[FRIAM] Strange, funny and baffling units for measuring almost anything | Royal Pingdom

2012-02-11 Thread Tom Johnson
Just in case you need a special metric http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/07/13/strange-funny-and-baffling-units-for-measuring-almost-anything/ -tj FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's

Re: [FRIAM] Strange, funny and baffling units for measuring almost anything | Royal Pingdom

2012-02-11 Thread Robert Holmes
There's a similar list on Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humorous_units_of_measurement), where you'll also find a measure of information flow, the Dirac: Physicist Paul Dirac http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dirac was known among his colleagues for his precise yet taciturn

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2012-02-11 Thread Greg Sonnenfeld
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Re: [FRIAM] YES

2012-02-11 Thread ERIC P. CHARLES
Since people are replying about the scrambled-word message rant I will continue to stress that these skills, while interesting, are the opposite of impressive. Under virtually any other circumstances, the ability to carefully discriminate things is considered a higher ability, a sign of more

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2012-02-11 Thread Nicholas Thompson
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2012-02-11 Thread Rich Murray
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2012-02-11 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
Dear Eric P. Charles, Thank you for the Stomp/Romp. Too mild for a rant you behaved within the civilized parameters at all times. Toe on the line but let’s forgive that and cheer the sentiment. I have to ask why even an intelligent person can make some kind of sense out of Gibberish. Was