i'm going to enter the danger zone for a second...
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Nicholas Thompson
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> DANGER: RANT
> >>>
>
> Nobody should EVER apologize for not understanding an acronym.
Doug,
I think it's a poor move to use a model--did the Officers use a model
for their article in Time?--to fix blame with such confidence
especially when the thing to blame is a vague collective identity.
Granted, sometimes it seems that such fixing is needed because we need
to reaffirm our own gro
from Rob Axtell:
http://krasnow.blogspot.com/2008/09/goldilocks-on-wall-street.html#links
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 8:29 AM, glen e. p. ropella
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/01/opinion/01buchanan.html?_r=3&ref=opinion&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
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> --
> glen e
This aired today on WAMC Northeast Public Radio. Might be useful in the
conversation on how to build community and educational programs at the
Complex.
Matt
Matthew R. Francisco, PhD Candidate
Department of Science and Technology Studies
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Listen to the radi
Hi everyone, I realized that I didn't send this to the entire list.
Is the BarCamp still happening?
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Matthew Francisco
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Stephen and FRIAM,
> From what I can tell the BarCamp looks really great. And the dates
>
On 5/24/07, Nicholas Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Carl,
>
> I am trying to get my Psych 101 in order: Was the kitty genovese incident
> the one that led to that horrendous series of experiments that demonstrate
> that if you give people a shock console (or what they THINK is a shock
> con
On 4/15/07, Marcus G. Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Michael Agar wrote:
> > "Reflexivity" is one of those terms... Nice and neat in set theory,
> > a relation R is reflexive in set A iff for all a in A aRa is true.
> >
> Question is, what is the discrimination power of R? Does it ever say
ests it
> serves with a critical evaluation vis a vis a model of the good society.
>
> Almost as bad as trying to define "complexity" (:
>
> Mike
>
>
> On Apr 13, 2007, at 7:06 PM, Matthew Francisco wrote:
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> > Dr. Daniels,
> >
> > I want to make sure I u
On 4/14/07, Nicholas Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok, let me ask the question less coyly. Most of the impact of complexity
> has been to tunnel under and loosen the foundations of ordinary science.
> Is that correct, or is it not? One of the important messages of
> complexity is that no
Good morning!
On 4/14/07, Marcus G. Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Matt,
> >> For the social scientist, the approach raises two problems:
> >>
> >> 1) Too much reflection means too much attention to models of the world.
> >> To ask the right questions means having unbiased data on how peo
Dr. Daniels,
I want to make sure I understand you. See below...
On 4/13/07, Marcus G. Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mikhail Gorelkin wrote:
> > reflexivity is also a part of cybernetics (of second order), and
> > cybernetists think that complexity theory is a part of cybernetics too...
>
ity have to do with applied complexity
science? Sounds like a subject of a science and technology studies
dissertation! The question that I am now curious about—truly a
product of me thinking out loud here--is how are projects selected in
the field? What social, cognitive, technological resources mak
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