Re: [FRIAM] This is scary, and yet very cool...Ai neural networks making pictures, look really good

2022-04-10 Thread Russell Standish
021  http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ > > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6  bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mail

Re: [FRIAM] Murdoch and Trump

2020-01-20 Thread Russell Standish
doing, is simply madness. -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders hpco...@hpcoders.com.au h

Re: [FRIAM] Murdoch and Trump

2020-01-20 Thread Russell Standish
uge coal mine in Queensland. To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if they throw in the towel soon, what with the public opposition, and the fact that the Indian economy is starting to decarbonise. -- -------- D

Re: [FRIAM] Scolary- tools for analysis

2020-02-07 Thread Russell Standish
time, traditional methods of discovery - searching through one's repo's packages, and googling are more useful than this directory. Maybe it can be improved. -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 2

Re: [FRIAM] Curmudgeons Unite!

2020-02-08 Thread Russell Standish
ring" is actually "engineering" or not is a pub argument, but it clearly works when applied pragmatically and not idealogically. If not "engineering", we would still need a name to cover the set of techniques that help tame complexity, and manage software development at scal

Re: [FRIAM] Curmudgeons Unite!

2020-02-09 Thread Russell Standish
low 10Kloc+ software to be built in a workable fashion, and I do care about those. -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders hpco...@hpcoders.com.au

Re: [FRIAM] friam Winter POTLUCK

2020-02-13 Thread Russell Standish
itching to a peripatetic lifestyle once my current work commitments dry up again, so maybe then... -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders hpco...@hpcoders.

Re: [FRIAM] Coronavirus vs Flu

2020-02-15 Thread Russell Standish
ilman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove -- Dr Russell Standish

Re: [FRIAM] wifi repeaters?!

2020-03-25 Thread Russell Standish
TV is a little far from our main Wifi access point. Cheers -- ---- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders hpco...@hpco

Re: [FRIAM] At the limits of thought

2020-04-30 Thread Russell Standish
over the money to find out :). -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders hpco...@hpcoders.com.au

Re: [FRIAM] sum of atomic spectra == 9000K black body?

2020-05-15 Thread Russell Standish
m/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ -- Dr Russell StandishPho

Re: [FRIAM] God

2020-05-23 Thread Russell Standish
astonomers from ignorant kings. Like most evolutionary stories, this is a "just so" story. But I think it has a grain of truth. Cheers, Russell -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119

Re: [FRIAM] God

2020-05-24 Thread Russell Standish
our view of ourselves on our experience with others. > What paper? What argument? -- ---- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders

Re: [FRIAM] Science and Black Lives Matter

2020-06-12 Thread Russell Standish
Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ -- ---

Re: [FRIAM] God

2020-06-28 Thread Russell Standish
rlink: > > https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311349078_The_many_perils_of_ejecti > ve_anthropomorphism > > Nicholas Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > Clark University > thompnicks...@gmail.com > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ >

Re: [FRIAM] God

2020-07-04 Thread Russell Standish
sk, but older humans successfully see the situation from someone else's point of view. So yes, the task is difficult, and undoubtedly requires detailed knowledge, but adult humans are able to do this with ease. > Therefore I tend to disagree with both statements. > > -J. > Maybe w

Re: [FRIAM] Book publishing advice needed

2020-07-05 Thread Russell Standish
ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > > - . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. . .-

Re: [FRIAM] Book publishing advice needed

2020-07-08 Thread Russell Standish
o my amendments in the first place! -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders hpco...@hpcoders.com.au http://www.

Re: [FRIAM] firefox and memory

2017-12-08 Thread Russell Standish
with 1GB memory... :). -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kingston University http://www.

Re: [FRIAM] firefox and memory

2017-12-09 Thread Russell Standish
> *could* have a > bursar under his saddle. > I hate to burst your bubble, but I'm posting from a hotel in Shanghai, and normally inhabit Sydney, Australia. Cheers -- -------- Dr Russell Standish

Re: [FRIAM] Friam Digest, Vol 180, Issue 3

2018-06-04 Thread Russell Standish
;m working offline on my laptop. Cheers -- ---- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kingston Unive

Re: [FRIAM] Subject: Re: Friam Digest, Vol 180, Issue 3

2018-06-05 Thread Russell Standish
oup listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove -- Dr

Re: [FRIAM] What is an object?

2018-07-17 Thread Russell Standish
== > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove -- -

Re: [FRIAM] What is an object?

2018-07-19 Thread Russell Standish
is started though, perhaps by setting a static variable in the main.cc file, otherwise you end up with a race condition. -- ---- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance

Re: [FRIAM] virtualized public IPs

2018-08-22 Thread Russell Standish
tinguish on the port part - so dynamic DNS is not necessary. Cheers -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpc

Re: [FRIAM] the Analemma

2018-12-09 Thread Russell Standish
s back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove -- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Perfor

Re: [FRIAM] Now for something completely different

2019-01-06 Thread Russell Standish
t. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove -- -

[FRIAM] Agile

2019-01-06 Thread Russell Standish
may or may not work in any specific situation. Cheers -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics,

Re: [FRIAM] Experts explaining stuff at multiple levels of difficulty

2019-01-23 Thread Russell Standish
CoQ6f4pdXUFnpAIlKgm3N > > > > —R > > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com &

Re: [FRIAM] keyboard and hard drive recommendations wanted.

2019-04-12 Thread Russell Standish
s process is running, and it never stops - the only way of recovering is via a hard power cycle. Cheer -- ---- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Vis

Re: [FRIAM] Android phones

2019-04-17 Thread Russell Standish
at you pay for, I suppose. By contrast, my wife used her iPhone 4s for about 6 years, with only one cracked screen needing to be replaced. Apple do have good build quality. Don't know if this helps. -- -------- Dr Russell Sta

Re: [FRIAM] Digital forensics?

2019-04-17 Thread Russell Standish
ailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove -- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile

Re: [FRIAM] What Are We Monists Moaning About?

2019-04-25 Thread Russell Standish
ofessor of Psychology and Biology > > Clark University > > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > > > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's

Re: [FRIAM] What Are We Monists Moaning About?

2019-04-25 Thread Russell Standish
ialist/immaterialist divide rather dissolves too. -- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance

Re: [FRIAM] A question for tomorrow

2019-04-27 Thread Russell Standish
les of "Variation" to effectively solve some very NP hard problems. -- ---- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fello

Re: [FRIAM] A question for tomorrow

2019-04-27 Thread Russell Standish
e desktop publishing packages worth $10K or more (back when $10K was worth more than double that now). -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting

Re: [FRIAM] More on levels of sequence organization

2019-05-04 Thread Russell Standish
ero in the space of all data sets :). I don't have any data for my hunch, though. -- ---- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research

Re: [FRIAM] Ownership of expired patent

2019-07-03 Thread Russell Standish
sh.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > > ======== > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at c

Re: [FRIAM] Disk Drive Prices (1955-2019)

2019-10-01 Thread Russell Standish
025? -- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcoders.com

Re: [FRIAM] Setting up a new PC

2019-11-08 Thread Russell Standish
full and I'm desparate for space. Cheers -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kingston

Re: [FRIAM] Setting up a new PC

2019-11-09 Thread Russell Standish
e me from myself. > > Nick > > Nicholas S. Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > Clark University > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > -Original Message----- > From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf

Re: [FRIAM] flattening -isms

2019-11-18 Thread Russell Standish
schoolboy French anyway, but did ocasionally wonder how you get hoisted by a fart. -- ---- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Re: [FRIAM] IT is Not Sustainable

2019-12-25 Thread Russell Standish
asurement - if you paid a programmer by LOC, you'd get boilerplate and crappy comments. -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Rese

Re: [FRIAM] Predatory journals: no definition, no defence

2019-12-26 Thread Russell Standish
OMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove -- ---- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellowhpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics

Re: [FRIAM] IT is Not Sustainable

2019-12-26 Thread Russell Standish
olleagues, however, perhaps because I have a mathematical background!). -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellow

Re: [FRIAM] Comcast blows! who else does legit internet in town.

2020-01-09 Thread Russell Standish
and even that's a marked improvement on what we had only 2 months ago - about 3Mbps down, 300Kbps up. -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders

Re: [FRIAM] Comcast blows! who else does legit internet in town.

2020-01-10 Thread Russell Standish
t not in any danger from being burnt. -- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders hpco...@hpcoders.com.au http://www.hpcoder

Re: [FRIAM] fires in AU, WAS :Comcast blows! who else does legit internet in town.

2020-01-10 Thread Russell Standish
imate change. IMHO, the boat sailed 30 years ago for actually preventing climate change - the best we can do is mitigate or slow it down, and secondly adapt. Anyway - my opinion, but one that I suspect is currently quite widely shared. Cheers -- ---

Re: [FRIAM] Comcast blows! who else does legit internet in town.

2020-01-10 Thread Russell Standish
death like the luckless frog. -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders hpco...@hpcoders.com.au

Re: [FRIAM] Austriallia is on fire chat here

2020-01-10 Thread Russell Standish
few microbreweries now, a good choice of craft ales, a far cry from when I was a young bloke, when we had a choice of two fairly similarly tasting lagers. What really is excellent (and cheap) are Aussie wines. Cheers -- ----

Re: [FRIAM] Austriallia is on fire chat here

2020-01-10 Thread Russell Standish
ime. How times have changed! -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders hpco...@hpcoders.com.au

Re: [FRIAM] GPT-3 and the chinese room

2020-07-21 Thread Russell Standish
; FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blog

Re: [FRIAM] Programming Languages

2020-08-08 Thread Russell Standish
for instance. Fortran has hung around in certain areas for cultural reasons. Can't comment too much about Cobol for business applications, but I would have thought Java or C# might be more suited. -- -------- Dr Russel

Re: [FRIAM] words for Nick

2020-08-21 Thread Russell Standish
a they are synonyms. The Liberal party is the conservative party. -- ---- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders hpco...@

Re: [FRIAM] The Gambler and the Academic

2020-09-01 Thread Russell Standish
x *= ( 0.5 ) > Bankroll.append(int(x)) > Bankrolls.append(Bankroll) > > for row in Bankrolls: > for col in range(0,len(row),10): > print(format(row[col], "7d"),end=', ') > print() > -

Re: [FRIAM] What's in a name? MOTH to a Flame

2020-11-06 Thread Russell Standish
;Hungarian", it gets pretty silly after a while. Years of reading code has taught me to filter out hungarian prefixes as meaningless line noise. -- -------- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobi

Re: [FRIAM] How soon until AI takes over polling?

2020-11-11 Thread Russell Standish
G3o_reGRlxBEs9K8ZfZPNKeOYrtHreLpQMofHuId25yG_iN3xq5W7MgsWxOvjO > &typo=1 > > > - . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com

Re: [FRIAM] Small Nuclear

2020-11-12 Thread Russell Standish
so on, as well as finding somewhere else to live, or course. In reality, such a solar array is more likely to be constructed in the Gobi desert, than in NSW, however :). -- ---- Dr Russell StandishPh

Re: [FRIAM] New ways of understanding the world

2020-11-30 Thread Russell Standish
> archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > > - . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. . .-. . > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn > > GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe &g

Re: [FRIAM] Message to the non-posting 95%

2021-02-21 Thread Russell Standish
man/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ -- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal,

Re: [FRIAM] coding versus music

2021-02-21 Thread Russell Standish
orgotten, and not acknowledged by the hordes of software engineers currently practising. -- ---- Dr Russell StandishPhone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performa

Re: [FRIAM] Message to the non-posting 95%

2021-02-21 Thread Russell Standish
> > Nick Thompson > thompnicks...@gmail.com > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > -Original Message- > From: Friam On Behalf Of Russell Standish > Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2021 7:57 PM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Subject:

Re: [FRIAM] State Supercomputer ribbon cutting

2008-09-16 Thread Russell Standish
paid for by those > states," she said. "This one is unique; it will be self-sustaining. Other > states > can't say that." > All I can say is "good luck with that"! -- A/Prof Ru

Re: [FRIAM] Is programming a mathematical formalism

2008-10-01 Thread Russell Standish
plied Complexity Group listserv > > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:3

Re: [FRIAM] Relaxed selection

2008-10-09 Thread Russell Standish
=== > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org -- -

Re: [FRIAM] Relaxed Selection, a b-level posting

2008-10-09 Thread Russell Standish
ossibly variation in background radioactivity or cosmic rays). But currently my simulation code is broken, so I haven't got too far with this to date :( Cheers On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 09:36:39PM -0600, Nicholas Thompson wrote: > Russell Standish offered the following question: > >

Re: [FRIAM] Relaxed Selection, a b-level posting

2008-10-12 Thread Russell Standish
xplore (which is a criticism levelled at these experiments to be sure). -- -------- A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED

[FRIAM] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Relaxed Selection, a b-level posting]

2008-10-12 Thread Russell Standish
It seems I have to forward this message rather than bouncing it. Oh well... - Forwarded message from Russell Standish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:17:17 +1000 From: Russell Standish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Nicholas Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> S

Re: [FRIAM] Selection, Reproductive rate, and Karrying Kapacity.

2008-10-14 Thread Russell Standish
ator) that is not in response to a change elsewhere in the food web, would really constitute a new species, even if technically the new and old versions could still interbreed. -- A/Prof Russell Standish

Re: [FRIAM] More Really Is Different

2008-10-17 Thread Russell Standish
== > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org -- A/Prof Russell Standish

Re: [FRIAM] The true crisis is still to come

2008-10-28 Thread Russell Standish
abiotic in origin. As to using the stuff up for fuel, assuming we ever found it, that would be the height of irresponsibility. We do not want to go back to a reducing atmosphere like Venus or Mars. Life as we know it, would simply cease to be. -- ----

Re: [FRIAM] Strogatz and Ratti video conversation

2008-11-17 Thread Russell Standish
n, and if compilation times are getting to me, I can just put on a mask and snorkel and swim with the fishes. http://www.gordonsbayscubadivingclub.com/ I never thought living in a big city could be so much fun. Cheers -- -------

Re: [FRIAM] Fw: art and science

2009-01-11 Thread Russell Standish
ved and published about 15 years before :(. In quantum mechanics, the concepts are just that of linear algebra (rotations and stretches), complex arithmetic (which are planar rotations and stretches) and Fourier transforms (spectral analysis of a wave form - familiar to all users of "graphic eq

Re: [FRIAM] The reductionist blind spot

2009-02-12 Thread russell standish
unusual, and probably not helpful way. Cheers -- -------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 hpco...@hpco

Re: [FRIAM] Stevey's Blog Rants: Rhino on Rails

2009-02-12 Thread russell standish
d there is a greater range techniques to express algorithms, giving greater control to the programmer for efficiency and the like. I do use both, but much prefer the expressive power of C++. Cheers -- Prof Russell Standish

Re: [FRIAM] The reductionist blind spot

2009-02-15 Thread russell standish
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 02:36:21PM +0100, Jochen Fromm wrote: > Hi, > > Russell Standish was right, the definitions in the wiki contradict the > definitions of Mark A. Bedau. They are more like Chalmers, and less like > Bedau. Obviously I have not read Bedau carefully enough. I

Re: [FRIAM] xkcd - A Webcomic - Alternative Energy Revolution

2009-03-28 Thread russell standish
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org -- ---- Prof Russell Standish

Re: [FRIAM] particles have free will

2009-04-18 Thread russell standish
------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 hpco...@hpcoders.com.au Australiahttp:/

Re: [FRIAM] particles have free will

2009-04-18 Thread russell standish
erse. Many people have discussed this (under terms like zero information principle, or minimum information principle), but you could take a look at my book Theory of Nothing, which is a free download. Apologies for the plug. -- ----

Re: [FRIAM] particles have free will

2009-04-18 Thread russell standish
p in a worse place than you are now if you try. -- ---- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 hpco...@hpcoders.com.au

Re: [FRIAM] random vs pseudo-random

2009-04-23 Thread russell standish
want to know more, please take a look at my book "Theory of Nothing". Cheers -- ---- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052

Re: [FRIAM] The unreasonable Effectiveness of ABMs in Complex Systems

2009-04-28 Thread russell standish
ainly all compelling examples of emergence do), then it is hardly surprising that a complex system will always be modelled by an ABM (a sort of lowest common denominator of modelling techniques). Cheers -- ---- Prof Ru

Re: [FRIAM] emergence, again

2009-04-28 Thread russell standish
he behaviors > of E to control the behavior of a, b, or c. Is there a problem here? > > Nick > No. It sounds like a perfectly reasonable way of building a control system. Should there be a problem? -- ------

Re: [FRIAM] The unreasonable Effectiveness of ABMs in ComplexSystems

2009-04-28 Thread russell standish
; Mark Bedau sometimes comes to Santa Fe. Maybe you could convince him to come to a Friam meeting? Not sure about the time on his hands bit - he always strikes me as being quite busy... -- -------- Prof Russell Standish

Re: [FRIAM] emergence, again

2009-04-29 Thread russell standish
Sometimes it seems to me that people prefer to think > of emergence as mysterious. It's not. > > -- Russ > Can somebody remind me what are the supposed problems with emergence and reductionism? -- ---- Pro

Re: [FRIAM] Distributed Agents and Alan Kay's Universal Interface Language

2009-05-24 Thread russell standish
O is a useful tool in the toolbox, not the panacea of everything. Cheers. -- -------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 hpco...@hpcoders.c

Re: [FRIAM] Distributed Agents and Alan Kay's Universal Interface Language

2009-05-24 Thread russell standish
istributed acynchronous code is just plain difficult to debug. > > --Doug > > On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 7:37 PM, russell standish > wrote: > > > > > > > Most of the time this comment comes up, it seems to mean "C++ is not > > _just_ object oriented"

Re: [FRIAM] Distributed Agents and Alan Kay's Universal Interface Language

2009-05-26 Thread russell standish
tupid, the triathlon must have taken Him completely by surprise." P. Z. Pearce -- -------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNE

Re: [FRIAM] Turtles with trousers (WAS "robots forming, "etc]

2009-05-31 Thread russell standish
h it. A physical instantiation of a model is only going to add additional confounding factors, which are already bad enough. Cheers -- -------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathemati

Re: [FRIAM] quick question

2009-06-11 Thread russell standish
her than consciousness, and even there the notion of epiphenomenalism would say that it is void concept. Cheers -- -------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics

Re: [FRIAM] quick question

2009-06-12 Thread russell standish
I don't have the volume. Sorry. > Nick > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, > Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu) > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/natura

Re: [FRIAM] Arthur Benjamin's formula for changing math education | Video on TED.com

2009-06-30 Thread russell standish
tension". These days, one would probably do it in Matlab (or Octave). -- -------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052

Re: [FRIAM] [sfx: Discuss] Re: Arthur Benjamin's formula for changing math education | Video on TED.com

2009-07-01 Thread russell standish
books that use it > successfully, I think you could create the beautiful and succinct notation > you see in the books. > > AND, you could send it to me (email, web page, blog, wiki, ..) so that I > could enjoy it too! > > -- Owen -- -

Re: [FRIAM] Emergence and explanation

2009-07-08 Thread russell standish
members might assert are non-emergent properties. Honestly, I > can't think of any. > -- -------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics U

Re: [FRIAM] Emergence and word magic

2009-07-10 Thread russell standish
> unexpectedly and demands immediate action", which boils down to > "poorly > > understood" or, at least, unpredictable. > > > > -- > > glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://agent-based-modeling.com > > > > > > ==

Re: [FRIAM] Emergence and explanation

2009-07-12 Thread russell standish
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 08:25:14AM -0400, James Steiner wrote: > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:33 PM, russell standish > wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 10:16:55AM -0700, glen e. p. ropella wrote: > >> The question was: Is there any identifiable property of a system that is

Re: [FRIAM] Emergence and explanation

2009-07-12 Thread russell standish
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Re: [FRIAM] Emergence and explanation

2009-07-12 Thread russell standish
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 09:11:28AM -0700, glen e. p. ropella wrote: > Thus spake russell standish circa 07/08/2009 05:33 PM: > > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 10:16:55AM -0700, glen e. p. ropella wrote: > >> Well, since my post consisted of questions, I could hardly be wrong. ;-) >

Re: [FRIAM] Emergence and explanation

2009-07-12 Thread russell standish
roving it. -- ---- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 hpco...@hpcoders.com.au Australia

Re: [FRIAM] Emergence and explanation

2009-07-12 Thread russell standish
scillator is definitely nonlinear, but it is part of syntactic structure of the system, so is definitely not emergent. BTW - where is Jochen Fromm in this debate? -- -------- Prof Russell Standish

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