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Fascinating article by Malcolm Gladwell in this week's
New Yorker. Called Annals of Innovation: How David Beats Goliath. Covers everything from girls basketball using the full-court press, to computer-designed naval war games, to, of course, the giant versus the shepherd.
This kind of thinking is at the core of our martial art, so I found it particularly interesting.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. I read the article yesterday. It struck me, like so much of Gladwell's writing, as having everything to do with martial arts.
ReplyDeleteVery nice article. Thanks, Steve.
ReplyDeleteAmusingly Douglas Lenat went on to a career in artificial intelligence and is famous for having the ``microlenat'' measure of ``bogosity'' named in his ``honour''.
ReplyDeleteWilliam
Welcome back, Rory. Kinda-sorta back, I mean, relatively speaking, from where you were to where you were ...
ReplyDeleteThere was another nice piece in that issue, by John Colapinto, on neuroscience, profiling an Indian-born doctor, Vilaynur S. Ramachandran. Only the abstract is available online:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/11/090511fa_fact_colapinto
but it's worth reading if you can find the treeware.
More on Ramachadran:
http://www.lankanewspapers.com/news/2009/4/42308_space.html