Why I started this blog

I'm using this to organize my ideas to be able to better write a book.

I want to do that because I find myself frequently being misunderstood and I wish to give a better idea on what I really think about "it" (whatever it is).

That misunderstanding basically happens because of the lack on resources our human protocol languages have on transmitting thoughts.

Unfortunately, I can find no better way to be able to do it than writing. But writing is actually even worst than talking. Why, then, write a book? Because we still don't have the technology to create "books that talk", within the context on this post. So this seems to me like the best way to achieve my "transmission of thoughts" to more than one person.

I know that we actually have technology on computers to read texts, but that's reading, not talking. In that sense, it's not any better than writing. Also, I can't talk to the computer so the computer will understand what I want to reproduce it. So I can't really "create a book that talk", all I can do is write something so a computer can read it for blind people, basically.

Fortunately, I do enjoy organizing my ideas through writing. Although writing wouldn't be needed, at all, if we had more evolved computers. And I would definitely like it better. I know it's really hard to imagine. We've being reading and writing almost all our lives. But there are people who can't read and make their living, although I still would love to get to personally meet one.

Just try to imagine if you could talk to a computer connected to the internet who can google around any information better than any googler, the same way you talk to an old man, but it is actually acting the age you want it to act. When would you really need to read something in a situation like that? Or even write. The computer can draw pictures and symbols that you choose to organize information, in a big piece of bio cybernetic nano-technological place. Bigger than any paper that you could write. Faster than anyone could draw. And we're just talking about "talking to the computer"...

This isn't a new idea, it's among some places, even some movies, but with different points of view and aspects. Anyway, it is still just another sci-fi dream of a possible future.

About the book I want to write...
I was amazed when I was surfing in wikipedia until I fell into the Game Theory. I've seen this for first time while watching A Beautiful Mind and that's how I got there. This specific introduction alone includes every subject I ever wanted to study:

Although the underlying methodology is mathematical, game theory is widely used in many different fields including biology, computer science, economics, philosophy, and political science.

Those 3 fields are completely related to another subject I'm deeply interested into: statistics. Although I'm not sure if there's too much to learn about statistics concept itself, but the field gets wide when you start studying how to apply it or getting into probability (which I don't find very attractive so far).

It says in the first line: "Game theory is a branch of applied mathematics"... Well, I think that actually, "Game theory is a branch of statistics, which is a branch of applied mathematics.", and it's still amazing how being a branch of a branch it is so widely spread among so different fields (that are not actually that different after all). And I know that, although statistics could be considered a branch of applied mathematics, it's actually separated branches, at least in universities courses.

Well, anyone can co-relate game theory with open source? Be careful, it's not the limited "new concept" of open source applied for softwares. opensource.org gives a good while brief idea of open source, even though it's actually talking about softwares.

Getting to study all of this would be just the beginning of the book.


-- cacumer@gmail.com