Dear Nick,
I am also reviewing a book--actually, two booklets
and a book chapter--in the sense that I am working
mightily to incorporate into a book I am editing
and partly writing (on mathematical models for use
in psychology) a discussion of their virtues
and vices. In my case, the matter
I suspect that outside the context of a specific example, this is not really
possible to answer. Throwing your own pet distinction back at you, we need to
know what we are trying to explain, so we can avoid slipping levels of
analysis. I have not read the author in question, but suspect an example
Agreed!
-- Owen
On Mar 12, 2011, at 9:52 PM, Edward Angel wrote:
Any book on Java, OpenGL and Jogl has to be over five years out of date. Jogl
was popular for a while because CS students were learning Java as their
primary programming language. There was a lot of activity for a
Eric and Lee have nice discussions. The only thing I would add as something
of a generalization is that constraints have to do with the structure of
something--in Lee's case, the way the hand is structured and how it's held
together at the joints and in Eric's case the structure created by the
A new study says it is a piece of missing DNA
which restricts brain growth that makes us human
http://www.hhmi.org/news/kingsley20110310.html
Other says it is language or love. The
film the princess bride says true love is
the best thing in the world, except for a mutton,
lettuce, and tomato
Well, I know this is another one of my out-of-left-field questions,
but out of curiousity is gravity a constraint or a force? Does it
depend on where you measure it? What about at planetary distances?
Really I am just curious and not attempting to poke or provoke.
Thank you-
Victoria
[ ps
On 13 Mar 2011 at 15:31, Victoria Hughes wrote:
Well, I know this is another one of my out-of-left-field questions,
but out of curiousity is gravity a constraint or a force?
On Newton's account of things (if not in his language?)
it's a force; I think also in Special Relativity.
In General
Trying to stay consistent about my levels-of-analysis point:
If you are trying to escape orbit in a rocket, then gravity is a constraint.
If you are trying to explain why your head hit the floor after your foot caught
on a rock, then gravity is a cause.
Eric
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 05:31 PM,
Yes there is. No, there is no best book about it. There may be a
best sandwich about it, but not for long.
C.
On 3/13/11 3:29 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote:
A new study says it is a piece of missing DNA which restricts brain
growth that makes us human
Of these three, I have only read Love in the Time of Cholera, which
is a splendid book--a master at the top of his form, no foolin.
But is it about true love? Readers of the book will remember that over
the course of the book, the equation shifts. HE is in control at
first, fooling around
Interesting article.
On the topic of love, it is nice to know that they figured out what happened
to our spiny penises.
Suggested book title Big brains and smooth penises: How losing five-hundred
and ten pieces of DNA made us better than the monkeys.
Eric
P.S. Also speaking of love, since it
Really great article , Jochen. Wish we had had it for our evo-devo seminar!
Thanks,
Nick
From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of
ERIC P. CHARLES
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To: Jochen Fromm
Cc: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity
Use the handles on the vertical bars down the middle of images to move the
before|after line back and forth. What we are seeing here looks like New
Orleans a hundred times over.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/13/world/asia/satellite-photos-ja
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