I suppose that if, one were to show resistance to compression by number of
sides of an open polygon one would show a non linear function. I have never
been thrilled by the linearity criterion because transformation can usually get
rid of it. So something that is emergent on a ordinary plot
I am near to the end of plowing through the collection of articles on emergence
(Editors' names slip me) and I think any quick embracing or dismissal of the
concept is probably premature. I am hoping to get a bunch of people together
in Santa Fe to read the collection and come to some common
: [FRIAM] Emergence and explanation
Thus spake Nick Thompson circa 09-07-07 01:28 PM:
My present candidate is Wimsatt's view which is to say that an entity
has emergent properties if it has properties that depend upon the
organization of its parts, rather than solely on the nature of the
parts
It's in Cosmides and Tooby, THE ADAPTED MIND. When you find my damned copy,
send it back to me.
Nick
-Original Message-
From: lrudo...@meganet.net
Sent: Jul 18, 2010 6:21 AM
To: Russell Standish r.stand...@unsw.edu.au, friam@redfish.com
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Entropic force
On Sat,
Hi, everybody,
There are indications that your current drought in Santa Fe may come abruptly
to an end next week. In the forecast discussion, the forecaster describes the
upcoming situation as unlike anything he has seen in 20 years of NM
forecasting. Basically, a big storm in the upper
Tom,
Count this old stingy yankee in for $25. Thanks for doing this.
N
From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Tom Johnson
(Google Drive)
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2013 5:02 PM
To: friam@redfish.com
Cc: wedt...@redfish.com; disc...@sfcomplex.org
Subject: [FRIAM]
I agree, Roger, that makes no sense. I keep trying to interpret in terms
of some double-double-double cross. Imply that we are listening to all
their calls and force them to go back to using carrier pigeons. Hard for me
to believe in the possibility of garden-variety stupidity.
Nick
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NIPR: rcpa...@sandia.gov mailto:rcpa...@sandia.gov
SIPR: rcpar...@sandia.doe.sgov.gov mailto:rcpar...@sandia.doe.sgov.gov
(send NIPR reminder)
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On Sep 6, 2013, at 5:03 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
Hi
Roger,
I will be interested in seeing how you make out with this. I have found
that everytime I look for something in the Clark Jstor portal, it isn't
there.
Let me know what you find.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2535
I would love it if we could discuss this in some sort of rational way this
Friday.
N
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe
is a good
reason to stop polluting.
-- Owen
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Nick Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net
mailto:nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2535
I would love it if we could discuss this in some sort
-Caused | Weather
Underground
Here's an interesting take on the issue. What do insurance companies think
about climate change?
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/15/business/insurers-stray-from-the-conservat
ive-line-on-climate-change.html
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Nick Thompson
At Friam today, we had our first discussion of entropy in a while. It was
like old times. I really enjoyed it.
But the following disagreement came up. I am, I think, a bit of what
philosophers call an essentialist. In other words, I assume that when
people use the same words for two
OK, I'll bite your bite. For the same reason that the world was outraged
when some experimental psychologists defined emotionality as the number of
turds left in an open field maze by a white rat.
N
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
with that?
-- Owen
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Nick Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net
mailto:nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
OK, I'll bite your bite. For the same reason that the world was outraged
when some experimental psychologists defined emotionality as the number of
turds left in an open
, not
only a first-level agreement, but, when necessary, second and higher levels
of understanding that there is an agreement, etc. Sheesh.
o Finally (thank you for the reference, Nick), Peter Lipton and Nick
Thompson published an article in 1988 titled Comparative psychology and the
recursive
.
Sheesh.
o Finally (thank you for the reference, Nick), Peter Lipton and Nick
Thompson published an article in 1988 titled Comparative psychology
and the recursive structure of filter explanations.
It's a great article, but the sense in which it uses recursive
(Lipton's coinage
Lee,
Grrr, yourself!
T
[NST==larding below!==nst]
His is a very pure example of the semantic drift that drives me crazy, in
that the lab bench meaning was the *first* meaning: the word DID NOT EXIST
before it was coined (in its adjectival form, in German, by composing
Roger,
I have stayed out of this one, pretty much, but I want to say how much I
liked this post.
Hope I run into you some time.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
Are you a subscriber? I hit the pay wall. I probably can get at these
articles via Clark, but it will involve starting all over again and looking
them from the Clark portal.
Do you have a smarter way?
NIc k
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark
Carl,
Great to hear your voice.
Link did not work for me. I'm probable the only one.
n
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
Roger,
Speaking as somebody who can barely get his positivity ratio up to 1/3, let
alone 3/1, I am deeply grateful for this post.
N
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
Pamela,
I think you may be letting the Doctors off too easy.
Before I accept forced, I want to see evidence of any resistance. Did
they use the tools available to them in the chain of command? I suspect
this is going to turn out to be an example of the Milgram Experimental
Paradigm.
Nick is thinking,
Oh how Godel, Escher, and Bach!
N
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
From: Steve Smith
Could anybody translate Owen's message into ordinary language? Or
shouldn't I bother my pretty little head about it.
Meanwhile, this morning, I got an urgent message from an acquaintance asking
me to loan him 2500 dollars on account of his being robbed at gunpoint in
the Philippines. A
just in case?)
Another possibility (slimmer) is that the ReplyTo field in the original
e-mail is different from the From: which you recognize. When you blithely
hit Reply, it goes to another e-mail. Given that e-mail addresses have
two parts (the common name, and the actual address such as Nick
Dear Friammers,
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/box/papers/June_1_Sever_Weather_Analysis.pdf
I have often inflicted on you my bewilderment concerning tornadoes; here,
in compensation I would like to inflict a gorgeous research article on the
tornado that passed within 30 miles of my house, just after
This
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/12/04/why-i-was-wrong-a
bout-the-nuclear-option/ reminded of our discussion about a year ago
concerning the so-called fallacy of induction. Do any of you know about
grue and green. Grue is a property of grass that it is green, just until
is a human
able obliterate concrete and kick ass in MMA, therefore all humans can kick
ass in MMA and make short work of concrete.
=
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Nick Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net
mailto:nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
This
http://www.washingtonpost.com
Arlo,
You are bit by bit dragging me out on thin ice here (statistics and
probability) which is fine, so long as you are prepared to rescue me.
I think, as a matter of practice, that the strength of an inference is
determined a priori when you define your population and select your
from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone
Original Message
Subject:[FRIAM] Friday's Friam
From :Nick Thompson
Date :Tue, 26-Nov-2013 16:43
To :Frank Wimberly
CC :Friam
Frank,
Since the St. Johns Coffee shop is closed on Friday, perhaps we might try
out meeting
Friam
From :Nick Thompson
Date :Tue, 26-Nov-2013 16:43
To :Frank Wimberly
CC :Friam
Frank,
Since the St. John’s Coffee shop is closed on Friday, perhaps we might try out
meeting at The Capitol Café, which is at the old Ohori’s location, next to
Kaune’s at the intersection of Old Santa Fe
Here is the passage from the google contract that applies to your use of
their services:
11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content
which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. By
submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a
receive a lot of solar radiation. They are very welcome to perform
such things in public.
Gary
On Dec 13, 2013, at 5:11 PM, Nick Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net
wrote:
Here is the passage from the google contract that applies to your use of
their services:
11.1 You retain copyright
M! Record Macros.
Word (for windows) has progressively undermined its macro-making abilities.
I used to have a huge store of macros for editing and commenting on
manuscripts. I miss them terribly. Can you say more about macro-making for
idiots.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
That's exactly the way it looked in my sink two years ago. So THERE you
doubters and scorners. Fie on you, all. Vindicated at last.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
Could somebody say a bit more about what we are looking at here. Are we
looking, as it appears, at a large proportion of the whole disc of Saturn,
or are we looking at a round photograph of what could be a very small part
of the whole disc of Saturn? It must be the latter, right?
N
JeeeZ. And to think they almost did this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Works_Act
Did everybody but me know about this?
N
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
of the Research Works Act. Most of the rest of the thread,
which you participated in, discussed the costs of publishing without ever
mentioning Elsevier's lobbying costs.
-- rec --
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Nick Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net
mailto:nickthomp...@earthlink.net
invested in
K-Reef?
Marko's Titan, Faunus, TinkerPop are all interesting tools to check out if
you are in the graph DB/Analytics business.
-J.
Sent from Android
Original message
From: Nick Thompson
Date:30/12/2013 07:41 (GMT+01:00)
To: 'The Friday Morning Applied
Sounds good to me!
Thanks, Frank, for doing the research.
N
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
From: Friam
Owen,
Thanks for bringing this to my attention, again. Roger does post some Mean
Stuff.
The first presentation is of the winds at the 1000mb level, roughly surface
level, although, at Santa Fe, we are already above the 1000mb level. By
clicking on the word EARTH, you can get to higher
Merle,
Please “Shamelessly Promote” your workshop. I want to know more. Does it have
a website?
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
about intuition, including the intuition that all thinking is rational
but possibly with crazy hypotheses?
From: Friam [friam-boun...@redfish.com] on behalf of Nick Thompson
[nickthomp...@earthlink.net]
Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2014 5:02 PM
To: 'The Friday
Speaking of shoddy reasoning, I wish somebody would give an example of
shoddy reasoning by a Right Winger that was NOT an example of reasoning from
false premises.
n
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
to be more effective
politically.
From: Friam [friam-boun...@redfish.com] on behalf of Nick Thompson
[nickthomp...@earthlink.net]
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2014 12:53 AM
To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] rational
= On 01/07/2014 12:15 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
WE have lost any sense of why it is important to try to come of a shared
view of our inevitably common future.
And then, Marcus wrote:
Why is it important?
And so, Nick Thompson wrote: Well, I guess I believe that it gives us some
Could we profitably distinguish between:
(1) Not sharing the conclusions of the speaker.
(2) In sensitivity to relevant facts: reasoning with incorrect factual premises
(3) Reasoning illogically -- Clearly violating fundamental rules of logic. All
swans are white; this bird is a crow; this
that this is a typical right wing rationale.
AT any rate, my question would be: Is there a sense in which the above type
of thinking (based on the premises Nick assumed) is irrational.
From: Friam [friam-boun...@redfish.com] on behalf of Nick Thompson
[nickthomp
...@redfish.com] on behalf of Nick Thompson
[nickthomp...@earthlink.net]
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2014 11:03 PM
To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] rational
IS THERE A LOGICIAN IN THE HOUSE?
John kennison asked:
AT any rate, my question would
Marcus,
I am too cheap to go behind the paywall, and so do not know how to evaluate
the paper, since I have no idea how they judged Liberal vs Conservative.
I am conservative because I am inclined to slow the pace of economic
development and hold social and political values of a philosopher who
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: [FRIAM] right vs left
On 01/09/2014 11:52 AM, Steve Smith wrote:
On 01/08/2014 06:56 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
Wouldn't be wonderful if one of the right wingers on the list would
agree to explore the foundations of this value
, January 09, 2014 5:41 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] right vs left
On 01/09/2014 04:34 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
I wonder how you and I might have an rational discussion of our difference?
But then come to think of it, why would a libertarian WANT
[mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 8:11 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] right vs left
On 01/09/2014 07:28 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
Ok. Great. Where would you like to start?
Well, we've already started
Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] right vs left
On 01/09/2014 07:28 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
Ok. Great. Where would you like to start?
Well, we've already started. See Marcus' post, my response, and Steve's
response. I tried to send a private message to you to see if you wanted
Frank,
Thanks for organizing the shift. That worked pretty good.
Your comments about my argumentative style are taken and noted with
gratitude. In general, I think you are correct that I like to provoke a
discussion, although I don't particular mean to provoke a person. I think
there
...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 2:22 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] right vs left
On 01/10/2014 12:43 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
Well, we have started. But I don't think we have made a good start. I would
like to be arguing
/naturaldesigns/
-Original Message-
From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 3:42 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] right vs left
On 01/10/2014 02:31 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
Yes. I
/
From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Marcus G.
Daniels
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 10:10 PM
To: friam@redfish.com
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] right vs left
On 1/10/14, 6:28 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
(2) Second, given that understanding of what I agreed to, there ARE examples
.
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Nick Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net
mailto:nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
Marcus,
I guess I don't follow. Perhaps others will clarify.
Best,
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http
to power
and vice versa? And this may require the classification of types of rule.
With (2), we might be able to come closer to delineating the difference between
having money and rule-setting.
Anyway, on to the nit-picking below
On 01/10/2014 05:28 PM, Nick Thompson wrote
/naturaldesigns/
-Original Message-
From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen
Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2014 5:56 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] right vs left
On 01/11/2014 04:41 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
Neither you nor
Gosh, guys. The longer I stay out of this conversation, the more sense it
makes. Lesson to be learned, there, I guess. [sigh]
I assume you guys know that there is a HUGE scientific literature on this
quandary. Altruism, cheating, cheater detection, altruistic enforcement.
Does anybody
Conservatives don't care how close the commons gets so long as it doesn't
get too high; Liberals don't care how close the commons gets so long as it
doesn't get too close.
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
Funny. I wouldn’t have thought you guys were realists. Yet, you have publicly
committed to the notion that there is an essence of “fascism,” beyond
experience, to which only one of you is faithful in your use of the word.
Rich philosophical stuff!
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus
Is this relevant to your discussion. From WONKBLOG
BLEVINS: Calm down. The courts didn't just end the open Internet. The
reports of network neutrality's death have been greatly exaggerated. Yes,
the D.C Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the heart of the FCC's open
Internet rules. But it also,
Hi, everybody,
Just to give you a heads up, tomorrow I am bringing a former Clark
colleague of mine to FRIAM, Paul Ropp. Paul is an expert in Far Eastern
History (China, etc.). He is considering living in Santa Fe, part time,
sort of the way that we do. His son runs one of the GP and
shuttle to elsewhere :P
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 8:58 PM, Gillian Densmore gil.densm...@gmail.com
mailto:gil.densm...@gmail.com wrote:
More like: He is considered living in Santa Fe, part time, sort of the way
that we do
Corrected
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Nick Thompson nickthomp
Hi, all,
I am bringing two guests, this week. Paul Ropp, the China historian, whom
many of you met last week, will be back again. In addition, Gene Zimmerman
will come along. Gene is a retired Los Alamos mechanical engineer. He has
a phenomenon to demonstrate, that I find mysterious, but
How come other people can standardize their spellings and we can't
standardize ours.
Damn!
n
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
, there are a few variations in Spanish orthography and more in
vocabulary from country to country.
Frank
Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone
Original Message
Subject:Re: [FRIAM] Spelling of Spanish Surnames
From :Nick Thompson
Date :Sun, 23-Feb-2014 18:12
://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
-Original Message-
From: lrudo...@meganet.net [mailto:lrudo...@meganet.net]
Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2014 6:57 PM
To: Nick Thompson; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Spelling of Spanish Surnames
Nick asks:
How
...@sandia.gov]
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 9:30 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Cc: Nick Thompson
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [FRIAM] Spelling of Spanish Surnames
Nick needs to switch to Lojban - http://www.lojban.org/ - then his written
language will perfectly
...@meganet.net [mailto:lrudo...@meganet.net]
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 2:16 PM
To: Friam; Nick Thompson
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] QRE: Spelling of Spanish Surnames
Nick:
Nyaaah! Nyaaah! As we used to say when we were six.
In 1968, my then-girlfriend (long since become a Mad Bomber at Los
Alamos--her
rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl,
kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
Thanks . . .
tom
http://www.i18nguy.com/twain.html
On Feb 24, 2014, at 9:09 AM, Nick Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net
wrote:
Dear Lee
Hi, everybody,
Am I the only one with a sharp uptick in spam leakage through my filter? My
filter is pretty strong, and it used to let through only one or two messages
a week. Now, it's more like five or six a day. I have, what I thought was,
a strong filter . address must be in my address
I am working on some sort of pun about a traffic jam on the Wheatstone
Bridge. I will get back to you all when I have it.
N
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
Have you received the one with the subject line, Bad things are being said
on line. It give you a link to go to find out your reputation report
Great business model. All I can do not to look to see what they have on me.
But I figure that with the number of people named Nicholas Thompson
To any of you who are in an Advice-Giving Mood,
So, as I said, my Spam has tripled in the last few weeks. I have been
assiduously accumulating spam messages I a folder and am now wondering if
there is anything I can do with them. One obvious thing I might do is click
on the link that says,
that.
The accuracy of my SpamSieve setup is very good; mine is at about 99%.
—Barry
On 6 Mar 2014, at 10:13, Nick Thompson wrote:
To any of you who are in an Advice-Giving Mood,
So, as I said, my Spam has tripled in the last few weeks. I have been
assiduously accumulating spam messages I
Dear Friammers,
Its almost May, the season in which I provide posts on tornadoes and the
rest of you dopeslap me for my naïve interest in them. A true sign of
spring, this message is.
I offer for your amusement the following:
track down and watch tornados.
Have you ever tried it? Probably pretty dangerous, but who knows, maybe
not. It would be fascinating!
-- Owen
On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 9:21 PM, Nick Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net
mailto:nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
Dear Friammers,
Its almost
On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 9:21 PM, Nick Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net
mailto:nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
Dear Friammers,
Its almost May, the season in which I provide posts on tornadoes and the
rest of you dopeslap me for my naïve interest in them. A true sign of
spring
“But only so many family oriented' people will work 12-16 hour days.”
This would seem to be the key. All the value-problems in our society would
seem to be summarized in this one assertion. If one grants that women are
predisposed by physiology to be more tied to infants that men, and
REC wrote:
The ideal here, as I understood it, is a kind of meritocracy where those who
perform better are rewarded for their performance. Make it so.
Doesn’t a meritocracy favor the children of the meritorious, irrespective of
their own merit? Doesn’t a meritocracy favor those who
Marcus wrote:
Just go the other way a smidge or ten. Just experiencing such a parameter
sweep would probably make people change the way they think about the core of
their identity. It can't be that people do hormone replacement like this
because they want to be more `natural'.
On some
] On Behalf Of Marcus G.
Daniels
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2014 3:23 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?
On Fri, 2014-04-11 at 13:49 -0600, Nick Thompson wrote:
In short, if this account is correct, we are already feeding
Steve,
One of the consequences of using complexity babble is that it simply
describes the behavior of the system, rather than accusing any one part of
the system for that behavior. So the question boils down to, How do we
fill the basin? My favorite way is to tax the bejeezus out of the
/naturaldesigns/
-Original Message-
From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Marcus G.
Daniels
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2014 8:37 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?
On 4/11/14, 8:19 PM, Nick
lay any eggs.The farmer calls a physicist
to help.The physicist does some calculations and says, I have a solution, but
it only works for spherical chickens in a vacuum.
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 10:44 PM, Nick Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net
mailto:nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote
://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
-Original Message-
From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Marcus G.
Daniels
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2014 8:46 AM
To: friam@redfish.com
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?
On 4/11/14, 10:44 PM, Nick Thompson wrote
I listen to a techguru on Saturday night when I am cooking dinner. In the
light of the recent security gaff (bleeding heart? Or whatever it was.) he
advised that it was now time for all of us to get LastPass? Or something
like it. What do you wise people advise for us Former English Majors.
Dear wise people,
Recently, I pitched into a friam bicker on the subject of gender inequality
using the metaphor of an attractor. The idea was that the basin of
attraction we call
childcare was broader and deeper for a woman than for a man because of the
sequence of physiological events
Steve, Glen, Marcus,
I am liking these responses. Thankyou for giving the question your all.
I am not sure I am man enough to respond usefully to them, but they are
causing me to think. One thing that they make evident is a way in which
basin is a metaphor that I had not thought of.
Subject: Re: Research Gate?
Date: April 15, 2014 at 10:19:56 AM EDT
To: Nick Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net
mailto:nickthomp...@earthlink.net
Cc: CC suppressed by NST
On Apr 15, 2014, at 12:52 AM, Nick Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net
mailto:nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
Dear
Hi, Eric,
What if Professional Societies were to declare that nothing is published
until it has been made available to the public. I might permit a reasonable
handling fee, such as a nickel a page, making the downloading of a paper
roughly equivalent to the cost or Xeroxing it. And then
:36 PM, Nick Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net
wrote:
Dear Friammers,
I thought Stevan Harnad's response might interest the Open Access
Publication enthusiasts on this list. Perhaps we could talk about it on
Friday: I am wondering what is meant by OA mandates.
From: Stevan Harnad har
Well, then I misspoke. For the concept of meritocracy to make any sense, there
has to be some “ontology” of merit – i.e., we have to agree upon some objective
property that a person has by which we can predict his or her success.
Otherwise, the statement that Jones succeeded “because he was
Here is a round up of opinion re the recent FCC decision gleaned from
WongBlog. I would be surprised if you folks didn't have opinions about it
.. . I think, by the way, that WB is by far the best of the newsgleaners.
Nick
1. Top story: Is the third time the charm for the FCC?
Hi, Folks,
I am on the list of a right-wing ranter. Every once in a while he sends me
something that is specific enough to be refuted. Or confirmed, for that
matter. I wonder what folks on this list thought of this.
See below,
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of
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