Dear FRIAMers,
Below is the Call for Papers for the 2015 annual conference of the
Computational Social Science Society of the Americas. It will be held in
Santa Fe from Oct. 29 through Nov. 1. Papers are due August 15th.
I was thinking folks on this list might be interested. If not, just let
at the
University of South Carolina's Center for Digital Humanities. *July 10 -
12, 2015*. Should be a lot of fun! *1-2 page abstracts are due June 1st.*
Thanks,
-Ted
--
Ted Carmichael, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist
TutorGen, Inc.
Affiliated Assistant Research Professor
Department of Software
It's an interesting dig, that the bill - SOPA - actually stands for Stop
Online Piracy Act, while slashdot (and others) label it Stop Online *
Privacy* Act.
-Ted
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
So possibly SOPA (Stop Online Privacy Act), a really
Dear all,
I was just sent this
linkhttp://economistonline.muogao.com/2011/09/doyne-farmer-interview-macroecnomics-from-bottom-up.htmlin
Google+ and thought some here would enjoy it. A video interview with
Doyne Farmer, about his most recent project. Interesting stuff!
-Ted
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Ted Carmichael
Yeah. Both my mom and my aunt got a Kindle this year. It's kind of killed
the book as Christmas/birthday present for me. I mean, once you take away
the physical gift and the wrapping, you might as well just skip buying a
particular book, and buy a gift certificate instead. And that is never
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Ted Carmichael, Ph.D.
Complex Systems Institute
Department of Software and Information Systems
College of Computing and Informatics
310-A Woodward Hall
UNC Charlotte
FRIAM Applied
of Complex Systems. We hope to announce more such
high-caliber speakers in the coming weeks.
Thanks!
--
Ted Carmichael, Ph.D.
Complex Systems Institute
Department of Software and Information Systems
College of Computing and Informatics
310-A Woodward Hall
UNC Charlotte
Charlotte, NC 28223
teds
and mind-focused-learning in
the first place.
Sigh,
Eric
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 06:50 PM, *Ted Carmichael teds...@gmail.com* wrote:
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Merle Lefkoff
me...@arspublica.org#12ba86c08669b3f2_
wrote:
Merle Lefkoff wrote:
[snip] Even so-called experts are hard
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Complex Systems Institute
is surely more elegant and simple than the starting point.
Eric
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 02:58 AM, *Ted Carmichael teds...@gmail.com* wrote:
Well ... by built up I mean the collecting of examples. Yes, each
example is part novel and part pattern. So I do get what you are saying, in
regards
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Pamela McCorduck pam...@well.com wrote:
[snip]
3. I have also read what Robert read about the vision system taking up 40%
of our brain. (40%? 60%? a high very proportion). Small illustration: my
cousin had surgery to correct a vision defect she'd had all her
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Nicholas Thompson
nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
The closest I have ever come to shading the truth in my writing is in a
series of essays under a pseudonym in which I included examples of events
that - blush - never quite actually happened. I
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Ted Carmichael, Ph.D.
Complex Systems Institute
Department of Software and Information Systems
College of Computing and Informatics
310-A Woodward Hall
UNC Charlotte
Charlotte, NC 28223
teds...@gmail.com
tdcar...@uncc.edu
Phone: 704
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Merle Lefkoff me...@arspublica.org wrote:
Merle Lefkoff wrote:
[snip] Even so-called experts are hard-wired for loss aversion. They
are likely to form their predictions based on how recently they predicted
wrongly and NOT on the statistics they've studied.
, and it reads very well.
Owen
I am an iPad, resistance is futile!
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Ted
, Ted Carmichael wrote:
*S* difficult to find only ten. And I'm not sure what to do with the
literature requirement ... I like well-written stories that transcend
genre, but I wouldn't claim that is enough. And while I would recommend
*everything
*from, say, Terry Pratchett or P.G
.
SIS is specifically looking for someone (post #2) to collaborate
university-wide via the UNC Charlotte Complex Systems Institute.
Please pass this along to anyone you think may be interested. Thanks!
-Ted
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Complex Systems Institute
Department of Software and Information
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Ted Carmichael, PhD
Complex Systems Institute
Department of Software and Information Systems
College of Computing and Informatics
343-A Woodward Hall
UNC Charlotte
Charlotte, NC 28223
teds...@gmail.com
tdcar...@uncc.edu
Phone: 704-492-4902
, PA 16601
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Department
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Ted Carmichael
teds...@gmail.com#129ba189d8601434_129b987e5d851537_
wrote:
Nick, this is perfect. Thank you!
BTW - the reason for this request is, my advisor and I were asked to
write a chapter on Complex Adaptive Systems, for a cognitive science
textbook
Wow ... it is a small world sometimes. We started talking about Genetic
Algorithms on a different thread. So of course I was thinking about
Dr. Michalewicz, who taught a class in GA that I took a few years ago, and
(literally) wrote the book on the subject.
And then the very next thread I read
California State University, Los Angeles
cell: 310-621-3805
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vita: http://sites.google.com/site/russabbott/
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On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Ted Carmichael teds...@gmail.com wrote:
Ha! I knew someone would
Dear all,
I'm trying to find reference to a story I read some time ago (a few years,
perhaps?), and I'm hoping that either: a) I heard it from someone on this
list, or b) someone on this list heard it, too.
Anyway, it was a really cool example of a real-world genetic algorithm,
having to do with
LOL ... you guys crack me up.
-t
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Douglas Roberts d...@parrot-farm.netwrote:
You do realize how much that sounds like a description of FRIAM, don't you?
;-}
--Doug
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 7:17 AM, James Steiner gregortr...@gmail.comwrote:
I remember it
(in
their group).
-t
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Shawn Barr sba...@gmail.com wrote:
Ted,
I'm confused. Why would a genetic algorithm ever select a hen that
produces fewer eggs over a hen that produces more eggs?
Shawn
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Ted Carmichael teds...@gmail.com
I haven't read the papers all the way through, but on first blush, I don't
see them as contradictory. Either could be correct.
A leader - whether bird or person - could act first due to internal traits
(inclination, ability, imagination) or external influence. The first
implies that the leader
Comments below...
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky
vbur...@shaw.cawrote:
Wow, wait a second,
If the object in motion has a group of followers I don't see emergence,
Remoras follow sharks or any other moving object, there is no dynamic
social
system. My Wolfhounds
of the observer
fabricating the label of emergent or not. Right?
Or, seconding Dr B, am I just not used to your terminology?
Certainly am enjoying this.
Tory
On Apr 10, 2010, at 2:41 PM, Ted Carmichael wrote:
Comments below...
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky
vbur
That was awesome. Thanks.
-t
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Russ Abbott russ.abb...@gmail.com wrote:
Terrific! Thanks, Tory.
-- Russ Abbott
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Professor, Computer Science
California State University, Los Angeles
cell: 310-621-3805
blog:
nit-picking. But then I decided that's OK because the
people who don't want to read it can just hit the delete key. ;-)
Thus spake Ted Carmichael circa 09-11-01 05:53 PM:
I'm actually fine with re-defining 'scale' to mean something along the
lines
of the amount of error in the mapping
, then I'm okay with that.
But I don't really see the distinction. Can you expand on that?
Cheers,
Ted
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 11:43 AM, glen e. p. ropella
g...@agent-based-modeling.com wrote:
Thus spake Ted Carmichael circa 10/30/2009 03:33 PM:
In response to Glen's comments, I would say
of computational machine or not, but I am inclined to doubt it.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
- Original Message -
*From:* Ted Carmichael teds
Have you seen all those commercials for Windows 7? Microsoft's new
operating system?
It isn't new at all. Just the same old ones and zeros.
-Ted
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 2:15 AM, Russ Abbott russ.abb...@gmail.com wrote:
This seems to me to be asking a version of the question whether one can
/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
- Original Message -
*From:* Ted Carmichael teds...@gmail.com
*To: *russ.abb...@gmail.com;The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee
Group friam@redfish.com
*Sent:* 10/30/2009 11:32:48 AM
*Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Crutchfield 's Is anything ever new
The two ideas do seem to be at odds. I think of the persistence of
emergent features as being caused by basins of attraction. The strange
attractors of a system subtly encourage all the agents of that system
towards stability, through (perhaps) the efficient use of energy.
But that would seem to
Hi, Russ. Thanks for the post. It's always interesting to think about
these things.
Offhand, I think the most relevant factors would be the number of
interactions (how often one boid affects another) and the strength of those
interactions (to what degree one boid affects another, and in what
As far as I can tell, Russ meant AFAICT to mean as far as I can tell.
But yeah, I also thought of the duck first. Same thing happened when
someone once tried to tell me what a millard is.
-Ted
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Nicholas Thompson
nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
Russell
Actually, I was thinking the same thing, but couldn't express it that well.
Thanks, Steve ... I like the connection to the strange attractors. That
captures the idea, I think, better than what I was going to attempt. And
it's more satisfying than saying, Well, it doesn't feel like an emergent
I think the difficulty of the triangle as emergence problem is trying to
imagine an situation where the agents (individual edges of a triangle)
combine and re-combine in different configurations. But if they do, and if
the environment selects structures based on strength, then I can see that
the
Dear all:
We've just received word that the AAAI has extended the deadline by two
weeks for papers, panel proposals, and extended abstracts for CAS in the
Natural and Social
Sciences.http://sites.google.com/site/complexadaptivesystems/Home
The symposium will be held in Arlington, VA, from Nov.
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Russ Abbott russ.abb...@gmail.com wrote:
Sometimes it seems to me that people prefer to think of emergence as
mysterious. It's not.
I agree. That's generally the problem I have when folks start talking about
downward causation.
I had an interesting
Here's an interesting article http://www.slate.com/id/2216012/pagenum/all/ ,
pointing out the dangers of giving too much weight to global warming,
without considering other ecological consequences.
Cheers,
Ted
FRIAM Applied Complexity
Dear all:
Our symposium proposal CAS and the Threshold Effect: Views from the Natural
and Social Sciences
http://sites.google.com/site/complexadaptivesystemshas been
approved. Registration is not yet open but we've just finalized
the Call For
I'll have to read that paper soon ... but if there's something in the first
paragraph that is blatantly wrong, it's so hard to keep reading.
I think the problem with Marx is he keeps confusing continuous phenomena
with binary ones. Take this sentence: If they [the working class] could
produce
That's a funny coincidence ... I am reading it just now.
I'm always glad to come across another skeptic on anthropogenic global
warming, particularly from someone with such strong credentials. The
sustained level of pervasive hand-wrangling on this issue is quite
worrisome. The actions that some
You mean the true nature of FRIAM is emerging organically? (three)
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Douglas Roberts d...@parrot-farm.netwrote:
Nick,
Perhaps FRIAM is finally discovering it's roots. (That's two).
--Doug
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Nicholas Thompson
You know, I also have not done any GUI work. But I have heard of some tools
that you may find useful. They are:
FLTK
GTK+
Qt
wxWidgets
The third one in the list - Qt - is sometimes pronounced cutie, even
though it is not spelled that way. Also, widgets are quite popular in
Economics classes.
Hi, Jochen.
I don't think I would agree with that statement, but I may not be
understanding your terms.
I assume not knowing the low level system means not having a clear
definition. Can you have some sort of fitness function on the high level
system, so that the low level definition emerges to
it as an excuse for telling a silly joke
that it reminded me of. - Gary
On Jan 28, 2009, at 6:05 PM, Ted Carmichael wrote:
Oops. Sorry about that, Gary ... I shouldn't have assumed.
I'm using CAS to mean Complex Adaptive Systems.
Thanks for the heads up.
-Ted
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