Re: [FRIAM] Venice to charge day-trippers for access to city center | News | santafenewmexican.com

2019-01-06 Thread Jochen Fromm
Oh, nice. The Guardian has an article about Venice too https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/06/venice-losing-fight-with-tourism-and-flooding -Jochen Original message From: Owen Densmore Date: 1/6/19 23:08 (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Gro

[FRIAM] Agile

2019-01-06 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 04:16:48PM +, Marcus Daniels wrote: > Since I’ve waded in this far, I’ll finish the thought. > > > > The underlying problem that Agile tries to address is that new/young people > hired-on to a software development project just want to do a job. They want > to get p

Re: [FRIAM] Now for something completely different

2019-01-06 Thread Russell Standish
Made me think of Parisi's work on applying Octonians to string theory: https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2014/10/mtheory_octonions_and_tricateg.html Seems like we won't have long to wait for an answer to the question posed. On Sat, Jan 05, 2019 at 02:37:51AM +, Marcus Daniels wrote: > Not

Re: [FRIAM] Motives - Was Abduction

2019-01-06 Thread Nick Thompson
Glen, Hum Bah Bug, In the first instance, to a pragmatist, any statement that X is Thus, is incomplete. So that statement, X is hierarchically organized, is just an incomplete statement. So an argument about whether anything IS JUST hierarchically organized is a silly argument. What is not a

Re: [FRIAM] Motives - Was Abduction

2019-01-06 Thread glen
Unfortunately, that is the sense in which I thought you were using the term. Have I been strawmanned? 8^) The packaging of a scalar vs the packaging of a matrix are "levels of analysis", if there ever was such a thing. 8^) To use Eric(C)'s words the organization of a set of numbers into a matri

Re: [FRIAM] Venice to charge day-trippers for access to city center | News | santafenewmexican.com

2019-01-06 Thread Owen Densmore
And more importantly, Fabio's H3 palace in Giudecca https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xXk6EKWIBrZ-thmvvL5ACBpKbpVQssexJTcq4zKWevw/edit and the Birraria La Corte http://birrarialacorte.it/ near his shared office! -- Owen On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 1:40 PM Jochen Fromm wrote: > There are far

Re: [FRIAM] Venice to charge day-trippers for access to city center | News | santafenewmexican.com

2019-01-06 Thread Jochen Fromm
There are far too many tourists in Venice, and the cruise ships are monsters that destroy the city. Clearly a step in the right direction.  Venice itself is quite beautiful. A lot of Vivaldi concertos, Cicchetti bars, and Vaporetti stations (a Vaporetto is a kind of water bus). Venice is famous

Re: [FRIAM] Venice to charge day-trippers for access to city center | News | santafenewmexican.com

2019-01-06 Thread Fabio Carrera
Hey Owen! it's time we see each other! How about a grappa night? I'm available any evening. A presto Fabio Fabio Carrera , Ph.D. Cell.: +1 508-615-5333 (USA) | +39 335 581-5292 (Italia) veniceprojectcenter.org | santafeprojectcenter.org SerenDPT: Serenissima Develop

[FRIAM] Venice to charge day-trippers for access to city center | News | santafenewmexican.com

2019-01-06 Thread Owen Densmore
The SF New Mexican has this interesting article on how Venice is trying to handle their overwhelming tourism. http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/venice-to-charge-day-trippers-for-access-to-city-center/article_60b81701-d063-585e-b3e9-8c2cd4d89663.html This is just the first of several ideas to