Derek James

• Review of Complexity by Melanie Mitchell

  July 29, 2009

  I just finished reading Complexity: A Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell. The book is meant to be an introduction to complexity theory for the general reader. The book works as a lucid review of many interesting topics in science and mathematics. I’d read Mitchell’s book on genetic algorithms, and she’s a gifted writer. Here she [...]

• Time as a teacher

  June 28, 2009

  Another guest editor here… I met Max at this year’s ICCNS and he suggested writing a guest entry for Neurdon. The ideas hopefully compliment some of the stuff Ethan blogged about. I’m a 4th-year PhD student in the Institute of Cognitive Science at The University of Louisiana at Lafayette. When I entered the program, I [...]