which may explain some of my inexact
> language. I welcome all corrections.
>
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> From: David Mirly
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is the most common.
>
> Ray Parks
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> From: David Mirly [mailto:mi...@comcast.net]
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> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
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I'm not sure this statement is correct…"natural gas is an input into gasoline
refining (cracking the hydrocarbons)"
I don't think natural gas and crude oil refining typically, if ever, intersect.
A crude oil refinery (which, of course, makes gasoline among other things) has
only crude oil as i
Could someone repost the link to the talk?
Thanks.
On Feb 23, 2012, at 10:01 AM, Stephen Guerin wrote:
> This link almost got past me as it got pushed down in my queue waiting
> to be watched. Thanks to Josh and Roger yesterday at lunch for
> recommending it.
>
> Definitely one of the better ta
Humans acting as individuals forecast fairly well and can be proactive. For
the most part, our institutions can not.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-18/descended-from-apes-acting-as-slime-molds-commentary-by-nathan-myhrvold.html
I used to live in Wichita, Ks. and my house was infested with brown's.
I once got bitten on the inside of my arm and it quickly started looking
"scary".
A trip to the minor emergency center and a steroid shot was all that I needed.
Other's people's mileage will vary, of course, based on their p
I make no claims about being among the "10 Best" but here are a few selections
not previously mentioned.
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Candide - Voltaire
Perhaps something by John Steinbeck? I guess the obvious is The Grapes of
Wrath but I hated it for some reason (perhaps because I grew up in
One pop-sci attempt on this subject is "Programming the Universe..." by Seth
Lloyd. I have lost my copy to the "friend-borrowing-black-hole" but I do
remember the book having an actual equation or two. I thought it was fairly
well written.
On Apr 29, 2010, at 9:47 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:
Siddharth,
You might want to take a look at Portland State's Systems Science program.
http://www.pdx.edu/sysc/
It might have the multi-disciplinary angle you are wanting.
There was mention of Melanie Mitchell's Complexity book on a previous
post...She is a professor at PSU in the computer scie
Glenn, I personally agree with your analysis of what mathematics is
either in large part or wholly.
But there are others who do not. The field of mathematical philosophy
has many branches of opposing belief.
None of which has been proven for the most part and the subject has
mostly languis
I am currently in an Agent Based Simulation class and I am going to
do a report comparing and contrasting ABS
in parallel (distributed, etc.) environments vs. running a simulation
in a purely sequential environment.
It seems obvious to me that you could get very different results from
one co
For Apple stock in particular, I would zoom out a little further than
a few days and you will
see that it is fairly normal for this stock to have really wide
swings for a variety of reasons and
sometimes for no reason at all (at least that I can tell). For
instance, it was way down into
the
007, at 12:07 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
>> On 8/12/07, David Mirly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> 2) It would be wise to attempt to minimize our impacts on such a
>>> complex system when we don't even partially understand the
>>> consequences.
>
Try powells.com.
If you aren't set on owning, your library has the best price of all.
And if they don't have
a particular title, they will get it from another library somewhere.
On Aug 12, 2007, at 9:49 AM, Marko A. Rodriguez wrote:
Hello,
Does anyone read Greg Egan (Australian Sci-Fi au
I can't remember the source (sorry) but I do remember some "expert"
saying that the problem isn't just that the climate
is warming. We've already pointed out the the Earth has been much
hotter than it is now. He said the problem is that
it is warming up too fast (because of human activity) an
I'll play.
Theodore Kaczynski?
Now I have to go see if I am right. It's scary playing this game and
quite possibly making a fool of oneself.
On Apr 11, 2007, at 6:10 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
I am curious to know if anybody in Friam-land will recognize the
following passage. No Fa
I highly recommend taking a look at www.ted.com. The nice thing
about the conference
is that the website publishes past sessions for those like me who
have zero chance of attending. ;)
On Feb 10, 2007, at 1:00 AM, Russell Standish wrote:
> Um - pardon my ignorance, but what exactly are TED
Is pi really inherent throughout the universe?
Won't the concept of pi break down in the presence of sufficiently
strong gravity?
i.e. Euclidian plane geometry is only a good approximation for our
"normal/every day" applications.
On Dec 6, 2006, at 9:52 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There
I have not personally read the book but it is on my list.
However, I did recently read this article which focuses on the
negative results of collective thinking.
It does give a mention or two to positive uses of crowd thinking though.
http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge183.html
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