Yogi Berra said, "You can observe a lot by just looking around".
I am not an ornithologist, so really have only anecdotal knowledge of bird
formations, derived from my own un instrumented and un scientifically
recorded sightings, so I dunno much here. They're not observations in the
scientific s
Hugh, I would propose that what we call "aesthetics" is derived from what
served our fitness over evolutionary time.
So the crows may very well be dancing, for all "practical" purposes...
db
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From: "Hugh Trenchard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Not far different from what Ed Tufte termed "sparklines."
See http://sparkline.org/
-tj
On 1/10/07, Pamela McCorduck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Oh, Phil, I knew that all along. :-)
On Jan 10, 2007, at 7:01 PM, phil henshaw wrote:
It occurs to me some of you may have wondered but not though
Pamela: one of the best .sigs I've seen in quite a while.
--Doug
On 1/10/07, Pamela McCorduck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience – well, that comes
from poor judgment." A.A. Milne
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Doug Roberts, RTI International
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Oh, Phil, I knew that all along. :-)
On Jan 10, 2007, at 7:01 PM, phil henshaw wrote:
It occurs to me some of you may have wondered but not thought to
ask what .·´ ¯ `·. means.
It means growth curves show you where and when natural systems are
emerging and connect with the behav
It occurs to me some of you may have wondered but not thought to ask
what .·´ ¯ `·. means.
It means growth curves show you where and when natural systems are
emerging and connect with the behavioral loops inside that act as a
whole and extend throughout, which are much harder to ident
I for one am rarely afraid to ask questions, stupid or otherwise, when my
curiosity is piqued.
Do the ravens in Sante Fe align in vee formations when they roll off
chandelles? If they do, then regardless of whether they are having fun, it
is an interesting pattern formation which causes one to
When he was given a brief description of the learned theories of Dr. Freud,
and told that they accounted for all human behavior, Will Rogers stated
that: "he found it real interesting, but reckoned that in Oklahoma, folks
mainly did things jes' acause they felt like it". I gave a paper at AIAA
ann
It sounds like what they really need is the project they hastily shut
down in 2003 - The Policy Analysis Market.
http://web.archive.org/web/20050328091844/http://hanson.gmu.edu/
policyanalysismarket.html
Jennifer H. Watkins
Theoretical Division
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, NM
http://mae.pennnet.com/display_article/281403/32/NEWS/none/none/DARPA-kicks-off-program-to-develop-advanced-computer-system-to-forecast-global-wars-and-other-political-instability/?pc=ENLScientists at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., are asking industry
One of the old definitions of an expert (or consultant) is someone who
is 25 miles away from home. I've found from my knowledge acquisition
studies that such outsiders can ask the stupid questions because they
are not part of the local tribe that knows (believes) it's stupid. A
bit like the h
Thanks. The only complex group dynamic I can claim any special knowledge of
is a bicycle peloton, and if I apply the "dropping in" effect and the
"shaking out" effect, I recognize that a bicycle peloton is both a
socialized phenomena and a purely self-organized one. It is also a good
example of
David Pogue's report on the iPhone:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/01/09/some-hands-on-time-with-the-
iphone/
-- Owen
Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net
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Sorry for not being clear: My suggestion was to go to the /. article,
with comments, and search for "unlocked" in the comments.
It showed how much others, like both you and me, want to get an
unlocked version for using with a better provider than Cingular, who
by all accounts, really sucks i
Oh yes! It's an important reservation that "they could very well not be
aware of the global pattern they are forming, just as in a much larger
flock, birds will [may] only be aware of their immediate neighbours."
In evo. bio. the phrase is that "A is random with respect to B". It is
quite common
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Owen,
I was unable to find the unlocked posts you mention. I like this new
phone, but I would prefer an unlocked version so that I can swap out the
SIM when I go overseas.
Do you have any more info on unlocking the iPhone?
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Best regards,
Justin
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