# HG changeset patch
# User Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
# Date 1401999089 14400
# Node ID 72c6ede12806c9adef504cfd9a600d0226fa535d
# Parent  1aaf600dc39be8ea8bdacf7173e9e0fdfa3b2608
fix dangling SOM description.

diff -r 1aaf600dc39b -r 72c6ede12806 org/sussman-reading-list.org
--- a/org/sussman-reading-list.org	Thu Jun 05 16:04:41 2014 -0400
+++ b/org/sussman-reading-list.org	Thu Jun 05 16:11:29 2014 -0400
@@ -74,8 +74,14 @@
   and have NOT been properly explored! You could be the first person
   to get them working!
 
-  - Using Chaotic Systems to get unlimited measurement precision!
-    - Two papers: 
+  - Using chaos to get unlimited measurement precision!
+    - In chaotic systems, states that are near to each other at one
+      point in time become exponentially farther apart from each other
+      as the system evolves in time. Therefore, you might be able to
+      attain arbitrary precision by waiting for the system to evolve,
+      and then determining what initial state must have led to the
+      later state.
+    - Two notable papers: 
       - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5953][A Global Approach to Parameter Estimation of Chaotic Dynamical
         Systems]], by [[http://eas.caltech.edu/people/3209/profile][Athanassios G. Siapas]], 1992.
       - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7060][Parameter Estimation in Chaotic Systems]], by Elmer Hung, 1995.
@@ -85,7 +91,9 @@
       magnitude= improvement in measurement precision in a simple
       experiment. 
     - You will win the Nobel Prize if you can get it to work, because
-      you will revolutionize the way we do measurements. 
+      you will revolutionize the way we do measurements. In
+      particular, you could measure the Gravitational Constant with
+      unprecedented accuracy. 
 
   - [[http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/12007][Towards Intelligent Structures: Active Control of Buckling]]
     - By [[http://www.berlinplace.com/][Andrew A. Berlin]], 1994
@@ -263,7 +271,7 @@
   where people could thrive. He is certainly the reason that I was
   seduced into working on AI. Minsky has vast and deep Scientific
   knowledge -- he could walk into almost any class: Chemistry,
-  Physics, Math, Computer Science, and teach the class without
+  Physics, Math, Computer Science, and teach the class well without
   preparation!
 
   - http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/ Much of Minsky's work is here,
@@ -271,7 +279,8 @@
     papers. Check it out!
   
   - [[http://aurellem.org/society-of-mind/][Society of Mind]] Read it online! Each chapter of this book is a
-    short, self-contained essay about the various
+    short, self-contained essay about some aspect of intelligence or
+    development. 
 
   - [[https://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/MusicMindMeaning.html][Music, Mind, and Meaning]] Minsky is one of a few living people who
     can /improvise/ complicated Baroque era fugues. You can hear one
@@ -308,6 +317,7 @@
       example.
     - But the /feelings/ are exactly right! This book really captures
       what it was like to be in the AI lab back in the good old days.
+
 * Selected works by Sussman
   
   - [[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/sicm-html/book.html][SICM (Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics)]] This is