My peer group tends to take these weeks semi-seriously in that we’ll go out of way to plan a stop at this or that restaurant or food truck or pub or whatever, that is showing up on the maps. Social media plays a big role obviously. In my neighborhood, food trucks abound and today I have two on my list, meaning I’ll be flipping a coin (so to speak) at some point.
Speaking of coin flipping, as you might know if a connoisseur of my curated content (these blogs), my statistics and probability vane (think of a windmill) goes by Casino Math, a search term herein and elsewhere in my writings, where a certain Digital Math of the Silicon Forest is featured. Is Wikieducator still working? We were getting indications it was taking on water.
Casino Math is meant to highlight both the history of the social sciences, and the physical sciences as an offshoot (contrary to stereotypes), and the fact that the institution we know as “the casino” (minus aberrational examples such as on Catalina Island (no gambling)) is a concentrated example of what we know about “odds” as well as human psychology (they go together — predicting human behavior is an art, true, but also a science).
I wonder if I’ll be able to wire my Visa card to my bitcoin wallet at some point. Use the card mechanism but backend it into whatever store of value you’re able to make fungible in the moment. Best to have a buffer in hard currency with a backend able to take more time, as bitcoin sometimes required, especially with mining costs what they are.
Yes, money talk is Casino Math in a lotta ways, but also Supermarket Math. So now you’re wondering about Neolithic and Martian Maths, as the two remaining. Of course we’re free to look at “money” through all four lenses, with Neolithic reminding us of how “kind” and “currency” might overlap, in the form of promised cows (bovines), redeemable thanks to IOUs issued in their stead. With the sovereign’s picture. A man of his word? A hard currency would suggest yes.
What about on Mars, will we use money? Did they need money on the starship Enterprise in the TV show?
I don’t really see these as the questions to be asking, at least not of me. I wouldn’t know. More to the point is what will “money” mean when we’ve had some centuries of experience using crypto?
When I hand over my Visa (or swipe it myself actually — most food trucks don’t need to even touch the card), I imagine paying in something worth burritos, or curried chicken wings, or… you name it. Once in the catalog as a priceable item, you’re in the world of “frequencies” (how rare a thing is). Statistics is all about the relative frequencies of various types of event. Lookup the etymology of “fluke” as in “unlikely thing happening”.
We have these plans for “glamping” campuses in extreme remoteness, meaning the airplane or helicopter doesn’t come every day, more like a base camp, as in mountain climbing, but without presuming that specific climate. Some base camps are too high for planes or helicopters anyway. So maybe one needs to hike in. The circuitry is based on “food trucks” which are like the animal branded lodges of old, with extended families and exogenous relationships.
In our diagrams, we have stratification based on length of stay, planned or actual. Some faculty or staff are full timers and stay during off season, when the tourists have left, but with more to come. In Las Vegas terms, you need the locals to offset the peak and valley rollercoaster of feast or famine. At the height of tourist season, the locals have work. When visitors taper off, they get more of a playground, given they know the ropes already.
