Re: [FRIAM] Take 30 seconds to advance science coverage

2008-08-21 Thread Don Begley
It's part of my interest in getting a science blender or two but I haven't gotten any organizer nibbles when I've posted to discuss. -d- On Aug 19, 2008, at 1:41 PM, Tom Johnson wrote: This is about the U.S. presidential candidates, but obviously science-related issues are a global

[FRIAM] African fractals

2008-08-21 Thread Michael Agar
A blurb on Ron Eglash's work on African housing as fractal math just landed in my box from the Plexus Institute. The web page they refer to is http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/ron_eglash.html and it looked like it might be of interest to some Friamers. Mike

Re: [FRIAM] GridPaths, Knuth's nifty book a Question

2008-08-21 Thread Owen Densmore
On Aug 19, 2008, at 9:47 PM, Robert Holmes wrote: I'll take a top-down approach instead of Roger's bottom-up approach... I'm guessing that the problem has a bunch of constraints that you've not specified in your email (can't double-back, path can't crossover) and--most importantly--you

Re: [FRIAM] GridPaths, Knuth's nifty book a Question

2008-08-21 Thread Robert Holmes
Not quite: I'm saying that you don't need to calculate the probability of ANY of the paths because the constraints of your problem mean that the probabilities (whatever they are are) of all the paths (however many of them there are) MUST sum to one (because in your problem definition the path