Laureate, to me, seems a bit spooky. They want to build an Art
School, which fills a gap in their currently available offerings world
wide. They can have folks visit Santa Fe for their Arts studies,
using other Laureate facilities for the rest of their degree.
So that leaves in the cold a
On Apr 24, 2009, at 8:17 PM, Merle Lefkoff wrote:
Nick,
Why can't you think how? I thought you were an applied complexity
scientist. I can think of a lot of "hows." Maybe I'll go to the
meeting Wednesday before I leave town again.
Merle
Well, knowing how quirky Santa Fe is, I'm not su
On Apr 24, 2009, at 6:16 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
And I still think it is important to pull together the people in
Santa Fe who feel they benefit from having institutuions of higher
learning in the city.
I just cant think how.
There is another meeting of the task force from ten to no
Owen,
The local people that I have talked to seem to be quite enthusiastic about
Laureate. I agree it is nervous making, but they are quite confident that
they will be left to build an arts school as they see fit. I know. That's
what the people who are being bought out always think. But there
These are great suggestions. Facebook is something i have assiduously
avoided, but now perhaps it's time.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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Nick,
Thanks for this report. In my opinion, the City of Santa Fe should do
anything in their power to save this institution. There are no
Universities in town as is. One of the reasons why I moved out of
Santa Fe a few years ago to Las Cruces, after having lived there for
nearly 8 yea
Marcus, what a nifty idea! (http://tinyurl.com/ys388b) Most of
computing does not need to be exact .. a slight "error" generally is
not terrible and for imaging, audio, and so on simply is not
observable by a human.
And there are lots of solutions for making inaccuracy less
observable.
James,
This is just the kind of story that give me the willies. When I think of
how much better our conversations about convection might have been if we
had had you at the table. Los Cruces gain was our loss.
The trick will be to use the sucess of the arts' schools as the core for
something b
Owen Densmore wrote:
Most of computing does not need to be exact .. a slight "error"
generally is not terrible and for imaging, audio, and so on simply is
not observable by a human.
And if what you need is a *lot* of random numbers [1], why do dozens of
cycles of exact arithmetic and memory loo
On Apr 25, 2009, at 6:02 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
Owen Densmore wrote:
Most of computing does not need to be exact .. a slight "error"
generally is not terrible and for imaging, audio, and so on simply
is not observable by a human.
And if what you need is a *lot* of random numbers [1], w
Owen,
What leads you to suspect that the CPU I/O noise is random? The noise
generated by such comes from a chipset that operates at a given frequency,
which is powered by an AC source running at another frequency, filtered
through a power supply with capacitors, resistors, etc. with their own set
Douglas Roberts wrote:
What leads you to suspect that the CPU I/O noise is random? The noise
generated by such comes from a chipset that operates at a given
frequency, which is powered by an AC source running at another
frequency, filtered through a power supply with capacitors, resistors,
et
I have always thought of the concept of noise as equivalent to the concept
of "weeds".
One man's noise is another man's signal.
n
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns
Nick: I thought you might like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness_of_Mathematics_in_the_Natural_Sciences
The References section at the end of the article are Wigner's and
Hamming's papers. Lovely title, I think -- sorta poetic.
I'm completely of Tegmark's ilk:
On Apr 25, 2009, at 6:30 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
What leads you to suspect that the CPU I/O noise is random? The
noise generated by such comes from a chipset that operates at a
given frequency, which is powered by an AC source running at another
frequency, filtered through a power suppl
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