(Venn further points out that, in either case, to actually separate the wheat
from
the chaff you would more or less have to have a Shakespeare on hand
to read the output and give it a thumbs up or thumbs down.)
And is this in some sense the information theoretic version of Maxwell's
demon in t
Recent talk of memes and original sources reminds me that, just the
other day, I was reading John Venn's book on logic (published 5 years
before he wrote the paper which gave the name "Venn diagrams" to the
familiar diagrams that had been around much longer), and discovered
that he spends about
Shawn -
Interesting find... has anyone done some analysis via Google's caches
to see if this was the earliest recorded reference? Seems like there
might be some parallel to the OED process for origins of words, terms,
phrases? Do we know the frequency (i'm sure it is adaptive) of
Google'
Apparently the quote is an appended version of a passage that appeared in
MLK's book _Strength to Love_:
http://books.google.com/books?id=errxX4tzSMcC&pg=PA53#v=onepage&q&f=false
How it joined the first sentence is not clear. A facebook post has been
credited:
http://www.theatlantic.com/nation
MIT management professor Tom Malone on collective intelligence and the
“genetic” structure of groups
http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/05/mit-management-professor-tom-malone-on-collective-intelligence-and-the-genetic-structure-of-groups/
-tj
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Very sly you are Steve Smith,
The topic with no Name has been an ever present part of the group
discussions. It drifts because we have never nailed it to the wall. There is
a propensity to organize and control discussions. The nameless issues are
like flies in our face.
We try so hard to shoo them
On reflection of Owen's thread hygiene around hijacking, etc., I have to
wonder about the implications of what I want to call "memetic drift".
We start with a topic, and at some point it has wandered enough to
qualify for a new subject... but it is not always obvious when it
deserved a new S
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It's a good ramble. But to be clear, modeling and simulation (M&S) is
not about, nor has it ever been about, finding a "better model".
Perhaps that's arrogant on my part. How about M&S has never been about
finding a better _anything_ for me.
M&S is
Thanks to all my FRIAM friends for your support in helping me sell the first
100 copies of my new book! Anybody who didn't get a virtual signed copy of
the cover who wants one, just let me know.
http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins/
--Doug
Glen, et alii -
I have listened to the chatter on this mail list for years now and with
only a few exceptions, we don't seem to put our models where our mouth
is. We are all "here" ostensibly because we know something about
Complexity and Modeling, or at least that we are Complexity Groupies
In my case, I believe perhaps 10% of what I see/hear. And demand proof for
that.
Not, mind you, that I'm particularly intelligent/educated...
--Doug
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Steve Smith wrote:
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> I'm curious how many of the educated, intelligent people on this list
> handle this prob
Nick -
Still, me being supposedly a scholar, and all, makes it a bit rough.
So, I guess I */am/* embarrassed. Sorry!
It was all I could do to not smart-assedly claim you had sucker-punched
us with that quote. But on followup of the (mis)quote, the mangling
was minimal... the spirit was p
No, of course not Sarbajit. The death of children is just one of the many
horrors that result from religious and cultural confrontation.
And we are all to blame for having allowed to let it continue since the
beginning of recorded history.
--Doug
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:23 AM, Sarbajit Roy wr
I started thinking about writing a toy model after this article was
referenced in another forum:
http://www.economist.com/node/18563638
I've always viewed the initiative process a bit suspiciously. It's not
that I don't trust myself or the other yahoos on the street... but I do
believe in de
Hi Doug ,
Would you say the same for Gadaffi's grandchildren too ?
Sarbajit Roy
अयं निज: परो वेति गणना लघुचेतसाम् ।
उदारचरितानां तु वसुधैव कुटुम्बकम् ॥
He is mine and he is other, is the thought that narrow minded people have.
For noble people, the entire world is family.
On Tue, May 3, 2011
Hi, everybody .
I am trying to decide whether to be embarrassed about this turn of events
or not. The words expressed something that I had been wanting to say for
about 48 hours, but had been unable to find words for. I think I would have
sent them on to FRIAM if they had been authored by my
apparently this isn't even by MLK in the first place.
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/05/out-of-osamas-death-a-fake-quotation-is-born/238220/
!!!
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Nicholas Thompson <
nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> "I mourn the loss of thousands of precious l
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