Status and Surprises

• Status
• Surprises

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Status

Still trying to finish proposal, including sample chapters.

Surprises

Over the past few days I have come across some very similar/important works/groups that I was hitherto not aware of:

• “Thinking in Patterns and the Pattern of Human Thought as Contrasted with AI Data Processing” by Robert K. Logan & Marie Tandoc. Logan is a physics who switched to media ecology after interacting with Marshall McLuhan and has become the foremost McLuhan scholar.

• the book Pattern Classification by R. O. Duda, P. E. Hart, and D. G. Stork.. Wiley Interscience, 2000.

• The existence of…

  • Journal of Classification (mostly machine-based methods), operated since 1984 by the
  • The Classification Society (mostly statisticians), a member of the
  • International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS)

??? This business – at this late stage – of continuing to find people who’ve devoted to their lives to my pet topic is a bit daunting. Would they have any interest in contributing to my work, despite it being largely planned out at this point? Or would they simply be offended and/or condescending? IDK. Perhaps there already is a book like mine that I still haven’t found out about?

And how much of my work should be reporting on the works of others, vs. writing my own thoughts…?

P.S.— In the “JC” there’s an interesting article: “Asking Infinite Voters ‘Who is a J?’: Group Identification Problems in ℕ”