Re: [FRIAM] flocking windmills

* * On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Steve Smith wrote: > I've always wondered how sophisticated the algorithms for arranging > windmills might be. > > Here's a micro-engineering variation to keep you out of macro-trouble. Now -- back into macro-trouble again -- if you had a flock of egg-beater

Re: [FRIAM] flocking windmills

, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: > Roger Critchlow wrote: > >> if you had a flock of egg-beater generators on a piece of Iowa farmland, >> could you run them as mixers and give a tornado a leg up over the next town >> down wind? >> > Why should Iowa have all the fun? H

[FRIAM] Turbulence Around Heat Transport

Okay, this one is for Nick, too, in his guise as a weather geek. NASA Earth Observatory picked up the press release for this: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=41646&src=eorss-manews But it turns out that the New Journal of Physics is open sourced, so you can go read the ori

[FRIAM] royal society 350th

Lot's of curl up in front of the fire reading in Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B: http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/365/1537.toc - Simon Levin Crossing scales, crossing disciplines: collective motion and collective action in the Global Commons - Martin A.

Re: [FRIAM] iPhone on T-Mobile ?

T-Mobile is on a roll. They converted their existing 3G network to HSPA 7.5Mbps service on January 5. They reduced the prices on their smart phones last Thursday. They're promising to upgrade their 3G network to HSPA+ 21Mbps service by mid-year. And I picked up a 3G signal in Santa Fe last week

Re: [FRIAM] More Visualization Links on Twitter

Twitter centric twitters. Someone who studies tweets and reports their results in the same form. At the recommendation of a New York Times blogger, http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/adding-controlled-serendipity-to-the-web, I have begun following @atul and @brainpicker on twitter, thus pla

Re: [FRIAM] error 1706, F-MIT not available.

Google actually gets a direct hit on your error message, but I can't figure out whether the responses are pertinent. -- rec -- On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Nicholas Thompson < nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Anybody recognise this error. Microsoft Disowns it. I am running xp > sp2.

[FRIAM] chart wars

It's hard to believe I beat Tom Johnson on this one, but here's a five minute talk from IgniteDC on the politics of data visualization. http://www.targetpointconsulting.com/ToThePoint/2010/01/05/chart-wars -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Comp

Re: [FRIAM] iPad

Add this to the stack: http://www.eurodroid.com/2010/01/nokia-has-a-reason-to-carry-on-android-booted-on-an-n900/ A dual boot phone? -- rec -- On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: > On 1/28/10 1:57 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > >> Apple just sucks less than all the rest. Ha

Re: [FRIAM] The Go Programming Language

The ancient Asian game was referred to as "yi" by Confucius and Mencius. it only spread to Japan and became known as "go" in the second millennium of its existence. The best international players call the game "weiqi" (Chinese) or "baduk" (Korean). -- rec -- On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Ro

Re: [FRIAM] O'Reilly Radar

The most interesting point I've seen made is the question of what does the new Apple A4 CPU bring to the table? Oh, you didn't notice that Apple is building it's own CPU for the iPad? For the consumer's benefit, I expect that it will be the most power stingy CPU that has ever been seen in an Appl

Re: [FRIAM] O'Reilly Radar

Engadget thinks the Apple A4 is just a bunch of existing silicon pieces integrated on a chip. http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apples-a4-is-an-arm-based-system-on-a-chip-a-la-tegra-2/ -- rec -- On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > The most interesting point I'

Re: [FRIAM] Air

A Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet is my principle computer, on the desktop or on the road, running Ubuntu primarily or Windows if required. A G1 serves as a WWAN modem and as a portable computer on many trips. A Chumby as a home alarm clock, though it may be reitired in favor of the phone. The Thinkpad

Re: [FRIAM] O'Reilly Radar

n Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > Engadget thinks the Apple A4 is just a bunch of existing silicon pieces > integrated on a chip. > http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apples-a4-is-an-arm-based-system-on-a-chip-a-la-tegra-2/ > > -- rec -- > > > On

Re: [FRIAM] Interest rates are boring

There's already a movement to save his job. http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/04/campaign-to-save-dav.html -- rec -- On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > DOH! > > > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote: > >> Have you heard of this? A bored bank employee is l

Re: [FRIAM] Buzz arrives

I agree with Glen, I think, the "all over the place" is the "plan". And it's the same plan that Microsoft tried and failed to execute because, as the blogs have been noting this week, Microsoft let a thousand flowers bloom, and then set them to trial by combat, with the result that the most viciou

[FRIAM] vertical axis windmills and sperm pelotons

The fish schooling vertical axis windmill grouping paper is out on arxiv.org http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.2250 The other paper from Nature http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v463/n7282/abs/nature08736.html titled "Competition drives cooperation among closely related sperm of deer mice" notes

Re: [FRIAM] Sources of Innovation

I think Schmidt is dreaming, that the USA had an innovation policy that worked, that it could have an innovation policy that would work in the future. We had a population that was willing and eager to try new things, once, and from the consumers to the entrepreneurs they did try new things, and th

[FRIAM] freedom's laboratory

Via the Arts and Letters Daily, http://www.aldaily.com/, a review of Timothy Ferris' book about science and liberal democracy, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/books/review/Rosen-t.html, which brings us back to the question of innovation, and back to whether google is a company with a technical vi

Re: [FRIAM] Health care [was Sources of Innovation]

I think Glen was just working up a Presidents Day troll. The day we celebrate the births of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln is the perfect day to appear to deny that "rights" exist. But I think he really means that their existence is problematic, and if you scan the Wikipedia article on rig

Re: [FRIAM] Chatroullete

According to UsingEnglish.com Similar to *ahead of the pack*, *ahead of the curve* literally refers to your position on the statistical bell curve, where the top of the curve represents the median, average result. By being ahead of the curve you represent the top percentile of results that either

Re: [FRIAM] Sperm pelotons; article in Nature

Hugh -- I like the analysis very much. There should be other cases of velocity sorting in microbiology and perhaps in developmental biology, any place where cells are potentially crowded and need to get some where. I think that sustainability for sperm is an oxymoron -- they have fixed food rese

[FRIAM] definition of complexity

Carlos Gershenson's definition to be included in Springer's Encyclopedia of Astrobiology: http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.5947 -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, arc

Re: [FRIAM] Apple and 1984

The deeper story is that Steve Jobs is being driven crazy. If people don't stop telling him how to run his fiefdom, he's going to go join the Taliban with Harmid Karzai, and then you'll all be sorry. That's the real reason they purged all the boob apps from the app store. -- rec -- On Mon, Apr

Re: [FRIAM] Apple and 1984

So here's another speculation on the Apple XCODE lockup clause: that the iPad CPU is not the ARM variant that most analysts think, it's actually a PA Semi dual core Power Architecture CPU running ARM emulation. The argument is that the die size is too big for the ARM Cortex, and it's too small fo

Re: [FRIAM] vol.82

I once read a comment on a writer's blog which liked her multi-dementional characters. -- rec -- On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:11 AM, wrote: > Explains a lot about surgeons, maybe... > > > That certainly explains a lot. > > > > --Doug > > > > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:12 AM, peggy miller >wrote:

Re: [FRIAM] Palenque, Chichen Itza and more

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote: > > I guess people back then were not that > different from today, some just wanted > to be peaceful farmers, while others > insisted on repulsive rituals, bloody > sacrifices and endless wars. The film > Apocaylpto from Mel Gibson describes > i

Re: [FRIAM] Palenque, Chichen Itza and more

Exactly. I sat there looking at the full moon and imagined Mel Gibson whipping the solar system through 14 days of celestial mechanics in the 12 hours elapsed in the script. In my mind it made this horrible grinding noise. -- rec -- On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:07 PM, sarbajit roy wrote: > Quo

Re: [FRIAM] Palenque, Chichen Itza and more

bson's film shows it. > > -J. > > - Original Message - From: Roger Critchlow > > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 10:57 PM > > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Palenque, Chichen Itza and more > > Exactly. I

Re: [FRIAM] Thoughts on Flash

Owen -- But when push comes to shove, standards can go hang themselves. The iTaser that Jon Stewart showed on The Daily News only runs on Apple electrons. http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-april-28-2010/appholes Don't iTase me bro! -- rec -- On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Owen Densmore

[FRIAM] the unreasonable effectiveness of copying

Last month Science reported the results ( http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/sci;328/5975/208) of a social learning tournament (http://www.intercult.su.se/cultaptation/tournament.php). In non-social algorithmic learning, an agent has the choice between exploiting what it already knows

Re: [FRIAM] Arizona meets the Facebook community

On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Russ Abbott wrote: > It's not Arizona. Arizona was simply the first state to have the guts to > act. More than 50% of Americans apparently approve the Arizona law. We > should boycott the entire country--except perhaps enclaves like Sante Fe (?) > and Los Angeles

[FRIAM] AAMAS 2010

The complete conference proceedings are here, http://www.ifaamas.org/Proceedings/aamas2010/resources/_fullpapers.html, and a lot of them look interesting. -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe a

Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] AppleInsider | Apple developing Flash alternative named Gianduia

Here's a little linked verse on the general subject from someone saying goodbye to apple development. >From http://rentzsch.tumblr.com/ It’s not about Adobe. It’s not about Flash. It’s not about cross-platform. It’s about less code. I

[FRIAM] In the Light of Evolution IV: The Human Condition

PNAS has published the papers from the latest Sackler Colloquium: In the Light of Evolution IV: The Human Condition with open access. http://www.pnas.org/content/107/suppl.2 -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Friday

Re: [FRIAM] Gravity as an emergent phenomenon

And if you want to see if the argument confuses you as much as it confuses the physicists: http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.0785 -- rec -- On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Pamela McCorduck wrote: > Great food for thought. Gravity might be no more than an emergent >

Re: [FRIAM] Gravity as an emergent phenomenon

Working from the context, I'd guess: the tensor product between the components dxa and dxbof the stress energy tensor Tab, but I've never been too sure about tensors. I was lost in the introduction. The proposition of entropy causing action at a distance reminded me of a notorious demonstration.

Re: [FRIAM] Gravity as an emergent phenomenon

> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe] > > > > > - Original Message - > From: Roger Critchlow > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Sent: 7/14/2010 12:07:45 AM > Subject: R

Re: [FRIAM] Entropic force

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Ted Carmichael wrote: > Russ, I don't get this at all. Two points: > > 1) There are an infinite number of ways that a line can be parallel to a > plane; there is exactly one way it can be perpendicular to the plane. Is > that the point? > > 2) The degree of orie

Re: [FRIAM] Entropic force

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Ted Carmichael wrote: > I agree with the comments on the psychology/perception issue. But I don't > agree with this: > > "So no matter which bisecting plane through the sphere we examine, it will > always have more sticks parallel to it than to the orthogonal po

Re: [FRIAM] Entropic force

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Russ Abbott wrote: > Hey Roger, Your posts inspired me to track you down a bit. Nice website (The > Entropy Liberation Front ). Not many posts, though. > You should post more. I like your Puzzle Earth . > Very nice--

Re: [FRIAM] [sfx: Discuss] The Go Programming Language

Rob Pike made a presentation at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference yesterday slamming Java and C++ as part of explaining how the Go Language came about. http://infoworld.com/d/developer-world/google-executive-frustrated-java-c-complexity-375

Re: [FRIAM] [sfx: Discuss] The Go Programming Language

/14760 On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > Rob Pike made a presentation at the O'Reilly Open Source > Conference yesterday slamming Java and C++ as part of explaining how the Go > Language came about. > > > http://infoworld.com/d/developer-world/googl

Re: [FRIAM] [sfx: Discuss] The Go Programming Language

eferences. > > ;-] ;-] > > --Doug > > > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: > >> Thanks, good .. er .. pointers. :) >> >> -- Owen >> >> On Jul 23, 2010, at 9:16 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: >>> >>

Re: [FRIAM] [sfx: Discuss] The Go Programming Language

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > Roger Critchlow wrote: > >> I found it even more apparent on this pass through that the language is >> very well built for the kind of parallel programming that I've become >> comfortable with in erlang. That

Re: [FRIAM] [sfx: Discuss] The Go Programming Language

On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: > So .. here's the question, given our current understanding: can Go succeed? > > Generally a new technology has to have a 10x improvement over the current > tech to make it. Its just too hard to change for it to merely be good and > sexy. >

Re: [FRIAM] Query about rating agencies/groups

ACM Technotes reported today: Java/J2EE is the programming and developing skill in most demand with more than 14,000 open job positions nationally, according to a July report from IT job board Dice. -- rec -- On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Grant Holland wrote: > Dave, > > What is your opini

Re: [FRIAM] Headless Mac Mini

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > Re: backups, I find rsync to the perfect solution for me.  Here's an excerpt > from one of my backup scripts: > > /usr/bin/rsync -vurltD  --exclude-from=/home/roberts/.rsync/exclude > /home/roberts /mnt/backup >>/home/roberts/backup.log 2>&

Re: [FRIAM] entropy and uncertainty, REDUX

Introducing another thread, the measure of diversity used in ecology is Shannon's entropy. -- rec -- - http://www.semcoop.com/book/9780226562261 - Biology's First Law: The Tendency for Diversity and Complexity to Increase in Evolutionary Systems (Paperback)

Re: [FRIAM] Please don't yell at me.

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: > He is humming along talking about the universe since the Big Bang, when he > reminds me that the planets in the solar system are in a higher entropy > state than the gas cloud from which they formed. (“The Solar system…evolved > out of

Re: [FRIAM] Europe GSM Prepaid Data Plans

No, but I just starred this posting this morning: http://lifehacker.com/5611300/the-pay+as+you+go-sim-wiki-outlines-prepaid-data-offerings-overseas which looked like a good place for research. -- rec -- On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > I'm planning a trip to Italy, end o

Re: [FRIAM] The Best 10 Fictional Works

The Odyssey - Genji Monogatari - I liked Seidensticker's translation, though it was years before I finally finished reading it. I see there's yet another translation available now. The Journey to the West - how the dharma came to the middle kingdom, and no abbreviated description could do it jus

Re: [FRIAM] Semipalatinsk and Los Alamos

The principal nuclear bomb casualties in New Mexico, that I'm aware of, were Navajo Uranium miners and their families. -- rec -- On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote: > Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan was a primary testing area for the nuclear > weapons of the Soviet Union. It is sim

Re: [FRIAM] The 10 Best Literary Works - the envelope please!

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Nicholas Thompson < nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > All, > > > > I wonder what everybody thinks of this list? Has our collective wisdom > made a monster? Will Robert become a happier wiser man when he sits down > and reads, these ten books? > > > > When I w

Re: [FRIAM] Expertise, etcetera

Here's another pertinent book, reviewed in brief by Nature today. So experts, minds brimming with facts, are more likely to choke. - Joanne Baker Nature 467 , 785 (14 October 2010) doi:10.1038/467785a Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal About Getting It Right When You Have To Sian B

Re: [FRIAM] Expertise, etcetera & Zen

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 6:51 AM, ERIC P. CHARLES wrote: To connect this with the other thread, and Rich's eloquent statement, the > transcendent person is LESS complicated than the average person. They have > let go of unnecessary complications. When you "accept everyone" and "let > them all the

Re: [FRIAM] URGENT "URGENT!"! Restaurants in SF.

Jambo, in College Plaza, Between the Ace Hardware and the Office Whatever, East African/Caribbean. -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, ma

Re: [FRIAM] Chomsky Supports Thompson

Fascinating how difficult it is to distinguish pomo from porno in my sanserif mailbox, -- rec -- On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Nicholas Thompson < nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Glen, > > Is there an example of a pomo discussion that actually got anywhere? Or by > using the terms "gett

Re: [FRIAM] usb digital microscopes

I wish I had personal experience to share on the subject, but it's all vicarious. My own recommendation is to go see what Edmund Scientifics has to offer, http://www.scientificsonline.com/, because I have always coveted one of their Astroscan telescopes, and because I've been always impressed with

Re: [FRIAM] NASA-Funded Research Discovers Life Built With Toxic Chemical

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:39 PM, glen e. p. ropella wrote: > > > [*] FWIW, I find it odd for you to ask, of this particular article, "why > is this important?" Of all the obscure, mumbo-jumbo journal articles > out there (our discussion of PoMo aside ;-), it seems blatantly obvious > to me that the

Re: [FRIAM] WikiLeaks, US Gov't prohibition, Corporate Boycotts, etc.

Well, that's the issue, isn't it? The people in the government justify secrecy by one standard and then use it for whatever they can get away with, and you can get away with a lot if no one is ever allowed to see what you've done. So they claim strenuously that exposing secrets will endanger peop

Re: [FRIAM] WikiLeaks, US Gov't prohibition, Corporate Boycotts, etc.

Why worry about gmail? Worry about the NSA backdoor that Intel added to the x86 microcode years ago, until you get tired, then go back to your regularly scheduled activities. -- rec -- On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: > > BTW: one concern I've had lately is the large numbe

Re: [FRIAM] NASA-Funded Research Discovers Life Built With Toxic Chemical

Ah, a microbiologist rips the NASA research: http://rrresearch.blogspot.com/2010/12/arsenic-associated-bacteria-nasas.html finding lots of places where they didn't do (or didn't report the results of) additional experimental work she would have sent any graduate student back to the lab to do. <

Re: [FRIAM] [sfx: Discuss] Fwd: Google's Nexus S official, coming December 16th

The reviews for the Nexus-S I've scanned were generally underwhelmed. It's a nice phone, but not much of an advance on the Nexus-One, which should get the Gingerbread release of Android before Christmas. And no support for the HSPA+ digital service on T-Mobile, so you probably will need wifi to

Re: [FRIAM] NASA-Funded Research Discovers Life Built With Toxic Chemical

The author of the original paper speaks to criticisms: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/12/author-of-controversial-arsenic-.html?rss=1 Science is making the paper freely available for the

Re: [FRIAM] Privacy, Individual vs. Collective

I'd say that the original conspiracy theory was the suspicion that one was being stalked by a group of very stealthy predators. Usually a false positive, but one false negative and you were lunch. -- rec -- On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:14 AM, glen wrote: > Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky wrote circa 10

Re: [FRIAM] Privacy, Individual vs. Collective

n...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On > Behalf Of *Roger Critchlow > *Sent:* Friday, December 10, 2010 2:15 PM > > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Privacy, Individual vs. Collective > > > > I'd say th

Re: [FRIAM] The "decline effect" and the RTQ method

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 7:24 AM, ERIC P. CHARLES wrote: [ ... ] > On a more serious note (and the previous part was fairly serious already): > Given that half the "major discoveries" promoted in psychology are assuredly > garbage, how does this surprise you? Are you a "hard-science" snob, and onl

Re: [FRIAM] guide to git using spatial analogies

This one looked interesting: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/get-started-with-git/ -- rec -- On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > Speaking of git, it turns out my hosting service uses (and prefers, I > believe)

Re: [FRIAM] Passwords

I just moved my keepassx password vault onto my dropbox folder, and installed the android keepassx client on my phone. Seems that every few days I get an email from some online account that noticed my email address in the compromised gawker data and wonders if I should change my password. But the

Re: [FRIAM] dropbox?

The IP address that the x-spam-report lists as blacklisted [209.86.89.62 listed in list.dnswl.org] maps to elasmtp-dupuy.atl.sa.earthlink.net which doesn't have any relationship to anything that Owen sent. Ah, but it is one of smtp servers that Nick's email client uses, it shows up in the headers

Re: [FRIAM] dropbox?

org> So, which one you is linking to friam.org from your drive by download emporiums? -- rec -- On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > The IP address that the x-spam-report lists as blacklisted [209.86.89.62 > listed in list.dnswl.org] maps to elasmtp-dupuy.atl.sa.earthli

Re: [FRIAM] dropbox?

m. You can see > the filtering in the long headers as psmtp.com entries. > > -- Owen > > > On Jan 3, 2011, at 2:20 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > > The IP address that the x-spam-report lists as blacklisted [209.86.89.62 > listed in list.dnswl.org] maps to elasmtp-dup

Re: [FRIAM] dropbox?

have to confess it’s just idle curiosity, so if too much work, don’t > bother. > > > > Nick > > > > *From:* friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On > Behalf Of *Roger Critchlow > *Sent:* Monday, January 03, 2011 5:28 PM > > *To:* The

Re: [FRIAM] Flowing Data/Prezi

The article on flowingdata.com includes a link to the source of the map in the line of text that appears directly under the map. The source is http://aschmann.net/AmEng/ and that page has two larger versions of the map embedded in it. -- rec -- On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Nicholas Thompson <

Re: [FRIAM] does classical mechanics always fail to predict or retrodict for 3 or more Newtonian gravity bodies? Rich Murray 20

"A Digital Orrery," James Applegate, M. Douglas, Y. Gursel, P Hunter, C. Seitz, Gerald Jay Sussman, in IEEE Transactions on Computers, *C-34*, No. 9, pp. 822-831, September 1985, reprinted in Lecture Notes in Physics #267 -- Use of supercomputers in stellar dynamics, Springer Verlag, 1986. But als

Re: [FRIAM] Richard Stallman: Cell Phones Are 'Stalin's Dream' - Slashdot

I think Stallman would argue that there are good technologies for making portable communication devices which do not share the problems he sees with cell phones. The government knows what these technologies are and uses them for military tactical communications, which makes those communications ha

Re: [FRIAM] vol 93, issue 22

Of course, that's the whole issue. Do we let faceless bureaucrats figure these things out and impose burdensome regulations? Or do we let gangs of rapacious attorneys sue for ruinous damages after the fact? Or is there another way to force consideration of public good into decisions about privat

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Swype | Text Input for Screens

I got annoyed with swype after the beta timed out and just stopped working for the second time without warning, and I never really go the hang of it. When the Vibrant offered to let me use it, I said no thanks. -- rec -- On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Robert Holmes wrote: > I've installed Flex

[FRIAM] Fwd: work cost of erasure

This is has been cooling its bits in the moderator queue for five days. (Because I appended a maxwell demon cartoon from the principle author's web page.) -- rec -- -- Forwarded message -- From: Roger Critchlow Date: Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 3:24 PM Subject: work cost of erasu

Re: [FRIAM] The Uncertainty Tax

Looks like the listings under "newly posted regulations" include posted comments on proposed regulations and posted announcements of applications for permits under existing regulations. I've looked at 11 postings and there wasn't a new regulation to be seen. -- rec -- On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 4:02

Re: [FRIAM] [sfx: Discuss] iClarified - Apple News - Google Launches a Social Network: Google+

http://xkcd.com/ "On the one hand, you'll never be able to convince your parents to switch. On the other hand, you'll never be able to convince your parents to switch!" -- rec -- On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: > Can anyone make sense of Google+? > http://www.iclari

Re: [FRIAM] symmetry breaking

ing the best weather predictions that money can buy. Human ingenuity vs fluid dynamics, the state of the art, no doubt getting very wet at the moment. -- rec -- On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > There are several papers from Ken Dill and students that deal with these >

Re: [FRIAM] The Grand Design, Philosophy is Dead, and Hubris

Philosophy should be about how to use your head, how to think and interact with other thinking beings, and it should work even if you don't know jack about physics, neuroscience, computation, or the history of philosophy, though they are all rich sources of counter-examples. And theology should be

Re: [FRIAM] Apple Stops Samsung From Selling the Galaxy Tab in the European Union

Google suggested last week ( http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/when-patents-attack-android.html ) that everything Android is under a coordinated attack. The evidence is that Apple and Microsoft are colluding to bid up

Re: [FRIAM] Apple Stops Samsung From Selling the Galaxy Tab in the European Union

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: > PS: Interestingly enough, many Apps are still not available on Android. > One reason, apparently, is that Android devices have a large number > differences, making a single Android app difficult. Apple, on the other > hand, makes it incr

Re: [FRIAM] Hijinks Ensue-

That's very cute, they've engineered a transfer RNA for a messenger RNA quadruplet. http://www.pnas.org/content/101/20/7566.full -- rec -- On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Victoria Hughes wrote: > BBC News - Animal's genetic code > redesigned

Re: [FRIAM] Introduction to Databases - Stanford University

Reported enrollment in Thrun and Norvig jumped 12000 in the past day, I have adjacent RSS items quoting 58000 from yesterday's NYTimes and 7+ from SciAm. If you could only figure out how to make a multiple choice question for an unsolved problem and slip it into your automatically scored quiiz

Re: [FRIAM] Hunch Blog | Blog Archive | Android vs. iPhone: Battle of the Mobile Operating Systems

Where did you see pretty graphics? It looks like a spreadsheet with Powerpoint chart junk in pastel. -- rec -- On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > OK: Time for our Stat-Porn of the day: lots of pretty graphics about > Android/iPhone: > > http://blog.hunch.com/?p=51781 > > >

Re: [FRIAM] Ben Fry & Casey Reas - Eyeo Festival 2011 on Vimeo

Processing is a special case, sort of a two stage trial is available. If you have a browser which runs Java applets, then you can go to http://processing.org/exhibition/ and browse through a 13 page gallery of projects implemented with processing. If you find some interesting stuff, and the time

Re: [FRIAM] Your manuscript has been accepted by the journal I own

Most excellent. On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Alfredo Covaleda < alfredocoval...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sign here > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMIY_4t-DR0 > > > > -- > >- _ > > Alfredo > ___

Re: [FRIAM] The Top 10 Programming Languages - IEEE Spectrum

I think we need a David Letterman/Jimmy Fallon top 10/thank you list of programming languages: Ruby - thank you the slowest implementation of really cool concepts ever made Python - thank you for never sorting any list of anything before the UI window turns grey C++ - thank you for all the feature

Re: [FRIAM] Google Correlate

And I fail to understand why searches for "advil" would map to searches for "chai tea latte" and "pappardelle" with r>0.931, guess I need to read the Comic Book documentation. -- rec -- On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > Sorry about the delay; busy weekend. > > Yes, google

Re: [FRIAM] Next Dictator

From http://howconservativesdrovemeaway.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-vs-tea-party.html -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, ma

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Next Dictator

I keep thinking that the next big dictator isn't new. Das Kapital is an artificial life form which by a process of natural selection pursues its own preservation and growth. It doesn't care which individuals or institutions survive or perish in the process, it just moves and grows where the retur

[FRIAM] ACM goes permissive

Here is a development on the "who can read the scientific literature" front, if you rank computer science as part of the scientific literature: ACM is introducing the ACM *Author-Izer*, a unique service that enables ACM authors to post links

Re: [FRIAM] Android Choice

Buy a http://www.google.com/nexus/, not available, yet, but soon. -- rec -- On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Russ Abbott wrote: > Take a > risk > . > > *-- Russ Abbott*

Re: [FRIAM] Theory, and Why It's Time Psychology Got One

Between this study http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0026828 reporting that statistical errors in psych papers correlate with the unwillingness of authors to share their original data, and the career of social psychologist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diederik_Stapel

Re: [FRIAM] Theory, and Why It's Time Psychology Got One

On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 7:29 PM, ERIC P. CHARLES wrote: > > Roger, > You are correct that it might seem like psychology should have other > things to worry about, but frankly the problems you mention (rampant misuse > of statistics and the rare forged data scandals) would be a lot easier to > dea

Re: [FRIAM] Google Books

Nick -- Could you give a specific example? I've found that reprints which generate revenues for someone tend to magically float to the top of the heap, but the free scans are still in there. For instance, I search "quaternions" and I get lots of recent books for sale, but I click the "Free Googl

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