A (the only?) downside to not reading every FRIAM post. Sorry for the dupe.
--Doug On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:26 AM, glen e. p. ropella <[email protected]>wrote: > > Douglas Roberts wrote at 04/18/2013 05:36 AM: > > Thinking along the lines of Moore's law, extrapolating it backwards. I > > love stories that are told across cosmological time scales: > > > > > http://www.technologyreview.com/view/513781/moores-law-and-the-origin-of-life/ > > We have to give credit where it's due! ;-) Roger already posted this. > > Roger Critchlow wrote at 04/16/2013 08:44 AM: > > I don't know if retrodicting an exponential growth curve back to > > it's origin is technically an extrapolation, but aside from that > > quibble this is very cute. > > > > Plot Moore's Law, it hits the origin in the 1960's when there were > > zero transistors on chips. > > > > "A similar process works with scientific publications. Between 1990 > > and 1960, they doubled in number every 15 years or so. Extrapolating > > this backwards gives the origin of scientific publication as 1710, > > about the time of Isaac Newton." > > > > Now make some assumptions about the time of origin of various > > genetic complexities evident in the history of life on earth, and > > plot the growth curve for that. When was its origin? > > > > > http://www.technologyreview.com/view/513781/moores-law-and-the-origin-of-life/ > > > > http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.3381 > > > > -- rec -- > > -- > glen e. p. ropella, 971-255-2847, http://tempusdictum.com > The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. > -- Milton Friedman > > > ============================================================ > 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 > -- *Doug Roberts [email protected]* *http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins*<http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> * <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> 505-455-7333 - Office 505-672-8213 - Mobile*
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