31 January 2003

How can that be? IBM WebSphere upgrade looks beyond J2EE [InfoWorld: Top News] 2:38:52 PM     Bring your family Scoble asks an important question. "Patient A has a troupe of 20 people with her, and at least five stay around the clock to pray for her. Patient B only has two people with her, and they don't stay around the clock. If something goes wrong with both patients at the same time, and there's only one surgeon available, which one gets the surgery done first?" There's no doubt that Patient A gets the help. Having spent a lot of time in hospitals in the last year, this is well-known among families. It's why I spent so much time in the hospital with my father. If the nurses and doctors get to know you, your friend or relative gets better care. No doubt about it. [Scripting News] 2:29:42 PM     Positive Lyapunov Exponents http://www.janthor.de/Lyapunov/fixed.html Lyapunov was a very cool guy. There's a quantity named after him called the Lyapunov exponent and when its positive you have 'extreme sensitivity to initial conditions' or 'explosive growth' or 'chaos'. Code Red growth across the net apparently had positive Lyapunov exponent as I'm sure lots of net phenomena do - flash crowd, Hotmail etc. So I thought I'd show this beautiful Lyapunov exponent map today courtesy Jan Thor: 2:19:09 PM

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