[FRIAM] More what is math?

2010-11-05 Thread glen e. p. ropella
Heh, this brings in a new dimension to the question of what is it mathematicians are doing when they do math? Can electrical brain stimulation really make you better at math--and is it less painful than learning calculus?

Re: [FRIAM] Google Search, The Case for a Scientific Education, and Google Cars

2010-11-05 Thread Shawn Barr
Lee, A similar quote appears in a The Theater Critic and His Double by John Simon in the _Hudson Review_: Thus he sees, apparently, two Edmund Wilsons where there is only one admittedly large one, two cultures where one wonders whether there is even one, and a whole wit in George Steiner. which

Re: [FRIAM] Google Search, The Case for a Scientific Education, and Google Cars

2010-11-05 Thread Self
Shawn, Thank you! This must have been what I was misremembering. Lee, A similar quote appears in a The Theater Critic and His Double by John Simon in the _Hudson Review_: Thus he sees, apparently, two Edmund Wilsons where there is only one admittedly large one, two cultures

[FRIAM] Open Agent Based Modeling Consortium | ... a node in the CoMSES network

2010-11-05 Thread Tom Johnson
http://www.openabm.org/ Welcome to the OpenABM website. The OpenABM site includes a growing collection of tutorials on computational modeling, frequently asked questions about computational modeling, a modeling library intended to provide a locus for authors and modelers to share their models,