Re: [FRIAM] Bais talk and books?

2008-08-07 Thread Günther Greindl
Ok, I'm in, the books look cool. Maybe we can discuss a bit on the list? Cheers, Günther Carl Tollander wrote: Cool. Mine won't be here til the weekend. I'm getting jazzed about (or at least amused by the idea of) non-abelian anyons. Hope they show up in the books someplace. C.

Re: [FRIAM] Rosen, Life Itself

2008-08-07 Thread glen e. p. ropella
Günther Greindl wrote: Math (which is more than formal systems) can handle loopy inference quite well. But the modeling vernacular can NOT handle it so well. And which mathematics is not a formal system? If it's not formal it's not math I would say. Math is the linguistic construct

Re: [FRIAM] Rosen, Life Itself

2008-08-07 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
glen e. p. ropella wrote: Günther Greindl wrote: Math (which is more than formal systems) can handle loopy inference quite well. But the modeling vernacular can NOT handle it so well. And which mathematics is not a formal system? If it's not formal it's not math I would say.

Re: [FRIAM] Rosen, Life Itself

2008-08-07 Thread glen e. p. ropella
Marcus G. Daniels wrote: If Math is a way to create nodes and augment a network of related formal systems, it doesn't mean that these transactions are against the same graph, or even that it is necessary to go to the first node of a graph to understand why it is valid to add this or that

[FRIAM] ABQ Barcamp 3

2008-08-07 Thread Stephen Guerin
From the MISP-Events list: ___ ***MISP-EVENTS-L is an announcement only listserv*** * From Reid Givens @ Refresh Albuquerque... Albuquerque BarCamp 3 is coming up on Saturday August 30th, 2008. What is BarCamp? BarCamp is a conference unlike most