I'm a mathematician but I rarely use Mathematica or MatLab (only occasionally, for curios)--and don't know what R is. Some mathematicians use these tools in teaching, but I'm not that enthusiastic about them --and tend not to teach courses where they would be most appropriate. I do use Latex for writing papers. Prior to my retirement I sometimes used Latex for tests and handouts, but often used the Equations editor in Word, which isn't as good but quicker). I have Macs in home and office. Latex and Word run on all sorts of computers. ________________________________________ From: Friam [[email protected]] on behalf of Owen Densmore [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 11:49 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Digital Ecology
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Grant Holland <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Owen - Great post. Hope some other folks will respond in kind. Might be interesting to get an 'inventory of digital lifestyles'. - Grant Sent from my iPhone Thanks! Yeah, I sorta was surprised by how interconnected everything is .. not just hardware nor even software .. but the overall "hive" and interaction. Thus "ecology". I'm also a bit surprised how much I *don't* do/have. I haven't the slightest idea what high quality photographers do. I've no fancy camera, just the phone. RAW files and hardcopy certainly make a difference in one's DE. I also have no game systems (xbox, ps3 ..) and I *know* these devices have come on strong into household integration, mainly TV but I think much more than that. Although I have "social" accounts, I don't use them, so am not aware how they all interact in one's lifestyle. Doug uses his FB account quite a bit, I know. And G+ gets a lot of use by the digerati. I'm not sure how intensive use of these effect my Digital Ecology but I'm sure they would. We don't heavily use a car GPS system either, although rented one in Italy last visit. I *think* but not sure that they interact with at least a home computer to upgrade maps etc. I know that there are phone GPS systems that are pretty sophisticated to, with add-on hardware/software *TomTom Thinking about Pamela and others within Friam who write professionally, I presumed that would have quite an impact on the DE. For example, publishers likely favor software that is not available on both mac/windows and might, for compatibility reasons, impact hardware/OS choice. In general, work-home integration likely molds the DE. Mathematicians use Mathematica and MatLab and R and ... Scientists need lots of "codes", most Fortran, and may need a pretty husky computer to run them. So it does reach into the middle of your lifestyle and impacts the integration of all our digital critters. I am interested in how others see it. -- Owen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
