Re: [FRIAM] Dynamics of Complex Systems by Yaneer Bar-Yam

2006-07-21 Thread Owen Densmore
and it should begin with Markov Chains. -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net - http://redfish.com - http://friam.org On Jul 21, 2006, at 2:06 PM, Günther Greindl wrote: Hi Owen, if I may recommend a book: Complexity: Hierarchical Structures and Scaling in Physics (Cambridge Nonlinear

[FRIAM] Lyapunov Exponent

2006-07-22 Thread Owen Densmore
by Brian Davies which has a wonderful set of Java applications/applets for exploring chaos .. a sort of lab if you will. -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net - http://redfish.com - http://friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity

[FRIAM] OT: GSM Phones w/ Email Web

2006-07-22 Thread Owen Densmore
? - What have your experiences been using them for email/web while traveling? - Is Cingular OK in terms of international roaming agreements and service? Thanks!!! -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net - http://redfish.com - http://friam.org

Re: [FRIAM] Is it economics or biology

2006-07-27 Thread Owen Densmore
at game theory in the context of change, thus fits the complexity world well. -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net - http://redfish.com - http://friam.org On Jul 26, 2006, at 1:28 PM, Russell Standish wrote: Like anything in the mainstream press, tantalisingly short on detail. I

Re: [FRIAM] THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2005

2006-07-31 Thread Owen Densmore
supply an interesting direction for FRIAM in terms of a web site with a bit more structure. Its is moderated by Brockman, a very creative publisher and editor. Not that the list would disappear, but it would have interesting parallel efforts. -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net

[FRIAM] WedTech: Formalisms In Complexity; Wed Aug 2, 1:30p @ Tesoro

2006-07-31 Thread Owen Densmore
itself! - It's not a science but an approach. - This is silly and you are all chasing your tails! -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net - http://redfish.com - http://friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets

[FRIAM] J Home

2006-07-31 Thread Owen Densmore
on the news that the J community is becoming more active and well established. I'd LOVE it if someone truly got their mind around J and could help the rest of us do the same! Pretty steep learning curve. -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net - http://redfish.com - http

Re: [FRIAM] WedTech: Formalisms In Complexity; Wed Aug 2, 1:30p @ Tesoro

2006-08-01 Thread Owen Densmore
To kick off our discussions of Formalisms In Complexity, I thought I'd add this to the mix. -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net - http://redfish.com - http://friam.org -- The Six Desert Island Books On Complexity

[FRIAM] Complexity and Information - Cambridge University Press

2006-08-16 Thread Owen Densmore
Has anyone read this? http://tinyurl.com/pbxm9 or http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521485061 Looks quite interesting and I was surprised it hasn't been discussed before. -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net

Re: [FRIAM] Complexity and Information - Cambridge University Press

2006-08-16 Thread Owen Densmore
DOH! Sorry Pamela, I entirely missed the fact that J. F. Traub was *your* J. F. Traub! I just bought the book, btw. For the rest of FRIAM, here's Joe's web site: http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~traub/ -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net On Aug 16, 2006, at 8:27 AM, Stephen

Re: [FRIAM] ** tomorrow* Sept 5, Lecture: Joshua Thorp - Art-induced explorations: Through the looking glass with Processing.

2006-09-05 Thread Owen Densmore
This is so cool -- you gotta get Josh to show it to you at a future Friam. -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net On Sep 5, 2006, at 5:43 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: Damn! And me on an airplane to Washington tomorrow... On 9/5/06, Stephen Guerin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

[FRIAM] Fwd: cartoon

2006-09-05 Thread Owen Densmore
From a friend: Begin forwarded message: From: David Casseres [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: September 5, 2006 6:38:10 PM MDT Subject: cartoon http://xkcd.com/comics/sandwich.png FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays

[FRIAM] TextMate Python Screencast

2006-09-09 Thread Owen Densmore
grudgingly move on to Eclipse, or other more IDE program, but for now, just a refreshingly nice text editor is a breath of fresh air! -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets

[FRIAM] incredible machine - Google Video

2006-09-09 Thread Owen Densmore
OK, Rube Goldberg, step aside! http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3163263343187879320 -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's

Re: [FRIAM] Seaside (Smalltalk web development framework)

2006-09-13 Thread Owen Densmore
objects. The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet. Don't be misled by the enormous flow of money into bad defacto standards for unsophisticated buyers using poor adaptations of incomplete ideas. - Alan Kay -- Owen Owen

Re: [FRIAM] Seaside (Smalltalk web development framework)

2006-09-13 Thread Owen Densmore
. Processing goes further: it builds apps for Mac, Windows, and Linux desktops. Deployability proves to be a very important in the biz. -- Owen Owen Densmore505-988-3787 http://backspaces.net Redfish Group: 505-995-0206 http://redfish.com http://friam.org

Re: [FRIAM] Seaside (Smalltalk web development framework)

2006-09-13 Thread Owen Densmore
. -- Owen Owen Densmore505-988-3787 http://backspaces.net Redfish Group: 505-995-0206 http://redfish.com http://friam.org/ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives

Re: [FRIAM] Seaside (Smalltalk web development framework)

2006-09-14 Thread Owen Densmore
there really is an explosion of application specific environments rather than the old smalltalk which was pretty universal. -- Owen Owen Densmore505-988-3787 http://backspaces.net Redfish Group: 505-995-0206 http://redfish.com http://friam.org

[FRIAM] Fwd: Escape From America Magazine September 2006

2006-09-15 Thread Owen Densmore
Don't know if I've forwarded this to the group, but this is kinda interesting. http://www.escapeartist.com/ I've read their ebooks for Italy and Ireland (Italy was better I think, but both fine). -- Owen Owen Densmore505-988-3787 http://backspaces.net Redfish Group: 505-995

[FRIAM] Santa Fe New Mexican: Kim Sorvig

2006-09-17 Thread Owen Densmore
-KimOpinion.pdf -- Owen Owen Densmore505-988-3787 http://backspaces.net Redfish Group: 505-995-0206 http://redfish.com http://friam.org/ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's

[FRIAM] OT: How to concatenate PDFs without pain

2006-09-18 Thread Owen Densmore
Off Topic but interesting: How to concatenate pdf files: http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/software/pdf-append.php I used this to take 10 book chapters in pdf into a single book. I did this mainly to make it far more searchable. -- Owen Owen Densmore505-988-3787 http://backspaces.net

[FRIAM] Desktop Laptop Coordination

2006-09-26 Thread Owen Densmore
hardware, with the desktops doing even better. So just interested what folks do who still have desktops and laptops both. -- Owen Owen Densmore505-988-3787 http://backspaces.net Redfish Group: 505-995-0206 http://redfish.com http://friam.org

[FRIAM] Of the world's 100 largest economic entities, 51 are now corporations and 49 are countries (2000)

2006-10-01 Thread Owen Densmore
http://www.corporations.org/system/top100.html -- Owen Owen Densmore505-988-3787 http://backspaces.net Redfish Group: 505-995-0206 http://redfish.com http://friam.org/ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets

[FRIAM] WedTech: Processing in Eclipse

2006-10-03 Thread Owen Densmore
, or JRuby to directly build Processing projects. More on that tomorrow. -- Owen Owen Densmore505-988-3787 http://backspaces.net Redfish Group: 505-995-0206 http://redfish.com http://friam.org/ FRIAM Applied Complexity

Re: [FRIAM] Google pwns you

2006-10-05 Thread Owen Densmore
http://tinyurl.com/nou2g Owen FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

Re: [FRIAM] Ruby?

2006-10-05 Thread Owen Densmore
have to offer. -- Owen Owen Densmore505-988-3787 http://backspaces.net Redfish Group: 505-995-0206 http://redfish.com http://friam.org/ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Distribution / Parallelization of ABM's

2006-10-07 Thread Owen Densmore
Turns out there is a poll being taken on some mail lists on the topic of new parallel hardware and if/how it will be used: Parallelism: the next generation -- a small survey http://www.nabble.com/A-small-survey-tf2337745.html -- Owen

[FRIAM] Practical Parallelism

2006-10-07 Thread Owen Densmore
On Oct 7, 2006, at 10:29 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: Turns out there is a poll being taken on some mail lists on the topic of new parallel hardware and if/how it will be used: Parallelism: the next generation -- a small survey http://www.nabble.com/A-small-survey-tf2337745.html

Re: [FRIAM] Practical Parallelism

2006-10-08 Thread Owen Densmore
505-670-8195 - Cell On 10/7/06, Owen Densmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 7, 2006, at 10:29 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: Turns out there is a poll being taken on some mail lists on the topic of new parallel hardware and if/how it will be used: Parallelism: the next generation

[FRIAM] Spike: a hack?

2006-10-13 Thread Owen Densmore
N can be uniquely disassembled into factors that are prime numbers N = p1*p2*p3. The disassembly problem is known to be 'hard'. Its complexity guards cryptographic algorithms like the popular Rivest- Shamir-Adleman (RSA) algorithm. -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net

[FRIAM] Apple - MacBook Pro

2006-10-24 Thread Owen Densmore
the capacity? Anyway, hopefully the move to Merom will help us scientific and visualization types. -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's

Re: [FRIAM] div. zero bugs?

2006-10-25 Thread Owen Densmore
// World's last bug if (red_button_pressed = 1) launch_missile(); I thought that was pretty funny ^_^ .. for all 7 of us who understood it! -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net FRIAM Applied Complexity Group

Re: [FRIAM] div. zero bugs?

2006-10-25 Thread Owen Densmore
to be: if (1 = red_button_pressed) launch_missile(); This causes an error within the compiler because 1 is a literal and cannot be assigned to. -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net On Oct 25, 2006, at 9:44 PM, David Breecker wrote: I was about to say: can someone

Re: [FRIAM] Comment Spam!

2006-10-30 Thread Owen Densmore
is being defeated by the blog spammers. -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net On Oct 30, 2006, at 8:14 AM, James Steiner wrote: In today's Coding Horror Jeff Atwood talks about the effectiveness of CAPTCHAs and how the news of their demise is greatly exaggerated. Also, he says

[FRIAM] Cheat Sheet Round-Up: Ajax, CSS, L aTeX, Ruby…

2006-11-01 Thread Owen Densmore
Not all of these are winners, but if you find one you like, it'll be worth the look! http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2006/10/30/cheat-sheet-round-up- ajax-css-latex-ruby/ -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net

[FRIAM] Apple Store Albuquerque Grand Opening

2006-11-02 Thread Owen Densmore
Local news: http://www.tuaw.com/2006/11/02/apple-store-albuquerque-grand- opening-photos/ -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's

[FRIAM] Eclipse Video Tutorial

2006-11-03 Thread Owen Densmore
. -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

Re: [FRIAM] voting machine tampering

2006-11-06 Thread Owen Densmore
other process is imperfect and trying to make it more accurate will never chase all the error out. That said, statistically interesting systematic errors should be revealing, I think. -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net

Re: [FRIAM] voting machine tampering

2006-11-06 Thread Owen Densmore
Won't the electronic voting at least provide a hope for analysis, especially of irregularities? -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St

[FRIAM] WedTech: Web 2.0

2006-11-07 Thread Owen Densmore
about this mysterious web 2.0 concept, and Tom Johnson has a good slide set for us. We'd like to meet to discuss it at our usual wedtech @ 12:30, and afterwards, head over for coffee and further elaboration. -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net

[FRIAM] Mac running Windows?

2006-11-14 Thread Owen Densmore
critter and I'd like to know how well it works. -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps

[FRIAM] Dava Sobel | The Planets | WGBH Forum Network

2006-11-23 Thread Owen Densmore
Boy, can Dava Sobel write (and read)! http://forum.wgbh.org/wgbh/forum.php?lecture_id=3252 Not deep, but fun and nicely articulate science and history. -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net FRIAM Applied Complexity

[FRIAM] Amazon MacBook Pro

2006-11-28 Thread Owen Densmore
overnight, but according to the tracking info, its out for delivery today, as promised! -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College

Re: [FRIAM] FW: 3rd (FINAL) CALL, UCLA LAKE ARROWHEAD HUMAN COMPLEX SYSTEMS CONFERENCE

2006-12-14 Thread Owen Densmore
How many of us would like to, or plan to, go? I'd like to put something together based on our work since the last meeting. -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net On Dec 14, 2006, at 11:09 AM, Stephen Guerin wrote: abstracts due tomorrow... -Original Message- From

[FRIAM] From Head Scarf to Army Cap, Making a New Life - New York Times

2006-12-15 Thread Owen Densmore
prided itself on molding raw recruits into hardened soldiers. Perhaps none have undergone a transformation quite like that of Ms. Hamdan. -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv

[FRIAM] Carrot Clustering Engine

2006-12-16 Thread Owen Densmore
so that it can actually cluster the results of a common search. The next big thing? -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College

Re: [FRIAM] Open-Source Spying

2006-12-18 Thread Owen Densmore
Its in the public library's ProQuest digital collection. Here's a copy: http://backspaces.net/files/OpenSourceSpying.pdf -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net On Dec 17, 2006, at 10:00 PM, David Breecker wrote: Those of you who missed the NY Times magazine cover story

Re: [FRIAM] backup dialup

2006-12-22 Thread Owen Densmore
services, US wide. You may find your Satellite service provider has dialup services at a reasonable charge. -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net On Dec 22, 2006, at 11:01 AM, David Breecker wrote: Here's an extracurricular question for the list: I keep a backup dialup connection

[FRIAM] Mathematical Search and Regular Expressions

2006-12-24 Thread Owen Densmore
.. a fundamental problem. -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

Re: [FRIAM] MathML woes

2006-12-27 Thread Owen Densmore
of this notation .. otherwise, I'd say its a good candidate. -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps

Re: [FRIAM] Mathematical Search and Regular Expressions

2006-12-28 Thread Owen Densmore
in on J, let me know. These sites are representative of the leaders of the J community: http://olegykj.sourceforge.net/ .. and all the External links at the end of the Wikipedia article. -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net

Re: [FRIAM] Mathematical Search and Regular Expressions

2006-12-28 Thread Owen Densmore
Here's a more recent Ken Iverson discussion on Computers and Mathematical Notation: http://tinyurl.com/ym8r64 or http://www.cacs.louisiana.edu/~mgr/404/burks/language/apl/camnweb/ camn.htm This is J based, rather than APL. -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net On Dec 28

Re: [FRIAM] Mathematical Search and Regular Expressions

2006-12-28 Thread Owen Densmore
Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net On Dec 28, 2006, at 12:15 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: Here's a more recent Ken Iverson discussion on Computers and Mathematical Notation: http://tinyurl.com/ym8r64 or http://www.cacs.louisiana.edu/~mgr/404/burks/language/apl/camnweb/ camn.htm

Re: [FRIAM] Meeting at Le Zodiac (Garrett's Desert Inn) Tomorrow

2006-12-29 Thread Owen Densmore
getting snow for quite a while. We may get up to another foot in the next 24 hrs according to the local radio news. And no letup predicted by national weather service until Sunday evening! -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net

[FRIAM] BBC NEWS | 100 things we didn't know last year

2006-12-29 Thread Owen Densmore
http://tinyurl.com/y8ldj6 ..or: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/ 2006/12/100_things_we_didnt_know_last_2.shtml Sorta interesting miscellany of odd factoids discovered in the last year. -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net

[FRIAM] Open Source Project?

2006-12-30 Thread Owen Densmore
Just a poll of sorts: 1 - If you/we were to start an open source project, what would it be? 2 - What open source project would you like to see happen? -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net FRIAM Applied Complexity

Re: [FRIAM] Open Source Project?

2006-12-31 Thread Owen Densmore
easily be done with ANTLR, I think. Integrating it into Eclipse and other programming editors and IDEs would be important. -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net On Dec 30, 2006, at 10:39 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: Just a poll of sorts: 1 - If you/we were to start an open

Re: [FRIAM] Open Source Project?

2007-01-01 Thread Owen Densmore
is the synergy amongst them than their ease of use. -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net On Dec 31, 2006, at 11:29 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: Well, from our side of the world, obviously a killer simulation environment. I recently watched an interview on the Research Channel

Re: [FRIAM] Rich site related to data visualization

2007-01-02 Thread Owen Densmore
I really like this article included in the blog: The Loneliness of the Visualization Critic http://eagereyes.org/blog/loneliness-of-the-visualization-critic.html -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net On Jan 1, 2007, at 8:38 PM, J T Johnson wrote: To the FRIAM gang

[FRIAM] The Game of Daleks

2007-01-04 Thread Owen Densmore
, and still runs fine on today's JVM. I'm certainly impressed that a language can be that backwards compatible. -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30

[FRIAM] NPR : For a Healthy Brain in Old Age, Start Early

2007-01-04 Thread Owen Densmore
OK, start your thinking machines! http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6719135 .. so hopefully complexity qualifies. And aerobics matter too. I think. ;) -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net

[FRIAM] [OT] Snow Thrower

2007-01-07 Thread Owen Densmore
its designed for much lighter use. Its the little engine that could sort of thing. Not perfect, but small, light and doesn't have all the drawbacks of gas. Epinions has several reviews as well. -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net

[FRIAM] TEDTalks (audio, video)

2007-01-07 Thread Owen Densmore
A friend passed this on: http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/ looks pretty broad and interesting. -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's

Re: [FRIAM] apple announces iphone

2007-01-09 Thread Owen Densmore
Apparently many folks were also concerned that Cingular is such a shitty carrier. http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/09/1857231 Just search for unlocked. -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net On Jan 9, 2007, at 6:27 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote: This doesn't make

Re: [FRIAM] apple announces iphone

2007-01-09 Thread Owen Densmore
Cingular. But he does truly have a wide, coordinated vision for Apple Computer^W Co. And he's the only one willing to commit. Really commit .. to the hard work of making the new digital devices really work. -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net

Re: [FRIAM] [OT] Snow Thrower

2007-01-11 Thread Owen Densmore
What a cool paper! -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net On Jan 9, 2007, at 8:54 PM, Stephen Guerin wrote: hmm..does it come with software to solve the snowblower problem :-) http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0603026 -Original Message- From: Owen Densmore [mailto:[EMAIL

[FRIAM] Open Source » Blog Archive » Edge.or g: Optimism

2007-01-15 Thread Owen Densmore
-- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

Re: [FRIAM] The Origin of Wealth and The God Delusion

2007-01-21 Thread Owen Densmore
not too bad a writer either. I could go on, but I'd prefer to whet your appetite sufficiently so that you'd read it too and we can compare and contrast so to speak. Make a great wedtech panel discussion. Thank you Justin. -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net On Jan 18, 2007

Re: [FRIAM] Real Time Organizational Modeling

2007-01-21 Thread Owen Densmore
on such trivial topics. If this forum has been unresponsive to your needs, perhaps you should search elsewhere. -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net On Jan 21, 2007, at 1:08 PM, Phil Henshaw wrote: John, I'm not sure what your background is, but I've been surprised by what high

Re: [FRIAM] Real Time Organizational Modeling

2007-01-21 Thread Owen Densmore
, but then have them interact. That would make the problem more approachable by decomposition. Thanks John Hellier -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11

[FRIAM] Alan Turing's Contribution to World History

2007-02-04 Thread Owen Densmore
Yet another great webcast from WGBH: http://forum.wgbh.org/wgbh/forum.php?lecture_id=3285 This discusses Turing's work and evolution into AI and Heuristic computing, much predicated by crypto work during WWII. -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net

[FRIAM] Friedman: Yes, We Can Find the Exit

2007-02-11 Thread Owen Densmore
, if only our administration had a brain. -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net You can do Anything, but not Everything! Yes, We Can Find the Exit Copyright New York Times Company Feb 7, 2007 Listening, from Moscow, to the debate in Congress about Iraq is troubling: it sounds

[FRIAM] Fwd: Arrow's Impossibility Theorem

2007-03-27 Thread Owen Densmore
if we understand this, and its impact on our work. -- Owen Begin forwarded message: From: Owen Densmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: December 18, 2003 10:20:05 AM MST To: The Friday Morning Complexity Coffee Group friam@redfish.com Subject: [FRIAM] Arrow's Impossibility Theorem Reply

[FRIAM] Slashdot | One Step Closer To Spaceport America

2007-04-06 Thread Owen Densmore
Wow! Tiny New Mexico is in /. today: http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/07/04/06/2119214.shtml The next step for a project we've previously discussed has now come around: thanks to a sales tax increase it seems as though the residents of Dona Ana county in New Mexico will be

[FRIAM] Google Voice Local Search

2007-04-17 Thread Owen Densmore
I've been using this on the road for the last week and have to say its slick! http://labs.google.com/goog411/ I admit I've mainly used it to find starbucks, but hey, when you're sleepy and need some speed, it sure works well. It even will send you a text message with the phone number and

[FRIAM] Joost™

2007-05-10 Thread Owen Densmore
Has anyone tried the new internet TV stunt Joost? http://www.joost.com/ From a Sun mail list: I haven't signed up for Joost yet, but I will soon, and remember, these are the same Scandinavian geniuses (or genii) who created Kazaa that killed the music industry, Skype that maimed

Re: [FRIAM] More on micropayments

2007-05-23 Thread Owen Densmore
Late in the discussion, we decided that there were some obvious successful possibilities. Times Select: They now charge a $50/yr fixed subscription fee. I bet they'd do far better having you subscribe to a 5 cent variable subscription rate, capped at $50/yr. Then folks who only read op-ed

[FRIAM] NPR: Michael Collier's Aerial Photography

2007-05-28 Thread Owen Densmore
Somewhat off-topic, but .. I listened this morning to NPR's story of a photographer who takes pictures of geological formations from a small aircraft. Mainly at sunrise and sunset. He took along an NPR reporter, complete with nausea patch behind his ear 'cause of the hair raising

Re: [FRIAM] CAS in Mumbai. At lunchtime.

2007-05-30 Thread Owen Densmore
On May 29, 2007, at 11:22 PM, Merle Lefkoff wrote: I liked this. Did you read the article The World ISN'T Flat!? The cool stuff is still happening locally. Friedman, as usual, is just full of Friedman. Where are you in the universe? Love, Merle Where is the article, btw? -- Owen

[FRIAM] Seminal Papers in Complexity

2007-06-15 Thread Owen Densmore
Several of us have been attending the SFI Summer School this year. One thing that has stood out for me is that there are very few appropriate texts on the detailed, seminal ideas within complexity. Either the books are popular or they are technical/formal enough, but without broad view

Re: [FRIAM] Seminal Papers in Complexity

2007-06-19 Thread Owen Densmore
On Jun 16, 2007, at 1:43 PM, Merle Lefkoff wrote: Owen, I took advantage of the CNLS printer to print LOTS of articles about complexity that seemed to do more than just gestate in utero (let's all feminize seminal). Before I toss them all, I will pass on a few suggestions for the list.

Re: [FRIAM] Seminal Papers in Complexity

2007-06-19 Thread Owen Densmore
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] explorations: www.synapse9.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 7:38 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: [FRIAM] Seminal Papers in Complexity

Re: [FRIAM] Article on Epstein

2007-06-26 Thread Owen Densmore
On Jun 26, 2007, at 8:31 AM, Robert Holmes wrote: Epstein has a new book and MIT Tech Review are running an article on artificial societies on the back of it http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18880/page1/ Well, I bought the book, because of our teaching the SFI modeling section, and

[FRIAM] Fwd: Apple Developer Connection News #484

2007-07-20 Thread Owen Densmore
Some interesting insights from the current ADC news letter: Begin forwarded message: From: Apple Developer Connection [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 20, 2007 3:11:30 PM MDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Apple Developer Connection News #484 APPLE DEVELOPER CONNECTION NEWSJuly 20, 2007

Re: [FRIAM] Diff Contin. to Nick!

2007-07-26 Thread Owen Densmore
BTW, looking at other stubs under mathematics, we may be able to help in other areas! Math Boy/Girl Scouts! Here is the list of stubs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mathematical_analysis_stubs Seriously, It'd be kinda neat to help out here. -- Owen

Re: [FRIAM] Diff Contin. to Nick!

2007-07-26 Thread Owen Densmore
[I sent this earlier but it apparently failed to be sent to the list.] On Jul 25, 2007, at 10:53 PM, Peter Lissaman wrote: 2. DIFFERENTIABILITY AND CONTINUITY (Nicholas Thompson) Nick: Let me be your math consultant! Taught that stuff at Caltech many years!! The mathematicians are horn

Re: [FRIAM] Diff Contin. to Nick!

2007-07-26 Thread Owen Densmore
On Jul 25, 2007, at 10:53 PM, Peter Lissaman wrote: 2. DIFFERENTIABILITY AND CONTINUITY (Nicholas Thompson) Nick: Let me be your math consultant! Taught that stuff at Caltech many years!! The mathematicians are horn swogglin' you with mis- understood function theory! A'course the f'n roof

[FRIAM] ASCIIMathML.js demo

2007-07-29 Thread Owen Densmore
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. ` ... `) and converts it to MathML.

Re: [FRIAM] O'Reilly -- The History of Programming Languages

2007-08-05 Thread Owen Densmore
Sun made use of C++ API's (that customers see) illegal. This was in the 1995-2000 time frame. This was mainly because there was not a good binary standard for shared libraries at that time that used C++. Also, it turned out that there were a few studies done about software engineering in

Re: [FRIAM] Nature: Ball reviews Miller, Page, and Epstein

2007-08-09 Thread Owen Densmore
Could you pass on the text? The article apparently requires a subscription. -- Owen On Aug 9, 2007, at 9:45 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote: Social science goes virtual p647 Mathematical models could help us re-engage with reality rather than trying to reinvent it. Philip Ball

[FRIAM] Edge: The Need for Heretics

2007-08-11 Thread Owen Densmore
This from the Edge: Freeman Dyson talking about the need for heretics in science: http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge219.html#dysonf Interestingly enough, his first shot is at global warming! But the real story is that he want's *young* heretics, not old ones. Plenty of them and they

Re: [FRIAM] Edge: The Need for Heretics

2007-08-11 Thread Owen Densmore
On Aug 11, 2007, at 3:42 PM, Robert Holmes wrote: On 8/11/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Certainly there is a need for heretics and I consider myself a minor heretic and mystic outlaw, but to deny the reality of global warming/climate change is just stupid. snip No

Re: [FRIAM] Edge: The Need for Heretics

2007-08-11 Thread Owen Densmore
-8195 - Cell On 8/11/07, Owen Densmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to agree .. in the sense that a SFI climate paleontologist couched the issue: There is certainly a very recent correlation between CO2 and an upward trend in temperature. But when one looks at multi-million year

Re: [FRIAM] Edge: The Need for Heretics

2007-08-11 Thread Owen Densmore
On Aug 11, 2007, at 8:17 PM, Phil Henshaw wrote: ... Of the three main energy sources, fossil, nuclear, and competition for land, which would you recommend for providing exponential increases of energy forever, without consequences? I'm a (modified) nuke kinda guy. By modified, I mean the

Re: [FRIAM] Edge: The Need for Heretics

2007-08-12 Thread Owen Densmore
What an interesting list! Note that the same Challenge may occur multiple times due to a different Opportunity (solution). Communicable Diseases occurs 3 times and Malnutrition and Hunger 4 times, for example. That's good, makes the list specific solution oriented, thus clearer on cost

Re: [FRIAM] Edge: The Need for Heretics

2007-08-12 Thread Owen Densmore
On Aug 12, 2007, at 12:07 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: 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

[FRIAM] Fwd: Cheney on why we shouldn't invade Iraq -- 1994

2007-08-15 Thread Owen Densmore
Now THIS IS weird! Begin forwarded message: Date: August 15, 2007 7:16:36 PM MDT Subject: Cheney on why we shouldn't invade Iraq -- 1994 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9a8_1186873756 I guess it was Bush's idea after all! Or Cheney lost his marbles. Or is something else going on?

[FRIAM] Facebook? iPhone?

2007-08-16 Thread Owen Densmore
OK, I've been bumping into facebook a bunch lately .. can anyone tell me why its wonderful? Anyone using it? My interest is that the iPhone world is happy with it's new iPhone version. Apparently lots of web 2.0 sites are rushing to provide an iPhone version. Makes sense 'cause the

[FRIAM] WISIWYS: What I See Is What You See

2007-08-16 Thread Owen Densmore
For those of us mac users suffering HTML email sent to us on this list that we cannot easily read because it is rendered very tiny, it turns out to be a windows problem with preferring to use HTML email (even if you'd prefer ASCII) and having it choose tiny fonts. Here's the story:

[FRIAM] NPR : Size Matters: The Hidden Mathematics of Life

2007-08-18 Thread Owen Densmore
Geoff is getting a lot of press lately, nice to see: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12877984 -- Owen FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures,

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