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 know the paper
from Alex Ryan, but I haven't read it carefully enough, either.. I found
After sending the previous message I started reading this (long) article: The
No-Stats All-Star -
NYTimes.comhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/magazine/15Battier-t.html?_r=1em=pagewanted=all.
Here's a key paragraph.
The five players on any basketball team are far more than the sum of their
parts;
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 know the paper
from
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Prof David West profw...@fastmail.fmwrote:
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
And I, too, would pay to attend such a workshop.
-tj
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Nick Frost ni...@nickorama.com wrote:
On Feb 15, 2009, at 4:52 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
That's a hard google: GLASS = Gemstone Linux Apache Seaside Smalltalk =
http://seaside.gemstone.com which didn't
Tom and Nick,
The GLASS workshop is the first of many - some will be shorter in
duration, but all will be workshops where you have the opportunity to
learn and immediately apply your knowledge to real software, not canned
examples that some instructor wrote.
Future offerings are dependent, to a
Looking forward to it. Do you have a schedule yet?
-tj
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Prof David West profw...@fastmail.fmwrote:
Tom and Nick,
The GLASS workshop is the first of many - some will be shorter in
duration, but all will be workshops where you have the opportunity to
learn
Nick,
I don't think we have an issue. No group genes means that there are groups
aren't biological entities in the sense that they have biological genes.
Goups work because the genes of the individuals lead to effective group
behavior. Those genes could be called group genes, but they are really
Russ,
I think I may disagree that there are no group genes. Well, unless one
defines gene in such a limited way that there are no genes at all. Please
http://www.behavior.org/journals_BP/2000/thompson.pdf. I apologize for its
size., which is stupid and unnecessary, and all my fault. The
Some memes and social rituals can behave like group genes - for example the
ten commandments of the bible, or religions in general. They use groups as
throw-away vehicles to lever themselves into the next generation. The
founder of the Christian religion said For where two or three are gathered
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