Re: [FRIAM] Stu on NPR.org Even Evolution Evolves: Changing Ideas On The Biosphere

2011-04-26 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
And every time a species goes to extinction the former new but filled niches vanish. Sounds a bit like a Steady state of musical chairs. Unfortunately the word evolution supposes purpose or direction which it seems steadfast to keep hidden. Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky PhD mailto:vbur

Re: [FRIAM] Stu on NPR.org Even Evolution Evolves: Changing Ideas On The Biosphere

2011-04-26 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
. In this case the biological system is almost punished or negatively rewarded . This is interesting when one considers how closely coupled the two systems become. Perhaps it is better to think in terms of a footrace of sorts. No goal other than to stay ahead of disaster like surfing. Vladimyr Ivan

Re: [FRIAM] vol 93, issue 22

2011-03-24 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
It appears that your conclusion was made independent of the facts. Perhaps your conclusion serves some unidentified agenda, could you explain who WE is and how the PRICE TAG is adjusted to effect a specific end? I ecall how the price of cigarettes in Canada was increased to reflect the supposed

Re: [FRIAM] Work! Fer Gawd and Newton's sake!

2011-03-16 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
for indulgence perhaps even mercy( I always ask for more than I need and settle for a little less) Thank you gentlemen and Ladies. Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky PhD vbur...@shaw.ca Sky Drive Site 120-1053 Beaverhill Blvd. Winnipeg,Manitoba, R2J3R2 Canada (204) 2548321

Re: [FRIAM] Graphics Class at SFX

2011-02-18 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
. It was my understanding that open GL would allow me better 3d animations. If you would allow outsiders to follow I would be pleased. Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky PhD mailto:vbur...@shaw.ca vbur...@shaw.ca Sky Drive Site http://cid-14a5cdb09aee4237.photos.live.com/self.aspx/CSA

Re: [FRIAM] A question for your Roboteers out there

2011-02-10 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
was to lead them through the conflicts. I think Humanity is witnessing a new history unfold before our eyes. Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky PhD vbur...@shaw.ca 120-1053 Beaverhill Blvd. Winnipeg,Manitoba, R2J3R2 Canada (204) 2548321 Land (204) 8016064 Cell -Original Message- From: friam-boun

Re: [FRIAM] A question for your Roboteers out there

2011-02-09 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
, the complex narrative requires considerably more elaboration and then introduces ambiguity. Correct me where I stray off . But it seems that the Mind we wish to construct has much to do with Cinematography concepts. That implies much editing . Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky PhD mailto:vbur

Re: [FRIAM] A question for your Roboteers out there

2011-02-08 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
from childhood the entities enjoy learning or so it would appear. So why do humans resist Learning after some period of time.? Was there a failure introduced by accident? VIB Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky PhD vbur...@shaw.ca 120-1053 Beaverhill Blvd. Winnipeg,Manitoba, R2J3R2 Canada (204) 2548321

Re: [FRIAM] A question for your Roboteers out there

2011-02-08 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
more common than not. Thank you all. Curiosity is still a problem even after all the investment into disabling it. Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky PhD mailto:vbur...@shaw.ca vbur...@shaw.ca 120-1053 Beaverhill Blvd. Winnipeg,Manitoba, R2J3R2 Canada (204) 2548321 Land (204

Re: [FRIAM] Daphnia's jeans

2011-02-05 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
Jochen Fromm What would be needed to reconstruct a mind? I had to respond, I suspect a kind of Koan content to the question. Reconstruct or Construct?? Since the latter does not seem to have occurred historically I am not sure the former is possible at this time. Then I bumped into one of

Re: [FRIAM] Graphics Class at the Complex

2011-01-31 Thread Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky
Great News, Count me in but do to the distance what possibilities could accommodate my interest and how can I support your effort? Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky Ph.D.(Civil Eng.), M.Sc.(Mech.Eng.), M.Sc.(Biology) 120-1053 Beaverhill Blvd. Winnipeg, Manitoba CANADA R2J 3R2 (204

Re: [FRIAM] Privacy, Individual vs. Collective

2010-12-08 Thread Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky
work. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with the states but the unelected rats have to controlled. Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky Ph.D.(Civil Eng.), M.Sc.(Mech.Eng.), M.Sc.(Biology) 120-1053 Beaverhill Blvd. Winnipeg, Manitoba CANADA R2J 3R2 (204) 2548321 Phone/Fax mailto:vbur

Re: [FRIAM] Privacy, Individual vs. Collective

2010-12-08 Thread Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky
and write. Does Flanagan have something to hide ? Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky Ph.D.(Civil Eng.), M.Sc.(Mech.Eng.), M.Sc.(Biology) 120-1053 Beaverhill Blvd. Winnipeg, Manitoba CANADA R2J 3R2 (204) 2548321 Phone/Fax mailto:vbur...@shaw.ca vbur...@shaw.ca -Original

Re: [FRIAM] NASA-Funded Research Discovers Life Built With ToxicChemical

2010-12-06 Thread Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky
and the bodies were washed out for final refining. Or am I so damn old I recall another fairy tale? It is not alien and the work is sloppy and now it might not even be new? NASA( Never A Straight Answer). What gives? Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky Ph.D.(Civil Eng.), M.Sc

Re: [FRIAM] Read, download share more than 200 FREE SCIENTIFIC BOOKS

2010-12-04 Thread Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky
Thank you Mikhail, Delightful to find such a gold mine! Vladimyr Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky Ph.D.(Civil Eng.), M.Sc.(Mech.Eng.), M.Sc.(Biology) 120-1053 Beaverhill Blvd. Winnipeg, Manitoba CANADA R2J 3R2 (204) 2548321 Phone/Fax vbur...@shaw.ca -Original Message- From: friam

Re: [FRIAM] Parsing the Bard

2010-12-03 Thread Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky
Azazello's table manners as he picks at his fang. Dinner at the house of Titus Andronicus with a new twist. Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky Ph.D.(Civil Eng.), M.Sc.(Mech.Eng.), M.Sc.(Biology) 120-1053 Beaverhill Blvd. Winnipeg, Manitoba CANADA R2J 3R2 (204) 2548321 Phone/Fax vbur...@shaw.ca

Re: [FRIAM] Updike Vs the Bard

2010-12-01 Thread Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky
variant, Baba Yaga the greatest of all witches with the house on chicken feet. Stalking the eastern Forests for wandering children. Years ago I had an artist in my shop who was studying Iconography. No I NEVER HAD Angels and Demons 101 as an Arts credit. Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky Ph.D.(Civil

Re: [FRIAM] TSA, security technology, and opting out

2010-11-20 Thread Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky
of public protest. Nothing will change until a bus load of retirees strips naked for a junket to Las Vegas. I will lead the charge of the bare-assed geezers. Is it still acceptable if I keep my cane? I'd feel naked without it. Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky Ph.D.(Civil Eng.), M.Sc

Re: [FRIAM] PoMo, the value of literary fiction, and realism

2010-11-08 Thread Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky
more complex the populace reverts to solipsism as the only means of survival and thereby insuring their own demise. Good hunting , thanks for the link! Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky Ph.D.(Civil Eng.), M.Sc.(Mech.Eng.), M.Sc.(Biology) 120-1053 Beaverhill Blvd. Winnipeg, Manitoba CANADA R2J 3R2

Re: [FRIAM] Also not complexity, but

2010-10-30 Thread Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky
to the topic however do you have links to the string theory authors.? Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky Ph.D.(Civil Eng.), M.Sc.(Mech.Eng.), M.Sc.(Biology) 120-1053 Beaverhill Blvd. Winnipeg, Manitoba CANADA R2J 3R2 (204) 2548321 Phone/Fax mailto:vbur...@shaw.ca vbur...@shaw.ca

Re: [FRIAM] Lying is an Art?

2010-10-18 Thread Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky
. That still leaves me an unrepentant scoundrel with bad habits and a taste for the weird. Assemble my lies and tell me what you think I value, I'd like to know myself. Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky Ph.D.(Civil Eng.), M.Sc.(Mech.Eng.), M.Sc.(Biology) 120-1053 Beaverhill Blvd

Re: [FRIAM] The Case for a Literary Education (re 10 Best...)

2010-10-15 Thread Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky
be dismantled as easily as making a Stinky Face or Saying someone's work is a piece of shit? Credibility is very fragile and delicate. Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky Ph.D.(Civil Eng.), M.Sc.(Mech.Eng.), M.Sc.(Biology) 120-1053 Beaverhill Blvd. Winnipeg, Manitoba CANADA R2J 3R2 (204) 2548321 Phone/Fax

Re: [FRIAM] national debt and zero-sum games

2010-09-10 Thread Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky
the economics or principles. Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky Ph.D.(Civil Eng.), M.Sc.(Mech.Eng.), M.Sc.(Biology) 120-1053 Beaverhill Blvd. Winnipeg, Manitoba CANADA R2J 3R2 (204) 2548321 Phone/Fax vbur...@shaw.ca -Original Message- From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun

Re: [FRIAM] national debt and zero-sum games

2010-09-10 Thread Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky
is just a less obvious way of devaluing currency. I doubt it is a zero sum game since there are many examples of people just walking away from the table and starting new systems, the trick is to convince everyone that it is the only game in town. Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky Ph.D

Re: [FRIAM] national debt and zero-sum games

2010-09-10 Thread Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky
on the lack of trust. Which is interesting since it depends on it anyway. Experts on game theory please comment, Is the Japanese board game considered a Non-Zero sum game? Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky Ph.D.(Civil Eng.), M.Sc.(Mech.Eng.), M.Sc.(Biology) 120-1053 Beaverhill Blvd. Winnipeg

Re: [FRIAM] Entropic force

2010-07-18 Thread Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky
cut approach. In spite of most human beings accepting a roundish earth, day to day we still assume it to be flat.! We automatically orient to a level flat plane with our bodies upright. Our plane of reference is preferred over all others. Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky Ph.D.(Civil Eng

Re: [FRIAM] entropic force (was Gravity as an emergent phenomenon)

2010-07-16 Thread Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky
don't like where this is leading... I have had enough trouble understanding economic theorems now this tsunami of an idea spooks me. I guess it is like Freeman Dyson's one electron universe. It can be everywhere and everywhen to satisfy infinite expectations. Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky Ph.D.(Civil

Re: [FRIAM] WARNING: Political Argument in Progress, Beep Beep Beep

2010-05-18 Thread Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky
Steve , Vicki, and Honorable Lurkers, I have tried to respond and seem to have entered an existential fog. Steve's reply is almost identical to one I was preparing but trashed. I pulled out a copy of Bertrand Russell's POWER and started poking around again. We apparently have repeated much of

Re: [FRIAM] WARNING: Political Argument in Progress, Beep Beep Beep

2010-05-18 Thread Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky
Sorry about the replies but thought this insight might be useful, If as I speculate POWER is completely or essentially illusionary then some interesting other social phenomena start making considerable sense. Most power structures are lately trapped into massive media campaigns. The amount

Re: [FRIAM] WARNING: Political Argument in Progress

2010-05-17 Thread Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky
...@shaw.ca -Original Message- From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Steve Smith Sent: May 17, 2010 4:15 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] WARNING: Political Argument in Progress Vladimyr - I appreciate your

Re: [FRIAM] WARNING: Political Argument in Progress

2010-05-16 Thread Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky
Okay, The problem I have is that I find something agreeable with each side and yet find it necessary to add my two cents Canadian ( Nearly on par) Power is not actually a corruption since it has deep coupling with basic biology, it is not a degenerate form of some other behavior but more of an

Re: [FRIAM] vol 82, 30

2010-04-29 Thread Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky
Your Xarium is a modern version of a flying carpet, witch's broom, or red shoes. The interesting part is how your story will reveal your belief systems. The first thing I noticed is that you set the stage for one group to be permitted to travel and another that is not permitted. Within your story

Re: [FRIAM] Offshore Wind vs Local Green

2010-04-29 Thread Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky
Owen, The Redfish initiatives were unknown to me and I am curious. I have been involved with Windpower issues for some 15 years now and can give some insights why Local initiatives appear easily thwarted. You cannot escape the Hierarchy that is its purpose to simply prevent anyone from escaping.

Re: [FRIAM] Zombies! (was vol 82, 30)

2010-04-29 Thread Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky
Phone/Fax vbur...@shaw.ca -Original Message- From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen e. p. ropella Sent: April 29, 2010 1:50 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: [FRIAM] Zombies! (was vol 82, 30) Vladimyr

Re: [FRIAM] vol.82

2010-04-27 Thread Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky
Well we are warned , we have been labeled and next they will begin the Culling. Out of curiosity why 40% only , did the other mathematicians pay someone off or get the socially correct answers ahead of time? Your Surgeon friend enjoys discriminating against Mathematicians. Being a

Re: [FRIAM] Palenque, Chichen Itza and Katyn

2010-04-27 Thread Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky
My my how elitist we are discussing the brutalities of vanished civilizations. Those ancient butchers were so grotesque they did each murder one at a time. Just imagine the effort involved, each methodical death blow by death blow. Such brutes, in retrospect. They must have had tag teams of

Re: [FRIAM] Data visualization tutorial in Processing

2010-04-13 Thread Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky
Thanks ever so muchThe Decline of Maritime Empires was stunning and I will get back to you after some study. Thanks ever so much, Now I just have to work out Three D. But very impressive. Dr.Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky Ph.D.(Civil Eng.), M.Sc.(Mech.Eng.), M.Sc.(Biology)

Re: [FRIAM] leadership in flocks

2010-04-10 Thread Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky
How similar to the sperm peloton and the cyclist peloton, now we have flocks with leaders and cliques?. If each model has a different organizing principle then why does my simple mind think there are similarities? I liked Hugh Trenchard's ideas the best, there was no need for more than a

Re: [FRIAM] leadership in flocks

2010-04-10 Thread Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky
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 follow rabbits, horses, snowmobiles, bicycles etc at very high speeds. If they were displayed on a radar

Re: [FRIAM] holism vs. reductionism, again

2010-03-31 Thread Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky
Hi Glen, You did an admirable job of trying to be reasonable. Sarbajit may sound edgy but in large part he is essentially pointing to something substantive. He may embellish and inflame but nevertheless your response indicates your own awareness of the same issues. What disturbs me is that both

Re: [FRIAM] Sperm pelotons; article in Nature

2010-03-29 Thread Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky
To Hugh and the peloton discussion group, I did a little riding in spandex and have a small sense of the dynamics inside a peloton. I always thought it a marvelous experience while participating. The most striking oddity for me about the discussion is the focus on the group concept.

Re: [FRIAM] Narcissism Epidemic Spreads Among College Students

2010-03-23 Thread Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky
This is more or less aimed at Glen Ropella, This narcissism issue intrigues me I considered a network of agents that are inter-connected to each other with some type of two way conduits. In one type they gain and the other they must give. I imagined that each agent could corrupt the demand

Re: [FRIAM] How to Begin?

2010-03-21 Thread Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] How to Begin? Vladimyr: I am a lurker on this site listening to interesting ideas. I recently started looking into agent-based systems. I started out with a Teaching Company lecture series entitled Understanding Complexity by Prof Scott Page. He is a visiting Prof

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