Re: [FRIAM] Information request/Amazon EC2

2009-08-20 Thread Jack K. Horner
At 09:00 AM 8/20/2009, Doug Roberts wrote: From: Jack K. Horner jhor...@cybermesa.com Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 To: friam@redfish.com References: mailman.4.1250697607.21031.friam_redfish@redfish.com In-Reply-To: mailman.4.1250697607.21031.friam_redfish@redfish.com Date: Wed, 19

Re: [FRIAM] Information request/Amazon EC2

2009-08-19 Thread Jack K. Horner
at the talk that EC2 gave the best bang for the buck. Jack K. Horner P. O. Box 266 Los Alamos, NM 87544-0266 Voice: 505-455-0381 Fax: 505-455-0382 email: jhor...@cybermesa.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets

Re: [FRIAM] Philosophy, Mathematics, and Science

2009-07-12 Thread Jack K. Horner
Steve Smith has made some very good points about the relations among philosophy, science, and math. There is no doubt that much of what is called philosophy is arcane, sometimes frustrating, and it rarely satisfies bodily appetites (except perhaps instrumentally). That granted, if we are

[FRIAM] Science and art: where does mathematics stand?

2009-01-13 Thread Jack K. Horner
Book I, Definitions:Scholium. [7] Einstein A. Elektrodynamik bewegter Koerper. Annalen der Physik 17 (1905), pp. 891-921. [8] Bohm D. Quantum Theory. Dover. 1979. See especially Sections 1-7. Jack K. Horner P. O. Box 3827 Santa Fe, NM 87501 Voice: 505-455-0381 Fax: 505-455-0382

Re: [FRIAM] Classification of ABMs

2009-01-05 Thread Jack K. Horner
-object* in the sense of [1] (pp. 21, 613), the taxonomy in [1] arguably answers Nick's mail. The taxonomic properties of an *actor* in the sense of the Unified Modeling Language ([2], p. 144) might also provide some clues for a data-/object-structured ABM taxonomy. Jack K. Horner (Santa Fe, NM

Re: [FRIAM] Calling all cladisticists

2009-01-04 Thread Jack K. Horner
, but we should be prepared to accept the possibility that there may be multiple ABM taxonomies that are equally good for given interests. -- Jack K. Horner (Santa Fe) At 09:48 PM 1/3/2009, you wrote: From: Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0