Re: [FRIAM] A question for your Roboteers out there

2011-02-06 Thread Jochen Fromm
Hi Nick, I would say language is the key, it is useful if the robot understands language. A robot usually cannot recognize or perceive itself, if it is not able to understand language. In animals, information about the system itself is so important that it is usually processed and controlled by

Re: [FRIAM] A question for your Roboteers out there

2011-02-06 Thread Eric Smith
Nick, hi, Been meaning to send this for a couple of days. There is a paper on the role of models in control theory, which is perhaps profound or perhaps a tautology (Mike Spivak comments that the two naturally go together): Conant, Roger C. and W. Ross Ashby. 1970. Every Good Regulator of a

[FRIAM] Amazon Mechanical Turk

2011-02-06 Thread Pietro Terna
Hi all, I'm looking for people having some knowledge about the use of the Amazon Mechanical Turk system ( https://www.mturk.com ) as a source of data to build agent-based simulation models. The idea is making some economic experiment there and then move to simulation. Any hint

Re: [FRIAM] A question for your Roboteers out there

2011-02-06 Thread Russell Standish
On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 07:27:24AM -0700, Eric Smith wrote: Nick, hi, Been meaning to send this for a couple of days. There is a paper on the role of models in control theory, which is perhaps profound or perhaps a tautology (Mike Spivak comments that the two naturally go together):

Re: [FRIAM] Daphnia's jeans

2011-02-06 Thread Carl Tollander
Perhaps it is the other way around.   That more complex structures and processes evolve as a consequence of some developmental ability to do ever more with less (where 'less' may mean less pre-specification).   While it may be an understatement that that would be kind