What book are you reading?

[_NOBODY_]

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I just placed an order for Agent Sonya.

 

[Joe Shearer]

...and I bought and re-read False Colours (read it a zillion times before, but am a sucker for Georgette Heyer stories) in a few hours.

 

[Nilgiri]

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Give us your review once you are done. I like spy stories too.

 

[Zarvan]

Give us your review once you are done. I like spy stories too.

I would. But I suggest that you buy and read his books The Spy and the Traitor.

 

[_NOBODY_]

@_NOBODY_ @markhor

Happy new year fellas. Was wondering any progress on your math understanding and game theory stuff from where we left off. I grapple with this stuff in real life, so I will try to give a couple insights I have I didn't have time for earlier.

Right now I am learning intro-level Game Theory, Recommender Systems and Intellectual Property Laws.

 

[_NOBODY_]

@Nilgiri I have to finish this Intellectual Property Law Specialization by the University of Pennsylvania for Business Law course at my university.

Intellectual Property Law

Offered by University of Pennsylvania. Become fluent in the rules of the new economy. Learn how to use intellectual property law to protect ... Enroll for free.

www.coursera.org

 

[Joe Shearer]

@_NOBODY_ @markhor

Happy new year fellas. Was wondering any progress on your math understanding and game theory stuff from where we left off. I grapple with this stuff in real life, so I will try to give a couple insights I have I didn't have time for earlier.

You know that the Professor (the one who's part of insaniyat) started his academic life teaching Game Theory?

 

[_NOBODY_]

@Nilgiri I have to finish this Intellectual Property Law Specialization by the University of Pennsylvania for Business Law course at my university.

Intellectual Property Law

Offered by University of Pennsylvania. Become fluent in the rules of the new economy. Learn how to use intellectual property law to protect ... Enroll for free.

www.coursera.org

This specialization contains 4 courses:

1. Introduction to Intellectual Property
2. Copyright Law
3. Trademark Law
4. Patent Law

 

[_NOBODY_]

You know that the Professor (the one who's part of insaniyat) started his academic life teaching Game Theory?

Who is this professor?

 

[Joe Shearer]

Who is this professor?

Umm, can't say on an open thread.

 

[_NOBODY_]

@Nilgiri @Joe Shearer @RescueRanger @LeGenD @Panzerkiel @Zarvan @AlKardai Bought this at 50% off for $2.11.

 

[SiliconBit (silicon0000)]

Good One

 

[Nilgiri]

Good One

Good to see you here on this thread bud. You are one of the PDF worthies in my book

 

[Nilgiri]

Right now I am learning intro-level Game Theory, Recommender Systems and Intellectual Property Laws.

Makes a lot of sense as IP is intellectual output and thus takes contours of a zero sum resource at apex level. Game theory would help optimize legal resource and planning.

I've had to sit in a couple patent depositions myself, companies (mine and competitor) going for arbitration etc. How that all exactly comes to be at higher corporate level (essentially the authority calling the shots for their wholes in this case), I have less idea about heh. Grunts ad field officers end up fighting how generals and politicians plan etc....it all ends up being intimately connected and correlated with where sufficient trust starts and ends in the human groupings and systems we have today in the larger human context and reality.

You know that the Professor (the one who's part of insaniyat) started his academic life teaching Game Theory?

Indeed. Last time it popped up was something to do with the rubiks cube, my (memorised) algorithms to solve it and we ended up getting onto Nash.

Nash and his equilibrium, it is such deep profound work. I keep revisiting it from time to time.

How much I know now then I did first when (he first came up for me).... I was just a high school kid at SAT prep classes and the tutor (teaching the math section) took us on about a 10 minute deep dive of his own as to his impression of recently released movie (A beautiful mind)....I forgot which scene he was using to reference something. But it was a great movie when I finally watched it later in college.

The elements of game theory (w.r.t the phenomenon of the "brittle-ization/polarisation" that tends to concentrate upwards in authority ladder due to "information" speeds not being equivalent in both directions).....appears in non-human form (its no longer game theory at that point of course).

The one I am most comfy with is probably the speed of sound, it is essentially the speed of cohesive information in the medium. If the medium is fluid, when it moves faster than its own internal information transmission speed (i.e goes supersonic).....there is reversal of many a property and interaction. In a way, this is similar to difference of human nature/action when it has little to no authority and that which does, again connected to nature of difference between the internal speeds/levers of top-down vs down-top in social hierarchies....and then how such hierarchies then interact and make decisions in "zero sum" way with other hierarchies.

 

[_NOBODY_]

Good One

My issue with motivational speakers is that they are little more than opportunists, profiting off the vulnerabilities of others by presenting ancient philosophies as if they were novel insights. Their entire body of work is essentially a modern-day plagiarism, repackaging wisdom that has existed for centuries. Philosophers like Aristotle, Socrates, and Epictetus taught these fundamental principles of resilience, self-discipline, and purpose long ago. Today’s motivational speakers don’t innovate—they simply reframe these timeless ideas in a way that resonates with contemporary audiences, adding little more than a few catchy phrases and slick marketing techniques. Even though, Simon Sinek is a million times better than the vast majority of motivational speakers out there; however, he is a part of an industry that I can't trust.