Monthly Archives: February 2010
Two Interesting Observations about Voting I Hadn’t Seen Until Recently
By “voting”, I mean the following general problem: Suppose there are candidates and voters. Each voter produces a total ordering of all candidates. A voting procedure is a function which takes as input all orderings, and produces an output ranking … Continue reading
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Quantish Physics: A Discrete Model of Quantum Physics
In the book Good and Real, author Gary Drescher, who received his PhD from MIT’s AI lab, defends the view that determinism is a consistent and coherent view of the world. In doing so, he enters many different arenas: ethics, … Continue reading
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