Well just a fortnight or so back I discovered that Dr Radford Neal, one of the top researchers in Statistics and Machine Learning was blogging. And today morning I discovered Dr Vitorino Ramos has been blogging for over a week now too!
This comes as a surprise, but a very pleasant one. I am very glad to have found his page, it promises to be a very different Web-Log and could indeed grow into one of the top blogs on Swarming, Self-Organization, Complexity and Distributed Systems as it would be by a leading expert in the field. It would be great to catch up on his work. In the past I have tried to write on some of his interesting work on my own page. My posts can be found here.
[Vitorino Ramos: Image Source]
Dr Ramos’ research areas are chiefly in Artificial Life, Artificial Intelligence, Bio-Inspired Computing, Collective Intelligence and Complex Systems. He obtained his PhD in 2004 and has published about 70 papers in the above fields and their broad application areas. So put simply it can be said that the IQ of the “blogosphere” has gone up a little with this addition.
For starters I would recommend his article on Financial Markets (given the situation today), talking about the herd mentality and the resulting amplification in dumb investors and its results and what it could result in. Most investors do not understand much of the market mechanism. This is a bare fact put most aptly in this cartoon I found on his blog, and his post goes much beyond that.
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And going by the website and blog name, it seems that Dr Ramos is now interested in some sense in Tibor Ganti’s Chemoton Theory.
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Quick Links:
2. Dr Ramos’ Publications. (PDFs available online)
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