[FRIAM] ** reminder today ** WedTech Talk: David Rogers, Sandia National Labs: The Bigger the Data, the Harder It Falls: Current Problems in Large Data Analysis

2010-12-15 Thread Stephen Guerin
** reminder today ** TITLE: The Bigger the Data, the Harder It Falls: Current Problems in Large Data Analysis SPEAKER: David Rogers, Manager, Scalable Analysis and Visualization Department Sandia National Labs TIME: Wed December 15 12:30p, Santa Fe Complex, 632 Agua Fria RSVP and optionally

Re: [FRIAM] hi friam - how do I calculate the fractal dimension of repetitive text?

2010-12-15 Thread Giles Bowkett
Hey Russell, * * *You might find the algorithm as described is computationally intensive* Quite an understatement! *so you might want to exploit some structural properties of the C++ code (eg using method boundaries and line boundaries to help in framing at the appropriate scales).* I think

Re: [FRIAM] hi friam - how do I calculate the fractal dimension of repetitive text?

2010-12-15 Thread ERIC P. CHARLES
Hey all, I'm definitely just a lurker relative to this thread, but could you answer a few quick questions so I can lurk more effectively? The goal is to find the fractal dimension of a given bunch of computer code (perhaps within a part of a program, perhaps within a database of several thousand

Re: [FRIAM] hi friam - how do I calculate the fractal dimension of repetitive text?

2010-12-15 Thread Nicholas Thompson
This relates to a discussion I keep trying to start in the evo-devo seminar about a possible metaphor between the modularity in biological development/evolution and modularity in the history of computer coding. Apparently, from the resistance I am getting there is no useful metaphor.