Re: [FRIAM] The problems of interdisciplinary research

2024-02-09 Thread Roger Critchlow
Yeah, it seems like the premise of the cartoon, or maybe Jochen's interpretation, was that people have limited scopes of application, and the average scope of application doesn't include interdisciplinary research. But there are people who have larger scope and have a lot of fun doing

[FRIAM] Teach a quadrotor to fly with 18 seconds of simulation on a MacBook Pro

2024-02-09 Thread Roger Critchlow
This article probably deserves more critical attention than I've given it, but it's published in IEEE Spectrum: https://spectrum.ieee.org/drone-quadrotor they have videos on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRD43ZA1D-4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYtPG_HmBd8 source code

Re: [FRIAM] The problems of interdisciplinary research

2024-02-09 Thread Frank Wimberly
I didn't read the article but Carnegie Mellon, where I worked for almost 20 years, prides itself on the amount of interdisciplinary research accomplished there.. Herb Simon had appointments in psychology, computer science, business and public policy, I believe. I was a coauthor of papers in

[FRIAM] The problems of interdisciplinary research

2024-02-09 Thread Jochen Fromm
Tom Gauld describes most of the problems of interdisciplinary research in a single imagehttps://www.newscientist.com/article/2389834-tom-gauld-on-areas-of-expertise/-J.-. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday