World Enough and Time

'Had we but world enough, and time'.

This paper will cover a general discussion of changes and improvement in software. I will focus on some special aspects of the evolutionary process, and propose to extend those techniques and approaches.

Peadiatric Tuberculosis: Is the World Doing Enough?

Spatial Embedding and Complexity: The Small-World Is Not Enough

The “order for free” exhibited by some classes of system has been exploited by natural selection in order to build systems capable of exhibiting complex behaviour. Here we explore the impact of one ordering constraint, spatial embedding, on the dynamical complexity of networks. We apply a measure of functional complexity derived from information theory to a set of spatially embedded network mod...

Bananas Enough for Time Travel?

This paper argues that the most famous objection to backward time travel can carry no weight. In its classic form, the objection is that backward time travel entails the occurrence of impossible things, such as auto-infanticide—and hence is itself impossible. David Lewis has rebutted the classic version of the objection: auto-infanticide is prevented by coincidences, such as time travellers sli...

Had We But World Enough , and Time : What is the NPV of Expected Future Pro fi ts of Money Managers ? ∗

Although established money managers operate in an environment which seems competitive, they also seem to be very profitable. The present value of the expected future profits from managing a collection of funds is equal to the value of the assets under management times the profit margin, assuming that the managed funds will remain in business forever, zero asset flow into and out of the funds, z...