tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post5348393487916758232..comments2024-02-24T19:10:00.395+02:00Comments on Sudden Debt: Fractal Finance, Part IHellasioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03564511281240682625noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-83665676432171634572010-06-19T21:14:23.219+03:002010-06-19T21:14:23.219+03:00Have fun, Eco.Have fun, Eco.Debrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01510189619803992336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-28839218330207532902010-06-19T18:55:58.101+03:002010-06-19T18:55:58.101+03:00It's a frightening undertaking, to challenge o...It's a frightening undertaking, to challenge our own assumptions of an orderly world. To search for our own dissonance and calibrate our emotional and genetic response to reality is an ongoing and constant ordeal. The Mandelbrot Set is a helpful tool, however not an answer. A life time is too short, or perhaps too long or just right. I don't know and really don't care because it's meaningless.<br /><br />I'm going sailing with my best friend, "the BUG"...<br /><br />Best regards,<br /><br />EconoliciousAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-27110371424186913632010-06-19T12:21:01.675+03:002010-06-19T12:21:01.675+03:00"Algorithms saw shares as mere numbers, mathe..."Algorithms saw shares as mere numbers, mathematical data points with no physical correlation to a company's products, plant equipment....".<br />That's what's called a crisis in... representation.<br />It is a crisis OF our symbolic systems themselves.<br />WHAT is the relation between non mathematical "language" and mathematical "language" ?<br />How do we think of this relation ? <br />And ultimately... what is the relation between our symbolic systems and what they are supposed to represent ?<br />That relation is a construction, not a given.<br />And.. with the "progress" of analytic thought in our civilization, we have opened the door of our consciousness to SEE that that relation is an (arbitrary...) construction. <br />That perception demands contending with...<br />I have said elsewhere that there is a price to be paid for voiding the SUBJECT half of the phrase, and filling up the OBJECT half...<br />We are paying it... we are paying it...Debrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01510189619803992336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-50845307959655212642010-06-18T10:59:56.343+03:002010-06-18T10:59:56.343+03:00This is serious stuff, Hell... ;-)
Seriously... 19...This is serious stuff, Hell... ;-)<br />Seriously... 1979 was the year I expatriated from the mother country, for complex reasons that I have come to understand with the years.<br />I SERIOUSLY suggest you read the book that I'm promoting around the blogs, Jacques Barzun "From Dawn to Decadence, from 1500 to the present..."<br />As an historian of ideas, Barzun traces the origins of scientific thought in our civilization. His chapter on the emergence of modern science is required reading for me. It is fascinating. <br />The fractal concept looks like... one more exacerbated application of analytic thought. I am not against analytic thought. After all.. I used to be a psychoANALYST, right ? But analytic thought is not the ONLY way of thinking with validity, in my book. Not the ONLY way of understanding our world. It is certainly VERY POPULAR in our civilization, though..<br />I DON'T LIKE the repetition of IDENTICAL building blocks.<br />It is the.. IDENTICAL that I object to. <br />As always the problem is NOT that I reject DNA sequencing, for example...<br />The problem I have is with the GENERALIZATION of such sequencing of identical units to other areas.<br />The way we take our models, and based on analogy, apply them elsewhere.<br />That's where the rub kicks in, in my book.<br />Why do we always seem to think that... more of a good thing is always better ??<br />Not very.. RATIONAL of us, is it ??Debrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01510189619803992336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-44479239278477496682010-06-18T05:20:25.305+03:002010-06-18T05:20:25.305+03:00"So you understand that when we increase the ..."So you understand that when we increase the number of variables, the axioms themselves never change."<br />-Mrs. Jean UnderwoodEconomicDisconnecthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02802078645713106743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-80334943717357485482010-06-18T01:40:50.543+03:002010-06-18T01:40:50.543+03:00Cant wait for part II.Cant wait for part II.EconomicDisconnecthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02802078645713106743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-53917125654378572832010-06-18T00:56:48.276+03:002010-06-18T00:56:48.276+03:00I love the insider's history lesson here, Hell...I love the insider's history lesson here, Hell. Good stuff.<br /><br />Also, Katherine wanted you to see a remembrance that one of Thai's neighbors (who was in finance) sent her. You'll also see a Monty Python memorial I posted <a href="http://rememberingthai.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow"> for Thai;) </a>Dinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10907199567928816652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-9548114999115245122010-06-17T11:14:07.840+03:002010-06-17T11:14:07.840+03:00What I found fascinating in my lectures at the end...What I found fascinating in my lectures at the end of the 1970's was the notion that fractal objects have non finite dimensions. Line or curves on surfaces have dimension=1, surfaces in the space have dimension=2, our geometrical world has dimension=3 and with time it becomes 4. But fractals can have a dimension=1,5849625 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hausdorff_dimension" rel="nofollow">for example</a>, which is between line and surface. And at the time that puzzled me a lot (I was a teenager and other things puzzled me even more!). But unfortunately I then stopped to look at this.Arnouldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15769994922395834036noreply@blogger.com