This site was posted by David Pogue yesterday. It's 100 photos of
10x10 flats in a housing complex in Hong Kong, with the occupants and
their possessions.
http://photomichaelwolf.com/100x100/
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I just bought a new Cingular branded, but unlocked, Treo 650 on ebay
for $302 with $19.95 shipping. It been working fine since it arrived,
but it did take the seller an excruciatingly long time (9 business
days) to ship.
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On 7/22/06, Owen Densmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Cool! Are you using T-Mobile?
Yes.
I mentioned this on Friday, with respect to the $100 laptop, but I
just rechecked the prices and a Treo 600 is about $150 on Ebay now.
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Nick --
It's always polite to pare quoted material down to the bone.
Sometimes it's hard to figure out what someone is talking about if
they don't remove the irrelevant crap.
MM
On 7/27/06, Nicholas Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
should I always delete all of the history of what I am
Hmm, perhaps we should start with a Complexity Hackers Dictionary wiki?
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On 7/30/06, Jochen Fromm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Such a book should of course contain a big cautionary note on
the use of buzzwords. Buzzwords are especially frequent in the
area of complex systems, they are
On 8/14/06, Nicholas Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, then, if metaphoric reasoning is not what is meant by abduction, what
kind of duction is metaphoric reasoning?
It's duct tape, not a duction at all.
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Robert,This URL came up empty for me.www.cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/*Verzani*-*SimpleR*.pdfAny thoughts
nick
unison has always been good to me when synchronizing between Windows and Linux, http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/, and I see it's available for OSX, too. But the problem is always getting a bit tired of waiting for the synchronization to complete when I'm in a hurry, so I don't do it. I'm
dependably in JavaScript with that kind of sophistication?
On 10/30/06, Roger Critchlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've just finished reprogramming a lunar calendar that was my first
big programming project as an undergraduate back in the 70's. Back
then it was FORTRAN on punched cards
:
Not in the sense of an actual continuation?
On 10/30/06, Roger Critchlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, there's a whole chunk of the SVG spec devoted to animation
without any scripting at all. I haven't gotten into that yet.
There's a lot of it being used on cell phones using
On the subject of critical mass, you should look at John Miller's
articles about standing ovations. It's a lovely simple model of
growth of something from a smattering of individual responses into a
mass behavior.
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On 11/1/06, Phil Henshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As I began to
The discovery channel, http://discoverychannel.ca/mercury, is reported
to be planning a live telecast.
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On 11/7/06, Nicholas Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All,
Does anybody know where we can get a live feed of Mercury transiting the
sun, this weds.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
I saw one go for over $5000 this morning, up $3000 in the last hour of
bidding. The next one went for $8100, but those bids looked bogus.
The NYTimes had some screen shots of bids over $10K.
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On 11/17/06, Tom Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So there ARE people crazier than George
While falling asleep last night I realized that I use the same techniques to
finesse memory allocators whether I'm programming in lisp, java, or c. When
memory allocation sucks, it sucks no matter what general solution your
programming environment provides, and if you don't work around the
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7119/abs/nature05302.html
The power law distributions of city size mask a turbulent dynamics in which
individual cities rapidly change size and rank.
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On 1/14/07, Phil Henshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nick,
Hi. Yea, thinking about the difference between instrumental
(physical) and abstract (theoretical) causes of even perfectly well
behaved things is a tough climb. I'm glad if anyone is willing to
put the two on the table at the same time
On 1/15/07, Phil Henshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Roger,
So, here's what I think of as a good example of a stupid question. Why
does someone introduce the theme of a book with the question of whether
complex living systems are plausible???Is that really our problem, or
theirs?Do the
Nature 447, 799-816 - Identification and analysis of functional
elements in 1% of the human genome by the ENCODE pilot project.
Here are some of their highlights in their own words:
- The human genome is pervasively transcribed, such that the
majority of its bases are associated with at least
On 6/19/07, Michael Agar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This thread is sliding around some, but still I'd like to add this overlong
comment in case it's useful. The emails have been good brain food. The
problem I keep worrying about in my own work is, I use many core concepts
metaphorically
It has to do with the conditions under which cooperative societies are not
destroyed by the selfish.
The research (which I'd reference if I had it handy) shows that a
willingness to inflict punishment on the selfish, even at a cost to oneself,
is one condition under which cooperative societies
On 7/22/07, steve smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am disturbed by the non-sequitur inherent in the Subject and Body of
this article: It suggests that the Web inherently *should* make
Americans more well informed.
Myself, I'm getting a little tired of the pop quizzes demonstrating one kind
It works for me.
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On 7/29/07, Owen Densmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Executive summary: Can we as a community rely on MathML compliance
within our browsers?
Details: I've come across an interesting javascript equation builder
that takes an ascii string in backticks (i.e. ` ... `)
Here's an article about a kind of meta-analysis that looks for cognitive
biases among groups of researchers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/05/business/yourmoney/05frame.html?ref=business
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Social science goes virtual p647
Mathematical models could help us re-engage with reality rather than trying
to reinvent it.
Philip Ball reviews *Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to
Computational Models of Social Life* by John H. Miller Scott E. Page
and *Generative
Social Science:
On 8/9/07, Marcus G. Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Right, generative social science, a.k.a. made up stuff...
Speaking of which, for those in the vicinity of Los Alamos:
Thursday, August 9th,2007
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
CNLS Conference Room (TA-3, Bldg 1690)
Gang Recruitment and Growth: A
Yeah, like all he needs to do is get some pointy false nails for his thumbs,
go back to the salon to get them touched up as necessary.
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On 8/11/07, Stephen Guerin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The story reads as funny as an Onion article. :-)
Surfing around a bit, it may be a hoax:
On 8/12/07, Robert Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Copenhagen Consensus is a Danish think-tank that gets economists and
politicians to address the question in a world of limited resources, if we
cannot do everything at once what should we do first?. The top-4 ratings
from their 2006
On 8/12/07, David Mirly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2) It would be wise to attempt to minimize our impacts on such a
complex system when we don't even partially understand the consequences.
Just to beat on the defenders of the status quo some more, their rationale
for denying climate change and
On 8/14/07, Nicholas Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hmm Roger. I always thought that unpredictable environments contribute
more within-species diversitity and FEWER species.
Nick
Nick --
Apparently a generalization that fits some of the facts.
The communities of Madagascar are
a high level of endemicity and many missing
taxa, no? So, Madagascar is just a rather extreme example of island
geography?
Nick
Nick
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Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:06:54 -0600
From: Roger Critchlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Evolution in varying
Well, according to this slashdot:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/23/196229
which points to this Washington Post article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/22/AR2007112201444_pf.html
the feds have been routinely asking for and getting real time cell
On Dec 26, 2007 10:26 AM, Pamela McCorduck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why are engineering and beautiful design incompatible? Google, of all
folks, ought to know better. But anyway, I wait breathlessly until
February.
Someone who bought a Kindle should talk about beautiful design?
Well, in thermodynamics we have a Gibbs free energy (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbs_free_energy) and a Helmholtz free energy
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmholtz_free_energy).
Free energy is not free in the sense of free beer or of free speech, it is
free in the sense of being liberated
Ah, so that's why there were only four of us at St Johns.
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Folks: It looks like St John's is uncertain and some of us think
Mission Cafe sucks.
Thus we've come up with an alternative: We'll have it at our place,
If you have any interest in programming at all, download the Android SDK
from Google. It's a very neat package, everything you need to build, test,
and debug a mobile phone application, and a clean window/event/application
model as well.
It's rare that someone gets to build an API that has no
Which reminds me of seeing Bucky speak in Chicago in 1980 something,
or was it a movie?
I just googled to see if there was a record of his speaking
engagements, and I found the digital archives at
http://collections.stanford.edu/bucky/bin/page?forward=home
Less than a minute and I have an
They've moved to:
http://carlzimmer.typepad.com/sciencetattoo
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On Feb 16, 2008 1:36 PM, Pamela McCorduck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Fabulous! I'll pass them on.
P.
On Feb 16, 2008, at 2:52 PM, Ross Goeres wrote:
OMG, John is Joan's cousin, unless there are two mathematical physicists
named John Baez, or someone's been spiking wikipedia.
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On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Douglas Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Ok, now you're really screwing with my mind. Joan C. (Chandos) Baez (
The Go Cross Campus game in today's NYTimes looks interesting, too, though
in a completely different sort of gaming.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/technology/21ivygame.html
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Back to the original question, and taking bus in a more general way,
ethernet has the properties that Phil is looking for: the resource is
limited, the users allocate and share by each pursuing a local rule, and the
whole thing melts down when it gets overloaded. The solutions proposed to
solve
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Don Begley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Great pics, Orlando.
WRT the EMF issue, those are at least 345kV power lines if not 500's, which
is a long way from the emissions of consumer items or a residential power
line. They are also pretty impressive links in a
The video is priceless, I'm incorporating it into my daughters' educations.
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On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 10:06 AM, peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just wait and see what happens when the Wiops get hold of stuff like this
http://www.connexionfrance.com/news_articles.php?id=173
Here are three more videos:
http://my.break.com/Content/view.aspx?ContentID=514867
http://my.break.com/Content/view.aspx?ContentID=514871
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=ju5yIFu4yY8
One unobviously controlled variable is the distance to the cell tower,
ie how few bars on the signal strength, since
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Ann Racuya-Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
What I like most about mathematics is the feeling of being able to hold the
whole world in my head. It is a very powerful feeling...being able to reduce
the enormous complexity and importance even power of the world
Here's another contribution to the benefits of social diversity literature,
from last week's nature:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v454/n7201/abs/nature06940.html
Social diversity promotes the emergence of cooperation in public goods
games
Francisco C. Santos, Marta D. Santos
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Owen Densmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No one who accepts mathematics as it is, however, considers it a point
of philosophy. We do not argue about it, we try to grasp it.
Arguing about it is for those of us who cannot understand it.
I suspect a category
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Günther Greindl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are perfectly complete and and consistent axiomatic systems.
(propositional calculus); heck, even the mega-expressive first order
logic (see the completeness theorem).
Here's an interesting book review in today's issue of Science:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/321/5887/344
*Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings*
Piecewise Approximations to Reality
*by William C. Wimsatt*
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2007. 468 pp. $49.95, £32.95,
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Nicholas Thompson
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Thanks, Russell.
Is your comment differ with Ken's or is it Ken's in another language.
For a former english major, the LANGUAGE is everything.
The operation of functional composition, taking *f: A - B* and *g: B
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Owen Densmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1 - The probability for each path is calculated by looking at the
possible choices at each point in the path. If you see a 3 at a
node, for example, the probability assigned to the next move is 1/3.
The total
Is this a Godwin's law violation?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
Frankly, I don't think 1948 would have been a good election year for Hitler,
being 3 years dead and all that.
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On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Kenneth Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If the whole world could
I think we should tax campaign contributions with progressively higher rates
as the size of the contribution increases. If you want to give a candidate
a million dollars, that's fine, by you'll need to cough up 10 million
dollars because the contribution is taxed at 90%. Those who want to
There are a lot of bookstores that I miss now that I'm not living anywhere
close to them.
A favorite which hasn't folded since I moved away is just sent me a link:
http://blog.semcoop.com/2008/10/28/the-front-table-weekof-october-26-2008/
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Responding to the original question, I'd say it's close because there really
isn't that much difference.
Yes, the differences are striking when you highlight them and state them as
the opposing parties want them stated. But the similarities far outweigh
the differences.
Which is why Palin can
, and sometimes dark stories to tell about the true inner social
workings of their former faith.
--Doug
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Roger Critchlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't know, Doug, why don't you read this Salt Lake Tribune story about
dissent within the LDS, and tell me who's making
impossible to uproot.
I'm sure they'd be happy to take your money, though.
--Doug
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Roger Critchlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think someone should contribute $30,000,000 to foment a schism in the
Church of the Latter Day Saints based on their internal conflicts
I think someone should contribute $30,000,000 to foment a schism in the
Church of the Latter Day Saints based on their internal conflicts on this
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On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Orlando Leibovitz
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Owen,
In my opinion the word marriage should not be
The story of my life: curses, obsolesced again!
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On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Nicholas Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Think about the crisis in telephone land that occured when dials were
replaced by keys.
I came home tonight to a crisis in our home telephone land. My daughter
says the phones are broken, everytime she tries to
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Douglas Roberts d...@parrot-farm.netwrote:
Well you all know me, so no surprise: Kubuntu, either 8.04, or 8.10 would
be my recommendation. Either of these distros will run nicely on low-end
(~$399) laptops, or the higher-end machines as well. You can get an
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
Is anyone else pursuing a The Network is the Computer approach? Any
tales to tell?
Old habits die hard. I did a demo of technology for a distributed file
system last week using Amazon EC2 for the network.
But back
John Lennon's keeping up on it:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/
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We've been glossing over the 'mere bookkeeping' aspects of thermodynamics in
our Wednesday study session, hurrying on to the more interesting bits.
Here's an article, open access, from PNAS, which suggests that bookkeeping,
in the dreary, economic, dusty journals with smudged ink sense, may be an
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
1 - Have the distro wars settled enough so that Ubuntu is emerging as the
desktop of choice?
I don't expect the distro wars to ever settle. My feed from
distrowatch.comhas had 23 postings in the 20 days of January.
The non-virtual Friam met at St Johns last week, after several weeks
at the Santa Fe Complex.
I thought we'd be returning to the Complex tomorrow morning, but Nick
thought we'd be continuing at St. Johns.
Who wants to break the tie?
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On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:40 PM, John Kennison jkenni...@clarku.edu wrote:
Maybe in the near future, researchers will publish papers on their web sites
and journals would consist of stars (and maybe other symbols) and links.
In a sense that's what
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Prof David West profw...@fastmail.fmwrote:
Re: programming languages - antipathy to C++
Few questions seem to drive passions more than language choice -
The reason for this is that people who program are woefully ignorant or
misinformed about the majority
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:28 AM, Prof David West profw...@fastmail.fmwrote:
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:58:43 -0700, Owen Densmore
o...@backspaces.net said:
Re: Ruby -- It really does not cut it.
I probably agree - but can 100,000 avid users be wrong? I included it
in my list only on the
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Prof David West profw...@fastmail.fmwrote:
2. Except for a really dumb decision on the part of ParcPlace, Java
would never have come into existence. Sun wanted Smalltalk, and only
when rebuffed, decided to morph Oak to Java. (An earlier, equally
stupid,
I believe it wants you to fill in the contact form _before_ you download the
free copy.
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On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
I get Invalid session cookie. Both Safari and Firefox. Probably the brits
different haven't seen a Mac before.
Could
Oh, I like that much better, needs to be printed at 65x54 inches (or
larger) so we can see it. But much better to have Mandelbrot derive
from Poincare than from Dynamic Systems Theory which I see, now, has
no practitioners at all.
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On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:53 AM, siddharth
Here's an open access paper from PNAS
(http://www.pnas.org/content/106/10/3680.short?rss=1) describing how
to engineer epidemics of cooperation amongst selfish players of the
prisoner's dilemma.
Our results suggest that mobility is significant for the evolution of
social order, and essential for
I had a bunch of fun just this weekend.
I had been noticing blog chatter about running webview's on the
Android desktop, and when I looked I found two projects dedicated to
making it possible to write applications for iPhone, Android,
Blackberry, Symbian, etc. using just html, css, javascript and
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
Now if Google ever makes Chrome available on platforms other than Windows,
that'd get me really on the band wagon. Maybe the next Android?
There's an daily automated alpha build of chromium for Ubuntu available at:
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Robert Holmes rob...@holmesacosta.comwrote:
According to Conway (Game of Life inventor), particles have free-will. See
http://kk.org/ct2/2009/03/particles-have-free-will.php for a summary and
http://www.ams.org/notices/200902/rtx090200226p.pdf for the paper.
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Russ Abbott russ.abb...@gmail.com wrote:
That's the end of cheeriness.
I don't know, Nick seems cheery enough when contemplating the murder of
colleagues for their espousal of free will, the only purpose of which is to
justify the murder of those whose
This week's issue of http://pnas.org has a special section on complexity:
In this issue, all of the articles address problems of complexity in
organisms. Topics range from information processing in their signaling
network and the organization of their metabolism, to how populations of
, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Roger Critchlow r...@elf.org wrote:
all of the articles address problems of complexity in organisms
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On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 1:05 AM, Nicholas Thompson
nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
Can anybody help me understand this. (Please try to say something more
helpful than the well-deserved, Well, why do you THINK they call it
pseudo-random, you dummy?)What DOES a pseudo randomizing program
Me, too. Though they broke some of my tablet setup at the very last moment,
while apparently making 99% of tablet setup work automagically.
And they've been hitting these 6 month deadlines for years, now, almost like
they were building something tangible out of real stuff with real supply
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Carl Tollander c...@plektyx.com wrote:
What was the client's problem again?
Darned if I can tell, this Universal Interface Language seems to have no
document attached to it.
The video from OOPSLA,
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2950949730059754521,
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
On Jul 12, 2009, at 1:54 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
Owen,
Is the program we built together MOTH . a thing?
Yes.
That's funny, because I have always thought of programs as extremely
refined arguments.
Here's the visual version, http://tools.mozilla.com/, if your browser
supports canvas.
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A manifold is something that can't be a function because it is multi-valued
where a function must be single-valued.
A circle, the set of points which satisfy the equation x^2 + y^2 = r^2, is a
manifold of points because there are two values of y that satisfy the
equation for each value of x, -r
Today's issue of Nature has:
an editorial,
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v460/n7256/full/460667a.html, calling
for more development of agent based economic models;
an opinion piece by J Doyne Farmer and Duncan Foley,
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v460/n7256/full/460685a.html, calling
This from today's ACM TechNews sounds a lot like the conspiracy theory
recently dismissed here.
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U.S. Web-Tracking Plan Stirs Privacy
Fearshttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/10/AR2009081002743.htmlfrom
ACM
Since gibberish generators are inherently discipline free, the rule should
be to only mock one's own technobabble.
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There was an interesting article from SIGCOMM posted yesterday about
in-center-inter-connect:
http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~vahdat/papers/portland-sigcomm09.pdf
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/08-09PortLand.asp
Here's a follow on to Tom's post about increasing numbers of retractions.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/08/21/ghostwriting-documents-available-at-plos-medicine/
The PLoS Medicine website is now hosting copies of 1500 medical studies
written by the pharmaceutical industry
I don't think you'll find this because it implies programming a higher
purpose and allowing the agents to jump the rails, as it were, and start
negotiating their way through the combinatorics of alternative networks.
Similarly, you won't find models in which agents invent new inputs to
monitor,
I just put it all into Google Reader and star the stuff I might want
to go back to read later. If I get too far behind, I just mark it all
read and go on.
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On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Owen Densmoreo...@backspaces.net wrote:
On Sep 3, 2009, at 4:05 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
That
I thought that it was pretty simple: strong emergence would be
miraculous if it happened, which is why it is metaphysically
problematic; weak emergence is what we find, unexpected lawfulnesses,
which, in the end, turn out to be explicable, if not entirely
predictable.
I followed the link in the
Point of geography, it's Garcia and Acequia Madre,
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On Sep 9, 2009 5:51 PM, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net
wrote:
All,
The emergence seminar, such as it is, will have its first meeting this
thursday (tomorrow) at Downtown Subcription (which is at Garcia and Agua
Fria).
As I read it, the issue isn't whether structures and/or configurations
are/aren't important, the question is whether they operate according
to emergent or resultant rule sets.
The Emergentists were betting heavily on the emergent rule set. They
believed that the variety of chemistry couldn't
Maybe we should read Mill, the chapter on the composition of causes is
only 5 pages:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27942/27942-h/27942-h.html#toc53
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On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Nicholas Thompson
nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
The seminar met this afternoon, now eight in
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Jochen Fromm jfr...@t-online.de wrote:
Fact is: there was a strong hype around H1N1,
although H1N1 itself is known since 1976.
Probably longer than that. H1N1 simply means the virus contains the
first identified hemagglutinin (H1) and neuraminidase (N1)
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:07 AM, glen e. p. ropella
g...@agent-based-modeling.com wrote:
Thus spake Steve Smith circa 10/02/2009 07:40 AM:
But I understand Glen being careful about sending it out to a list that
archives
such that the paper is effectively been placed in a public repository.
Bit of a let down. Nick assigned Chapter 9, Daniel C Dennett, Real
Patterns, and Chapter 2, Carl Hempel and Paul Oppenheim, On the Idea of
Emergence.
Dennett's article was 25 pages originally, trimmed to 19 pages for the
emergence collection, and I think they could have trimmed another 18.5
HO are quite methodical: emergence: The occurrence of a
characteristic *W*in an object
*w* is emergent relative to a theory *T*, a part relation *Pt*, and a class
*G* of attributes if that occurrence cannot be deduced by means of *T* from
a characterization of the *Pt*-parts of *w* with respect to
Well, well, well, what do we have here.
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