Re: [FRIAM] a workshop at ChiliPlop

[Stephen Guerin]

oops, sorry for accidentally spraying the list with a personal email... my bad

-Steve 

> -Original Message-
> From: Stephen Guerin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 11:17 PM
> To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] a workshop at ChiliPlop
> 
> Dave,
> 
> The good news is we got a very good project with Kellogg 
> Foundation to model pathways for meaningful work for urban 
> youth in the nation. And we persuaded them to let us model Santa Fe.
> 
> Bad news, is I have to be in Battlecreek, MI a couple days 
> before ChiliPlop so I won't be able to make it. 
> 
> As a thought, what about doing a warm up workshop at a 
> BarCamp like event at sfComplex and have Competencies, 
> Patterns and Courses: Oh My! be a central topic?
> 
> It might be interesting to see how results from the 3 
> activities (atom catalog, patterns and packaging) might be 
> different and similar iterating it twice in Santa Fe and Carefree.
> 
> Your workshop is basically Bottega design, right? It should 
> be the kick-off event at the Complex if we believe in eating 
> our own dogfood.
> 
> -S
> 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Prof David West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 9:57 AM
> > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> > Subject: [FRIAM] a workshop at ChiliPlop
> > 
> > This is not complexity, per se, so feel free to delete 
> without reading 
> > further.
> > 
> > I am conducting a workshop at ChiliPlop
> > (http://www.hillside.net/chiliplop/2008/) this year focused on 
> > re-inventing computing education in a way that would create 
> the kind 
> > of innovative and grounded "computationalists" that we would want 
> > working with us at the Santa Fe Complex.  Also in a way that would 
> > create a more seamless and integrated path from upper elementary 
> > school to university to professional/life-long learning.
> > 
> > I am hoping to have a small group 8-14 participating in 
> this effort.  
> > I can assure you that you will enjoy the experience if the topic 
> > captures your imagination and Carefree is a fun place to 
> spend a few 
> > days working with interesting people.
> > 
> > If you are interested and want to attend, please register asap (the 
> > organizers are trying to finalize a room count) using the URL
> > 
> > http://www.hillside.net/chiliplop/2008/registrationform2008.html
> > 
> > Sorry to interrupt the list with a peripheral, but I know 
> some of you 
> > might be interested.
> > 
> > dave west
> > 
> > 
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> 
> 
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Re: [FRIAM] a workshop at ChiliPlop

[Stephen Guerin]

Dave,

The good news is we got a very good project with Kellogg Foundation to model
pathways for meaningful work for urban youth in the nation. And we persuaded
them to let us model Santa Fe.

Bad news, is I have to be in Battlecreek, MI a couple days before ChiliPlop so I
won't be able to make it. 

As a thought, what about doing a warm up workshop at a BarCamp like event at
sfComplex and have Competencies, Patterns and Courses: Oh My! be a central
topic?

It might be interesting to see how results from the 3 activities (atom catalog,
patterns and packaging) might be different and similar iterating it twice in
Santa Fe and Carefree.

Your workshop is basically Bottega design, right? It should be the kick-off
event at the Complex if we believe in eating our own dogfood.

-S

> -Original Message-
> From: Prof David West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 9:57 AM
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> Subject: [FRIAM] a workshop at ChiliPlop
> 
> This is not complexity, per se, so feel free to delete 
> without reading further.
> 
> I am conducting a workshop at ChiliPlop
> (http://www.hillside.net/chiliplop/2008/) this year focused 
> on re-inventing computing education in a way that would 
> create the kind of innovative and grounded 
> "computationalists" that we would want working with us at the 
> Santa Fe Complex.  Also in a way that would create a more 
> seamless and integrated path from upper elementary school to 
> university to professional/life-long learning.
> 
> I am hoping to have a small group 8-14 participating in this 
> effort.  I can assure you that you will enjoy the experience 
> if the topic captures your imagination and Carefree is a fun 
> place to spend a few days working with interesting people.
> 
> If you are interested and want to attend, please register 
> asap (the organizers are trying to finalize a room count) 
> using the URL
> 
> http://www.hillside.net/chiliplop/2008/registrationform2008.html
> 
> Sorry to interrupt the list with a peripheral, but I know 
> some of you might be interested.
> 
> dave west
> 
> 
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[FRIAM] Santa Fe Complex BarCamp March 7 and 8 (?)

[Stephen Guerin]

So, how about a Santa Fe Complex BarCamp on March 7,8 at
http://www.santafecomplex.org? Out of towners can camp in the space and *maybe*
Simon has an alternative offering for a few :-)

-Stephen

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Re: [FRIAM] BIL & TED... no way... Yes way

[Stephen Guerin]

Bilconference looks like a great idea and inspirpation for events at The
Complex. Check out their Bilders toolkit to bring and the fact they're using
pbwiki:
http://bilconference.pbwiki.com/BILDERS+TOOLKIT

I'm surprised LCD projector is not on the list

Also reminds me of barcamp: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp

-Stephen

> -Original Message-
> From: Richard Lowenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 2:56 PM
> To: friam@redfish.com
> Subject: [FRIAM] BIL & TED... no way... Yes way
> 
> Forwarded Message:
> 
> From: Tyler Emerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> Friends,
> 
> Many of us know and love TED. It brings together an extraordinary
> group each year. The catch for many of us, though, is the 
> cost: $6,000.
> 
> So I'm helping organize BIL with some friends, a free unconference,
> which will start March 1st and 2nd  coinciding with TED's last day on
> Saturday.
> 
> We hope BIL can be a perfect match to TED. We already have the thumbs
> up from TED Curator Chris Anderson, who has been very supportive.
> 
> Here's the site: 
> 
> ..and a great plug from Ethan Zuckerman, one of TED's 
> bloggers: 
>  excellent-adventure
>  >
> 
> If you can attend, please add your name to the guest list. We're also
> expecting quite a few TEDsters to attend, and some to speak.
> 
> I hope to see you in Monterey in a few weeks. Just give me a call
> (650-353-6063) or Todd Huffman (562-537-1320) if you need anything.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Tyler
> 
> PS Props go to the affable and way-too-cool Huffman for this
> brainchild. Oh, and please help spread the word!
> 
> --
> 
> BIL Conference (Free)
> Sat-Sun March 1-2
> www.bilconference.com
> 
> El Estero Park Complex
> 777 Pearl Street
> Monterey, CA 93940
> 
> Logistics: http://bilconference.pbwiki.com/Venue
> 
> Presentations: http://bilconference.pbwiki.com/Schedule
> 
> Attendees: http://bilconference.pbwiki.com/Attendees
> 
> FAQ: http://bilconference.pbwiki.com/FAQ
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 



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Re: [FRIAM] FW: National Science Foundation Update DailyDigest Bulletin

[phil henshaw]

I think it's that the 'average' wave is a glassy smooth sea...
Statistics seems to depart from reality, for the convenience of science.

Phil Henshaw   .·´ ¯ `·.
~~~
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NY NY 10040   
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> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcus G. Daniels
> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 11:19 AM
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] FW: National Science Foundation Update 
> DailyDigest Bulletin
> 
> 
> Nicholas Thompson wrote:
> > I am too dumb to know the degree to which I am being kidded here.
> > Please explain..
> Suppose 100 people give 999 responses to yes/no questions and all of 
> them answer by flipping a coin.  A final answer correctly answers the 
> question "Are your eyes blue?"  Just by chance, amongst those 
> 999 coin 
> flips some can be weakly correlated to the eye color question 
> and linear 
> combinations of them may turn out to be even more correlated 
> (as there 
> are more bits for encoding, bogus covariation though it is).  So 
> sometimes there is a need to generalize or `regularize' high 
> dimensional 
> data to reduce overfitting.   A simulation is potentially one 
> way to do 
> regularization.  Another example is using an `average face' for face 
> recognition:
> 
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/319/5862/435
>  
>  
>
> - Original Message -
> *From:* Douglas Roberts 
> *To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ;The Friday Morning Applied
> Complexity Coffee Group 
> *Sent:* 2/15/2008 8:41:18 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] FW: National Science Foundation Update
> Daily Digest Bulletin
>
> Run that lousy data through a simulation, and then publish the
> results as truth.
>
> Works every time!
>
> --Doug
>



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[FRIAM] Fundamentals of Multiagent Systems Textbook | Multiagent Systems

[Owen Densmore]

This looks promising:
   http://www.multiagent.com/fmas

Its an ebook, free, which looks at the basics of MAS with netlogo  
examples.

 -- Owen




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[FRIAM] BIL & TED... no way... Yes way

[Richard Lowenberg]

Forwarded Message:

From: Tyler Emerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Friends,

Many of us know and love TED. It brings together an extraordinary
group each year. The catch for many of us, though, is the cost: $6,000.

So I'm helping organize BIL with some friends, a free unconference,
which will start March 1st and 2nd ? coinciding with TED's last day on
Saturday.

We hope BIL can be a perfect match to TED. We already have the thumbs
up from TED Curator Chris Anderson, who has been very supportive.

Here's the site: 

..and a great plug from Ethan Zuckerman, one of TED's bloggers: 


If you can attend, please add your name to the guest list. We're also
expecting quite a few TEDsters to attend, and some to speak.

I hope to see you in Monterey in a few weeks. Just give me a call
(650-353-6063) or Todd Huffman (562-537-1320) if you need anything.

Cheers!

Tyler

PS Props go to the affable and way-too-cool Huffman for this
brainchild. Oh, and please help spread the word!

--

BIL Conference (Free)
Sat-Sun March 1-2
www.bilconference.com

El Estero Park Complex
777 Pearl Street
Monterey, CA 93940

Logistics: http://bilconference.pbwiki.com/Venue

Presentations: http://bilconference.pbwiki.com/Schedule

Attendees: http://bilconference.pbwiki.com/Attendees

FAQ: http://bilconference.pbwiki.com/FAQ






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Re: [FRIAM] FW: National Science Foundation Update Daily Digest Bulletin

[peter]

Sure Nick

We need to move into the visual world.  The same issue you mention is a 
huge problem in all forms of engineering / architecture as well let 
alone plants. The data is lousy period when it goes through immutable 
text variations but at least with the tactile we should be facing in the 
same direction more fun here  http://www.ideapete.com/gwendolyn.htm


Add the famous we only see 2D and its ripe for disaster

To err is human to really screw up you need text and a computer

( : ( : pete

Peter Baston

*IDEAS*

/www.ideapete.com/ 








Nicholas Thompson wrote:

All --

Has anybody thought about how to make use of truly lousy data?  There are 
increasingly sources of public data on subject matters such as weather and

(see below) flowers and birds where the quality of the data is truly awful
by ordinary standards and yet there is so much of it that it seems a crime
not to try to make use of it.  So Sally writes in to say that her morning
glories are in bloom in April when what she means is her pansies.  Her
neighbor gets the pansies right but screws up on the tithonia.  Is there
any way to add this all up and get something?  


thoughts?

nick





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Research Associate, Redfish Group, Santa Fe, NM ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University
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[Nicholas Thompson]

Doug, 

I am too dumb to know the degree to which I am being kidded here.  Please 
explain.. 

Nick 


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Run that lousy data through a simulation, and then publish the results as truth.

Works every time!

--Doug

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On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Nicholas Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

All --

Has anybody thought about how to make use of truly lousy data?  There are
increasingly sources of public data on subject matters such as weather and
(see below) flowers and birds where the quality of the data is truly awful
by ordinary standards and yet there is so much of it that it seems a crime
not to try to make use of it.  So Sally writes in to say that her morning
glories are in bloom in April when what she means is her pansies.  Her
neighbor gets the pansies right but screws up on the tithonia.  Is there
any way to add this all up and get something?

thoughts?

nick





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Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University
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[Douglas Roberts]

Run that lousy data through a simulation, and then publish the results as
truth.

Works every time!

--Doug

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On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Nicholas Thompson <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> All --
>
> Has anybody thought about how to make use of truly lousy data?  There are
> increasingly sources of public data on subject matters such as weather and
> (see below) flowers and birds where the quality of the data is truly awful
> by ordinary standards and yet there is so much of it that it seems a crime
> not to try to make use of it.  So Sally writes in to say that her morning
> glories are in bloom in April when what she means is her pansies.  Her
> neighbor gets the pansies right but screws up on the tithonia.  Is there
> any way to add this all up and get something?
>
> thoughts?
>
> nick
>
>
>
>
>
> Nicholas S. Thompson
> Research Associate, Redfish Group, Santa Fe, NM ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
>
>
>
> - Original Message -
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> From: National Science Foundation Update <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:35:16 -0600 (CST)
> Subject: Volunteers Across Nation to Track Climate Clues in Spring Flowers
>
> Volunteers Across Nation to Track Climate Clues in Spring Flowers
>
> A nationwide initiative starting this week will enable volunteers to track
> climate change by observing the timing of flowers and foliage. Project
> BudBurst, operated by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
> (UCAR) and a team of partners, allows students, gardeners and other
> citizen
> scientists in every state to enter their observations into an online
> database that will give researchers a detailed picture of our warming
> climate.
> The project, which will be launched tomorrow, ...
>
> More at
> http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=17&govDel=USNSF_51
>
> This is an NSF News item.
>
>
>
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> From: National Science Foundation Update <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:58:55 -0600 (CST)
> Subject: Scientists Reveal First-Ever Global Map of Total Human Effect on
> Oceans
>
> Scientists Reveal First-Ever Global Map of Total Human Effect on Oceans
>
> More than 40 percent of the world's oceans are heavily affected by human
> activities, and few if any areas remain untouched, according to the first
> global-scale study of human influence on marine ecosystems.
> By overlaying maps of 17 different activities such as fishing, climate
> change and pollution, the researchers have produced a composite map of the
> toll that humans have exacted on the seas.
> The work, published in this week's issue of Science, was conducted at the
> ...
>
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[FRIAM] FW: National Science Foundation Update Daily Digest Bulletin

[Nicholas Thompson]

All --

Has anybody thought about how to make use of truly lousy data?  There are 
increasingly sources of public data on subject matters such as weather and
(see below) flowers and birds where the quality of the data is truly awful
by ordinary standards and yet there is so much of it that it seems a crime
not to try to make use of it.  So Sally writes in to say that her morning
glories are in bloom in April when what she means is her pansies.  Her
neighbor gets the pansies right but screws up on the tithonia.  Is there
any way to add this all up and get something?  

thoughts?

nick





Nicholas S. Thompson
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Subject: Volunteers Across Nation to Track Climate Clues in Spring Flowers

Volunteers Across Nation to Track Climate Clues in Spring Flowers 
 
A nationwide initiative starting this week will enable volunteers to track
climate change by observing the timing of flowers and foliage. Project
BudBurst, operated by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
(UCAR) and a team of partners, allows students, gardeners and other citizen
scientists in every state to enter their observations into an online
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Scientists Reveal First-Ever Global Map of Total Human Effect on Oceans 
 
More than 40 percent of the world's oceans are heavily affected by human
activities, and few if any areas remain untouched, according to the first
global-scale study of human influence on marine ecosystems. 
By overlaying maps of 17 different activities such as fishing, climate
change and pollution, the researchers have produced a composite map of the
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A Newly Discovered Solar System Contains Scaled-Down Versions of Saturn and
Jupiter 
 
A team of international astronomers reports in the Feb. 15 issue of Science
the discovery of a solar system nearly 5,000 light years away containing
scaled-down versions of Jupiter and Saturn. Their findings suggest that our
galaxy could conceivably contain many star systems similar to our own. The
National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored the research. 
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Re: [FRIAM] The limits of leapfrogging

[phil henshaw]

That's relates to the basic learning process constraints for complex
systems.  Local economies require a learning path in order to change by
developmental processes.  Leap-frogging is actually introducing part of
a foreign product ecology in an undeveloped one, and may frequently
disable the development of the home 'product space', as you now see the
results of in Kenya and most other stumbling African communities.
These tragedies of misguided development are the product of
'leap-frogging' for the global resource markets begun by the colonial
powers, leaving population growth without population development behind.


This evolution of 'product space' view is not well studied yet, but
there is one guy with better data than anyone else.  That's Ricardo
Haussman at Harvard who developed the 'product space' economic ecology
learning path idea using network science.  It helps demonstrate that
what developing countries need (as contrasted to outside investors) is
technologies that are naturally connected to their present knowledge
networks, not disconnected from them.  

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> Subject: [FRIAM] The limits of leapfrogging
> 
> 
> The economist has a thought provoking article on the limits of  
> leapfrogging: 
> http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10650775
> .. and attached for convenience.
> 
> The idea is that, although in a few cases new technologies can be  
> deployed in developing countries .. and sometimes better than the  
> developed countries, new technologies often depend on older 
> ones, thus  
> cannot easily be deployed by leapfrogging the older ones.
> 
>  -- Owen
> 
> MOBILE phones are frequently held up as a good example of 
> technology's  
> ability to transform the fortunes of people in the developing world.  
> In places with bad roads, few trains and parlous land lines, mobile  
> phones substitute for travel, allow price data to be 
> distributed more  
> quickly and easily, enable traders to reach wider markets and  
> generally make it easier to do business. The mobile phone is also a  
> wonderful example of a “leapfrog” technology: it has enabled  
> developing countries to skip the fixed-line technology of the 20th  
> century and move straight to the mobile technology of the 
> 21st. Surely  
> other technologies can do the same?
> 
> Alas, the mobile phone turns out to be rather unusual. Its 
> very nature  
> makes it an especially good leapfrogger: it works using radio, so  
> there is no need to rely on physical infrastructure such as 
> roads and  
> phone wires; base-stations can be powered using their own generators  
> in places where there is no electrical grid; and you do not 
> have to be  
> literate to use a phone, which is handy if your country's education  
> system is in a mess. There are some other examples of leapfrog  
> technologies that can promote development—moving straight to local,  
> small-scale electricity generation based on solar panels or biomass,  
> for example, rather than building a centralised 
> power-transmission grid 
> —but there may not be very many.
> 
> Indeed, as a recent report from the World Bank points out (see  
> article), it is the presence of a solid foundation of intermediate  
> technology that determines whether the latest technologies become  
> widely diffused. It is all too easy to forget that in the developed  
> world, the 21st century's gizmos are underpinned by infrastructure  
> that often dates back to the 20th or even the 19th. Computers and  
> broadband links are not much use without a reliable 
> electrical supply,  
> for example, and the latest medical gear is not terribly 
> helpful in a  
> country that lacks basic sanitation and health-care facilities. A  
> project to provide every hospital in Ethiopia with an internet  
> connection was abandoned a couple of years ago when it became 
> apparent  
> that the lack of internet access was the least of the hospitals'  
> worries. And despite the clever technical design of the $100 laptop,  
> which is intended to bring computing within the reach of the world's  
> poorest children, sceptics wonder whether the money might be better  
> spent on schoolrooms, teacher training and books.
> 
> The World Bank's researchers looked at 28 examples of new 
> technologies  
> that achieved a market penetration of at least 5% in the developed  
> world, and found that 23 of them went on to manage a penetration of  
> over 50%. Once early adopters latch onto something new a