Re: [FRIAM] Northeast Region, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

So the bats are basically starving because they are waking up too often and burning their fat reserves. What does it take to wake up a bat? Light? Pheromones? Existential Angst? There's something that gets them awake and moving en masse that the fungi fake. Maybe they fluoresce a tiny

Re: [FRIAM] New Study: ‘Publish or perish’ fac tor in spiraling retractions

An additional factor surely must be tools like http://turnitin.com/static/index.html That said, I do not know of a single newspaper or magazine in the U.S. that uses something like this on a regular basis. Actually, relatively few professors use them, too. -

Re: [FRIAM] New Study: ‘Publish or perish’ facto r in spiraling retractions

Interesting, I am reminded of the talk surrounding Cronkite's death. Certainly the number of retracted news reports has increased much more quickly than the retraction of academic reports. However, it is also much harder to demonstrate the inaccuracy of a scientific publication. Both phenomenon

Re: [FRIAM] New Study: ‘Publish or perish’ fac tor in spiraling retractions

Tom, very interesting. Not surprising, but very interesting. On Aug 20, 2009, at 12:13 PM, Tom Johnson wrote: fyi http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/08/19/new-study-publish-or-perish- factor-in-spiralling-retractions/ -tj FRIAM A

Re: [FRIAM] Information request/Amazon EC2

There was an interesting article from SIGCOMM posted yesterday about in-center-inter-connect: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~vahdat/papers/portland-sigcomm09.pdf http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/08-09PortLand.asp http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/pTgFA2gqsEg/How-To-Build-a-1

Re: [FRIAM] Information request/Amazon EC2

Jack, It would be a fun project to move some already running largish distributed ABM from a standard Linux cluster over to EC2. If only my company would pay me to play just on the fun projects... --Doug On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Jack K. Horner wrote: > At 09:00 AM 8/20/2009, Doug Rober

[FRIAM] New Study: ‘Publish or perish’ fac tor in spiraling retractions

fyi http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/08/19/new-study-publish-or-perish-factor-in-spiralling-retractions/ -tj FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe,

Re: [FRIAM] Information request/Amazon EC2

At 09:00 AM 8/20/2009, Doug Roberts wrote: From: "Jack K. Horner" Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 To: friam@redfish.com References: In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:31:28 -0700 Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Message-ID: <20090819203417.34cb21f..

Re: [FRIAM] Information request/Amazon EC2

Thus spake Marcus G. Daniels circa 09-08-20 10:26 AM: > One nice thing about what Amazon does in contrast to most supercomputing > centers is to let you boot whatever kernel image you want. That can be > important for diagnosing and fixing some kinds of problems. Not only for problems; but witho

Re: [FRIAM] Information request/Amazon EC2

Penguin Computing is trying to distinguish themselves in this way with their POD (Penguin On Demand, cute) service. http://www.penguincomputing.com/POD/HPC_as_a_service They seem expensive compared to Amazon, though. On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: > Douglas Roberts w

Re: [FRIAM] Information request/Amazon EC2

Douglas Roberts wrote: Interesting article about cloud computing on Slashdot today: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/20/0327205/Amazon-MS-Google-Clouds-Flop-In-Stress-Tests?art_pos=7 One nice thing about what Amazon does in contrast to most supercomputing centers is to let you boot whateve

Re: [FRIAM] Information request/Amazon EC2

Interesting article about cloud computing on Slashdot today: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/20/0327205/Amazon-MS-Google-Clouds-Flop-In-Stress-Tests?art_pos=7 --Doug On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Jack K. Horner wrote: > At 09:00 AM 8/19/2009, Doug Roberts wrote: > > From: Douglas Robe

Re: [FRIAM] Northeast Region, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

I wonder if it has anything to do with the extraordinary blossoming of mosquito populations here. Ugh. Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu) http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > [Original Message] >