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Transformation and Analogies

iciac — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 04:10:01 +0000

Article URL: https://camerongordon0.substack.com/p/on-transformation-and-analogies

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47917607

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Transformations and Analogies

iciac — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 08:32:23 +0000

Article URL: https://camerongordon0.substack.com/p/on-transformation-and-analogies

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47908510

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The (AI) Nature of the Firm

iciac — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 03:28:55 +0000

Article URL: https://camerongordon0.substack.com/p/the-ai-nature-of-the-firm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46843349

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The (AI) Nature of the Firm

iciac — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 10:55:57 +0000

Article URL: https://camerongordon0.substack.com/p/the-ai-nature-of-the-firm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46835466

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New comment by iciac in "Show HN: Crossing The Lexicon, a fun Wordle-inspired daily word game"

iciac — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 15:57:46 +0000

Great game! Curious what design decisions you would change if you were starting from scratch.

New comment by iciac in "The 'attention economy' corrupts science"

iciac — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 09:51:47 +0000

“What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.” - Herbert Simon

New comment by iciac in "UST Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg"

iciac — Tue, 10 May 2022 03:02:52 +0000

111TWh is well beyond a typical hydroelectric dam output (most are an order of magnitude lower storage and generation). As an example, the very sizable Australian Snowy Hydro 2.0 upon completion is estimated to have storage for 350GWh (the Australian national energy market is ~190TWh). The original Snowy Hydro (9 stations) has annual energy production of ~5GWh.

New comment by iciac in "Ask HN: Which books in your field do you think are perfect for self study?"

iciac — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 04:43:11 +0000

There are two out-of-field books that I always recommend to policy analysts, economists, and regulatory drafters: The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman, and Algorithms To Live By by Brian Christian and Thomas Griffiths. Both are high signal-to-noise primers on topics that are relevant in decision making and policy, but are rarely covered in an economics or public policy curriculum.

New comment by iciac in "Ask HN: Which books in your field do you think are perfect for self study?"

iciac — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 04:37:38 +0000

Equally "The Art of Doing Science and Engineering" by Hamming is one of the best books around on the philosophy of problem solving, and an excellent primer on core concepts in signals processing, information theory, and computing.

New comment by iciac in "Elegant six-page proof reveals the emergence of random structure"

iciac — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 14:07:40 +0000

You might be interested in this 1 page paper by John Nash, which proves the existence of equilibria for finite N-player games (an extremely powerful result). In essence it uses a set theory result (Kakutani's fixed point theorem), and simply notes that his description of a N-player game meets the required conditions for that result to hold. http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/faculty/chwe/austen/nash1...

New comment by iciac in "Braess Paradox"

iciac — Sun, 24 Apr 2022 04:33:40 +0000

Braess Paradox is one of the nicest results in network science and traffic engineering. It's possible to find examples of its application in any situation that can be modelled as a network, from graph neural network architecture (removing connections and inducing sparsity can lead to better generalisation and efficiency under conditions); economics (introducing new trade connections can reduce wellbeing and efficiency under conditions); organisational theory (introducing firewalls between teams can reduce the prevalence of groupthink); and many more.

New comment by iciac in "Braess Paradox"

iciac — Sun, 24 Apr 2022 04:18:06 +0000

There's an analogous concept to Nash equilibria in transport engineering known as Wardrop's First Principle. In essence, at equilibrium no user has an incentive to change their behaviour by choosing an alternative route. A 'central routing algorithm' that optimises over the system is in essence Wardrop's Second Principle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Glen_Wardrop

New comment by iciac in "Backyard approaching lighting at Adelaide Airport"

iciac — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 02:08:57 +0000

As a related Adelaide fact - the center of town is ringed by a "moat" of parklands, each ostensibly the width of a cannonball and designed as a defensive structure (an invading force would need to run through a cannon's worth of artillary). On a map the green square is extremely distinctive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaide_Park_Lands#/media/Fil...

Storage as a Communication Problem

iciac — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 04:01:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.camerongordon.site/post/storage-as-a-communication-problem

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30730863

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Storage as a Communication Problem

iciac — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 12:26:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.camerongordon.site/post/storage-as-a-communication-problem

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30721289

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Where's Wally and a Swiss Cheese View of Deep Learning

iciac — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 12:18:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.camerongordon.site/post/where-s-wally-and-a-swiss-cheese-view-of-deep-learning

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30660586

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Where's Wally and a Swiss Cheese View of Deep Learning

iciac — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 05:01:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.camerongordon.site/post/where-s-wally-and-a-swiss-cheese-view-of-deep-learning

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30564436

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New comment by iciac in "Researchers can steal data during homomorphic encryption"

iciac — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 00:41:27 +0000

As an aside it's worth noting that RSA itself is partially-homomorphic (ciphertext multiplications are preserved in the decrypted plaintext).

The idea of 'homomorphic encryption' was even introduced by another Rivest and Adleman paper, almost immediately after the famous 1977 RSA algorithm ("On Data Banks and Privacy Homomorphisms" by Rivest, Adleman, and Dertouzos 1978).

Why Does Australia Still Use Fixed-Order Ballots?

iciac — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 03:52:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.camerongordon.site/post/why-does-australia-still-use-fixed-order-ballots

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30328189

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Why Does Australia Still Use Fixed-Order Ballots?

iciac — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 12:03:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.camerongordon.site/post/why-does-australia-still-use-fixed-order-ballots

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30321165

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