We are a strange loop...
I Think -- therefore -- I Am ---
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Rob Howard
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John: So circular definitions are permissible if and only if you can show
there is a unique pair with the given relation.
Thats very interesting. How do you prove you have a unique pair? Do you
know an example of such a circular definition that is popular or obvious?
For example, I would
John: Why is logic valid?
For the same reason the rules of chess are valid: by definition. Its
validity is presupposed. If you don't like chess, don't play. If you do then
you have to play by the agreed rules. Else don't call it chess (or logic).
Make a new name for your game.
In logic, one
...@redfish.com] On Behalf
Of russell standish
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 11:34 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] random vs pseudo-random
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:37:35AM -0700, Robert Howard wrote:
I suppose Dennett is implying that the linear
I suppose Dennett is implying that the linear congruential generator below
would take at least the number of bits in variables a, b, m, and x[0]. If
those are 1-byte integers, then the bit count is at least 32 bits. Theres
overhead for the actual code too. How do you measure that? Suppose the
Speaking of renewable energy, anyone see this before? Apparently, the
generators are on the blimp and it can get pretty high into the wind stream.
Wonder how effective it is? I’m sure the FAA just love it.
http://www.magenn.com/
Rob
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From: friam-boun...@redfish.com
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 4:24 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] How many years left
On Apr 20, 2009, at 1:37 AM, Robert Howard wrote:
“I think we will outlive every other species on the planet, even if
we have to escape it, leaving a burnt
We wont enjoy paying for the prevention either. Its not like fire
insurance where we have lots of historical data to make an actuarial
comparison between the pain of the event, the pain of paying for the
prevention, and how effective the prevention is at preventing the event. Sea
levels have
It reminds me of the Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894.
http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/our-economic-past-the-great-horse-ma
nure-crisis-of-1894/
EXCERPTS:
* Writing in the Times of London in 1894, one writer estimated that
in 50 years every street in London would be buried
I’m not so sure it’s the funding agencies that are to blame. They are
probably making the same decisions about their money as they did 100’s of
years ago – risk vs. return based on incentives and constraints. But
incentives and constraints surely have changed over the decades.
Suppose you knew
Smith
Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 6:16 PM
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] How many years left
Robert Howard wrote:
It reminds me of the Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894.
http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/our-economic-past-the-great-horse-ma
;-)
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From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf
Of Russ Abbott
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 1:12 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] particles have free will
Occam must be holding his head.
-- Russ
I love the Anthropic Principle. I find it fun that it does get lots of
criticism but always emotional.
How could the first self-replicating molecule form? What if the smallest
possible chain of amino acids that can replicate turns out to be 1000
base-pairs long? That would mean the chances of
: Re: [FRIAM] particles have free will
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 02:56:06PM -0700, Robert Howard wrote:
(5) Hugh Everett (who invented the many world theory) has a daughter
named
Elizabeth who committed suicide. She left a note that said she was going
to
another universe to be with her father
the second.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power
Robert Howard
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Of Owen Densmore
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 10:43 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/newtonai.html
Cornell researchers use genetic algorithm to breed equations that are
fittest against real-world physics data.
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Alas, this nice idea, solar cardboard box ovens, has been tried in
developing countries for 30+ years and has never really made an impact.
This is a new design, which hasn't been tried in developing countries. Are
arguing that since it failed in the past that we should not try something
new in
I think the selling point of this new design is not so much novelty but the
ability to manufacture and distribute millions of these things very cheaply.
--Rob
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Of James Steiner
Sent: Thursday,
If they can get the cost of a few weeks of charcoal down to $5, I bet they
can get that box oven down to 50 c.
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Of ppary...@aol.com
Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 4:25 PM
To: friam@redfish.com
Subject: Re:
http://www.peterrussell.dreamhosters.com/Odds/WorldClock.php
Its slightly biased to the bad things in the world.
Theres a lot of good things happening every second too.
Robert Howard
Phoenix, Arizona
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distance with perfect accuracy. But curve it in a non-trivial way, and the
accuracy quickly attenuates.
Robert Howard
Phoenix, Arizona
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Of Russell Standish
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 12:52 PM
To: The Friday
one
big bi-directional graph, and then iterate across each spanning tree (or
fork threads) for each agent in the model.
And from what I see from the Redfish Group, this is exactly what their code
does internally when they make these really impressive simulations.
Robert Howard
Phoenix, Arizona
to
the programmer, who might just love to be able to bang anything out on the
keyboard, but it is marketed as a long-term benefit to other programmers who
later have to read the code.
Robert Howard
Phoenix, Arizona
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A will cause more bug, have more errors, cost more, and
take longer to evolve than Figure B-at least in software architecture.
Robert Howard
Phoenix, Arizona
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Sent: Sunday, June 03
from putting a square peg in
a round hole. The less constrained ones allow more entropy.
Robert Howard
Phoenix, Arizona
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That's why we have many different highly-constrained tools in a tool box
rather than a single super-flexible unconstrained one.
Robert Howard
Phoenix, Arizona
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would abandon Newtonian physics.
You don't have to with Relativity. It already includes Newtonian physics.
Exactly! But only the gods know what that slimy programmer did when the
modeler wasn't looking.
LOL
Robert Howard
Phoenix, Arizona
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From
—not the other way
around.
The cause-and-effect arrow of implication is one-way.
Robert Howard
Phoenix, Arizona
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Of Douglas Roberts
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 11:25 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
decisions and actions and,
possibly, those of the collective.
-Tom
On 6/3/07, Robert Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Interesting paper!
I do like seeing the phrase:
Individual-based models (IBMs) allow researchers to study how system level
properties emerge from the adaptive
-modernistic dialogs.
When the only way to understand the statics is by black-box observation of
the dynamics, then use the scientific principle: fix all but one dynamic,
and vary it in a controlled manner.
Robert Howard
Phoenix, Arizona
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TRANSCRIPT of SHIFT HAPPENS from http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift
Shift Happens - DID YOU KNOW
Sometimes size does matter If you're one in a million in China...
...there are 1,300 people just like you In India there are 1,100 people just
like you
The 25% of the population in China
, reconfiguring properties, and errors.
I would be interesting in where the analysis has evolved to.
Robert Howard
Phoenix, Arizona
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Of Phil Henshaw
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 5:46 PM
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to their mind at that instance
in a single pass.
I predict that the web experiment will soon prove that the diminishing
practice of formal top-down organizational skills, such as those taught in
the 1940's, are ever more important for the long-term success of any
organization.
Robert Howard
Phoenix
SpaceX http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX
Robert Howard
Phoenix, Arizona
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Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 11:10 AM
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assume that the ROI on solar cells and
other alternatives will drop in response.
Does
http://www.ecotality.com/blog/2007/does-solar-make-economic-sense-nyt-says-
no-san-francisco-chronicle-says-yes/ Solar Make Economic Sense? NYT Says
No, San Francisco Chronicle Says Yes
Robert Howard
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Also Phil, could you clarify what you meant by The global solution is to
have the full cost of demand reflected in supply. Assuming I understand it
right, doesnt the distributed price system do that already?
Robert Howard
Phoenix, Arizona
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atmosphere to increase.
Robert Howard
Phoenix, Arizona
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the prolog-like syntax
of SPARQL.
Robert Howard
Phoenix, Arizona
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Chinese Professor Cracks SHA-1 Algorithm!
It was only a matter of time.
http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/01/20/1936257.shtml
Robert Howard
Phoenix, Arizona
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Heres an armchair hypothesis:
Large creatures take longer to grow and more food to do so; hence: longer
reproductive periods and fewer numbers of organisms.
Smaller creatures have more numbers and more children; so probably shorter
lifetimes.
Id expect that any species with higher
diagram would imply Violet lies inbetween Indigo and Blue,
whereas traditionally it is the other way around (Roy G Biv).
To be quite frank, I cannot distinguish a seperate colour between blue
and violet - does that mean my cones are defective?
Cheers
On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 10:54:43AM -0700, Robert
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