[FRIAM] Accountability: a rare courage!

2009-01-28 Thread Peter Lissaman
The idea is that a published paper should be preceded by the names of the reviewers for and agin said work. That terrifies the profs! Still throws no light on the naysayers if a paper is rejected! Peter Lissaman, Da Vinci Ventures Expertise is not knowing everything, but knowing what to look

Re: [FRIAM] Accountability: a rare courage!

2009-01-28 Thread Marko A. Rodriguez
Hi, The best method is to allow for a collective footprint to determine the value of an article. Igor is good with grammar, Constantine is good with figure clarity, Bramblebush is good with literature reviews, Thor is good with experimental design, The Ice Man is all about the methodology, etc.

Re: [FRIAM] New to FRIAM list

2009-01-28 Thread Gary Schiltz
Hi Ted, and welcome to the list. Okay, I'll be the first to admit that I don't know what CAS is. Computer Aided Simulation perhaps? I assumed that it was just me, but a trip to the disambiguation page for en.wikipedia.org didn't turn up anything promising, nor did a generic Google search

Re: [FRIAM] New to FRIAM list

2009-01-28 Thread Ted Carmichael
Maybe we could form a new group ... the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Insemination. -Ted On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Gary Schiltz g...@naturesvisualarts.comwrote: Well, I remembered it about ten minutes after posting, and boy did I feel dumb then :-) I mainly just used it

Re: [FRIAM] AAAI Fall Symposium: Complex Adaptive Systems and theThreshold Effect

2009-01-28 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Oh THAT C.A.S.! N Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu) - Original Message - From: Ted Carmichael To: friam@redfish.com Sent: 1/28/2009 4:05:29 PM Subject: [FRIAM] AAAI Fall Symposium: Complex Adaptive Systems

Re: [FRIAM] New to FRIAM list

2009-01-28 Thread Stephen Guerin
Hi Ted, Welcome! BTW, SwarmFest will be in Santa Fe this year. It may be a good excuse for you and some research associates to come out and meet the local community. -Steve --- -. . ..-. .. ... - .-- --- ..-. .. ... stephen.gue...@redfish.com www.redfish.com 624 Agua Fria

Re: [FRIAM] New to FRIAM list

2009-01-28 Thread Steve Smith
CAS is Complex Adaptive Systems in this context, but I doubt over half of the list would have known that off hand... I hope one of us will update the disambiguation page on WikiPedia. Reminds me of an old joke from the AI heyday of the 1980s, about two guys sitting in adjacent seats on the

Re: [FRIAM] Homeostasis by Peer Review

2009-01-28 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Peter, et al. I haven't been following this thread perhaps carefully enough, but why not have every article published and every article rated by a number of stars, and then everybody could set their browser to the minimum number of stars we are willing to tolerate. Those of us who don't want to

Re: [FRIAM] RANT: Acronyms

2009-01-28 Thread Matthew Francisco
i'm going to enter the danger zone for a second... On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote: DANGER: RANT Nobody should EVER apologize for not understanding an acronym.

[FRIAM] Dr. Gottfried Mayer-Kress

2009-01-28 Thread Hugh Trenchard
For those who may not know, Dr. Mayer (aka Mayer-Kress), passed away on January 25 after a long battle with cancer. The complexity community loses a great contributor and pioneer in the advancement of the field. For my part, he was one of the few established scientists who took seriously my

Re: [FRIAM] RANT: Acronyms

2009-01-28 Thread Russ Abbott
I'm sure you've all heard of the writer who vowed to write acronym free documents (AFDs). -- Russ Abbott _ Professor, Computer Science California State University, Los Angeles o Check out my blog at http://russabbott.blogspot.com/ On Wed, Jan 28, 2009

Re: [FRIAM] RANT: Acronyms

2009-01-28 Thread Robert J. Cordingley
M2c (My two cents)... We should stick with: acronyms are words (names, see all the other -onyms) made from initials e.g. Scuba, while intialisms are strings (not recognized as words) made from initials e.g. FDIC. In either case, first usage should be spelled out unless it has reached the

Re: [FRIAM] RANT: Acronyms

2009-01-28 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Russ, Now, you see, this is exactly what I am talking about. To me a SQL is a ratty sort of creature who likes to bury nuts and has a long fuzzy tail. Why are we suddenly talking about sqls? Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University

Re: [FRIAM] RANT: Acronyms

2009-01-28 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Thank you Robert. I agree. An acronym should be pronounceable. If we tended to refer to the (FDIC) as the fuhdic, then it would be an acronym, right? FICA is an acronym because we pronounce it. Nick . Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark

Re: [FRIAM] RANT: Acronyms

2009-01-28 Thread Steve Smith
Marcus G. Daniels wrote: Nicholas Thompson wrote: The purpose of acronyms is -- present company exempted! -- to solidify an ingroup by being unintelligible to outsiders. If an `ingroup' can communicate concisely and accurately about things in the world that individuals not in the group