Greetings, all --
Nick, further to my observation that William Nordhaus may offer a thoughtful
contrast, he has written a review of Pope Francis's recent encyclical:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/oct/08/pope-and-market/
I don't agree with everything Nordhaus (or, for that
Nick --
Probably the most prominent skeptics in recent times have been Bjorn Lomborg of
the Copenhagen Consensus (he suggests that it's important, but perhaps not as
important as other matters) and William Nordhaus of Yale (who likewise talks
about severity and outcomes). Their writings and
Intellectual property, at the end of the day, is worth what you're willing to
spend to defend it. Ideas abound, and the reason to have patents on everything
(including icon design, the motion of fingers on a surface, or one-click
purchasing) is, in part, to block others from doing it. This
Greetings, all --
Gasland is on my list, but in the meantime, I know that natural gas is an
input into gasoline refining (cracking the hydrocarbons) and with natural gas
at (artificially?) low prices, our overall cost for refining gasoline in the US
is competitive worldwide. We're also the
David --
Thanks for your comment. I suppose I should have been both more specific and
more vague. It is sometimes an input, not an ingredient. Steam cracking,
which sometimes uses LPG, appears not to be necessary for gasoline production,
but it is useful for other hydrocarbons.
Please
Hmmm...could this be a spoof as a result of Alec Baldwin's recent contretemps
aboard an AA flight for refusing to turn off his iPad while the plane was still
at the gate but the cabin door closed?
- Claiborne -
On Dec 13, 2011, at 22:49, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
How Star
Greetings, all --
Bill McKibben probably said it best - there's no such thing as a silver bullet,
only silver buckshot. We're going to need a variety of sources for energy, and
we're going to need to be creative about efficiency and conservation. They're
not mutually exclusive. Indeed, the US
Glen --
You do mean tinny, as opposed to woody, right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gwXJsWHupgfeature=youtube_gdata_player
- Claiborne -
On Nov 17, 2011, at 16:50, glen g...@ropella.name wrote:
Russell Standish wrote circa 11-11-17 12:59 PM:
I suspect there might be quite a few others
Greetings, all --
And then there's this:
http://www.xkcd.com/435/
- Claiborne -
-Original Message-
From: Victoria Hughes victo...@toryhughes.com
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group friam@redfish.com
Sent: Thu, Jul 7, 2011 11:46 pm
Subject: Re: [FRIAM]
Greetings, all --
Perhaps Doug can keep an eye out for developments of our new feathered
overlords:
http://gawker.com/5814318/african-grey-parrots-are-going-to-enslave-us-all
Happy Fourth!
- Claiborne -
FRIAM Applied
Nick --
You may also be familiar with Charles Handy's book The Gods of Management,
which expands the Apollonians and Dionysians to a couple of other dimensions:
Zeus, to express the power cult of personality around a founder/visionary,
and Athena, the idea of a distributed meritocracy based on
Greetings, all --
Allow me to quote from Pamela's excellent suggestion of a few months ago that
we read James Wood's How Fiction Works. In the initial pages, Wood quotes,
in turn, Henry James:
There is only one recipe - to care a great deal for the cookery
I believe this suggests that indeed
Greetings, all --
At the risk of weighing in too heavily on all of this (SJC graduate), allow me
to second Pamela's endorsement of Eva Brann. She's worth the price of
admission, even if you were only discussing the phone book.
Pamela's point about the Seminar and life's experiences is well
Greetings, all --
Great to see all the suggestions and conversations around them. One author with
a Santa Fe (and perhaps an SFI) connection not yet mentioned, I believe, is
Douglas Noel Adams (DNA). I'd recommend the Adams translation of The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
As to creating a
Robert --
The St. John's graduate in me says whoopie! Here are 10, in no particular
order:
Shakespeare: Sonnets
Shakespeare: Romeo Juliet
Dante: The Divine Comedy
Homer: The Iliad
Tolstoy: War Peace
Cervantes: Don Quixote
Eliot: Middlemarch
Austen: Pride Prejudice
Fitzgerald: The Great
Greetings, all --
At the risk of scaring away your visitors, I'm planning to join you on Friday,
20 August 2010.
- Claiborne Booker -
-Original Message-
From: Tom Johnson t...@jtjohnson.com
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group friam@redfish.com
Sent: Sun,
Tory --
It was mostly that the stages seem to be empirically valid - I can recall many
instances where I've been in a team or relationship that had the excitement and
novelty of coming together, the inevitable misunderstandings/arguments about
how to proceed, a reconciliation and synthesis
Nick --
Time is indeed a fascinating topic in philosophy. You may be familiar with Eva
Brann's writings on Time:
http://pauldrybooks.com/eva.php
I can't confirm that The Apology was time-constrained - at St. John's, I
suppose it was, in that it was limited to a combined Seminar with the
Greetings, all --
More ABM ideas...
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/25171/?ref=rss
- Claiborne Booker -
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
lectures, archives,
Nick --
Sure. Think about tires. Air is compressed in them. By the way, those who
advocate filling tires with Nitrogen sometimes conveniently forget that our
atmosphere is already 78% Nitrogen. It makes a slight advantage in racing
tires, but most of us run with underinflated tires anyway.
Greetings, all --
Any chance this is a relative of our own dear Nicholas Thompson? I kid, I kid,
of course.
- Claiborne Booker -
Favorite Stick Brought Inside
In News In Brief
DENVER—Discarding
a number of twigs that did not conform to his high standards, Nicholas
Thompson, 5, finally
Owen --
An excellent point to Roger and the rest of us. Frankly, I struggle with my RSS
feeds: at present, Bloglines has me at 576, which is probably on the high end
of most users. Still, I like them largely because I selected them, which
suggests a certain echo chamber bias. I read probably
Let me add another inquiry to this - how do we reconcile this notion of
manifold with the idea of self-similarity? If Epping Forest is a manifold, but
the leaves and twigs are not, yet the leaves and twigs have some
self-similarity, is Holt truly thinking in terms of the mathematical
Greetings, all --
For what it's worth, when I was on the City's Traffic Calming Review Task Force
a few years ago, I worked with the Traffic Engineering department to find
suitable intersections in Santa Fe to put in modern roundabouts. I was
especially interested in doing it at the
Greetings, all --
Nothing like a bit of levity from the Webcomic of Romance, Sarcasm, Math, and
Language:
http://xkcd.com/613/
- Claiborne Booker -
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's
Greetings, all --
Although not likely to contribute to our most interesting discussion of
philosophy, an agreeable change of pace, perhaps:
http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/07/thursday-poem-2.html
- Claiborne Booker -
Greetings, all --
If I may, from this remove (now a great distance from Santa Fe, in Alexandria,
Virginia), allow me to offer a couple of thoughts on recent postings:
1) Hard to beat the bratwurst at San Francisco Street Bar Grill for lunch
(ask for extra mustard). If I were to celebrate, The
Greetings, all --
For those who were wondering, it's from HMS Pinafore, with Buttercup singing
to the Captain, viz:
DUET -- LITTLE BUTTERCUP and CAPTAIN
BUT. Things are seldom what they seem,
Skim milk masquerades as cream;
Highlows pass as
Greetings, all --
Trying very hard not to use abbreviations! A link via the New York Times Dot
Earth Blog:
http://systemdynamics.mit.edu/ghg-exercise/welcome.htm
It deals with the bathtub effect relating to climate change, although as
Professor Sterman notes, there are applications to other
Greetings, all --
It was nice to be in Santa Fe again, albeit briefly. Eric Falkenstein is not a
lover of Taleb, and so I'll pass this along with that proviso and note that
it's helpful to think through some of both Taleb's statements and Falkenstein's
reactions:
Greetings, all --
The Pauline Kael Syndrome affects all of us to a greater or lesser extent, I
suppose (you may recall that Ms. Kael, film critic for The New Yorker,
famously commented in 1972, I live in a rather special world. I only know one
person who voted for
Nixon. Where they are I
Greetings, all --
A couple of links to ponder: first, from The Long Tail, Chris Anderson's blog:
October 09, 2008
Best advice I've heard all week
What should you do amidst financial turmoil?
Put
wax in your ears. People are more afraid of
Greetings, all --
As someone who has been front and center in all of this (our global macro fund
is down about 40% in the last three months, after being up about the same
amount in the first six of 2008), I suppose I can say that a well-reasoned
strategy and quantitative model cannot
Greetings, all --
As a money manager, I believe I have an idea where Economics lies on this
spectrum.
- Claiborne -
xkcd.com
xkcd.com: A webcomic of romance and math humor.
Purity
Greetings, all --
This picks up on an earlier thread, and I apologize in advance if others
already referenced it:
http://beta.uchicago.edu/features/20080414.shtml
On a personal note, the move to Denver has been uneventful - I'll be in Santa
Fe from time to time.
All the best,
- Claiborne -
Greetings, all --
This may be of interest to the group.
- Claiborne Booker -
Boing Boing
XO laptop -- a green miracle of energy efficiency: Video
By Cory Doctorow on Video
Avi sez, Mary Lou Jepsen, who invented the
Greetings, all --
FYI
- Claiborne -
?
Engadget
Engadget
OLPC, Microsoft working on dual-boot Windows / Linux system
By Donald Melanson on windows
Filed under: Laptops
We already knew Microsoft was at
Carver --
The price didn't get down to the targeted USD 100 -- it's closer to USD 200,
which is why the G1G1 program is USD 400 (2 OLPC @ USD 200 each, one for you,
one for a child in the OLPC program).? The OLPC Foundation is no doubt getting
a few bucks to cover some administrative costs,
Greetings, all --
Carl mentioned this to me at FRIAM today and I thought it might be of interest
to others who may have missed it:
http://www.economist.com/science/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=9333471
- Claiborne Booker -
39 matches
Mail list logo
