects
- Colophon