tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post109236324554999155..comments2024-03-28T18:17:00.135-05:00Comments on Computational Complexity: Wisdom of CrowdsLance Fortnowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06752030912874378610noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-1092387792115860822004-08-13T04:03:00.000-05:002004-08-13T04:03:00.000-05:00Here's an interesting example of a group hive mind...Here's an interesting example of a <A HREF="http://www.blogger.com/r?http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kk.org%2Foutofcontrol%2Fch2-b.html">group hive mind experiment</A> for playing video games. And here's a <A HREF="http://www.blogger.com/r?http%3A%2F%2Fwww.typophile.com%2Fsmallerpicture%2F">hive mind font</A> inspired by that story.<br /><br />What's interesting in the font is that the current letters themselves look like they have random noise, but the <A HREF="http://www.blogger.com/r?http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imarlin.com%2Fsandbox%2Fsmaller%2F">average of the pixel values</A> looks quite nice: indeed, averaging is a good way to aggregate the opinions, and in this case it ends up giving you anti-aliasing.<br /><br />(These links are from <A HREF="http://www.blogger.com/r?http%3A%2F%2Fslate.msn.com%2Fid%2F2104087">a Slate article</A> that reviews the same book.)<br /><br />I suppose some believe that are minds come from a similar principle.Macneil Shonlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16382866616548432101noreply@blogger.com