Marcus, Thanks for checking in. I think I can safely say that that is a thing I will probably never do, but you have reminded me that I ought to see if somebody has already done it in NetLogo.
I am sorry that my original post was garbled. Here is an ungarbled version: *Same setup as before. Cylinder with two plungers and a peggable slider at dead center. Lets fill our compartments with bbs of the same volume. Unpeg the divider. Now let's tap on the two opposite plungers with a series of blows of the same average magnitude but differen*t skew* in the distribution of magnitudes: a normal distribution for the left half, and a highly positive skewed distribution on the right. Will the divider move? * As I think about it, I begin to wonder what is the best measure of central tendency to use in making a prediction. Am I correct that if it is the arithmatic mean, the barrier does not move, and if it is the root mean square, it does? How on earth would I decide which measure to move; I suppose we could look and see what happens to the bbs. Nick On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com> wrote: > Can you make this more fun and ask George or your favorite virtual > correspondent for a Python or Mathematica implementation? Then we’d have > something definite to debug. > > > > *From:* Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Nicholas Thompson > *Sent:* Sunday, June 15, 2025 8:27 AM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.com> > *Subject:* [FRIAM] Entropy RE-redux > > > > Same setup as before. Cylinder with two plungers and a peggable slider at > dead center. Lets fill our compartments with bbs of the same volume. Unpeg > the divider. Now lets tap on the two opposite plungers with a series of > blows of the same average magnitude but different but different positive > skew in the distribution of magnitudes. Will the divider move? > > -- > > Nicholas S. Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology > > Clark University > > nthomp...@clarku.edu > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson > .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / > ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ > -- Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology Clark University nthomp...@clarku.edu https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson
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