[FRIAM] more fun with AI

Okay, this one got published in Science today, https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.02318, they solve an n-body quantum wave function with artificial neural nets, they earned two separate commentary articles: The challenge posed by the many-body problem in quantum physics originates from the difficulty of d

Re: [FRIAM] more fun with AI

I watched the livestream from the TensorFlow Dev Summit in Mountainview yesterday. The individual talks are already packaged up as individual videos at https://events.withgoogle.com/tensorflow-dev-summit/videos-and-agenda/#content, but watching the livestream with the enforced moments of deadtime

Re: [FRIAM] IS: Rhetoric in scientific arguments WAS: FW: Fractal discussion Landscape-bird songs

Here's a spin on Eric's question about how is trusting a scientist different from trusting an authority or a scholar. http://sometimesimwrong.typepad.com/wrong/2017/03/looking-under-the-hood.html concludes but, you might say, scientists *are *more trustworthy than used car > dealers! sure,

Re: [FRIAM] IS: Rhetoric in scientific arguments WAS: FW: Fractal discussion Landscape-bird songs

The article referenced in that blog post turns out to be open access and pretty pertinent, too. http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/3/9/160384 The natural selection of bad science, Paul E. Smaldino, Richard McElreath, -- rec -- On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 12:25 PM, Roger Critchlow

Re: [FRIAM] IS: Rhetoric in scientific arguments WAS: FW: Fractal discussion Landscape-bird songs

gt; This one too ... though for some reason I thought someone had already > posted it. > > Incentive Malus > http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/ > 21707513-poor-scientific-methods-may-be-hereditary-incentive-malus > > > On 03/03/2017 09:37 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote:

[FRIAM] very cool stuff

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6329/1062.full reports construction of a metamaterial which is reflective at visible wavelengths and transparent at infrared wavelengths. As a consequence, it can form a roof which provides shade from the sun while passively cooling the shaded area by I

Re: [FRIAM] !RE: A million tech jobs unfilled

017 at 7:42 PM, Nick Thompson wrote: > Dear Roger Critchlow, > > > > Reporting, as you do, from the Belly of the Monster: do you have any > thing to report on the matter of finding tech jobs in Boston? > > > > Nick > > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > > Emerit

[FRIAM] organizations

Twitter brought me a link to the 18F code of conduct this evening, via New Zealand: https://github.com/18F/code-of-conduct/blob/master/code-of-conduct.md which leads me to wonder about the goals and purposes of organizations and the ways they challenge members and other organizations. It's fun

Re: [FRIAM] organizations

I dunno, you think there's a connection between diversity/intersectionality and agile design? They always harp on hearing the quiet voice that's telling the important truth. Seems like agile's main point is that the clients really want something much simpler than they can be talked into, but you

Re: [FRIAM] organizations

e social but > otherwise ordinary team members will always be able to delay coherent > technical planning, or (worse!) edgy debates where any proposition could be > shown to be poorly motivated or false. > > > > *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Roger

Re: [FRIAM] organizations

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 11:51 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > > > > Someone like that can be taken down by a faster or stronger dog. The > problem is that he has the lemmings.. Lemmings are the problem. > > > I don't get it, is it detailed technical planning or dog fighting? Or some kind of mixed

[FRIAM] Legal scholars get with the program

In this week's Science, a Policy Forum paper: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6332/1377?rss=1 Harnessing Legal Complexity, J B Ruhl, Daniel Martin Katz, Michael J Bommarito II Summary Complexity science has spread from its origins in the physical sciences into biological and social sc

[FRIAM] spam glorious spam

I went searching in my gmail spam folder for a missing message that wasn't there. But I found that I've been receiving daily updates from i...@mail.whitehouse.gov with the chipper subject "Your 1600 Daily", all of which gmail has classified as spam, because many recipients marked it as spam. -- r

Re: [FRIAM] How I made my own VPN server in 15 minutes | TechCrunch

On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > > It distances him from Putin, so it is useful to him. And the babies, > don't forget about the babies! (Although it was fine was they were > washing up on the shore.) > > Or being shipped back to Hungary to be housed in shipping conta

Re: [FRIAM] How I made my own VPN server in 15 minutes | TechCrunch

Interesting coincidence, I was reading http://www.rss.org.uk/Images/PDF/publications/2017/Gelman-Hennig-April-17.pdf because the authors are talking in London tomorrow. I won't be there, but I got notified and the abstract was interesting, so I watched a youtube of Andrew Gelman and Chris Hennig i

Re: [FRIAM] How I made my own VPN server in 15 minutes | TechCrunch

There's a Quinn Norton article on Medium about falling in love without leaving a digital trail, and then finding out that the state wants your digital trail to verify the relationship before granting resident status. -- rec -- On Apr 12, 2017 8:04 PM, "Marcus Daniels" wrote: > Glen write: > >

Re: [FRIAM] Willful Ignorance

I think we should tax campaign contributions with progressively higher rates as the size of the contribution increases. If you want to give a candidate a million dollars, that's fine, by you'll need to cough up 10 million dollars because the contribution is taxed at 90%. Those who want to influen

Re: [FRIAM] Main Page - Statistical Mechanics: Algorithms and Computations

I think I could go for it, too. -- rec -- On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Robert Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Great idea - I'd vote for the Krauth. Like I need an excuse to buy another > textbook :-) > Robert > > > On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Owen Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote

[FRIAM] a book store

There are a lot of bookstores that I miss now that I'm not living anywhere close to them. A favorite which hasn't folded since I moved away is just sent me a link: http://blog.semcoop.com/2008/10/28/the-front-table-weekof-october-26-2008/ -- rec -- ==

Re: [FRIAM] Election: Why So Close

Responding to the original question, I'd say it's close because there really isn't that much difference. Yes, the differences are striking when you highlight them and state them as the opposing parties want them stated. But the similarities far outweigh the differences. Which is why Palin can pu

Re: [FRIAM] Obama/proposition 8

ormons who had been successfully "deprogrammed" . Many of them had > interesting, and sometimes dark stories to tell about the true inner social > workings of their former "faith". > > --Doug > > > On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Roger Critchlow <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [FRIAM] Obama/proposition 8

f heaven is planted, it seems > nearly impossible to uproot. > > I'm sure they'd be happy to take your money, though. > > --Doug > > > On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Roger Critchlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I think someone should contribute

Re: [FRIAM] Obama/proposition 8

I think someone should contribute $30,000,000 to foment a schism in the Church of the Latter Day Saints based on their internal conflicts on this issue. -- rec -- On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Orlando Leibovitz < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Owen, > > In my opinion the word marriage should no

Re: [FRIAM] Are your skills obsolete?

The story of my life: curses, obsolesced again! -- rec -- 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] Dictionary definitions

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Nicholas Thompson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Think about the crisis in telephone land that occured when dials were > replaced by keys. > I came home tonight to a crisis in our home telephone land. My daughter says the phones are broken, everytime she tries t

[FRIAM] more election visualizations, and more

http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/healey/ has more election visualizations, play-by-play visualizations for the NFL season, and more. Via the acm friday technews summary. -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-

Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > Well you all know me, so no surprise: Kubuntu, either 8.04, or 8.10 would > be my recommendation. Either of these distros will run nicely on low-end > (~$399) laptops, or the higher-end machines as well. You can get an Acer or > Compaq

Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > > Is anyone else pursuing a "The Network is the Computer" approach? Any > tales to tell? > Old habits die hard. I did a demo of technology for a distributed file system last week using Amazon EC2 for the network. But back home, I've got

Re: [FRIAM] OLPC

John Lennon's keeping up on it: http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/ -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives

[FRIAM] mere bookkeeping

We've been glossing over the 'mere bookkeeping' aspects of thermodynamics in our Wednesday study session, hurrying on to the more interesting bits. Here's an article, open access, from PNAS, which suggests that bookkeeping, in the dreary, economic, dusty journals with smudged ink sense, may be an

Re: [FRIAM] Slashdot | Canonical Close To $30M Critical Mass; Should Microsoft Worry?

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > > 1 - Have the distro wars settled enough so that Ubuntu is emerging as the > desktop of choice? > I don't expect the distro wars to ever settle. My feed from distrowatch.comhas had 23 postings in the 20 days of January. > > 2 - Can Ubun

[FRIAM] Where does Friam meet tomorrow?

The non-virtual Friam met at St Johns last week, after several weeks at the Santa Fe Complex. I thought we'd be returning to the Complex tomorrow morning, but Nick thought we'd be continuing at St. Johns. Who wants to break the tie? -- rec --

Re: [FRIAM] Homeostasis by Peer Review

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:40 PM, John Kennison wrote: > > > Maybe in the near future, researchers will publish papers on their web sites > and journals would consist of stars (and maybe other symbols) and links. > In a sense that's what already happens, e

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

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Prof David West wrote: > > > Re: programming languages - antipathy to C++ > > Few questions seem to drive passions more than language choice - The reason for this is that people who program are woefully ignorant or misinformed about the majority of programming la

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

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:28 AM, Prof David West wrote: > On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:58:43 -0700, "Owen Densmore" > said: > > > > Re: Ruby -- It really does not cut it. > > I probably agree - but can 100,000 avid users be wrong? I included it > in my list only on the basis of popularity for Web-only

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

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Prof David West wrote: > > > 2. Except for a really dumb decision on the part of ParcPlace, Java > would never have come into existence. Sun wanted Smalltalk, and only > when rebuffed, decided to morph Oak to Java. (An earlier, equally > stupid, decision forced A

Re: [FRIAM] Physics world, astronomy issue

I believe it wants you to fill in the contact form _before_ you download the free copy. -- rec -- On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: > I get Invalid session cookie. Both Safari and Firefox. Probably the brits > different haven't seen a Mac before. > Could you send me a copy?

Re: [FRIAM] complexity science map...

Oh, I like that much better, needs to be printed at 65x54 inches (or larger) so we can see it. But much better to have Mandelbrot derive from Poincare than from "Dynamic Systems Theory" which I see, now, has no practitioners at all. -- rec -- On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:53 AM, siddharth wrote: >

[FRIAM] The outbreak of cooperation among success-driven individuals under noisy conditions

Here's an open access paper from PNAS (http://www.pnas.org/content/106/10/3680.short?rss=1) describing how to engineer epidemics of cooperation amongst selfish players of the prisoner's dilemma. "Our results suggest that mobility is significant for the evolution of social order, and essential for

Re: [FRIAM] What's your vote for the most Fun computer project?

I had a bunch of fun just this weekend. I had been noticing blog chatter about running webview's on the Android desktop, and when I looked I found two projects dedicated to making it possible to write applications for iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Symbian, etc. using just html, css, javascript and

Re: [FRIAM] For you javascript junkies

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: > Now if Google ever makes Chrome available on platforms other than Windows, > that'd get me really on the band wagon.  Maybe the next Android? There's an daily automated alpha build of chromium for Ubuntu available at: https://launchpad.n

Re: [FRIAM] particles have free will

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Robert Holmes wrote: > According to Conway (Game of Life inventor), particles have free-will. See > http://kk.org/ct2/2009/03/particles-have-free-will.php for a summary and > http://www.ams.org/notices/200902/rtx090200226p.pdf for the paper. > Seems that every time

Re: [FRIAM] particles have free will

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Russ Abbott wrote: > That's the end of cheeriness. > I don't know, Nick seems cheery enough when contemplating the murder of colleagues for their espousal of free will, the only purpose of which is to justify the murder of those whose opinions or actions we don'

[FRIAM] PNAS on Complex Systems

This week's issue of http://pnas.org has a special section on complexity: In this issue, all of the articles address problems of complexity in organisms. Topics range from information processing in their signaling network and the organization of their metabolism, to how populations of differentiat

Re: [FRIAM] PNAS on Complex Systems

rticles. > > > -- Russ > > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > >> all of the articles address problems of complexity in organisms > > > > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group li

Re: [FRIAM] random vs pseudo-random

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 1:05 AM, Nicholas Thompson < nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > Can anybody help me understand this. (Please try to say something more > helpful than the well-deserved, "Well, why do you THINK they call it > pseudo-random, you dummy?")What DOES a pseudo randomizing pro

[FRIAM] logicomix

This must fit into the unreasonable effectiveness threads somewhere, http://www.logicomix.com/en/ Covering a span of sixty years, the graphic novel Logicomix was inspired by the epic story of the quest for the Foundations of Mathematics. This was a heroic intellectual adventure most of whose pro

Re: [FRIAM] Slashdot | Canonical Close To $30M Critical Mass; Should Microsoft Worry?

Me, too. Though they broke some of my tablet setup at the very last moment, while apparently making 99% of tablet setup work automagically. And they've been hitting these 6 month deadlines for years, now, almost like they were building something tangible out of real stuff with real supply chains.

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

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Carl Tollander wrote: > What was the client's problem again? Darned if I can tell, this Universal Interface Language seems to have no document attached to it. The video from OOPSLA, http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2950949730059754521, seems pretty inc

Re: [FRIAM] Philosophy, Mathematics, and Science

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > On Jul 12, 2009, at 1:54 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: > > Owen, >> >> Is the program we built together MOTH . a thing? >> > > Yes. > > That's funny, because I have always thought of programs as extremely >> refined arguments. >> >

Re: [FRIAM] [sfx: Discuss] JavaScript ecology

Here's the visual version, http://tools.mozilla.com/, if your browser supports canvas. -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http:/

Re: [FRIAM] "manifold" in mathematics

A manifold is something that can't be a function because it is multi-valued where a function must be single-valued. A circle, the set of points which satisfy the equation x^2 + y^2 = r^2, is a manifold of points because there are two values of y that satisfy the equation for each value of x, -r <

[FRIAM] Nature and ABM's

Today's issue of Nature has: an editorial, http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v460/n7256/full/460667a.html, calling for more development of agent based economic models; an opinion piece by J Doyne Farmer and Duncan Foley, http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v460/n7256/full/460685a.html, calling

[FRIAM] conspiracy theories

This from today's ACM TechNews sounds a lot like the conspiracy theory recently dismissed here. -- rec -- U.S. Web-Tracking Plan Stirs Privacy Fearsfrom ACM TechNews

Re: [FRIAM] Re-ignition?

Since gibberish generators are inherently discipline free, the rule should be to only mock one's own technobabble. -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives,

Re: [FRIAM] Information request/Amazon EC2

There was an interesting article from SIGCOMM posted yesterday about in-center-inter-connect: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~vahdat/papers/portland-sigcomm09.pdf http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/08-09PortLand.asp http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/pTgFA2gqsEg/How-To-Build-a-1

[FRIAM] sock puppets

Here's a follow on to Tom's post about increasing numbers of retractions. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/08/21/ghostwriting-documents-available-at-plos-medicine/ The PLoS Medicine website is now hosting copies of 1500 "medical studies" written by the pharmaceutical industry a

Re: [FRIAM] Agents, stocks, and flows

I don't think you'll find this because it implies programming a higher purpose and allowing the agents to jump the rails, as it were, and start negotiating their way through the combinatorics of alternative networks. Similarly, you won't find models in which agents invent new inputs to monitor, new

Re: [FRIAM] Why sex?

Speaking of modularity, the cover picture for the current issue of PNAS ( http://www.pnas.org/content/106/34.cover-expansion) shows "two members of the Precambrian soft-bodied Ediacara biota displaying distinct modular construction". And http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fj

Re: [FRIAM] Psychology Blogs

I just put it all into Google Reader and star the stuff I might want to go back to read later. If I get too far behind, I just mark it all read and go on. -- rec -- On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > On Sep 3, 2009, at 4:05 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: >> >> That you didn't rea

Re: [FRIAM] emergence

Sounds like we should move to 5pm at a bar. -- rec -- 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] emergence

I thought that it was pretty simple: strong emergence would be miraculous if it happened, which is why it is metaphysically problematic; weak emergence is what we find, unexpected lawfulnesses, which, in the end, turn out to be explicable, if not entirely predictable. I followed the link in the

Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] Emergence Seminar

Point of geography, it's Garcia and Acequia Madre, -- rec -- On Sep 9, 2009 5:51 PM, "Nicholas Thompson" wrote: All, The emergence seminar, such as it is, will have its first meeting this thursday (tomorrow) at Downtown Subcription (which is at Garcia and Agua Fria). I suggest that we devote

Re: [FRIAM] Emergence Seminar--British Emergence

As I read it, the issue isn't whether structures and/or configurations are/aren't important, the question is whether they operate according to emergent or resultant rule sets. The Emergentists were betting heavily on the emergent rule set. They believed that the variety of chemistry couldn't poss

Re: [FRIAM] Emergence Seminar II, British Emergence

Maybe we should read Mill, the chapter on the composition of causes is only 5 pages: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27942/27942-h/27942-h.html#toc53 -- rec -- On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: > The seminar met this afternoon, now eight in number. > > I would like to

Re: [FRIAM] The victims of the H1N1 virus

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote: > Fact is: there was a strong hype around H1N1, > although H1N1 itself is known since 1976. Probably longer than that. H1N1 simply means the virus contains the first identified hemagglutinin (H1) and neuraminidase (N1) variants. There have be

Re: [FRIAM] FYI: More mumbo-jumbo @ emergence

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:07 AM, glen e. p. ropella < g...@agent-based-modeling.com> wrote: > Thus spake Steve Smith circa 10/02/2009 07:40 AM: > > But I understand Glen being careful about sending it out to a list that > archives > > such that the paper is effectively been placed in a public repo

Re: [FRIAM] emergence seminar: what's next?

Bit of a let down. Nick assigned Chapter 9, Daniel C Dennett, Real Patterns, and Chapter 2, Carl Hempel and Paul Oppenheim, On the Idea of Emergence. Dennett's article was 25 pages originally, trimmed to 19 pages for the emergence collection, and I think they could have trimmed another 18.5 pages

Re: [FRIAM] EMERGENCE SEMINAR V: Dennett et al; WAS: emergence seminar: what's next?

H&O are quite methodical: "emergence: The occurrence of a characteristic *W*in an object *w* is emergent relative to a theory *T*, a part relation *Pt*, and a class *G* of attributes if that occurrence cannot be deduced by means of *T* from a characterization of the *Pt*-parts of *w* with respect t

[FRIAM] Emergence of a New Online Museum

Well, well, well, what do we have here. -- rec -- Sent to you by Roger via Google Reader: Emergence of a New Online Museum via Cosmic Variance by J

Re: [FRIAM] EMERGENCE SEMINAR V: Dennett et al; WAS: emergence seminar: what's next?

And, to add to the confusion, there is the question of brain states vs. measured brain states. Here's the Wired article about doing fMRI experiments on a dead salmon, and getting a result that could have been easily published if the subject had been a live human being: http://www.wired.com/wir

Re: [FRIAM] A question for the emergentists among you

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Robert Holmes wrote: > What's the point of determining whether a phenomenon is emergent or not? > What useful stuff can I actually do with that knowledge? > In other areas of my life, classification can have actionable consequences. > For example, I can use the sop

Re: [FRIAM] A question for the emergentists among you

>From my perspective, which is probably a minority, your question makes very little sense. The basic conditions for "emergence" were laid down by Mill in 1843, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27942/27942-h/27942-h.html#toc53, and there's not much to it: when you combine some things, the properties

Re: [FRIAM] A question for the emergentists among you

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Russ Abbott wrote: > Roger, Well said. > > But there is a further question. Can anything be added to your (Mill's) > statement that when you combine some things (e.g., combining a bunch of cows > into a herd) the result has properties that the components lack. Th

Re: [FRIAM] A question for the emergentists among you

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Russ Abbott wrote: > With aggregativity defined that way, Wimsatt notes that "Very few system > properties are aggregative." Then what? Is the point that "emergence, > defined as failure of aggregativity" has now been fully characterized? > Problem solved? I wou

Re: [FRIAM] A question for the emergentists among you

> > On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Russ Abbott wrote: > > An interesting example to which this approach might be applied is an ideal >> gas. Such a gas satisfies all the aggregativity conditions. Yet it has >> properties (the gas laws) that the individual components lack. > > I read this better

Re: [FRIAM] Different topic

I read this to my MythBuntu server, and it's only comment was: ow, butthead. -- rec -- On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > Far, far removed, thankfully, from the topic of 'should, or should not > FRIAMers be encouraged to ramble enthusiastically about [pick your topic] in >

Re: [FRIAM] A question for the emergentists among you

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Russ Abbott wrote: > Roger, I've lost track of what your point is. > My point was that Mill spent a few pages defining what became know as emergence, and that everyone since has known exactly what he was talking about. Your question was: what can you say beyond

Re: [FRIAM] On Quaternions and Octonions, by John Conway and Derek Smith

No, and I cannot help you pick which Conway to read, either. But, if you really want to know about Quaternions, there are several digitized editions of Sir William Rowan Hamilton's Elements of Quaternions available, both the original (1866) single volume prepared by his son and the two volumes edit

Re: [FRIAM] A question for the emergentists among you

Nice. That sort of turns Bedau on his head without rearranging his features much. Where he is saying that an emergent process cannot be compressed into a smaller computation than a full simulation, you're saying for given computational resource the full simulation of an emergent process gives you

Re: [FRIAM] On Quaternions and Octonions, by John Conway and Derek Smith

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 6:06 PM, glen e. p. ropella < g...@agent-based-modeling.com> wrote: > Thus spake Owen Densmore circa 09-10-10 08:26 PM: > > Has anyone read this? > > http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/octonions/conway_smith/ > > I've not read enough Conway and I'm not sure where to start! > >

[FRIAM] synthetic black holes

So yesterday I'm reading about solar energy and thinking -- blah, blah, blah -- of all the known solutions. Today Slashdot gives me a blurb about synthetic black holes, which I follow to new scientist and on to http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.2159v1 The abstract: Traditionally, a black hole is a reg

Re: [FRIAM] synthetic black holes

So how do you test a hypothesis that the future is interfering with the present? -- rec -- On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > Fairly far out there. Here's one I stumbled across yesterday that is way > far out there: > > The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate =

[FRIAM] ah, the health care debate

“[that life expectancy in Canada is higher than in the USA] is to be expected, Peter, because we have 10 times as many people as you do. That translates to 10 times as many accidents, crimes, down the line.” Bill O’Reilly http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2009/07/bill_oreilly_on_life_expectanc.php

[FRIAM] Elements of Statistical Learning

I've been on an ebook binge lately, mostly collecting classics in the public domain at archive.org and gutenberg.org, with detours to Canada and Australia when Mickey Mouse copyright extensions demand. I just had a vision of myself as retired, homeless, pursuing the great books reading program on

[FRIAM] Fwd: Funeral Webcasting Is Alive and Well

I won't forward the entire email from the IEEE Spectrum, but the subject line is too good not to pass on. Somehow TechCrunch and GigaOm haven't caught on to this latest trending action on the social web. Maybe they're too young to appreciate it? http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/innovation/funer

Re: [FRIAM] In the theater of consciousness

So, this Baars fellow who you're discussing, this is the Bernard J Baars whose home page at http://vesicle.nsi.edu/users/baars/ links to copies of all the books and papers under discussion? -- rec -- On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Stephen Thompson wrote: > Nick: > Without intending to "set yo

[FRIAM] innocentive modeling challenge

Innocentive published a $15000 challenge this week which some of you might find interesting: https://gw.innocentive.com/ar/challenge/8919320 "Mathematical models are an essential tool in studying complicated systems. The Seeker of this Challenge is interested in exploring adaptation within a popu

[FRIAM] good for science

This article appears in PLOS Biology today, titled: University Public-Access Mandates Are Good for Science http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000237 Why would university faculty choose to place their scholarship on electronic archives for a world-wide audience? Ma

Re: [FRIAM] The Go Programming Language

Yah, doesn't complete it's own installation test script on Ubuntu 9.10, the gopher's cool. -- rec -- On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > Gawd, YAPL, from Google: > http://golang.org/ > http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/10/google-go-language/ > > http://www.informationweek.c

Re: [FRIAM] The Go Programming Language

fast compilation, no exponential growth in compile time with project size, garbage collected, built in strings, built in maps, concise syntax, no pointer arithmetic, and the gopher's still cool, if a little obscene. -- rec -- On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > Yah, doe

[FRIAM] mathoverflow.com

I just wandered onto mathoverflow.com and checked the fourth (subject to resorting by activity) question on their front page: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/1722/free-high-quality-mathematical-writing-online The first comment on that question led me to: http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/mathe

Re: [FRIAM] driver detective

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Nicholas Thompson < nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Does anybody have anything kind or unkind to say about Driver Detective > for a year at 30 bucks. > > My computer runs like doing aerobics in a swimming pool full of molassas. > DD's free scan says i have 5

Re: [FRIAM] driver detective

logy, > Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu) > 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 Complexi

Re: [FRIAM] Anyone need a google wave invite?

I don't see any, but they'll probably turn up eventually. -- rec -- On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > Could one of the recipients check to see if they too have 8 invites? I'm > hoping that is the case, so that the community we create can spread a bit > more. > >-- Ow

[FRIAM] red state, blue state

Returning to the purple state discussions, here's an article about how Florida's plurality democratic electorate and its compact, contiguous, ungerrymandered voting precincts favor republican candidates. http://www.stanford.edu/~jowei/identified.pdf The paper appeared on Andrew Gelman's Sta

Re: [FRIAM] Anyone need a google wave invite?

Google Wave is a beta product undergoing a controlled growth phase, so you need an invitation to join. Wave, among many other things, lets you turn email conversations into documents that can be scrolled back and forth in time. That allows someone who joins the conversation late to replay and cat

[FRIAM] flocking windmills

Same power production as existing wind farms in 100th the land area. http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/1124/1 -- rec -- FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College

Re: [FRIAM] flocking windmills

; Now what a blithering moment. Cyclists flock to reduce friction. Ditto > fish, I suppose. > > So, turbines want less friction with the wind? > > Something screwy here. > > N > > Nicholas S. Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,

Re: [FRIAM] flocking windmills

e road? > > 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 University of Santa Fe] > > > > > > --

<    1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   >