Mike YOU WROTE:
In fact, this FRIAM group should be operating in a social network and these threads would be preserved for future readers. If this is interest in this, I'll build one. I have to say this interests me. Much as I hated its "ontology", BLACKBOARD had something that nothing else I have encountered has. Public or Private access, document posting, threaded discussion lists, and email lists useable and manageable by all members of the list. PB Wiki has a lot of this stuff but none of the email facilities, yet. What are you using facebook FOR? Nick > [Original Message] > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 8/19/2007 10:02:31 AM > Subject: Friam Digest, Vol 50, Issue 23 > > Send Friam mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Friam digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. NPR : Size Matters: The Hidden Mathematics of Life (Owen Densmore) > 2. whether successfully averted for the moment or not, ... > (Phil Henshaw) > 3. Re: Facebook? iPhone? (Michael Orshan) > 4. [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent you a link to content of interest > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > 5. Netlogo 4.0Beta5 (Stephen Guerin) > 6. Reed's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Owen Densmore) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 10:57:59 -0600 > From: Owen Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [FRIAM] NPR : Size Matters: The Hidden Mathematics of Life > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > Geoff is getting a lot of press lately, nice to see: > <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12877984> > > > -- Owen > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 13:24:05 -0400 > From: "Phil Henshaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [FRIAM] whether successfully averted for the moment or not, > ... > To: "FRIAM" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > > Hi folks, > > ...this week's global run on credit seems like a casebook example of how > a natural system failure to provide growing physical returns on > investment would effect financial commitments for endlessly growing > financial returns. The naturally conflict. > > One thing we can do is watch it closely, so others may learn from our > experience. Because systemic collapse is a big physical process in a > big physical system, displaying all-together new kinds of rapidly > spreading behaviors, watch for that. If you see that sort of thing > perhaps you'll 'believe your eyes and ears' and not feel the > observations were 'planted' in your imagination somehow. Remember what > things seemed to mean before and after and make note of it. > > --- > I've been using the mismatch between our unlimited economic expectations > and their certain disappointment as a way to learn about natural systems > and how they fool us for about 30 years. It's remains a rich and > engaging subject. In June I sent out my first 'system collision > warning' ever, initially in a post to the AIA environment forum. I > said I thought the surprise discovery by the ethanol investors in May, > that ethanol couldn't have the land they wanted (to begin the shift of > the world economy to a carbon neutral energy source) because milk > producers raised the price, signaled the tip of the growth system's > physical collision with the earth we've all been waiting for, 'the big > crunch'. The same kind of 'fish-tailing' in the steering mechanisms > of the world economic system I observed then in the energy markets also > seems clear in the rapid, large scale, and indecisive maneuvering this > week by financial institutions. > > Just because growth expectations are fulfilled, even for hundreds of > years, doesn't mean it's not certain that natural systems will fail > them, and so our financial design that requires growth for it's own > stability is a mistake. If this week's threatened global financial > collapse is just a warning, well, then do take it as a warning. > > > > Phil Henshaw ????.?? ? `?.???? > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > 680 Ft. Washington Ave > NY NY 10040 > tel: 212-795-4844 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > explorations: www.synapse9.com > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:09:26 -0600 > From: "Michael Orshan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Facebook? iPhone? > To: "'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'" > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Owen: > > I'm using Facebook and Linkedin for many purposes. Cleary, social networks > are the future for many reasons. Trade, relationships, causes, etc. > Facebook is currently the fastest growing public social network, and Myspace > is the largest by far. Linkedin is mostly for business and is trying to > compete with the others. Social networking is becoming the key for Internet > traffic growth in advertising, your causes or to create your social site. > > They all allow 3rd party widgets, but you need to stay on the site. This > creates a specialized third party application. Maybe with a little > database. > > They are wonderful because they bring people with "like" minds together. If > you think of eBay, people trade without knowing each other and their biz > model is beginning to show rust. It is slowing down. Social network trade > will probably take over. In fact, this FRIAM group should be operating in > a social network and these threads would be preserved for future readers. > If this is interest in this, I'll build one. > > Mike > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Owen Densmore > Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 10:02 PM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Subject: [FRIAM] Facebook? iPhone? > > 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 iPhone > does not support 3rd party apps, and encourages developers to create > web-centric applications instead: > http://developer.apple.com/iphone/ > > -- 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 > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 13:56:41 -0500 (CDT) > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [FRIAM] [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent you a link to content of > interest > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent you a link to the following content: > > Opening up the Social Network Graph > http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/08/opening_up_the.html > > The sender also included this note: > > Interesting stuff here on Social Network Analysis and Display (SNAD?) > > -- > Sent via a FeedFlare link from a FeedBurner feed. > http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/publishers/feedflare > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 05:21:15 -0600 > From: "Stephen Guerin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [FRIAM] Netlogo 4.0Beta5 > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Two interesting new features in Netlogo's announcement yesterday. > > - new experimental __includes keyword allows splitting model code into multiple > files > > - Mathematica-NetLogo link provides a real-time link between Mathematica and > NetLogo, for controlling model runs and visualizing and analyzing results after > the fact or in real time > > Full announcement below. > > -Steve > > > > > The Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling at Northwestern > University is pleased to announce the release of NetLogo 4.0beta5. NetLogo > 4.0beta5 is available for free download from > http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/. <http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/.> > > This is a BETA release of NetLogo. As such, there may be a few bugs. > As far as we know, this release is reliable. Nonetheless, if you want to use a > NetLogo which has proved stable, please stick with NetLogo > 3.1.4 for now. > > Please try 4.0beta5 out and send us bug reports at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:bugs%40ccl.northwestern.edu> and other suggestions and comments at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:feedback%40ccl.northwestern.edu> . > > If you are a Mathematica user, you might want to try out the NetLogo-Mathematica > link, new in this release. We have found combining the power of ABM and symbolic > scientific computing to be quite powerful. > > For those of you who have been inquiring about colors: In case you missed it, in > beta3, NetLogo color variables can now take values from the full RGB color > space. > > The following is a (partial) list of changes made and new features added since > the previous beta, NetLogo 4.0beta3. (For a complete list of changes since 3.1.4 > see http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/whatsnew4_0.html > <http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/whatsnew4_0.html> .) > > * models: > + new earth science model: Climate Change new chemistry model: Diprotic > + Acid new materials science model: Solid Diffusion new mathematics > + model: Surface Walking 2D new network model: Team Assembly new > + unverified El Farol model replaces old El Farol which is > now named El Farol Network Congestion > + improved models: Conic Sections 2 (now verified), Echo (now > verified), Rebellion (bugfixes; now verified), Heatbugs (improved visuals), > Small Worlds (bugfix), Planarity (simpler code), Daisyworld (now verified) > + new Code Examples: Ask-Concurrent Example, Ask Ordering Example, > Random Network Example, Fully Connected Network Example, Mobile Aggregation > Example, Wall Following Example, Circular Path Example > + new HubNet activities: PANDA BEAR > + new HubNet code example: Template > + improved models: Planarity (simpler code), Autumn > (now verified), Plant Hybridization > + improved HubNet activities: Dice Stalagmite HubNet (now > verified), Bug Hunters Camouflage (now verified), Root Beer Game, Disease > Doctors, Minority Game > * features: > + new experimental __includes keyword allows splitting model > code into multiple files > + Mathematica-NetLogo link provides a real-time link > between Mathematica and NetLogo, for controlling model runs and visualizing and > analyzing results after the fact or in real time > + output areas now have editable font size the tie command is no longer > + experimental; new link variable > tie-mode can be set to "fixed", "free", or "none" > * language changes: > + old rgb and hsb primitives renamed to approximate-rgb and > approximate-hsb; they now expect inputs in 0-255 range instead of 0-1.0 > + new primitive import-pcolors-rgb imports images into the > patches as RGB colors > + the file-read primitive now skips over comments code may now set a > + slider to values which violate the > slider's min, max, and increment > + new reporter all? tests whether all agents in an agentset > satisfy a condition > + the hsb and rgb reporters now report RGB lists instead of > NetLogo colors > + added is-<link-breed>? primitive > + added is-directed-link and is-undirected-link? primitives the table > + extension now restricts table keys to be numbers, > strings, booleans, or nested lists of same > * fixes: > + new monitors now default to full precision, not 3 decimal places the > + file-read reporter now reads very long lists drastically > faster > + fixed 4.0-only bug where some list primitives such as sum and > mean didn't work properly with the new of primitive in some cases > + fixed 4.0-only bug where import-world didn't work with arrays > and tables > + fixed 4.0-only bug where importing shapes caused a Java > exception > + fixed 4.0-only bug where the speed slider didn't function > well with continuous updates (there was a sharp discontinuity in speed on the > left) > + fixed 4.0-only bug where using the speed slider to fast-forward > a model with tick-based updates and fractional updates could cause view updates > at incorrect times > + fixed 4.0-only bug where applets required additional jars > besides just NetLogoLite.jar > + fixed some 4.0-only bugs in plotting > > Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:bugs%40ccl.northwestern.edu> and other suggestions and comments to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:feedback%40ccl.northwestern.edu> . > > We also have three mailing lists for NetLogo: > - netlogo-announce: occasional release announcements only > - netlogo-users: discussions about NetLogo > - netlogo-educators: discussions about teaching with NetLogo > http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/ <http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/> has > info on all three. > > Credits: > > NetLogo was designed and authored by Uri Wilensky, project leader and director > of the CCL. The lead developer is Seth Tisue. Many others have contributed > greatly. HubNet was jointly designed by Uri Wilensky and Walter Stroup. > > The design of NetLogo was supported through funding from the National Science > Foundation (grants REC 9632612, REC 9814682, REC 0126227, CCR 0326542). > Additional support for the design of HubNet (calculator > version) was provided by Texas Instruments. > > Enjoy, > > -- > Uri Wilensky > Director, Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling > http://ccl.northwestern.edu <http://ccl.northwestern.edu> > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 09:00:12 -0600 > From: Owen Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [FRIAM] Reed's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > > Interesting to see that David Reed's Law is now in Wikipedia: > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed's_law> > Its all about beyond Metcalf's value of the network being n^2, > bringing in the power set of subgroups networks can form, thus > valuing the network as 2^n. > > Stephen has the insight that Reed's Law is quite important and > explains the web 2.0 explosion and a will be a/the major component of > a web 3.0 future. > > Nice to see its now pretty fully on the radar. > > -- Owen > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Friam mailing list > [email protected] > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > End of Friam Digest, Vol 50, Issue 23 > ************************************* ============================================================ 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
