[FRIAM] Interesting article and ad

2007-07-25 Thread Douglas Roberts
http://public.cq.com/docs/hb/hbnews110-02553782.html in the Congressional Quarterly, a press release from Rajeev Venkayya, the end customer for the flu study that my colleagues and I worked on recently. We ran hundreds of EpiSims runs for the study, as well as a similar number of runs with

[FRIAM] Diff Contin. to Nick!

2007-07-25 Thread Peter Lissaman
2. DIFFERENTIABILITY AND CONTINUITY (Nicholas Thompson) Nick: Let me be your math consultant! Taught that stuff at Caltech many years!! The mathematicians are horn swogglin' you with mis-understood function theory! A'course the f'n roof is continuous. If it weren't the rain would come through!

[FRIAM] complex cormac

2007-07-25 Thread David Breecker
I've always been at a bit of a loss to understand why novelist Cormac McCarthy is in residence at SFI (apart from the fact that he's brilliant and so are a lot of people there, and I'd certainly have him in residence in my office if I could); but reading his Nobel- winning post-apocalyptic

Re: [FRIAM] complex cormac

2007-07-25 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
And three cheers to Cormac for telling Oprah You work your side of the street and I'll work mine !! FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at

Re: [FRIAM] Interesting article and ad

2007-07-25 Thread David Breecker
I for one would like to say thank you. My general sense has been that not nearly enough has been done to attempt to protect us and mitigate the impact of a pandemic. So thanks! Well done! db On Jul 25, 2007, at 8:35 AM, Douglas Roberts wrote:

[FRIAM] correction: mean value theorem

2007-07-25 Thread Nicholas Thompson
All, Ok. I got it wrong. Berlinsk's account of the proof first establishes a function for the distance between the chord and function itself, h. Then it says, Two facts about h must now be invoked. First, h is continuous on (a, b) and second, h is differentiable on (a, b). I

[FRIAM] simulation and mathematics

2007-07-25 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Dear All, AllI am trying to keep track, over a VERY slow modem, of all the arguments and counter arguments that have come my way as a result of my attempts to find out from you all what is essentially mathematical, what is essentially computational, and what is essentially just plain good old

Re: [FRIAM] DIFFERENTIABILITY AND CONTINUITY

2007-07-25 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 12:09:07PM -0600, Nicholas Thompson wrote: Deep down in the tangle of 's I just found this gem. The record is two confused for me to know who to thank so I will thank you ALL. What you have given is the handwaving version of the proof. The trouble is that

Re: [FRIAM] Interesting article and ad

2007-07-25 Thread Douglas Roberts
Thanks, David. There was no way that the NIH-funded MIDAS project could say No when the White House approached the MIDAS PI and requested that we do the study (even if Bush is still in the White House). ;-{ The good news is that the White House staffer who ran the study was one of the

[FRIAM] Friday Fractals

2007-07-25 Thread Michael Oliker
First Friday Fractals has become FRIDAY FRACTALS http://fractalfoundation.org/ Now EVERY Friday in August, beginning August 3'd, with shows at 6:00, 7:00 and 8:00 PM in the LodeStar Planetarium. Zoom deep into fractals in this educational and extremely entertaining immersive presentation,

Re: [FRIAM] complex cormac

2007-07-25 Thread Stephen Guerin
Yeah, I also remember a very sfi-ish small piece in Blood Meridian. I'm traveling now and don't have the book so won't try to butcher a quote from memory. But my hazy memory is that it had a bit about propagating information structuring the world... -Original Message- From: David

Re: [FRIAM] complex cormac

2007-07-25 Thread Richard Lowenberg
No less great; but McCarthy was awarded a Pulitzer for The Road, not a Nobel. RL On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, David Breecker wrote: I've always been at a bit of a loss to understand why novelist Cormac McCarthy is in residence at SFI (apart from the fact that he's brilliant and so are a lot of