orems?
On Apr 24, 2010, at 11:26 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
Because of the fallacy of induction?
Do you mean this induction:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_induction#Description
I.e. are you interested in proofs over the positive integers?
--
The philosopher Garfinkel was fond of citing Willy Sutton on questions like
this:
REPORTER: Mr Sutton, why do you rob banks?
WILLIE: 'Cuz that's where the money is.
Without a theorem, it's impossible to to know what the question is.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Ps
Because of the fallacy of induction?
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
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Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
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From
Hugh,
these are interesting. Please keep us up to date.
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Nicholas S. Thompson
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:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of
Hugh Trenchard
Sent: March 29, 2010 10:42 AM
To: ERIC P. CHARLES; Nicholas Thompson
Cc: friam@redfish.com
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Sperm pelotons; article in Nature
Thanks Eric for taking the time to look through my post. For Nick's last post,
I am not e
This fits with Leigh's announcement of Melanie's talk, or at least Melanie's
seminal work in "Analogy Making as Perception".
YES!!! Does anybody have links to such work!
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@cla
Ted,
Perhaps I havent been following this thread closely enough to put my oar in,
but the following passage caught my eye:
"The remarkable thing about the flocking models, such as the one in JASS, is
that they show that leadership doesn't have to be due to an internal trait. It
may simply
Steve,
Oh, Wow!
You wrote:
My interest as a Visualization Scientist (Trained in Physics/Math, practiced in
CS/CE and focused mostly on the range of topics revolving around synthesized
perceptual spaces for exploration, discovery and analysis of (possibly complex)
phenomena) is in the form
John,
I am amazed. I had no idea you were this deep down this rabbit-hole.
Has anybody out there read Sommerhoff: (sp?) Analyical Biology? About 1950.
Is it relevant?
It was concerned with what I am going to call, for want of better terms,
diachronic teloi. The self aiming gun. It's dia
Owen,
Sorry. couldn't see how this was relevant.
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Nicholas S. Thompson
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> [Original Message]
> F
Nicholas S. Thompson
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http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe]
Pamela,
you wrote:
clever indeed
This is interesting. I obviously am standin
Lee
> In this case, though, Nick, is it supposed to be
> "funny" or is it supposed to be "art"?
You know, now that you mention it, I wanted to ask that very question but
was too shy.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.
Ok,
Am I the only list-member debauched enough to admit to staying up to watch
Craig Fergusson's robot skeleton sidekick?
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
Victoria
911 still too raw for me to take pancaking buildings as any part of funny.
Thin skin, i guess.
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Nicholas S. Thompson
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Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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All,
I had a look at procedings (see below) and it looks like if you ever had an
interest in finding out what the computer science department at UNM is on
about, this would be a tremendously efficient way. The way these student
conferences usually work, in my experience, is that each faculty mem
. Since every person has a
> slightly different history resulting in different
> memories and experiences, each person has a unique,
> individual subjective experience, dependent on his
> individual slice of the world.
>
> -J.
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Ni
Jochen,
I tend to think of emotions as regulations. What makes them vary among
people is that people live in different worlds (well, different "slices" of
the same world) and have different regulator set points, determined both by
their experience and innate physiology.
I will have a look at
promote cooperation.
I do find that students still find the Prisoner's Dilemma cute, maybe even
opens up there minds a bit to how social decision making differs from
individual decision making.
George
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Nicholas Thompson
wrote:
George,
you are, of cours
even
opens up there minds a bit to how social decision making differs from
individual decision making.
George
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Nicholas Thompson
wrote:
George,
you are, of course, absolutely correct.
That is always a weakness to the PD story, which is, at base, a really st
George,
you are, of course, absolutely correct.
That is always a weakness to the PD story, which is, at base, a really stupid
way to think about cooperation issues. It is one of those ideas which was sort
of cute at the time, got into all the text books, and has been drilled into the
heads
I suppose if we were good genetic determinists we would hang them both!
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe]
Hi, everybody,
I have invited Bill Laurizen to join us tomorrow morning, who, on his own
account, is interested "in complexity and universal selection theory,
commercial applications of complexity theory, etc., etc." He also wonders if
any of us know Alan Kay ?
He is also the author of a b
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- Original Message -
From: Hugh Trenchard
To: ERIC P. CHARLES;Nicholas Thompson
Cc: Friam@redfish.com
Sent: 3/29/2010 4:58:42 PM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Sperm pelotons; article in Nature
P. CHARLES
To: Nicholas Thompson
Cc: Hugh Trenchard; Friam@redfish.com
Sent: 3/29/2010 11:13:31 AM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Sperm pelotons; article in Nature
But Nick,
Hugh's point is that we DO NOT need trait-group selection to explain the
clustering sperm. We merely need sperm to swim i
really needs to be worked through again), but it would
happen a whole lot faster if I could engage someone more adept at computer
modelling than me.
- Original Message -----
From: ERIC P. CHARLES
To: Nicholas Thompson
Cc: Hugh Trenchard ; friam@redfish.com
Sent: Saturday, March 27,
around the world being famous and talking about the
evolution of religion. Gawd I hate when that happens.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
htt
S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe]
- Original Message -
From: ERIC P. CHARLES
To: Nicholas Thompson
Cc: Hugh Trenchard; fr
groups which otherwise
> appear to have occurred because genetically related sperm can somehow
> identify each other? I am really only suggesting the existence of some
> dynamics of the sperm aggregations that could be studied for, which don't
> yet appear to have been addresse
This is fun to think about. Hopefully, REC will help me:
Is there a paradox here. let it be the case that sperm sort themselves by
fitness; let it further be the case that sperm in peletons have an
advantage over sperm that dont. Isnt it now the case that sperm are no
longer sorting themselves
http://www.mikesmusicexchange.com
Am I the last person on earth to learn about this venue?
I learned about them because they are presenting a free showing of michael
moore's CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY on Sunday at 2pm. As I read the map, they
are more or less across the freeway from BobCat B
"Nick's accusations of narcissim"
Was that me?
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe]
> [Original Message]
>
Vladamir wrote --
I must be the first ever to wish to program stupid autonomous agents!
On the contrary, Vladamir. It is their stupidity that makes autonomous agents
so theoretically endearing.
Thanks for stirring us all up!
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and
exity Coffee Group
> Date: 3/23/2010 8:47:01 AM
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] (advice needed!)
>
>
> On Mar 22, 2010, at 5:06 PM, glen e. p. ropella wrote:
>
> > Thus spake Nicholas Thompson circa 10-03-22 04:58 PM:
> >> Yes. I am sorry. That was my fault. There w
Eric,
I certainly don't object. I am not sure I have a copy of that paper myself.
Seeing it would be like meeting an old friend in the Philadephia railway
station..
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Nicholas S. Thompson
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Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home.ea
Eric, Steve,
I am trying to reconcile my agreement with the spirit of your correspondence
with my largely failed attempts to work toward a common language in our
conversations about complexity on this list and on Friday mornings. I, too,
was trained in many traditions comparative psycholo
logy,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
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> [Original Message]
> From: glen e. p. ropella
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> Date: 3/22/2010 6:06:58 P
igns/
http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe]
> [Original Message]
> From: glen e. p. ropella
> To: ; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity
Coffee Group
> Date: 3/22/2010 4:09:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] (advice needed!)
>
> Thus spake Nicholas Thompson circa 10-03-22 12:
Glen,
you wrote
" Math is a language for disambiguation".
Forgive me if I have asked you this before: Have you ever read Byers HOW
MATHEMATICIANS THINK?
If so, could you rub those two rocks together a little for me?
Thx,
N
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Etho
In great haste: group selection is of interest in explaining group design.
Group design may look like "altrusim" to a dyed in the wool individual
selectionist, but more importantly, it is just group design.
N
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (
russ,
I little sober reflection (no pun intended) will reveal that David Sloan
Wilson's "trait group selection" is actually a mechanism for quantitative
inheritance of group traits. See
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/id49.html
where you can download the pdf by cli
Wow! I'm saved. I live in a one story house and I keep my medicines in an old
tangerine box.
Whew!
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Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
http://www.cusf.org [City
Did anybody else have the problem that this page would start to load, and
then go blank after a few seconds? I have this problem with several
webpages that have advertizing associated with them. It's as if the page
goes out for an ad and then cannot get it and/or cannot make up a page with
the in
.. anybody who has the last four digits of your credit card number and calls
from your phone number can have full access to your paypal account? That is
ALL they need.
You wouldnt want to lose your wallet and your cell phone on the same day.
N
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Ps
Dear Steve n All,
The presentations made by the city staff and others were aMAZing. Obviously a
LOT of hard work ... skillful work .THOUGHTful work went into those
presentations.
Congratulations all around.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Steve,
...and a partridge in a pear tree???
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Nicholas S. Thompson
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http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe]
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Interesting to have the connection spelled out.
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Nicholas S. Thompson
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http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe]
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Because, glen, many of us are taking a vicarious pleasure in it.
Sex and Beer are also a waste of time.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
http://www.cusf.or
All,
I have occasionally been of the mind to take this sort of revenge on a
corporation, but don't have the technical know how (or the--um --guts) to do
so. But that hasn't kept me from worrying about the consequences of acting
with explicit MALICE against any organization with lawyers.
I
Peter,
A bit of Santa Feana for you Joyce lovers.
Did you know that there is a Joyce group in Town here that meets weekly to read
and discuss Joyces work? This week they are working through Portrait of the
Artist, chapter by chapter, and Finnegan's Wake, sentence by sentence. The
group is
t;
> Glen
> See http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/ and don't skip the bit that
> says "disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous
> acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind". A right isn't a
> natural consequence... but then I th
This discussion is a wonderful example of what Doug is talking about. Notice
how the more imponderable the situation is the more confident become our
opinions. Think about the following conundrum. Let's imagine -- for the
purposes of argument -- that health care is a genuine imponderable ...
Doug,
Parroting doug ===>We truly are a nation of idiots. We deserve Rush Limbaugh,
Sarah Palin, and Pat Robertson <=== end parroting Doug
I don't think one has to be stupid to engage in Dialogues of the Deaf. We do
that sort of thing quite well in FRIAM, from time to time, and we are, ex
h
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> [Original Message]
> From: Pamela McCorduck
> To: ; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity
Coffee Group
> Date: 2/13/2010 10:31:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Sources of Innovation
>
>
> On Feb 13, 2010, at 12:12 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
&
Yeah, but
Doesn't War sometimes cut the other way?
What about the War on Space? (Soon to become the War on Mars -- there's an
irony.)
NIck
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson
What an interesting question!
Getting to an answer requires setting aside ALL ideology and doing a
comparative study, across history and national boundaries, on the
phenomenon of technological leadership.
Who knows, for instance, how the internet was developed? By Al Gore over
a latte, righ
All,
I have no official role in saying this, but I think it would be best to
return to our earlier time of 9-11.30. We are starting to gum up their lunch
hour.
nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://ho
Josh,
Google groups mangles attachments? Tell me a little more about that.
As for the rest, I think google groups has real promise. The help
mechanism is a little disconcerting, but it has a lot of the look and feel
of BlackBoard and even has wiki=like features and versioning.
Nick
Nicho
Perhaps you should lead a course in it for CUSF next fall. Please send me
stuff to feel guilty about no reading. (Actually, I am serious. I am
falling way behind in this area).
To have the teacher in one place and the students in another might actually
work on SKYPE.
Nick
Nicholas S. Th
Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe]
- Original Message -
From: ERIC P. CHARLES
To: Nicholas Thompson
Cc: friam@redfish.com
Sent: 2/10/2010 1:01:04 PM
Subject
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http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe]
> [Original Message]
> From: glen e. p. ropella
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> Date: 2/10/2010 12:56:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Buzz arrives
>
> Thus spake Nicholas Thompson circa 10-02-10 11:29 A
Glen,
Because that's how evolution works? Development constrains the exploration
space of evolution, and evolution would not be so sucessful if it did not.
Epigenesis, man. Epigenesis.
(};-]) (winking guy with big eyebrows and a smug smile)
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Profes
Owen, Doug
I have a GREAT idea! Why don't we write and offer to help them with their
... um .problem.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
http://www.cusf.o
Is it possible that the ecology is evolutionary ... just a bunch of pigeons
pounding away at keys. And everytime anybody outsides Googleinvents anew
app, Google just opens up a new room full of pigeons?
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark Universit
Anybody recognise this error. Microsoft Disowns it. I am running xp sp2.
Save the wisecracks about upgrading to an abacus.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesign
Dear Russ #3
Emerence is an all-night party. Hard to be late to. I, however, am lost
in Mathematical Thinking at the moment, and so will cede this inquiry to
others.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home
And now for a little geriatric reminiscence.
Isnt "foghorn cleghorn" a mixture of two references from the 50's.? one, I
think, is to Senator Foghorn, who I think was an occasional character on the
Jack Benny Radio Show. "Cleghorn" I cannot do, but it rings a bell. "Fibber
McGee and Molly?"
Jim,
The Coffee Shop at St. Johns IS open, according to the security desk.
So. let's DO it.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
http://www.cusf.org [Cit
i am sitting in a fog at my breakfast table wondering that very question.
The fact that i am up at this hour suggests that i think i am..
Anybody else?
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home.earthlink.net/
hat ambiguity is what
drives the process forward.
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 1:33 AM, Nicholas Thompson
wrote:
Hi, everybody,
The most important part of this message is the first few paragraphs, don't not
read it because it is long.
THE TEXT:
Here are two stimulating quotes from W
In any discussion such as this one, lest the discussion just spin out of
control (which gives everybody a giddy sense of whizzing around but
eventually gets nowhere) we have to understand which definition of
ambiguity we are working with.
I suggested that we work with Byers's. The is nothing coa
gt; > another context. Hence,
> > ambiguity is (like randomness) a statement of
> >
> > ignorance.
> >
> > So, there
> > are 2 ways to parse the situation (and the quote from Byers)
> >
> > as a statement
> > of ignorance:
> >
> >
&g
r
>
> 2) Saying "ambiguity is the heart of math" is an expression that math is
> a _method_, not knowledge ... an approach, not a thing to be approached.
>
> Both are compatible with the "mechanism" that Rosen rails about. But
> (2) allows us to put off the controversy
Hi, everybody,
The most important part of this message is the first few paragraphs, don't not
read it because it is long.
THE TEXT:
Here are two stimulating quotes from William Byers, How Mathematicians Think.
You will find them on pp 23-25, which happen to be up on Amazon's page for th
Hi, Owen,
What is described here is the House Bill. What just passed doesn't, for
instance, have a public option, although it may have a trojan horse.
Publicly chartered co-operatives???
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Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku
Well, also remember that the only people who surveil are people who want to
find something out.
n
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
http://www.cusf.org [City Unive
Owen,
The moth model has not been updated since hector was a pup. Is that bad
manners? Bad self promotion? I dont think models are forward compatible.
Or is it that the program is not backward compatible with its models. I
think Shawn might be willing to upgrade it, if I asked him nicely.
[City University of Santa Fe]
> [Original Message]
> From: glen e. p. ropella
> To: Nicholas Thompson
> Date: 12/22/2009 11:02:17 AM
> Subject: [Fwd: Re: Egging that chip off the old underbelly.]
>
>
> Apparently, my e-mail has been on the fritz; so my attempt to post this
>
Great geriatric aid! Talking to an old acquaintance at a Christmas party and
can't remember their name. Just sneakily take their picture and Goggle will
print out their name AND the last three things you talked about.
n
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Cl
Robert,
thanks for the additional quotations.
However, you made a slip of the fingers when you keyed in one of the passages.
To head off needless controversy, I key it in correctly below. The capitalized
word is where the slipup occured.
"Mathematics as we practice it is much MORE forma
ence
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o Check out my blog at http://russabbott.blogspot.com/
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Nicholas Thompson
wrote:
Dear Friammers,
We have decided to carry on from our seminar on Emergence to one on
Mathematical Thin
Dear Friammers,
We have decided to carry on from our seminar on Emergence to one on
Mathematical Thinking. Although we don't meet for a month, I found myself
reading the first assignment, Thurston's On Proof and Progress in Mathematics.
Now Thurston loves mathematics and is apparently good
Enough of this triumphalism of the "hard" scientists!
Everything I learned about physics i learned at the feet of members of this
list.
if there are incongruities in what you taught me, you have only yourself to
blame.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Etholog
Is this an appropriate use of this list. I am worried about the "what if
everbody did it?" argument.
In short, does asking a list to "friend" you scale up?
n
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home.earthlink.n
it is more that
the "propism" is hijacked or co-opted in a deliberate and clever fashion.
Carry on!
- Steve
Quoting Nicholas Thompson circa 09-12-02 04:06 PM:
Glen, I LIKED THIS. I particularly liked it, though, because of the odd
usage of convicted (for convinced). Was that a sll
And then, there are the anti-wacko wackos.
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Nicholas S. Thompson
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Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe]
> [Original Message]
> From: gl
: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> Date: 12/2/2009 3:04:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Game theorists hope to solve world's crises
>
> Quoting Nicholas Thompson circa 09-12-02 01:32 PM:
> > So, I live in a pre keplerian village. On a hill in the middle of
&
So, I live in a pre keplerian village. On a hill in the middle of the village
is a monastery where lives a monk who rings a bell at sunrise every day. A
model explanation circulates around the village that the sun is attached to the
Monk's bellrope and that it is his ringing the bell that rais
All models are wrong; models are designed to be wrong. They couldnt possibly
do any good if they weren;t wrong.
It's just that some models are wronger than others.
n
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home.eart
Thanks, Peter, for straightening this out for me.
Tell me more about this seminar you offered?
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Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
http://www.cusf.org [City Univ
Thank you, Peter. You are very kind to take the question seriously.
Asking a question is like making a mess. Doing it is alot easier than undoing
it.
I am particularly puzzled by the manner in which "incompressibility" would seem
to disturb the ways in which people talk about meteorology.
ter of air down here has a higher mass than a cubic meter of air up there.
That NASA site has an interactive demo called Gaslab (at bottom here) that
enables you to explore the ideal gas law.
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Nicholas Thompson
wrote:
Yes. And while we are at it, wh
Yes. And while we are at it, what does it mean when meteorologists say
that air is more dense near the surface than higher up, or that cold air is
denser than warm?
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Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home.earthl
Thanks for the heads up.
I will be sure not to mention those guys in my biography of Owen.
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Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
http://www.cusf.org [City Universit
Ok. It's unfair for your smart people to tease us dumb ones.
Is air a compressible medium or not?
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Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
http://www.cusf.org [City
mpson/naturaldesigns/
http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe]
> [Original Message]
> From: glen e. p. ropella
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> Date: 11/25/2009 4:35:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Dunbar numbers and distributions
>
> Quoting Nicholas
or that benefits those around them. Is Dave a
> narcissist? Is he exploiting his fans? I don't know. And, frankly, I
> don't care. The fact is that such behavior is much more complex than
> you portray.
>
> Quoting Nicholas Thompson circa 09-11-25 09:28 AM:
> > We
named Dave. Dave was a criminal. Then he learned to make bread
> and that others liked his bread. Now he uses his celebrity status in an
> attempt to demonstrate that criminals can redirect their energy into
> productive behavior that benefits those around them. Is Dave a
> narcissi
rthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe]
> [Original Message]
> From: Owen Densmore
> To: ; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity
Coffee Group
> Date: 11/25/2009 10:26:49 AM
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Dunbar numbers and distributions
&g
e flock of turbines, you'd get the same
sort of velocity effect.
Having the flock adjust its geometry could be a big win. A fixed installation
would be tuned to the most likely wind speed and direction.
-- rec --
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Nicholas Thompson
wrote:
Hug
y Coffee Group
> Date: 11/25/2009 6:53:34 AM
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Dunbar numbers and distributions
>
> Thus spake Nicholas Thompson circa 11/24/2009 09:10 PM:
> > I am not at all sure what it means to have my rhetoric rejected. My
facts,
> > yes; my logic, sure. But my RH
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