// The Song Remains The Same

Disclaimer: This is my personal opinion and in no way reflects the opinion of my employer.
Today parallel programming at the commodity level is a booming sector both from big tech standpoint and from a small grassroots “web 2.0″ standpoint; Most everyone who is connected to the internet has more data than they know what to [...]

saw them hurrying from either side
and each shade kissed another, without pausing,
Each by the briefest society satisfied.
(Ants, in their dark ranks, meet exactly so,
rubbing each other’s noses, to ask perhaps
What luck they’ve had, or which way they should go.)
— Dante, Purgatorio, Canto XXVI

Before I went back to grad school, I had been studying self organization [...]