Bayle Shanks's website

Welcome to my website. My email address is . If you're looking for my work website, go here.

About me

I currently live in San Diego.

My professional training and interests are in the areas of cognitive studies, computers, collaboration, mathematics, and finance. See also my old grad school website.

See aboutMe for more about me.

Recommendations of links and things to read/watch

• children's book gift ideas
• webcomics
• books
• web tools:
  • Internet Archive keeps copies of old version of web pages. Often when you hit a dead link (a 404 due to a no-longer-existing webpage), you can find an old copy of it in the Archive!
• web forums:

Thoughts and ideas

• A governance system ("concord democracy") for groups (companies, non-profits, governments) which i feel will be both more efficient, lead to better decision-making, and also be more participatory than traditional frameworks. Mostly finished -- carefully thought out, but not reviewed by others or tested yet, so probably has some bugs.
• Unfairness Resulting From Different Budgets At Trial, a proposal for a procedure that would prevent large companies and rich people from having an unfair advantage at trial

Cognitive studies:

• What is the function of the reciprocal signal from cerebral cortex to thalamus? -- an underappreciated open question in the systems neuroscience of the cerebral cortex
• arc computation

Philosophy:

• Some opinions in philosophy
• Computation is not free (an underappreciated principal with broad consequences)

Misc:

• improvements to English