Andres Valloud was going to talk about JP Morgan's Kapital application at SDSU (San Diego State University) on the 16th (of Februrary) - then he ran into the twin walls of weather and corporate policy. The details are over on his site; he has rescheduled his talk, which should now take place on the 23rd (of February). Here's the topic he plans to cover; the rest of the abstract is over at his blog.

The pattern describes a way to make explicit a model by which one can explain how the interaction between observers and their environments occurs. The pattern applies to a complex system, or information manifold, under observation and a player interacting with it. A game is an example of such an information manifold. A program playing the game is an example of a player. An adaptive compiler (player) observing the execution of a program (information manifold) to modify the performance of the program is another example.