diary updated jan 2021 - first japanese translation of bio of von neumann expected by summer 2021
Von Neumann (1903- 1957 -)Johnny was probably the most creative person of his lifetime- definitely the most creative mathematician. He was catapulted into the 3 most urgently accelerating sciences of the time
nuclear
computers for analysis
computers as bridge to media and human intelligence purpose
war forced him to be in the middle of all three of these - and nuclear was the cause of his short life
in fathering the ;programmable computer- post-war free of state secrets, he took extra joy in open sourcing all his discoveries much to the displeasure of some of his academic brethren at princeton who wanted to keep it to themselves- ibm was one of those gain most from Johnny's shared economy of his life's great works
probably aware of the fact that analysis power would double way almost every year beyond his life span, he moved from design of programmable computer put of coding and into his last works at yale modeling the human mind as a neural network- in other words how much more programmable are human minds than we like to believe and is this overlap good or bad news for where artificial intelligence will also take us
von neumann cautioned - dont let your world be ruled by zero-sum economists- that was how the past empire and industrial age constrained the human lot- he would have loved digital currencies replacing politicians paper ones but only if they were designed to open source sustainability most urgently massive improvements for all people s not as some new hidden ponzi scheme ruler
one of the other most fascinating questions- is how did eastern europe train such a great cluster of mathematicians as von neumann, einstein etc- and how is it that american education has never begun to replicate such maths education- in 2018 its also noticeable that eastern europe is the one place in the wporld demanding its brightest lawyers focus on blockchain law- this will be the antidote to how much harm the EU has done eastern europe- see also works of today's Hungarian exile George Soros
for those who prefer to question rather than examine everyone they meet reading my father's biography of von neumann may yet help you help us all cooperatively prevent some of the great threats to human sustainability- for the rest of us well the age of 4000 times moore wouldnt have been launched without von neumann
quiz - have you read neumann yale lectures on brain's neural network and desire to experience win-win learning relationships (which of the drives is top most money, sex. or loving community) published posthumously- did you know that father of programmable computing didnt trust 1950s washington to open source his work so leaked to ibm, did you know his family's engineering links continue through MIT sloan -it was MIT that contribute the code to moon land, did you know that neumann wanted to end patent laws as a form of monopoly - something AI could decide on provided data chose for it to humanise supercities by and for all girls futures - have you read the biography of von neumann by norman macrae- do you understand why american and british empire examination schools have been designed so that there will English language will never nurture another einstein or von neumann, have you browsed flow research of genii by Professor Csik at Claremont: experiential learning outside classroom is what to max human education on while Artificials get on with machine memorising and trillion times more stats power than human mind's capacity (thank you alumni gordon moore)
economistamerica.com- is this good news or bad news for sustaining the majority of people on earth? -is there anything truly left of american capitalism or kis kit being pied pipered into ever other ism that scared the likes of george orwell into viral pessimism
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