Steve,
> Virgil was an undergrad research associate at SFI this summer:
> http://www.santafe.edu/education/fellowships-undergraduate-roster-05-griffith.
> ph
> p
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Right recall, wrong year, it appears from the SFI web page. It looks like
Virgil was at SFI in 2005 as an undergrad at Indiana, wor
Hi Marko, I have a copy of Diaspora and Luminous (short stories).
I live in Australia so it is not a trivial effort to get the books to you,
but lemme know what you want to do. They could be FedExed for a couple of
tens of dollars.
Cheers,
Saul
On 8/13/07, Marko A. Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Virgil was an undergrad research associate at SFI this summer:
http://www.santafe.edu/education/fellowships-undergraduate-roster-05-griffith.ph
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> Subject: [FRIAM]
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On 8/14/07, Nicholas Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hmm Roger. I always thought that unpredictable environments contribute
> more within-species diversitity and FEWER species.
>
> Nick
>
Nick --
Apparently a generalization that fits some of the facts.
The communities of Madagascar a
Yes, that's well argued Ian and makes sense to me (Marcus, your
thoughts?). I have a lingering intuitive sense that there is still
some analog-worthy insight available; perhaps it's this:
If truly catastrophic climate change could result (with some non-zero
probability) in a truly inhospit
"modularity--the attempt to understand systems as integrations of partially
independent and interacting units..." See: Callebaut and Rasskin-Gutman
(2005). Modularity: Understanding the Development and Evolution of Natural
Complex Systems. MIT Press.
Gus Koehler, Ph.D.
President and Principal
T
Hmm Roger. I always thought that unpredictable environments contribute more
within-species diversitity and FEWER species.
Nick
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Sent: 8/14/2007 3:48:42 PM
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As the Geico caveman said,
"What?"
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From: "Marcus G. Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, Aug 14, 2007 5:26 pm
Subjec
Just last night I was flipping through channels and the local "Christian"
channel
had an infomercial/debate with this guy
(http://www.reasons.org/resources/apologetics/design.shtml)
using the "anthropic principle" to talk about how the
universe was designed for life, and of course using that to hyp
Roger Critchlow wrote:
> I haven't read enough to see how they identify the "modules" into
> which they decompose the phenotype so they can select different
> subsets of modules on each environmental change.
It looks function composition to me. g(f(x,y),h(w,z)) where they,
say, swap around th
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 11:32:04AM -0700, Glen E. P. Ropella wrote:
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> steve smith wrote:
> >> One of the necessary steps toward a useful dialect about anthropogenic
> >> climate change is: stop abusing English.
> >
>
> Every time a "liberal" b
Hmm, however big the pulse is, it needs to be compared to the lifetime
of the dam, and that could be in centuries..
So for one thing 1) the damage has been done, and 2) any decay of
vegetation that grows and dies as the water goes up and down, will be
matched to some extent by the CO2 conversio
Robert Holmes wrote:
> There's an enormous pulse in greenhouse gases when the reservoir is
> flooded and trees and vegetation rot. In some cases this represents
> more lifetime emissions than if you'd been running an oil or gas plant.
I wonder in how many cases? Seems like it would greatly depe
Back to complexity for a moment.
Here are two open access preprints from PNAS that I found while looking for
the new map of Angkor Wat.
The first is about speeding up artificial evolution by changing the
environment:
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0611630104v1
I haven't read eno
So I take it you've not been following the literature on levels of CO2 and
methane emissions from hydroelectric plants? (
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7046 for example). There's an
enormous pulse in greenhouse gases when the reservoir is flooded and trees
and vegetation rot. In some
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor
Since 2006 Robert W. Bussard has given talks on a reactor similar in
design to the Fusor, now called Polywell, that he states will be
capable of useful power generation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell
On Aug 14, 2007, at 2:30 PM, Marcus G. Daniels
my bad, partially:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7046
>
> In a study to be published in /Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies
> for Global Change/, Fearnside estimates that in 1990 the greenhouse
> effect of emissions from the Curuá-Una dam in Pará, Brazil, was more
> than three-a
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Robert Holmes wrote:
> Creating no emissions? Really? Wow - you must be generating the
> electricity for your car from one of those zero-emission power stations
> we keep hoping for.
You purposefully _choose_ to mis-interpret Marcus' words? Your
inte
Robert Holmes wrote:
> Creating no emissions? Really? Wow - you must be generating the
> electricity for your car from one of those zero-emission power
> stations we keep hoping for.
Like this one? It's been around a while. :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hoover_dam_from_air_corrected.j
Creating no emissions? Really? Wow - you must be generating the electricity
for your car from one of those zero-emission power stations we keep hoping
for.
R
On 8/14/07, Marcus G. Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Glen E. P. Ropella wrote:
> > How about if I use my own form of "carbon offset
Glen E. P. Ropella wrote:
> How about if I use my own form of "carbon offset"? E.g. if I drive our
> Honda Civic or my motorcycle, then I can go 75mph; but if I drive my V8,
> I stick to 55mph?
Or, you drive your whatever gas guzzling car to work at 75mph to be
productive ASAP, and make big $$$.
Stephen Guerin wrote:
> Damn, them Posthumans! They're not allocating me sufficient CPU and memory!
>
To me, a fascinating aspect of such a future is what it means for the
individual. To have the only expression of a super identity to be
through the complexities of coordinated action, keepin
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How about if I use my own form of "carbon offset"? E.g. if I drive our
Honda Civic or my motorcycle, then I can go 75mph; but if I drive my V8,
I stick to 55mph?
Do I qualify as a non-posturing non-demagogue? Or, perhaps at least a
posturing non-dem
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steve smith wrote:
>> One of the necessary steps toward a useful dialect about anthropogenic
>> climate change is: stop abusing English.
>
> I think you lead with your chin on this one... someone deliberately
> spoofing or lampooning you couldn't ha
Speaking of Greg Egan. I recommend the Greg Egan book entitled
"Permutation City". Its all about allocating clock cycles to the rich
and not to the poor! :) Subjectively, having few clock cycles doesn't
alter your experience, but objectively, you are running alot slower
relative to others.
"it is almost a mathematical certainty that we are living in someone else's
computer simulation." - Nick Bostrom, Oxford
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/science/14tier.html?ex=1187755200&en=258a5f406
ca9d607&ei=5070&emc=eta1
Damn, them Posthumans! They're not allocating me sufficient CPU and mem
Gil Densmore
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ABSTRACT: This aims to be a un-talk covering: What is the World of Warcraft.
However, since hearin
You're right Steve, average fuel efficiency does not go up after 55mph, it
goes down. It varies from car to car but you'd see something like a 20%
increase in fuel consumption going from 55mph to 75mph. Consumption is also
highly dependent on how you drive. See
http://eartheasy.com/live_fuel_effici
David,
>And BTW, I think the Pascal analogy is excellent, with due attention to
Marcus' caveat about measurability.
>db
I guess I'd seen Marcus' point as demonstrating why Pascal's wager wasn't at
all applicable. As I understand it, the wager is entirely dependent on the
payoff to believing in Go
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