Irving John Good (IJ Good), certainly deserves a lot more attention. How did we miss him? Apparently he was indeed well known in some circles .... To my knowledge, he's still alive (age>90). He was directly affiliated with Turing and other key folks ... Statistician by trade ... he's really responsible for the notion of Ultraintelligent Machine and intelligence explosion. What I missed altogether is his early acquaintance with all things computer (in fact his speculations concerning the first Ultraintelligent Machine [UM] list a Atlas Computer Lab affiliation). He was right there at Bletchley Park ... IJGood authored all kinds of interesting material ... a really interesting one is The Scientist Speculates: An Anthology of Partly Baked Ideas ... yet more fascinating ... early involvement with Besicovitch ... Hausdorff measures, fractional dimensions of sets, Mandlebrodt ... and Zipf ... all before they got popular .... ouch ... How did I miss the UM paper for so long .... [the internet and google -misspelled goodle, what would one do with out them???).
In any case ... the question for tonight is how to measure the 'magnitude of nonlinearity'? Is there such a beast as maximal nonlinearity ? [apparently there is - for example this paper on ChaNoXity]
later - consider: Lady Luck: The Theory of Probability by Warren Weaver
straying from the main topic ... Good's Good! and that's that! lots to follow up on here ... the puzzle ... given Good's network ... why was UM so late in getting picked up as a more serious concept?
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