Monday, October 19, 2009

A ride on the winged supersonic brontosaurus that IS hyper-text transfer protocol.

Some of you may understand when I say that one can truly get lost in the World Wide Web. I just went on one of those fascinating and mysterious "Wikipedia trips." You know, the ones where you google something you don't know too much about, and then as you're reading the article, another interesting tidbit jumps out at you, and you click on the hyperlink to it. Tonight's intrepid journey through the annals of Wikipedia went like this: Godwin's Law -> Usenet -> Portmaneau -> Tanganyik -> Maji Maji Rebellion -> Cap gun -> Airsoft -> ...... ***Dozens of fascinated mouse clicks later*** .........And you've arrived, with me, at 12:36am, October 20, 2009. I'm now learning about the Nash Equilibrium, which is a solution concept of Game Theory where if each player has chosen a strategy and no player can benefit by changing his or her strategy while the other players keep theirs unchanged, then the current set of strategy choices and the corresponding payoffs constitute a Nash equilibrium

I love Wikipedia.

1 comments:

  1. I do love that trippin on wikipedia stuff. I had a good one the other day. It went something like this:
    Operation Management -> LEAN -> Shiego Shingo - > Shingo, Aomori.

    You should look up Shingo, Aomori. I was amazed. I had never heard it before. The Japanese believe Jesus came to live with them!

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