Re: [FRIAM] The problems of interdisciplinary research

2024-02-12 Thread glen
vements on the water, as water conditions vary, as it is executing a specified set of moves in order. *From:*Friam *On Behalf Of *Prof David West *Sent:* Monday, February 12, 2024 7:15 AM *To:* friam@redfish.com *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] The problems of interdisciplinary research The notion of searc

Re: [FRIAM] The problems of interdisciplinary research

2024-02-12 Thread Marcus Daniels
: Monday, February 12, 2024 7:15 AM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The problems of interdisciplinary research The notion of search brings to mind two different experiences: 1- traditional "searching" of the library via the card catalog (yes, I know I am old) for relevant inpu

Re: [FRIAM] The problems of interdisciplinary research

2024-02-12 Thread Prof David West
, but also can discard whole modules at a time >> and reimagine them.Managers are suspicious of such people because >> managers want to modularize expertise for division of labor. Scrum is in >> some sense a way to impede the development of expertise and to deny the need &

Re: [FRIAM] The problems of interdisciplinary research

2024-02-12 Thread David Eric Smith
> From: Friam mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com>> On > Behalf Of David Eric Smith > Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2024 2:25 AM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <mailto:friam@redfish.com>> > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The problems of interdisciplinary re

Re: [FRIAM] The problems of interdisciplinary research

2024-02-10 Thread Marcus Daniels
for it. From: Friam On Behalf Of David Eric Smith Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2024 2:25 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The problems of interdisciplinary research There’s a famous old rant by von Neumann, known at least by those who were around to hear

Re: [FRIAM] The problems of interdisciplinary research

2024-02-10 Thread David Eric Smith
It is an interesting question. A colleague of mine, to whom I refer either affectionately (sometimes) or in exasperation (most times) as The Mystic believes that this utilization was what the Phenomenologists were after, though he considers only Husserl and Fink the real deal, and the others

Re: [FRIAM] The problems of interdisciplinary research

2024-02-10 Thread Stephen Guerin
“math had become too big; nobody could understand more than 1/4 of it”. "But with four neighbors I can compute most of it" ;-) On Sat, Feb 10, 2024, 5:25 AM David Eric Smith wrote: > There’s a famous old rant by von Neumann, known at least by those who were > around to hear it, or so I was

Re: [FRIAM] The problems of interdisciplinary research

2024-02-10 Thread David Eric Smith
There’s a famous old rant by von Neumann, known at least by those who were around to hear it, or so I was told by Martin Shubik. von Neumann was grumping that “math had become too big; nobody could understand more than 1/4 of it”. As always with von Neumann, the point of saying something

Re: [FRIAM] The problems of interdisciplinary research

2024-02-09 Thread Roger Critchlow
Yeah, it seems like the premise of the cartoon, or maybe Jochen's interpretation, was that people have limited scopes of application, and the average scope of application doesn't include interdisciplinary research. But there are people who have larger scope and have a lot of fun doing

Re: [FRIAM] The problems of interdisciplinary research

2024-02-09 Thread Frank Wimberly
I didn't read the article but Carnegie Mellon, where I worked for almost 20 years, prides itself on the amount of interdisciplinary research accomplished there.. Herb Simon had appointments in psychology, computer science, business and public policy, I believe. I was a coauthor of papers in