things

[atheorist]

Okay, so Cosma Shalizi is very smart, and reminded me about linear programming not actually solving the socialist central planning problem. And that reminded me of the New Yorker's View of the World. We each have our ecocentric perspective of the world. And perhaps that is a strategy of how to fight against "the move to 'the cloud'" (a.k.a. the war on general computing) - publish your web browser's cache as your perspective on the web in some sort of distributed name system, perhaps the distributed hash table people have figured out a good one, perhaps namecoin is appropriate.

Do people use firm-like entities weakly coupled by market-like interfaces to solve giant linear programming problems?