[FRIAM] New physicist in town
I have met Jacques Mettes, a physicist who is interested in joining FRIAM and WedTech. I gave him the links to sign up for the mailing lists, but he hasn't received replies.Jacques is interested, among other things, in video processing with Xilinx FPGAs (Vivado, Vitis) and to exchange experiences doing so. His email is jacmet...@gmail.com . Ron Newman, M.S., M.M.E. www.RonPiano.com Blog <https://www.ronwrite.com> -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . 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/
[FRIAM] Fwd: PITCH IN: New Mexico's Social Enterprise Challenge
Ron Newman, M.S., M.M.E. Founder, IdeaTreeLive.com <https://www.Ideatreelive.com> Knowledge Modeling www.RonPiano.com Blog <https://www.ronwrite.com> -- Forwarded message - From: Rue, Wendy Date: Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 4:22 PM Subject: PITCH IN: New Mexico's Social Enterprise Challenge To: We have an exciting opportunity to share with you! *PITCH IN:* *New Mexico’s Social Enterprise Challenge* Do you have an innovative idea to help address the immediate and long-term economic impacts of COVID-19 in our community? If so, we want to hear from you. Hosted by Bernalillo County, Nusenda Credit Union, UNM Innovation Academy and the Sandia Labs' Center for Collaboration and Commercialization (C3), this competition provides an opportunity for anyone in the state to pitch their ideas for a chance to win cash prizes from a prize pool of $10,000 and receive follow-on support from economic development professionals. Please visit PITCH IN <https://unminnovationacademy.wixsite.com/pitchin> for more information. *Applications are due by April 1, 2020.* Contact the Pitch In team at pitchinprizecompetit...@gmail.com with any questions. Thank you, *David Kistin* Center for Collaboration and Commercialization Sandia National Laboratories 505-205-3598 *dkis...@sandia.gov * *Wendy Rue* Center for Collaboration and Commercialization Sandia National Laboratories 505-238-5658 w...@sandia.gov 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 archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
Re: [FRIAM] Swarms vs. herds
Nick, Yes, quick-and-dirty mob decision-making. I'm interested in what the article described as everyone-at-once weighing in on opinions. And I don't see why they require AI - which is in essence just pattern matching. It sounds to me like what they're doing in imitation of bees is a multi-pass compiler, just calculating weights of opinions and iterating over and over. I'm thinking about other ways this real-time iterative compilation of opinion can be done. Paul Paulus at has come up with an elegant, no-tech solution called Brainwriting <https://www.inc.com/magazine/20031001/strategies.html>. Iterating that quickly could be one way. Norman Johnson (is he on this list?) has done a lot of work in how swarm/ Collective Intelligence systems solve for resiliency of the system as a whole, and how "noise" is necessary to move out of well-worn local minima in the solution space. I'm hoping that Trump is just such a helpful noise, inadvertently solving for eventual resiliency. Ron Newman, M.S., M.M.E. Founder, IdeaTreeLive.com <https://www.Ideatreelive.com> Knowledge Modeling www.RonPiano.com Blog <https://blog.ideatreelive.com> On Sat, Dec 7, 2019 at 12:50 PM wrote: > Ron, > > > > Thanks for this. The idea that the delegation of individual choice to > “leaders” that occurs in mobs is a concession to the need for rapid > concerted action in the face of an incalculable emergency is an important > one to me. It’s reminiscent of sexual behavior in which the interests of > the entire body are temporarily put into the contr > > . > > > > > > ol of a very small part of it > > > > > > > > > > > > I love the idea that a swarm of bees is just a bunch of bees going off to > a quiet place to have a think. For a fascinating rumination on mob > behavior please see Among the Thugs. > <https://www.amazon.com/Among-Thugs-Bill-Buford/dp/0679745351> > > > > Although I have made it (See attached) I have never been entirely > comfortable with argument that in an emergency a bad decision be made > quickly is preferable to no decision. > > > > Nick > > > > Nick Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > > Clark University > > thompnicks...@gmail.com > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Ron Newman > *Sent:* Saturday, December 7, 2019 9:27 AM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.com> > *Subject:* [FRIAM] Swarms vs. herds > > > > Interesting take on swarms vs. herds: > > > > "So in nature it’s interesting to see these different behaviors appear in > other organisms. You know, in a prey organism where a herd could make bad > decisions but what’s more important is it can make a kneejerk reaction and > escape because they’re prey, you could end up with a mob mentality > emerging. In a swarm, like bee swarms, where what’s more important is > thoughtful deliberation, the process is parallel rather than serial and you > end up with a group that can make, I would say, an enlightened decision > that’s better than the individuals would have made because they have the > luxury of time to make that decision... > > > > And because elections are done by polls rather than swarms, what an > election will do is it will have the most popular choice emerge that’s not > necessarily the choice that would maximize the satisfaction of a > population... > > And so this idea of we/us humans make decisions through polling, and it’s > in a lot of ways far less evolved than the way that birds and bees and fish > make decisions, which is through swarming. And a swarm will actually find > that decision that really is the thing that reflects the combined sentiment > of the population, whereas a poll is such an over-simplification, it’s > really just what happens to be the largest plurality, but very often that’s > very far from the answer that actually is the combined sentiment of a > population." > > > > full article: > https://voicesinai.com/episode/episode-61-a-conversation-with-dr-louis-rosenberg/ > > > > My take on it: https://blog.ideatreelive.com/on-the-importance-of-idiots/ > > > > > Ron Newman, M.S., M.M.E. > > Founder, IdeaTreeLive.com <https://www.Ideatreelive.com> Knowledge > Modeling > > www.RonPiano.com > > Blog <https://blog.ideatreelive.com> > > > > > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/fri
[FRIAM] Swarms vs. herds
Interesting take on swarms vs. herds: "So in nature it’s interesting to see these different behaviors appear in other organisms. You know, in a prey organism where a herd could make bad decisions but what’s more important is it can make a kneejerk reaction and escape because they’re prey, you could end up with a mob mentality emerging. In a swarm, like bee swarms, where what’s more important is thoughtful deliberation, the process is parallel rather than serial and you end up with a group that can make, I would say, an enlightened decision that’s better than the individuals would have made because they have the luxury of time to make that decision... And because elections are done by polls rather than swarms, what an election will do is it will have the most popular choice emerge that’s not necessarily the choice that would maximize the satisfaction of a population... And so this idea of we/us humans make decisions through polling, and it’s in a lot of ways far less evolved than the way that birds and bees and fish make decisions, which is through swarming. And a swarm will actually find that decision that really is the thing that reflects the combined sentiment of the population, whereas a poll is such an over-simplification, it’s really just what happens to be the largest plurality, but very often that’s very far from the answer that actually is the combined sentiment of a population." full article: https://voicesinai.com/episode/episode-61-a-conversation-with-dr-louis-rosenberg/ My take on it: https://blog.ideatreelive.com/on-the-importance-of-idiots/ Ron Newman, M.S., M.M.E. Founder, IdeaTreeLive.com <https://www.Ideatreelive.com> Knowledge Modeling www.RonPiano.com Blog <https://blog.ideatreelive.com> 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 archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
Re: [FRIAM] Win/Mac lookalikes for charity
Thanks, uǝlƃ and Gary, I've passed on the suggestions to Computer Charity. Ron Newman, M.S., M.M.E. Founder, IdeaTreeLive.com <http://www.Ideatreelive.com> Knowledge Modeling www.RonPiano.com Blog <https://blog.ideatreelive.com> On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 12:52 PM Gary Schiltz wrote: > https://itsfoss.com/macos-like-linux-distros/ > > The only one of these that I’ve diddled with a bit is elementaryOS. I’d > recommend you download a bunch of them and install them on VirtualBox. You > might do the same with some of the Chrome OS variants. > > On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 1:32 PM Ron Newman wrote: > >> I think I know the answer already, but I'll ask anyway. The local >> Computer Charity, which restores up computers and sells them cheap for >> those who can't afford them otherwise, is looking for a Linux desktop that >> looks enough like the Windows or Mac GUI that less tech savvy buyers will >> see something that looks and operates in a familiar way. This will allow >> them to use a ton of Macs that are otherwise junk. Of course, the usual >> Gnome or KDE Linux desktops won't work. Probably impossible to copy >> closely Win or Mac due to patent issues, but thought I'd ask just in case. >> >> Ron Newman, M.S., M.M.E. >> Founder, IdeaTreeLive.com <http://www.Ideatreelive.com> Knowledge >> Modeling >> www.RonPiano.com >> Blog <https://blog.ideatreelive.com> >> >> >> >> >> >> 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 >> archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >> > > 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 > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > 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 archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
[FRIAM] Win/Mac lookalikes for charity
I think I know the answer already, but I'll ask anyway. The local Computer Charity, which restores up computers and sells them cheap for those who can't afford them otherwise, is looking for a Linux desktop that looks enough like the Windows or Mac GUI that less tech savvy buyers will see something that looks and operates in a familiar way. This will allow them to use a ton of Macs that are otherwise junk. Of course, the usual Gnome or KDE Linux desktops won't work. Probably impossible to copy closely Win or Mac due to patent issues, but thought I'd ask just in case. Ron Newman, M.S., M.M.E. Founder, IdeaTreeLive.com <http://www.Ideatreelive.com> Knowledge Modeling www.RonPiano.com Blog <https://blog.ideatreelive.com> 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 archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
Re: [FRIAM] Ownership of expired patent
Good point on time limit. I'll check my papers in storage in case they're there. Ron Newman, M.S., M.M.E. Founder, IdeaTreeLive.com <http://www.Ideatreelive.com> Knowledge Modeling www.RonPiano.com Blog <https://blog.ideatreelive.com> On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 3:30 PM Barry MacKichan < barry.mackic...@mackichan.com> wrote: > My understanding is the same as Steve’s, but I’d like to add that most of > these items can be overridden by other agreements such as NDA, non-compete, > etc. or the fine print in the work-for-hite agreement. Usually when I had > these agreements with employees, there was a time limit in the contract. > Check these if you still have them. > > --Barry > > On 2 Jul 2019, at 18:55, Stephen Guerin wrote: > > Not a lawyer / this is my understanding. > > Yes, the firm owns the copyright to the code and is a form of intellectual > property independent of patent. > > Copyright is owned by the author (or entity that had work-for-hire > agreements) at the moment of creation. > > As an author or someone that had access to proprietary information during > it's creation, you can not rewrite it in a different language or transfer > any knowledge to someone who is. it would violate the copyright. If an > independent person saw the product and wanted to re-implement the > functionality without access to the code or other proprietary information > they could do so in a "clean room design" process: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design > > -Stephen > ___ > CEO, Simtable http://www.simtable.com > 1600 Lena St #D1, Santa Fe, NM 87505 > office: (505)995-0206 mobile: (505)577-5828 > twitter: @simtable > > > On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 4:13 PM Ron Newman wrote: > >> P.S. A more subtle question is what if I rewrote the formerly-patented >> application in a different language. Does a work-for-hire cover ideas? I >> think it does. >> >> Ron Newman, M.S., M.M.E. >> Founder, IdeaTreeLive.com <http://www.Ideatreelive.com> Knowledge >> Modeling >> www.RonPiano.com >> Blog <https://blog.ideatreelive.com> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 4:11 PM Ron Newman wrote: >> >>> I think the patent, which is non-renewable, and the code implementing >>> the patent are two separate things. The first they lose rights over, but >>> the second is covered by a work-for-hire agreement since it could be used >>> internally, or even sold as a product by the corporation without patent. >>> But I could be wrong. >>> >>> Ron Newman, M.S., M.M.E. >>> Founder, IdeaTreeLive.com <http://www.Ideatreelive.com> Knowledge >>> Modeling >>> www.RonPiano.com >>> Blog <https://blog.ideatreelive.com> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 4:06 PM Tom Johnson wrote: >>> >>>> Would not the corporation have to renew the patent at some point? >>>> Tom >>>> >>>> ======== >>>> Tom Johnson - t...@jtjohnson.com >>>> Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA >>>> 505.577.6482(c)505.473.9646(h) >>>> *NM Foundation for Open Government* <http://nmfog.org> >>>> *Check out It's The People's Data >>>> <https://www.facebook.com/pages/Its-The-Peoples-Data/1599854626919671>* >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 3:55 PM Ron Newman wrote: >>>> >>>>> I was awarded a software patent 30 years ago while at a corporate >>>>> job. That patent has since expired, of course. I assume I signed a >>>>> work-for-hire agreement the first day on that job. >>>>> >>>>> Now that it's expired, I also assume the corporation still owns the >>>>> code, and so I'm not free to open source it. Correct? >>>>> >>>>> Any IP attorneys here? >>>>> >>>>> Ron Newman, M.S., M.M.E. >>>>> Founder, IdeaTreeLive.com <http://www.Ideatreelive.com> Knowledge >>>>> Modeling >>>>> www.RonPiano.com >>>>> Blog <https://blog.ideatreelive.com> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ===
Re: [FRIAM] Ownership of expired patent
P.S. A more subtle question is what if I rewrote the formerly-patented application in a different language. Does a work-for-hire cover ideas? I think it does. Ron Newman, M.S., M.M.E. Founder, IdeaTreeLive.com <http://www.Ideatreelive.com> Knowledge Modeling www.RonPiano.com Blog <https://blog.ideatreelive.com> On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 4:11 PM Ron Newman wrote: > I think the patent, which is non-renewable, and the code implementing the > patent are two separate things. The first they lose rights over, but the > second is covered by a work-for-hire agreement since it could be used > internally, or even sold as a product by the corporation without patent. > But I could be wrong. > > Ron Newman, M.S., M.M.E. > Founder, IdeaTreeLive.com <http://www.Ideatreelive.com> Knowledge Modeling > www.RonPiano.com > Blog <https://blog.ideatreelive.com> > > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 4:06 PM Tom Johnson wrote: > >> Would not the corporation have to renew the patent at some point? >> Tom >> >> >> Tom Johnson - t...@jtjohnson.com >> Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA >> 505.577.6482(c)505.473.9646(h) >> *NM Foundation for Open Government* <http://nmfog.org> >> *Check out It's The People's Data >> <https://www.facebook.com/pages/Its-The-Peoples-Data/1599854626919671>* >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 3:55 PM Ron Newman wrote: >> >>> I was awarded a software patent 30 years ago while at a corporate job. >>> That patent has since expired, of course. I assume I signed a >>> work-for-hire agreement the first day on that job. >>> >>> Now that it's expired, I also assume the corporation still owns the >>> code, and so I'm not free to open source it. Correct? >>> >>> Any IP attorneys here? >>> >>> Ron Newman, M.S., M.M.E. >>> Founder, IdeaTreeLive.com <http://www.Ideatreelive.com> Knowledge >>> Modeling >>> www.RonPiano.com >>> Blog <https://blog.ideatreelive.com> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> 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 >>> archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >>> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >>> >> >> 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 >> archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >> > 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 archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
Re: [FRIAM] Ownership of expired patent
I think the patent, which is non-renewable, and the code implementing the patent are two separate things. The first they lose rights over, but the second is covered by a work-for-hire agreement since it could be used internally, or even sold as a product by the corporation without patent. But I could be wrong. Ron Newman, M.S., M.M.E. Founder, IdeaTreeLive.com <http://www.Ideatreelive.com> Knowledge Modeling www.RonPiano.com Blog <https://blog.ideatreelive.com> On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 4:06 PM Tom Johnson wrote: > Would not the corporation have to renew the patent at some point? > Tom > > > Tom Johnson - t...@jtjohnson.com > Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA > 505.577.6482(c)505.473.9646(h) > *NM Foundation for Open Government* <http://nmfog.org> > *Check out It's The People's Data > <https://www.facebook.com/pages/Its-The-Peoples-Data/1599854626919671>* > > ======== > > > On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 3:55 PM Ron Newman wrote: > >> I was awarded a software patent 30 years ago while at a corporate job. >> That patent has since expired, of course. I assume I signed a >> work-for-hire agreement the first day on that job. >> >> Now that it's expired, I also assume the corporation still owns the code, >> and so I'm not free to open source it. Correct? >> >> Any IP attorneys here? >> >> Ron Newman, M.S., M.M.E. >> Founder, IdeaTreeLive.com <http://www.Ideatreelive.com> Knowledge >> Modeling >> www.RonPiano.com >> Blog <https://blog.ideatreelive.com> >> >> >> >> >> >> 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 >> archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >> > > 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 > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > 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 archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
[FRIAM] Ownership of expired patent
I was awarded a software patent 30 years ago while at a corporate job. That patent has since expired, of course. I assume I signed a work-for-hire agreement the first day on that job. Now that it's expired, I also assume the corporation still owns the code, and so I'm not free to open source it. Correct? Any IP attorneys here? Ron Newman, M.S., M.M.E. Founder, IdeaTreeLive.com <http://www.Ideatreelive.com> Knowledge Modeling www.RonPiano.com Blog <https://blog.ideatreelive.com> 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 archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
[FRIAM] sniffing around
I'm letting it be known that I'm sniffing around for a job, or just work, part or full. M.S. Comp. Sci. ex-IBM ~30 years at it, a couple of patents Primarily Python/Django/DBs. Some JS. Coming up to speed on machine learning. PHP would be like a comfortable pair of old running shoes. If this is verboten for this list, please let me know. Off list I'm ron DOT newman AT gmail Ron Ron Newman, M.S., M.M.E. Founder, IdeaTreeLive.com <http://www.Ideatreelive.com> Knowledge Modeling www.RonPiano.com Blog <https://blog.ideatreelive.com> 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 archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
[FRIAM] IBM Watson competing with world debating champ in natural language
https://www.research.ibm.com/artificial-intelligence/project-debater/live/ Can we say that there is a virtual "personality" emerging? A meta-personality derived from 4 billion discrete sentences? I say no, but a lot of interesting factual "knowledge". Ron Newman, M.S., M.M.E. Founder, IdeaTreeLive.com <http://www.Ideatreelive.com> Knowledge Modeling Piano <https://www.ronnewmanpiano.com> Blog <https://blog.ideatreelive.com> 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 archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
Re: [FRIAM] Venice to charge day-trippers for access to city center | News | santafenewmexican.com
For anyone who hasn't seen it, the hilarious and thought-provoking movie "Where To Invade Next" opens with a portrait of Italian working life. Here's a link to a full-length copy (probably bootleg, so support it elsewhere wherever you can). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j7tuwH346Y Ron Newman, M.S., M.M.E. Founder, IdeaTreeLive.com <http://www.Ideatreelive.com> Knowledge Modeling Piano <https://www.ronnewmanpiano.com> Blog <https://blog.ideatreelive.com> On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 11:35 PM Jochen Fromm wrote: > Oh, nice. The Guardian has an article about Venice too > > > https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/06/venice-losing-fight-with-tourism-and-flooding > > -Jochen > > > > Original message > From: Owen Densmore > Date: 1/6/19 23:08 (GMT+01:00) > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > > Cc: Wedtech , John DiRuggiero , Fabio > Carrera > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Venice to charge day-trippers for access to city > center | News | santafenewmexican.com > > And more importantly, Fabio's H3 palace in Giudecca > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xXk6EKWIBrZ-thmvvL5ACBpKbpVQssexJTcq4zKWevw/edit > > and the Birraria La Corte > > http://birrarialacorte.it/ > > near his shared office! > >-- Owen > > On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 1:40 PM Jochen Fromm wrote: > >> There are far too many tourists in Venice, and the cruise ships are >> monsters that destroy the city. Clearly a step in the right direction. >> >> Venice itself is quite beautiful. A lot of Vivaldi concertos, Cicchetti >> bars, and Vaporetti stations (a Vaporetto is a kind of water bus). Venice >> is famous for Gondolas and "Aperol Spritz". A unique city. >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gondola >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spritz_Veneziano >> >> -Jochen >> >> >> Original message >> From: Owen Densmore >> Date: 1/6/19 18:33 (GMT+01:00) >> To: Complexity Coffee Group , Fabio Carrera < >> carrera.fa...@gmail.com>, John DiRuggiero , Wedtech < >> wedt...@redfish.com> >> Subject: [FRIAM] Venice to charge day-trippers for access to city center >> | News | santafenewmexican.com >> >> The SF New Mexican has this interesting article on how Venice is trying >> to handle their overwhelming tourism. >> >> >> http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/venice-to-charge-day-trippers-for-access-to-city-center/article_60b81701-d063-585e-b3e9-8c2cd4d89663.html >> >> This is just the first of several ideas to manage tourism in Venice. >> Managing large tour ships already has started, for example. Managing AirBnB >> is another in the works. >> >> From the article: >> >> Official estimate that as many as 30 million people visit Venice each >> year, with about one-fifth spending at least one night in the historic >> center of the city, which excludes islands in the lagoon and a mainland. >> >> But that means the other four-fifths are day trippers? Whoa! >> >> Fabio: any others? And is focusing on day trippers (with no overnight >> stay) helpful? >> >>-- 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 >> archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >> > > 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 > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > 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 archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
Re: [FRIAM] Preference Order Ecosystems: was Trumpism
Stepping back to 40,000 ft. for a second... '[Morality] is an evolutionary process in which societies constantly perform experiments, and whether or not those experiments succeed determines which cultural ideas and moral precepts propagate into the future.' If so, he says, then a theory that rigorously explains how coevolutionary systems are driven to the edge of chaos might tell us a lot about cultural dynamics, and how societies reach that elusive, ever-changing balance between freedom and control. 'Witness the collapse of communism in the former Soviet Union...the whole situation seems all too reminiscent of the power-law distribution of stability and upheaval at the edge of chaos. 'When you think of it', he says, 'the Cold War was one of these long periods where mot much changed...But now that period of stability is ending...in the models, once you get out of one of these metastable periods, you get into one of these chaotic periods where a lot of change happens..It's much more sensitive now to initial conditions.' 'So what's the right course of action?' he asks. 'I don't know, except that this is like punctuated equilibrium in evolutionary history. It doesn't happen without a great deal of extinction. And it's not necessarily a step for the better. There are models where the species that dominate in the stable period after the upheaval may be less fit than the species that dominated beforehand.' 'And now suppose it's really true that coevolving, complex systems get themselves to the edge of chaos...if we imagine that this really carries over into economic systems, then it's a state where technologies come into existence and replace others, et cetera. But if this is true, it means that the edge of chaos is, on average, the best that we can do...You can go extinct, or broke. But here we are on the edge of chaos because that's where, on average, we all do the best.' - Doyne Farmer, Chris Langton, and Stuart Kauffman, in that order, quoted in "Complexity", M. Mitchell Waldrop, p. 319-322. I wrote a layman's blog post on a similar idea, "On the Importance of Idiots", speculating that societal chaos might be moving the solution space out of local minima into novel areas in the solution space, and that the process might be solving for long-term resiliency of the system as a whole, in opposition to short-term sanity. I did filter it through Norm Johnson at SFI to remove egregious errors, but make no claim for completeness or rigor: https://blog.ideatreelive.com/?p=481 Ron Newman, M.S., M.M.E. Founder, IdeaTreeLive.com <http://www.Ideatreelive.com> Knowledge Modeling Piano <https://www.ronnewmanpiano.com> 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 archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
[FRIAM] Congress votes to make open government data the default
https://e-pluribusunum.org/2018/12/21/congress-made-open-government-data-the-default-in-the-united-states/ Ron Newman, M.S., M.M.E. Founder, IdeaTreeLive.com <http://www.Ideatreelive.com> Knowledge Modeling Piano <https://www.ronnewmanpiano.com> Blog <https://blog.ideatreelive.com> 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 archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
[FRIAM] Big data stats in Python
Someone was asking a few weeks ago about running statistics on data kept in tables. Here's a possibility to throw in the mix: https://github.com/vaexio/vaex Ron Newman, M.S., M.M.E. Partner, Caditz-Newman <http://newman.caditz.us>, Smart Infrastructure for Autonomous Vehicles Founder, IdeaTreeLive.com <http://www.Ideatreelive.com> Knowledge Modeling Piano <https://www.ronnewmanpiano.com> Blog <https://blog.ideatreelive.com> 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 archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
Re: [FRIAM] two books
Frank, And what's your view of "What is Real?", by Adam Becker? I'm thinking of having a look at it. Ron Ron Newman, M.S., M.M.E. Partner, Caditz-Newman <http://newman.caditz.us>, Smart Infrastructure for Autonomous Vehicles Founder, IdeaTreeLive.com <http://www.Ideatreelive.com> Knowledge Modeling Piano <https://www.ronnewmanpiano.com> Blog <https://blog.ideatreelive.com> On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 6:40 AM Frank Wimberly wrote: > We decided that The Road to Reality was unreadable because it's neither > here nor there. It was very Advanced without being mathematical enough. > Kind of like a long badly written Scientific American article. > > To make a long story short, we finally read Gauge Fields, Knots and > Gravity by John Baez more or less successfully. The first part of the book > covers manifolds, differential forms and, in general, the math you need for > general relativity and quantum field theory. If you want another opinion > ask Jon Zingale or Barry Mackichan. > > Frank > > Or travel back in time and ask Hywel. > --- > Frank Wimberly > > My memoir: > https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly > > My scientific publications: > https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2 > > Phone (505) 670-9918 > > On Tue, Dec 4, 2018, 11:21 PM Nick Thompson wrote: > >> Hi, Dave, >> >> Missed this note the first time. Frank and Hywel had a go at this a >> couple >> of years ago, and I bought the book and tried to join them. Whew! It was >> at that point I gave up on the notion that I could read anything if I >> tried >> hard enough. Hywel has since died, but I think there was at least one >> other >> person involved, who, with Frank, might be able to give you some >> guidance. >> >> Nick >> >> Nicholas S. Thompson >> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology >> Clark University >> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ >> >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Prof David >> West >> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 10:26 AM >> To: friam@redfish.com >> Subject: [FRIAM] two books >> >> I just finished reading What is Real? by Adam Becker. A straightforward >> discussion of Quantum Physics and the "Copenhagen Interpretation," and the >> arguments surrounding it. it offers an indirect but scathing study of how >> science is really done and how far the practice of science is from the >> ideal >> of a "scientific method." Also an interesting discussion of the >> relationship >> between 'science' and 'phi8losophy'. Might be of interest to several >> FRIAMers. >> >> Starting to read Roger Penrose's, The Road to Reality: a complete guide >> tot >> he laws of the universe. I would really like some advice / comments from >> the >> mathematicians in the community as to the value of the book and the likely >> hood that I might gain sufficient understanding of manifolds, symmetry >> groups, etc. etc. to understand some of the conversations on the list and >> at >> the mother church. >> >> dave west >> >> >> 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 >> archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >> >> >> >> 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 >> archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >> > > 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 > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > 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 archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
[FRIAM] DIY satellite ground station
>From the TLDR newsletter: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-ground-station-ingest-and-process-data-from-orbiting-satellites/ Ron Newman, M.S., M.M.E. Partner, Caditz-Newman <http://newman.caditz.us>, Smart Infrastructure for Autonomous Vehicles Founder, IdeaTreeLive.com <http://www.Ideatreelive.com> Knowledge Modeling Piano <https://www.ronnewmanpiano.com> Blog <https://blog.ideatreelive.com> 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 archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
Re: [FRIAM] Network graph analysis, IdeaTreeLive new release
Yes On Wednesday, November 21, 2018, Tom Johnson wrote: > Ron: > See the three links below. All three connect to the same URL. Is that > what you intend? > [image: image.png] > > > Tom Johnson > Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA > 505.577.6482(c)505.473.9646(h) > *NM Foundation for Open Government* <http://nmfog.org> > *Check out It's The People's Data > <https://www.facebook.com/pages/Its-The-Peoples-Data/1599854626919671>* > http://www.jtjohnson.com t...@jtjohnson.com > ============ > > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 2:02 PM Ron Newman wrote: > >> I'm happy to announce a new release of IdeatreeLive.com >> <https://ideatreelive.com/>, interactive network graphing software for >> scientific and general project work. >> >> The main new thing that's visible is the addition of analysis functions. >> Right now, there's dijkstra shortest path analysis, but the infrastructure >> is in place for adding a few dozen others, putting this interactive UI over >> algorithms from Networkx. >> >> As before, editing can be shared in real time with others, kind of like >> Google Docs for graphics, and there's a chat box, comments, voting, etc. >> >> There's a no-login scratchpad demo graph on the home page for playing >> around. >> >> I'm looking for beta testers. >> >> Best, >> Ron >> Ron Newman, M.S., M.M.E. >> Partner, Caditz-Newman <http://newman.caditz.us>, Smart Infrastructure >> for Autonomous Vehicles >> Founder, IdeaTreeLive.com <http://www.Ideatreelive.com> Knowledge >> Modeling >> Piano <https://www.ronnewmanpiano.com> >> >> >> >> 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 >> archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >> > -- Ron Newman, M.S., M.M.E. Partner, Caditz-Newman <http://newman.caditz.us>, Smart Infrastructure for Autonomous Vehicles Founder, IdeaTreeLive.com <http://www.Ideatreelive.com> Knowledge Modeling Piano <https://www.ronnewmanpiano.com> Blog <https://blog.ideatreelive.com> 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 archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
[FRIAM] Network graph analysis, IdeaTreeLive new release
I'm happy to announce a new release of IdeatreeLive.com <https://ideatreelive.com/>, interactive network graphing software for scientific and general project work. The main new thing that's visible is the addition of analysis functions. Right now, there's dijkstra shortest path analysis, but the infrastructure is in place for adding a few dozen others, putting this interactive UI over algorithms from Networkx. As before, editing can be shared in real time with others, kind of like Google Docs for graphics, and there's a chat box, comments, voting, etc. There's a no-login scratchpad demo graph on the home page for playing around. I'm looking for beta testers. Best, Ron Ron Newman, M.S., M.M.E. Partner, Caditz-Newman <http://newman.caditz.us>, Smart Infrastructure for Autonomous Vehicles Founder, IdeaTreeLive.com <http://www.Ideatreelive.com> Knowledge Modeling Piano <https://www.ronnewmanpiano.com> 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 archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
[FRIAM] traffic data
Does anyone know where to get real-world traffic data sets? Ideally, origin-to-destination time stamped data on a fleet of vehicles, but lacking that, the number of vehicles traversing given intersections, average speed and volume of vehicles on a given road, total vehicles traveling in a time window - we'll take what we can get and interpolate from that. Realistic sample data is better than nothing but real-world is ideal. Ron Ron Newman, Founder IdeaTreeLive.com <http://www.Ideatreelive.com> Piano <https://www.ronnewmanpiano.com> Blog <https://blog.ideatreelive.com> 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 FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
Re: [FRIAM] How a complex network of bills becomes a law: Introducing a new data analysis of text incorporation… – Medium
As a technical aside, the diagrams look to be generated using graphviz, the same layout engine we use in IdeatreeLive.com for "prettifying" maps. -- Ron Newman, Founder IdeaTreeLive.com <http://www.ideatreelive.com/> www.linkedin.com/in/ideatree/ On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 4:50 PM, Tom Johnson wrote: > Intriguing work here. > > https://medium.com/@govtrack/how-a-complex-network-of-bills-becomes-a-law- > 9972b9624d36#.sfjbypbc3 > > TJ > > > 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 > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > 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 FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: 7 Billion World - 7 billion people on 1 page
As to how they're doing it, just a few html tables holding a single .gif for each region. But mouseovers show the number of an individual person in a tooltip. An image map for that would be huge, so I assume they're calculating it somehow in Javascript from x/y position Didn't look further. On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Arlo Barnes wrote: > When/if we get ubiquitous volumetric displays, the webpage could be a > 1000-person-wide cube; if the voxels-per-inch-cube-edge resolution was the > same as the current <http://www.7billionworld.com/howbig.php> pixels-per-inch > resolution<http://www.7billionworld.com/counting.php#How_many_people_are_there_on_every_row_and_every_column%2A>, > the hypothetical cube would still be 6.25 meters to a side. > -Arlo James Barnes > > > 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 > -- Ron Newman, Founder MyIdeatree.com <http://www.Ideatree.us> The World Happiness Meter <http://worldhappinessmeter.com> 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
Re: [FRIAM] Whirled Happiness
We keep talking about doing coffee but hasn't happened yet. Interesting guy. On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Merle Lefkoff wrote: > Ron, > > Norm and I teamed up when we were both in T Division (I was at CNLS) at > the Lab working on an ABM policy simulator. He's back in Santa Fe. > > Merle > > > On Apr 12, 2013, at 12:06 PM, Ron Newman wrote: > > > Steve, > > Do you have a link to your 2001 paper on Collective Intelligence? Can't > google it. > > > > By the way, are you acquainted with Norman Johnson, late of LANL? > > > > Ron > > > > -- > > Ron Newman, Founder > > MyIdeatree.com > > The World Happiness Meter > > > > > > On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Steve Smith wrote: > > Ron- > >> Here's the link to the Christakis/Fowler paper on happiness contagion I > mentioned earlier...and a TEDx talk. > > Thanks... I was being a little flip when I suggested all this, but I'm > glad to see that there *is* work tied in already underway. > >> Are they building off of Epstein's work? He's not mentioned in the > citations. > > I doubt it. I think we are talking somewhat separated paradigms. I > suspect there *could* be a tie in with some work, but I can tell already > that Doug is not going to be our Emissary over beer and ribs... . > > > > I have worked on two projects that tie in to Fowler's talk and his > referencing of the Digital Village. > > > > One was an early days(public) internet project ( entitled "Digital > Village", no kidding) to try to understand how the growing participation in > the internet of the first and third world population might change the > nature of these populations. I don't remember any amazing results, I seem > to remember that the project was overcome by events such that we were > running on pre-internet time trying to keep up with the actual progress of > the internet. A related project I think was to try to help the USPS > anticipate what the internet was going to mean to them... and what they > could do to remain relevant as the digital age overwhelmed the atom-age. > > > > The other was a paper on "Collective Intelligence" Circa 2001 which > involved some simple simulations to demonstrate that a connected group > could have more problem-solving ability than any individual (or small > subset?). > > > > A lot of my research and contribution overlaps a lot of what Fowler is > saying in his TED talk... in particular our evolutionary roots as nomadic > tribal groups of order 100... and the potential implications for our > (future) social networks when they are no longer geographically, familial, > or job constrained. > > > > I'm mildly disturbed by his verbage in the talk which seems to conflate > correlation with causation (are obese friends on facebook actually > influencing the others to become (more) obese or are they choosing > eachother because they are obese, or do obese people share common interests > (love food and sedentary pursuits while eschewing physical activities?). I > realize it is a popular talk jammed into a short period of time... I'll get > more out of the paper I'm sure. > > > > I'm also interested in whether "Happiness" is considered a scalar, a > vector or even a tensor? And if there are iterated network models > (roughly ABMs or Network Automata) trying to simulate this? > > > > So much for trying to be flip. Now I'm hooked (a little). > > > > Happily hooked? > > - Steve > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > 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 > -- Ron Newman, Founder MyIdeatree.com <http://www.Ideatree.us> The World Happiness Meter <http://worldhappinessmeter.com> 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
Re: [FRIAM] Whirled Happiness
Steve, Do you have a link to your 2001 paper on Collective Intelligence? Can't google it. By the way, are you acquainted with Norman Johnson, late of LANL? Ron -- Ron Newman, Founder MyIdeatree.com <http://www.ideatree.us/> The World Happiness Meter <http://worldhappinessmeter.com/> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Steve Smith wrote: > Ron- > > Here's the link to the > Christakis/Fowler<http://worldhappinessmeter.com/links.php>paper on happiness > contagion I mentioned earlier...and > a TEDx talk <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZAmkIp8aI4>. > > Thanks... I was being a little flip when I suggested all this, but I'm > glad to see that there *is* work tied in already underway. > > Are they building off of Epstein's work? He's not mentioned in the > citations. > > I doubt it. I think we are talking somewhat separated paradigms. I > suspect there *could* be a tie in with some work, but I can tell already > that Doug is not going to be our Emissary over beer and ribs... . > > I have worked on two projects that tie in to Fowler's talk and his > referencing of the Digital Village. > > One was an early days(public) internet project ( entitled "Digital > Village", no kidding) to try to understand how the growing participation in > the internet of the first and third world population might change the > nature of these populations. I don't remember any amazing results, I seem > to remember that the project was overcome by events such that we were > running on pre-internet time trying to keep up with the actual progress of > the internet. A related project I think was to try to help the USPS > anticipate what the internet was going to mean to them... and what they > could do to remain relevant as the digital age overwhelmed the > atom-age. > > The other was a paper on "Collective Intelligence" Circa 2001 which > involved some simple simulations to demonstrate that a connected group > could have more problem-solving ability than any individual (or small > subset?). > > A lot of my research and contribution overlaps a lot of what Fowler is > saying in his TED talk... in particular our evolutionary roots as nomadic > tribal groups of order 100... and the potential implications for our > (future) social networks when they are no longer geographically, familial, > or job constrained. > > I'm mildly disturbed by his verbage in the talk which seems to conflate > correlation with causation (are obese friends on facebook actually > influencing the others to become (more) obese or are they choosing > eachother because they are obese, or do obese people share common interests > (love food and sedentary pursuits while eschewing physical activities?). I > realize it is a popular talk jammed into a short period of time... I'll get > more out of the paper I'm sure. > > I'm also interested in whether "Happiness" is considered a scalar, a > vector or even a tensor? And if there are iterated network models > (roughly ABMs or Network Automata) trying to simulate this? > > So much for trying to be flip. Now I'm hooked (a little). > > Happily hooked? > - Steve > > > 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 > 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
Re: [FRIAM] Whirled Happiness
Here's the link to the Christakis/Fowler<http://worldhappinessmeter.com/links.php>paper on happiness contagion I mentioned earlier...and a TEDx talk <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZAmkIp8aI4>. Are they building off of Epstein's work? He's not mentioned in the citations. Ron -- Ron Newman, Founder MyIdeatree.com <http://www.ideatree.us/> The World Happiness Meter <http://worldhappinessmeter.com/> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:29 PM, Merle Lefkoff wrote: > Hi Steve, > > When our "Sustainable Happiness Week" is over (starts Saturday on > Jefferson's birthday--OF COURSE!--ends on Earth day) I'd love to have a > deeper conversation with you guys about all of this. > > We're actually doing two surveys, the one presently on-line based on the > Bhutanese domains of happiness, which doesn't encourage us to do a > statistically significant random sample (but it's a great social organizing > tool)---and a follow-up, which will incorporate the best social research > design we can muster, with hopefully at least a few objective measures. > > I remember in the old days sneaking into SFI to watch Josh Epstein do his > early ppt. on the spread of epidemics and thinking: how can I apply this > to the morphing of mass movements into revolution into civil war into > complete chaos. > > Carl, thanks for the link to the paper on measuring happiness. It's a big > problem among happiness researchers. > > Ron, I will get back to you tomorrow after I look at your web site. > > Merle > > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Steve Smith wrote: > >> Ron/Merle - >> >> When I went to the WHM, the three things that struck me were: 1) This is >> not a blind measure... it seems like you should have to state your level of >> happiness before you find out what the current "average" level is; 2) It >> looks a lot like the "Current Fire Danger" meter in our forests (Smoky Bear >> attending with his shovel, jeans and hat); 3) I suspect "happiness" to be >> culturally sensitive (both in meaning and in scaling?) >> >> Is there a model of sorts for "contagious happiness"? I also assume >> some of those here who use models of contagious disease might have some >> meta-models to offer (Doug, show your hand)? Are there reservoir >> populations? What are the non-human vectors (pets?). Is cynicism a >> prophylactic? Does happiness (and cynicism) act like quorum >> sensing/quenching (as with biology and/or hive populations?) Are there >> memetic equivalents to the modes of gene/protein expression? >> >> I would expect contemporary models of this might be registered on a >> network (scale-free, small world, power-law connected). >> >> The Maharishi effect has been offered to me many times without >> explanation for it's presumed mechanism. Back in the day, the Maharishi >> claimed that "world peace" (or some other unspecified collective good) >> would be achieved as soon as the square root of 1% of the population (that >> would be .0001 fraction?) achieved Sidhi status. Anecdotally, the number >> started out at a high mark of 10%, then dropped to a less onerous one of >> 1%, I don't know when or why the square root (.0001was added. I assumed it >> implied some kind of model for the phenomenon, but nobody seemed to know >> where that part came from or why the numbers kept getting downgraded. >> >> I recently watched the movie Kumare' (at the suggestion of our own Glen >> Ropella) and enjoyed it a great deal. A documentary film maker sets out >> to look into the world of Guru's and in the process becomes one... >> >> The best line of the movie was "My job is to be happy!", reducing his >> role as a (faux) Guru to a single, simple and effective concept. The >> documentary seemed to be completely authentic (as opposed to being some >> kind of mockumentary) and a conclusion (related to our earlier discussion >> about placebo/nocebo) might be that by embracing the role of a Guru(tm), >> Kumare' (the character) managed to have the effect of a genuine Guru(tm). >> >> 10 of his 14 acolytes remained true to him after he exposed himself as a >> documentary film maker studying the phenomena rather than a "real" guru. 4 >> have refused/avoided further contact with him. All 14 seemed to be >> enjoying huge benefits from their participation with him in his >> "practice". The 10, in followups seemed to have persistent positive >> effects, the other 4 we don't know but might have lost what they gain
Re: [FRIAM] Whirled Happiness
Jah, now that you mention it, it *does* look like the Smokey Bear sign. The intent on the front end is just to provide some bells and whistles to encourage participation, and the happiness level isn't controlled for influences, i.e. isn't blind. It probably will become a Facebook app, though the few times when I check FB I notice a propensity for an irritating artificial cheeriness, which could skew things. But it still will be interesting to see if there are any broad trends, since reports are time-stamped and geolocated. What happens after a natural or economic disaster in a region? Does it go down as most people predict, or spike down then up as people discover community effects, rebuilding a neighbor's house, etc.? Just yesterday I got access to terabytes of data to be mined when happiness reports are in order to flesh out the demographics of the area of each report. You mention happiness "contagion". Is that due to the link on WHM about the Christakis (Harvard) and Foster (UC San Diego) on contagion and effects of happiness (and unhappiness, as well as obesity), up to two degrees of separation? There's a TEDx talk by Foster and the paper is quite interesting. Ron -- Ron Newman, Founder MyIdeatree.com <http://www.ideatree.us/> The World Happiness Meter <http://worldhappinessmeter.com/> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Steve Smith wrote: > Ron/Merle - > > When I went to the WHM, the three things that struck me were: 1) This is > not a blind measure... it seems like you should have to state your level of > happiness before you find out what the current "average" level is; 2) It > looks a lot like the "Current Fire Danger" meter in our forests (Smoky Bear > attending with his shovel, jeans and hat); 3) I suspect "happiness" to be > culturally sensitive (both in meaning and in scaling?) > > Is there a model of sorts for "contagious happiness"? I also assume some > of those here who use models of contagious disease might have some > meta-models to offer (Doug, show your hand)? Are there reservoir > populations? What are the non-human vectors (pets?). Is cynicism a > prophylactic? Does happiness (and cynicism) act like quorum > sensing/quenching (as with biology and/or hive populations?) Are there > memetic equivalents to the modes of gene/protein expression? > > I would expect contemporary models of this might be registered on a > network (scale-free, small world, power-law connected). > > The Maharishi effect has been offered to me many times without explanation > for it's presumed mechanism. Back in the day, the Maharishi claimed that > "world peace" (or some other unspecified collective good) would be achieved > as soon as the square root of 1% of the population (that would be .0001 > fraction?) achieved Sidhi status. Anecdotally, the number started out at a > high mark of 10%, then dropped to a less onerous one of 1%, I don't know > when or why the square root (.0001was added. I assumed it implied some > kind of model for the phenomenon, but nobody seemed to know where that part > came from or why the numbers kept getting downgraded. > > I recently watched the movie Kumare' (at the suggestion of our own Glen > Ropella) and enjoyed it a great deal. A documentary film maker sets out > to look into the world of Guru's and in the process becomes one... > > The best line of the movie was "My job is to be happy!", reducing his role > as a (faux) Guru to a single, simple and effective concept. The > documentary seemed to be completely authentic (as opposed to being some > kind of mockumentary) and a conclusion (related to our earlier discussion > about placebo/nocebo) might be that by embracing the role of a Guru(tm), > Kumare' (the character) managed to have the effect of a genuine Guru(tm). > > 10 of his 14 acolytes remained true to him after he exposed himself as a > documentary film maker studying the phenomena rather than a "real" guru. 4 > have refused/avoided further contact with him. All 14 seemed to be > enjoying huge benefits from their participation with him in his > "practice". The 10, in followups seemed to have persistent positive > effects, the other 4 we don't know but might have lost what they gained? > > - Steve > > Merle, > I'm the developer of www.WorldHappinessMeter.com (WHM). How can I be > involved in the Happiness Santa Fe launch on Saturday? I notice from your > site that an in-depth survey is part of the festivities. One planned > addition to WHM is a survey in order to gather data worldwide to save the > need for boots on the ground. > > Ron > > -- > Ron Newman, Founder > MyIdeatree.com <http://www.ide
Re: [FRIAM] pluralism in science
Merle, I'm the developer of www.WorldHappinessMeter.com (WHM). How can I be involved in the Happiness Santa Fe launch on Saturday? I notice from your site that an in-depth survey is part of the festivities. One planned addition to WHM is a survey in order to gather data worldwide to save the need for boots on the ground. Ron -- Ron Newman, Founder MyIdeatree.com <http://www.ideatree.us/> The World Happiness Meter <http://worldhappinessmeter.com/> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Merle Lefkoff wrote: > Roger, > > Righto! We launch "Happiness Santa Fe" on Saturday ( go to our website, > the Center for Emergent Diplomacy, or just go to Happiness Santa Fe for a > calendar of events). We've had many recent conversations about how to > encourage conditions for a shift in our mental models from consumerism and > inequality toward compassion and generosity. > > When I teach Complexity at Upaya in the Buddhist chaplaincy program I > usually suggest that compassion is an emergent property of the biggest > system of all--our brains. So I say, hey guys, just meditate more! We > have hard neuroscience on how that works. But how do we change the initial > conditions for a collective response? Perhaps one way is to measure human > happiness and well-being differently by expanding GDP to include ecological > and social indicators as the Bhutanese have been trying to do for decades. > We tend to value what we measure. > > You know, dear Roger, that I follow the research carefully. Thanks for > this link. You guys study--we act and put it on the ground!! > > Merle > > > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > >> There's an intriguing book review in Science this week: >> >> *Studying Human Behavior* How Scientists Investigate Aggression and >> Sexuality *by Helen E. Longino* University of Chicago Press, Chicago, >> 2013. 261 pp. S75. ISBN 9780226492872. Paper, $25, £16. ISBN 9780226492889. >> >> http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6129/146.1.full?rss=1 >> >> The claim is that there is not and will not be a dominant paradigm for >> researching human behavior, there are multiple ways of establishing causes >> for behavior and that's just the way it is. >> >> So not only do phenomena worth studying emerge at different levels of >> organization, but the emerging phenomena at a level of organization are >> amenable to different disciplines of study which may all be judged >> "scientific" by a philosopher of science. >> >> So, what's scientific evidence now? >> >> -- rec -- >> >> >> 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 >> > > > > -- > Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D. > President, Center for Emergent Diplomacy > Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA > me...@emergentdiplomacy.org > mobile: (303) 859-5609 > skype: merlelefkoff > > > 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 > 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
[FRIAM] back to MOOC
This just in from EduTech...anyone know what Coursera is selling as an Amazon affiliate? https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=wm#inbox/13df3a490f1364c2 "Coursera's starting to see some revenue flow, reports InsideHigherEd<http://edsurge.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=439db75adf017b97887993422&id=da93c44037&e=bde6c51549>. The Palo Alto-based MOOC provider reportedly earned $220K in the first quarter after rolling out an accredited certification program, Signature Track<http://edsurge.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=439db75adf017b97887993422&id=93d7afd9c5&e=bde6c51549>, where student work is verified by mugshots, ID photos, and typing pattern. (The company also makes money from an affiliates program with Amazon.) The program is only available for eligible courses (currently there are 20<http://edsurge.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=439db75adf017b97887993422&id=aa552ce7e3&e=bde6c51549>) and costs around $50. Upon completion, students receive a "Verified Certificate," issued by Coursera along with the participating university, that the company suggests can be displayed on resumes. Coursera is also reporting that 70 to 80 percent of these paid users are finishing courses, going to show that those who pay to play tend to be a lot more serious." -- Ron Newman, Founder, CEO MyIdeatree.com <http://www.Ideatree.us> The World Happiness Meter <http://worldhappinessmeter.com> 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
Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: [New post] The Loud and Clear Message that the TED Controversy is Sending
I get your point, Doug. I had to suppress the desire to roll my eyes when once I met someone who looked up at the sky and spoke confidently of chemtrails. I'm reminded of something Joseph Campbell said - who looked as deeply into the beliefs of human beings across history as anyone. He said that the closer you get to something of distilled wisdom, the more crazies there are standing around. I try to keep that in mind when I'm tempted to throw something out while teasing the "signal from the noise". I once knew an anesthesiologist who patented a device and started a company around it. The thing located nerves accurately for surgeons. As an anecdotal aside, he told me that the places where nerves crossed each other tended to correlate with acupuncture points. One possibility. Regarding placebo, if we were talking about solar power, 30% efficiency would be a great starting point. Ron -- Ron Newman, Founder MyIdeatree.com <http://www.ideatree.us/> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > Well shoot, as long as we're talking about irrational belief sets, how > about if we throw chemtrails into the mix. There is a not insignificant > segment of the US population who fervently believe that "they" are > poisoning us, on purpose. But only on those days that the jets leave con > ... er ... chemtrails. No proof necessary, just *look* at those chemtrails. > > --Doug > > > 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
Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: [New post] The Loud and Clear Message that the TED Controversy is Sending
But you're missing the point.: *something* is working for them if they
believe it is, and is not for you or anyone who doesn't believe it is. The
question is how does it work? No, that's not good enough, because it too
easily leads back to premature assumptions. The question is: how can
placebo be improved. Not set aside but improved.
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:47 AM, glen wrote:
> Barry MacKichan wrote at 04/04/2013 10:29 AM:
> > I've heard it is very effective, but only for a time until the
> > patient discovers it is a placebo. Call it the Lincoln effect ("You
> > can fool all of ….").
>
> A friend of mine announced that she's now getting acupuncture for her
> chronic back and neck pain. There's a zealot in our local CfI
> (http://www.centerforinquiry.net/) group who continuously and loudly
> shouts about acupuncture being as quackish as homeopathy. (Seriously...
> is there anything as quackish as homeopathy?) The tiny amount of time
> I've spent looking into acupuncture indicates that it's mostly nonsense
> with some slight possibility of truth in regard to certain _pressure_
> points and nerve clusters. But nothing that an evidence-based masseuse
> couldn't achieve more effectively.
>
> But I kept my mouth shut and let her talk about how well it's worked so
> far. My dad also used acupuncture for a racquetball associated injury.
> He claimed it worked very well... [ahem] ... even better than his
> chiropractor. I didn't want to introduce any doubt that might interfere
> with her placebo effect.
>
> Interestingly, I was trying to apply the Golden Rule in a post-hoc
> analysis of my lack of action. Would I want someone to burst my placebo
> effect bubble? If so, when? Immediately? Or perhaps after some window
> of time as the placebo effect decays and it bumps up against the hard
> biophysical/physiological limits?
>
> --
> =><= glen e. p. ropella
> I can't get no peace until I get into motion
>
>
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Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: [New post] The Loud and Clear Message that the TED Controversy is Sending
If the placebo is double blind I've heard the percentage shoots up. But
the fact remains that a mere thought, or belief, is affecting something.
If science were untainted that would be the basis for massive
investigation.
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Barry MacKichan <
barry.mackic...@mackichan.com> wrote:
> I've heard it is very effective, but only for a time until the patient
> discovers it is a placebo. Call it the Lincoln effect ("You can fool all of
> ….").
>
> --Barry
>
> On Apr 4, 2013, at 11:14 AM, Ron Newman wrote:
>
> There's no money in it (actually, there's a lot of money in it) but the
> effects - 30% efficacy I heard once - are impressive, without side effects.
>
>
>
>
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Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: [New post] The Loud and Clear Message that the TED Controversy is Sending
I agree with Feynman. Sort of, with a caveat to follow after a short digression. What about the placebo effect, a standard reference for FDA approval of medications? There's no money in it (actually, there's a lot of money in it) but the effects - 30% efficacy I heard once - are impressive, without side effects. A P Dijsterkui<http://www.unconsciouslab.com/index.php?subpage=Ap%20Dijksterhuis&page=People>s is doing the Feynman thing with methods of decision-making and how the conscious - and unconscious - mind works. The obstacle as I see it is cultural - a sense of glee and "see, we told you so" on the part of the woo faction which is singularly unattractive; and on the other hand a "harrumph...highly irregular" (spoken with an English accent) on the part of the materialists, which also smells of crusty religion. To go beyond either, now that's a stretch. Back to Feynman, I agree with him, and also see that he's following his own bent, a love for analysis, that not everyone will share. Plus when you factor in Heisenberg and the observer's effect on the experiment, etc., at some point we just have to throw up our hands and shake our heads at our own humanity. Ron On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Bruce Sherwood wrote: > Feynman had a nice comment on this, Nick. He suggests that faith healers > don't take their faith seriously. > > Retrieved from http://faculty.randolphcollege.edu/tmichalik/feynman.htm > > "There is an infinite amount of crazy stuff, which, put another way, is > that the environment is actively, intensely unscientific. There is talk of > telepathy still, although it's dying out. There is faith-healing galore, > all over. There is a whole religion of faith-healing. There's a miracle at > Lourdes where healing goes on. Now, it might be true that astrology is > right. It might be true that if you go to the dentist on the day that Mars > is at right angles to Venus, that it is better than if you go on a > different day. It might be true that you can be cured by the miracle of > Lourdes. But if it is true, it ought to be investigated. Why? To improve > it. If it is true, then maybe we can find out if the stars do influence > life; that we could make the system more powerful by investigating > statistically, scientifically judging the evidence objectively, more > carefully. If the healing process works at Lourdes, the question is how far > from the site of the miracle can the person, who is ill, stand? Have they > in fact made a mistake and the back row is really not working? Or is it > working so well that there is plenty of room for more people to be arranged > near the place of the miracle? Or is it possible, as it is with the saints > which have recently been created in the United States - there is a saint > who cured leukemia apparently indirectly - that ribbons that are touched to > the sheet of the sick person (the ribbon having previously touched some > relic of the saint) increase the cure of leukemia - the question is, is it > gradually being diluted? You may laugh, but if you believe in the truth of > the healing, then you are responsible to investigate it, to improve its > efficiency and to make it satisfactory instead of cheating. For example, it > may turn out that after a hundred touches it doesn't work anymore. Now it's > also possible that the results of this investigation have other > consequences, namely, that nothing is there." > > FROM: "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out", by Richard P. Feynman, Helix > Books, 1999, pgs. 106-107. > > ============ > 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 > -- Ron Newman, Founder MyIdeatree.com <http://www.Ideatree.us> The World Happiness Meter <http://worldhappinessmeter.com> 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
Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: [New post] The Loud and Clear Message that the TED Controversy is Sending
So far in this thread I hear opinions mixed with some desire to examine evidence, but no discussion of the evidence itself. We are ourselves demonstrating one of the points made in the original blog post that spawned this thread - that it's about culture and assumptions, not science. I don't have time to read the links to further discussion and experimental data given in that post, but would enjoy hearing on this list from those that do. -- Ron Newman, Founder MyIdeatree.com <http://www.Ideatree.us> 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
Re: [FRIAM] MacPro Wifi compatibility in France
Thanks Steve, Ed, Owen. I'll check the security options. On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: > I travel to Italy quite a bit for fairly long stay, generally 6 weeks or > so. > > We mainly use iPads: mine is first generation, my wife's is the latest > with a cell SIM. Both have never had problems with wifi where available. > > I have taken an older Mac Book Pro which had difficulty with the wireless > security at one hotel. This was due to not having the latest > WEP,WPA,WPA2,etc. This was 3-4 years ago so is likely not a problem now. > Just check your wireless security options to make sure they include the > more modern WPA, WPA2 .. so you have a good chance of matching their > routers. > > -- Owen > > > On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Ron Newman wrote: > >> I have a good friend leaving this weekend for a conference in Paris, and >> taking her MacBook Pro. Does anyone know if there are potential issues >> with wifi connectivity there? From my reading I gather that 802.11h on >> 5Ghz is what's specifically designed for European compatibility, which >> doesn't appear on her mode list, and that there have been issues with with >> Apple products (iPad) not adhering to European limits on wifi client power >> levels. >> >> Here are the specs of the machine: >> MacBook Pro 8.1 >> OSx 10.6.8 >> Card type: Airport Extreme (0x14E4,0x06) >> PHY modes: 802.11 a/b/g/n >> >> Thanks, >> Ron >> >> -- >> Ron Newman, Founder >> MyIdeatree.com <http://www.Ideatree.us> >> The World Happiness Meter <http://worldhappinessmeter.com> >> >> >> >> 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 >> > > > > 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 > -- Ron Newman, Founder MyIdeatree.com <http://www.Ideatree.us> The World Happiness Meter <http://worldhappinessmeter.com> 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
[FRIAM] MacPro Wifi compatibility in France
I have a good friend leaving this weekend for a conference in Paris, and taking her MacBook Pro. Does anyone know if there are potential issues with wifi connectivity there? From my reading I gather that 802.11h on 5Ghz is what's specifically designed for European compatibility, which doesn't appear on her mode list, and that there have been issues with with Apple products (iPad) not adhering to European limits on wifi client power levels. Here are the specs of the machine: MacBook Pro 8.1 OSx 10.6.8 Card type: Airport Extreme (0x14E4,0x06) PHY modes: 802.11 a/b/g/n Thanks, Ron -- Ron Newman, Founder MyIdeatree.com <http://www.Ideatree.us> The World Happiness Meter <http://worldhappinessmeter.com> 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
[FRIAM] WTF, JS?
WTF, JS? http://wtfjs.com/ By the way, putting out the word that I'm looking for web development work. Thanks. -- Ron Newman, Founder MyIdeatree.com <http://www.Ideatree.us> The World Happiness Meter <http://worldhappinessmeter.com> 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
[FRIAM] Human Intervention As a Competitive Advantage
Human Intervention As a Competitive Advantage http://sivers.org/hi -- Ron Newman, Founder MyIdeatree.com <http://www.Ideatree.us> The World Happiness Meter <http://worldhappinessmeter.com> 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
Re: [FRIAM] ET Phone Home?
Not always. You can use a 1px image, re-sized on the client using CSS to any arbitrary size, as the basis for an image map so that various areas and polygon-sized regions on the page become clickable. Far more efficient than transmitting a full size image over the wire. -- Ron Newman, Founder MyIdeatree.com <http://www.ideatree.us/> The World Happiness Meter <http://worldhappinessmeter.com/> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote: > Shouldn't be there for formating reasons CSS javascript and PHP should > handle placement of elements on a page just fine without the need of a 1px > big item. > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: > >> Yesterday, I noticed in the middle of the "You just went to the Google >> homepage" conversation, my GMail "accept this image" banner was on, but >> I could see no image! >> >> WTF? >> >> So I look at the raw source, and indeed, this appears: >> >> https://app.yesware.com/t/ac60524099a2c2922efb3fea7fcd30ecf03a1=482/5bb54418d45ddd9646340c46dfba6e56/spacer.gif >> >> .. which when downloaded was a single pixel, invisible due to alpha=0 and >> possibly being white. >> >> This seems to be a way of knowing when the mail was opened, the >> yesware.com site can collect statistics on the image being displayed. >> >> Is anyone doing this on purpose? Or have you caught a malware in your >> mail client that is looking at your usage? Or is it simply part of an >> obscure formatting stunt? >> >> BTW: This then appeared in all the rest of the conversation which >> included the initial email. >> >>-- 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 >> > > > > 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 > 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
Re: [FRIAM] Learning by transcribing/translating: was TPBS
Curt, Since we're in the business of concept mapping for MOOCs, maybe you and I should talk off list. You might have some valuable tricks, preferences, and experiences. -- Ron Newman, CEO MyIdeatree.com <http://www.ideatree.us/> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Curt McNamara wrote: > Mock-Socratic? Sort of like this discussion list where we are supposedly > discussing however just responding based on the words. > > While I can see the value of professional notes (at least then you will > know what the prof thought important) it seems to me most lecture type > learning happens when I transcribe the words into another format for > myself. > > To me, mind mapping a book or presenting the material to someone else is > how I actually comprehend it. > > Curt > > 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
Re: [FRIAM] Two (and more) Cultures
Merle, Could you expound on this a little more? What kind of new communication structures? Intrigued also by the non-technical aspects of applied complexity in this instance. Ron -- Ron Newman, Founder MyIdeatree.com <http://www.ideatree.us/> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Merle Lefkoff wrote: > Two years ago we did a year-long training for Boeing aeronautical > engineers on how to deal with the complexity of getting the Dreamliner off > the ground. ( Just a reminder that applied complexity is useful, and it > isn't all about technology. ) Their failure to nurture the emergence of new > communication structures along the supply chain caused them much > frustration--they couldn't see the big picture. > > Merle > > 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
Re: [FRIAM] Windows Resource Monitor
Is there a list somewhere of commonly found - and usually unneeded - services that can be disabled in the services manager? That is, a list of descriptions of what each service does in plain english? Ron -- Ron Newman, Founder MyIdeatree.com <http://www.ideatree.us/> The World Happiness Meter <http://worldhappinessmeter.com/> YourSongCode.com <http://www.yoursongcode.com/> Lee : > See above: the resource monitor plus msconfig (plus, if you really want to > get down and dirty, > services.exe, which used I think to be services.msc?) is probably all you > need. In fact, I > suspect that you would be better served by not trying to find out > everything you need to make > use of all the information that the resource monitor tells you, but rather > just going to the > (expanded, Win7 version of the) Task Manager, and consulting the various > tabs there that tell > you an often more useful proper subset of the resource monitor's > information. > > Lee > > > > 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 > 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
[FRIAM] semantic analysis tools
I'm in need of some semantic analysis tools, thought this might be a good place to start. In 1992 I worked with a fellow from Australia who I've lost contact with who did keyword analysis including their proximity to each other. He could generate an abstract to a paper that was pretty good and represented meaning. With all the work in Semantic Web, RDF, etc., there have got to be great tools out there that I can get educated about. Suggestions welcome. -- Ron Newman, Founder MyIdeatree.com <http://www.Ideatree.us> 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
Re: [FRIAM] Preserving email correspondence
P.S., I forgot to mention, there's an API for all of this, to generate graphs programatically should that become applicable. On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Ron Newman wrote: > Barry, > Yes, arrows can be of different types. Colors are now supported in the > UI. Styles (dotted, etc.) are supported in the backend, only awaiting an > afternoon to put in the UI to select the style you want. > > Weighting of arrows is also supported, currently being saved in the shared > database, similarly just needs a selection form in the UI. A heavier > weight on the arrow between nodes causes those two nodes to be laid out > closer together, indicating relevance to each other. > > Size of nodes is currently selectable, I'm sure you saw that. > > If by attribute of an arrow you mean labeling of it, that can currently be > done by clicking the asterisk next to the arrow. > > Branches are minimized by clicking the minus sign (tiny) at the head of > the arrow. > > Nodes may be clustered by dragging to the upper right to the tiny icon > that's there, just below "Summaries". So there's some support for > arranging similar topics together. > > Yes, I'm a big fan of crowd sourcing, in fact, that's the motivation > behind this. If you haven't installed the button on your browser to insert > links to websites in a graph on the run as you browse, that's worth doing > (Tools menu). > > Printing is practical up to a certain size, but .pdf export (Tools menu > again) is better, because it retains the active links. Also, embedding a > clickable graph in a FRIAM website is possible, though that's public to the > world. > > Ron > > > -- > Ron Newman > MyIdeatree.com <http://www.ideatree.us/> > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Barry MacKichan < > barry.mackic...@mackichan.com> wrote: > >> Interesting... >> >> Here are some ideas to think about or shoot down. >> >> Is there a role for different types of arrows between entities? I can >> imagine writing something and wanting to indicate that it is in response to >> (a particular paragraph?) of a particular email, but I might also want to >> point back to the beginning (message or paragraph(s)) of this particular >> thread, which may be embedded in a larger thread, as in the case of an idea >> originating in a response to another message. I might also want to refer to >> background material. I might want to assign importance or weight to arrows, >> as in 'I am responding to this message, but it also has some relevance for >> this other message.' The most general case is that of assigning an >> attribute to an arrow, but you'd have to be careful about making it too >> complex. >> >> Some sort of 'force-collapsible' display (e.g., >> http://mbostock.github.com/d3/talk/2016/force-collapsible.html or >> the WordFlex iPad app) would make browsing interesting. >> >> The Mac app DevonThink has 'see-also' and 'classify' operations that >> attempt to find similarities between text bits that seem to be based on >> vocabulary similarities (they claim it is 'AI-based'). That would be a >> possible direction eventually. This similarities could provide additional >> weighted arrows between nodes. They have some server-based products, but I >> am not familiar with them. >> >> If you're a fan of crowd-sourcing, people could add weighted arrows to >> make explicit connections that they find. Nodes could gather weight or >> importance based on 'reviews' consisting of an integer. >> >> Most of these suggestions make printing a result impractical, but perhaps >> online interaction would be enough. You could choose which part of the >> graph to look at by clicking on a node to see its neighborhood. Sizes of >> nodes could reflect their weight. You could select what subset of arrows >> you want to see. >> >> --Barry >> >> PS. >> All the data of an email (except attachments) are transmitted together. >> To see all of it together in a file, save the message as a file. (On a Mac >> using Apple Mail, select a message, choose File/Save As..., and you'll get >> the file. Mail programs parse this to separate the content and header >> information for you. >> >> >> On Jan 21, 2013, at 11:07 AM, Ron Newman wrote: >> >> I'm willing to donate a FRIAM license of >> MyIdeaTree<http://www.myideatree.com/> >> (drag and drop building of network graphs from links). I'd learn a ton >> about usability from that. The ema
Re: [FRIAM] Preserving email correspondence
Barry, Yes, arrows can be of different types. Colors are now supported in the UI. Styles (dotted, etc.) are supported in the backend, only awaiting an afternoon to put in the UI to select the style you want. Weighting of arrows is also supported, currently being saved in the shared database, similarly just needs a selection form in the UI. A heavier weight on the arrow between nodes causes those two nodes to be laid out closer together, indicating relevance to each other. Size of nodes is currently selectable, I'm sure you saw that. If by attribute of an arrow you mean labeling of it, that can currently be done by clicking the asterisk next to the arrow. Branches are minimized by clicking the minus sign (tiny) at the head of the arrow. Nodes may be clustered by dragging to the upper right to the tiny icon that's there, just below "Summaries". So there's some support for arranging similar topics together. Yes, I'm a big fan of crowd sourcing, in fact, that's the motivation behind this. If you haven't installed the button on your browser to insert links to websites in a graph on the run as you browse, that's worth doing (Tools menu). Printing is practical up to a certain size, but .pdf export (Tools menu again) is better, because it retains the active links. Also, embedding a clickable graph in a FRIAM website is possible, though that's public to the world. Ron -- Ron Newman MyIdeatree.com <http://www.ideatree.us/> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Barry MacKichan < barry.mackic...@mackichan.com> wrote: > Interesting... > > Here are some ideas to think about or shoot down. > > Is there a role for different types of arrows between entities? I can > imagine writing something and wanting to indicate that it is in response to > (a particular paragraph?) of a particular email, but I might also want to > point back to the beginning (message or paragraph(s)) of this particular > thread, which may be embedded in a larger thread, as in the case of an idea > originating in a response to another message. I might also want to refer to > background material. I might want to assign importance or weight to arrows, > as in 'I am responding to this message, but it also has some relevance for > this other message.' The most general case is that of assigning an > attribute to an arrow, but you'd have to be careful about making it too > complex. > > Some sort of 'force-collapsible' display (e.g., > http://mbostock.github.com/d3/talk/2016/force-collapsible.html or the > WordFlex iPad app) would make browsing interesting. > > The Mac app DevonThink has 'see-also' and 'classify' operations that > attempt to find similarities between text bits that seem to be based on > vocabulary similarities (they claim it is 'AI-based'). That would be a > possible direction eventually. This similarities could provide additional > weighted arrows between nodes. They have some server-based products, but I > am not familiar with them. > > If you're a fan of crowd-sourcing, people could add weighted arrows to > make explicit connections that they find. Nodes could gather weight or > importance based on 'reviews' consisting of an integer. > > Most of these suggestions make printing a result impractical, but perhaps > online interaction would be enough. You could choose which part of the > graph to look at by clicking on a node to see its neighborhood. Sizes of > nodes could reflect their weight. You could select what subset of arrows > you want to see. > > --Barry > > PS. > All the data of an email (except attachments) are transmitted together. To > see all of it together in a file, save the message as a file. (On a Mac > using Apple Mail, select a message, choose File/Save As..., and you'll get > the file. Mail programs parse this to separate the content and header > information for you. > > > On Jan 21, 2013, at 11:07 AM, Ron Newman wrote: > > I'm willing to donate a FRIAM license of > MyIdeaTree<http://www.myideatree.com/> > (drag and drop building of network graphs from links). I'd learn a ton > about usability from that. The email / blog content would have to be > located on the web somewhere. > > Ron > > > > > 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 > 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
Re: [FRIAM] "Academics" and other Stereotypes
Regard motivation and opportunity, I keep hearing anecdotes, like dropping a shipment of tablets, with no explanation, no instructions, manuals in English, in an African village where no one speaks English...and five months later they are teaching themselves English and have hacked the tablets in some way. And an apparently accurate report of a large (paid) MOOC in South Korea that provides tutoring for kids already in school, whose top teachers make upwards of $1 million US, whose very top teacher makes $2 million, and who sign autographs like rock stars at public appearances. Ron -- Ron Newman MyIdeatree.com <http://www.ideatree.us/> The World Happiness Meter <http://worldhappinessmeter.com/> YourSongCode.com <http://www.yoursongcode.com/> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Bruce Sherwood wrote: > All of which is true, Owen, but I'm afraid you're making the natural > mistake of extrapolating from your own interests, experiences, and high > capabilities. The people like you and others on this list are in the world > at large a set of measure zero, albeit a set we don't want to neglect or > fail to nurture, and MOOCs are a way for an exceptionally bright rather > poor kid in Pakistan to educate herself or himself. The vast majority of US > college students do not have the discipline and burning desire to know that > may be required to succeed in distance learning. > > Bruce > > > 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
Re: [FRIAM] Preserving email correspondence
I'm willing to donate a FRIAM license of MyIdeaTree<http://www.myideatree.com>(drag and drop building of network graphs from links). I'd learn a ton about usability from that. The email / blog content would have to be located on the web somewhere. Ron On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: > Nick: could you do me a favor? After all the input, could you sorta play > "scenarios" or "prototypes"? > > These are common design practices that take an idea and actually mock it > up. Scenarios include "workflow" .. i.e. how the design is used on a > daily, weekly, and archive basis. Prototypes are a crude model of the > design. The Treo .. the first widespread PDA, started out life as blocks > of wood of various sizes carried around .. in pockets, purses, hands etc .. > to determine the appropriate size and form factor. It included paper for > "writing" (leading to Graffiti, the first touch writing trick) and "memory" > (the paper wound around the block of wood. > > Designers think that way and have huge success. > > I think you're on to something but it has to be taken out of the idea > realm into the tangible to make the next step. > > BTW: Fabio once said that much of the stuff on Friam should be a blog. > And a very early "electronic community", The Well, actually published some > of their stuff. > >-- 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 > -- Ron Newman MyIdeatree.com <http://www.Ideatree.us> The World Happiness Meter <http://worldhappinessmeter.com> YourSongCode.com <http://www.yourSongCode.com> 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
Re: [FRIAM] "Academics" and other Stereotypes
Bruce, Yeah, MOOCs and social media, or some hybrid of a MOOC with face-to-face in the form of local interest groups, or something like I believe Prof West is doing, if I understand correctly: online, remote learning in combination with hands-on, in-person learning. Ron -- Ron Newman MyIdeatree.com <http://www.Ideatree.us> The World Happiness Meter <http://worldhappinessmeter.com> 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
Re: [FRIAM] "Academics" and other Stereotypes
Clay Shirky points out the obvious but overlooked re: accessibility of traditional education: http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2012/11/napster-udacity-and-the-academy/ Ron -- Ron Newman, Founder MyIdeatree.com <http://www.Ideatree.us> The World Happiness Meter <http://worldhappinessmeter.com> YourSongCode.com <http://www.yourSongCode.com> 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
Re: [FRIAM] "Academics" and other Stereotypes
Merle, Perhaps you and I should be talking, comparing notes on what's effective and what's not. I'm working in visualization for MOOCs. Pamela, Doesn't online education lend itself to inter-student communication even more than it does to instructor-student communication? And being worldwide, humanities students especially would benefit cross-culturally. That being said, I'm sure that some things are being lost that I'm not sure I can codify right now. At any rate, when there's a MOOC football league then traditional education should be seriously worried. Ron -- Ron Newman, Founder MyIdeatree.com <http://www.Ideatree.us> Skype: ronlnewman Santa Fe, NM 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
Re: [FRIAM] Dropbox big-time
>>limit will automatically be increased to 25 GB. >>> >>> >>> 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> 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 >>> >> >> > > > 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 > -- Ron Newman MyIdeatree.com <http://www.Ideatree.us> The World Happiness Meter <http://worldhappinessmeter.com> YourSongCode.com <http://www.yourSongCode.com> 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
Re: [FRIAM] looking for either a screen reader or audiobook rescource
There's a free Kindle reader for Windows that you can download. Can't remember where I got it, but Google will tell you. On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Gillian Densmore wrote: > Hi all-gillian densmore here- > I'm not sure what the right word or phrase is i'm looking for something > that can reed kindel ebooks maybe play audiobooks, possibly some school > based forums as well > for a variety of reasons reading text is while somewhat doable (made it so > far in school-by kind of faking it)-however this is less than ideal, i'm > not sure what the right phrase is to find a doo-dad to compliment my meeger > reading skills that could read some text to me to better fascilate future > sucess in and out of school-however I don't know what that kind of thing > might be called or what rescources exist (ie where to find them etc.) so > are I thought Iask the friam mailing lists brilliant collective minds if > anyone knows where to find those kinds of stuffs. Any and all help > apreciated! > I'm on a PC with winderz (version 7). > > > > > 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 > -- Ron Newman MyIdeatree.com <http://www.Ideatree.us> The World Happiness Meter <http://worldhappinessmeter.com> YourSongCode.com <http://www.yourSongCode.com> 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
Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Volkswagen Levitating Car Concept
I watched it twice! On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > From a friend .. cool concept people's car! > > > On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Rita & Dave Curbow > wrote: > >> Happy Holidays Guys! >> >> A friend sent me a video that's an amusing concept. >> >> See http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ew4Y5HLyT6c >> >> Although the video really is produced by Volkswagen, it is a fake. See >> Snopes <http://www.snopes.com/photos/technology/levitatingcar.asp> for >> details >> >> Dave >> >> >> > > > 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 > -- Ron Newman MyIdeatree.com <http://www.Ideatree.us> The World Happiness Meter <http://worldhappinessmeter.com> YourSongCode.com <http://www.yourSongCode.com> 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
Re: [FRIAM] Udacity - HTML5 Game Development Course (CS 255)
Arlo, I'd be more interested in hearing about this. In music theory, you can assign harmonies to a given melody by matching the melody note to various degrees of a chord: root, third, 5th, and if you're more creative, 6th, 9th, etc. The trick is to at the same time honor chord-to-chord transitions that make theoretical sense in a given style. I've been doing this using the digits in peoples' birthdates, see www.yoursongcode.com . There's been a lot of work done at my alma mater (after I left) UNT on algorithmic composition. There are so many variables, however, that I have my doubts that the results of such efforts are consistently aesthetically pleasing, albeit interesting from a technical / complexity point of view. Ron On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Arlo Barnes wrote: > My uncle, an accomplished musician, just told me he started learning > Python to apply different chord formations to arbitrary intervals (I do not > really understand the music theory, but that is what he told me), and he > seems to really like it. > -Arlo James Barnes > > > On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: > >> Mainly folks who did not start out programming for the sake of >> programming, but were led to it indirectly. >> >> Possibly better: their first use of computers was not programming. I.e. >> they did not have to use programming languages in the course work or job, >> but were self-motivated via, for example, building plug-ins for games or >> wordpress. >> >>-- Owen >> >> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Joshua Thorp wrote: >> >>> Which was the second generation of programmers? >>> >>> >>> On Nov 7, 2012, at 8:46 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: >>> >>> Nifty: Udacity has a HTML5/JS/CSS class that builds a game as the >>> structure of the class. >>> >>> That's interesting to me because I found so many of the second >>> generation of programmers got into programming via games. >>> >>> http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs255/CourseRev/1 >>> >>> >>> Education, is you getting sweet? >>> >>>-- 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> 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 >>> >> >> >> ============ >> 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 >> > > > > 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 > -- Ron Newman MyIdeatree.com <http://www.Ideatree.us> The World Happiness Meter <http://worldhappinessmeter.com> YourSongCode.com <http://www.yourSongCode.com> 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
Re: [FRIAM] Dome based Immersive Visualization demos 9/15 (LA NextBigIdea)
Steve, Do you have any times? Thanks. Ron On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Steve Smith wrote: > LAVA (Los Alamos Visualization Associates), with the help of several > partners is demonstrating a number of dome-based demos at the Los Alamos > Next Big Idea Festival in downtown Los Alamos this Saturday, September 15 > through most of the day. > > Rotating Demos of the following content and systems will be presented: > > Los Alamos Virtual Experience Tours: *4Pi Productions* > 180 degree content captured around the Los Alamos area and key > locations around the world. > Spherical Stereoscopic Rendering: *Micoy Inc* > 180 degree stereoscopic ray traced rendering, both canned and > real-time demonstrations. > Immersive Storytelling:* IAIA* *(Institute of American Indian Arts)* > Dome movies and content produced by the staff and students at the IAIA > digital dome in Santa Fe. > DanceDome: *URRL (Urban Research Reaction Laboratory)* > 2 Immersive Dome movies produced by Matt Wright and Janire Najera on > Dance in Wales, UK. > Particle Systems and Interaction: *DarklingX* > An update of last years' demonstrations of "the Elementals" using > Kinect for real time tracking and particle systems for real time rendering. > > The demonstrations will be held in Micoy's 28' inflatable dome driven by > Projection Design's F35 AS3D Projectors with a fisheye lens. LAVA, along > with various partners are prepared to develop and deliver hemispherical > solutions to Immersive Visualization and multimedia presentation. > > If there is enough interest from LANL folks we may be able to mount a > followon demonstration of some of this work on Monday the 17th, please let > me know ASAP if you are interested! > > Please forward/share this announcement as widely as possible... I > apologize for the late notice, I have been traveling in Europe with limited > connection and time! > > - Steve Smith > > -- > Los Alamos Visualization Associates > LAVA-Synergy > 4200 W. Jemez rd > Los Alamos, NM 87544www.lava3d.comsas@lava3d.com505-920-0252 > > > > 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 > -- Ron Newman MyIdeatree.com <http://www.Ideatree.us> The World Happiness Meter <http://worldhappinessmeter.com> YourSongCode.com <http://www.yourSongCode.com> 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
Re: [FRIAM] Feedback Needed: Interactive network diagram demos | Interactive Visualizations
How do I say this without sounding self-serving? Maybe I can't, so I'll go ahead in the interest of ideas and improvement. MyIdeaTree.com does most of what they are requesting with the exception of two things: 1) import from NodeXL - actually, this was suggested to me last February and I've just been putting it off, while thinking on whether to do it or the .dot format. 2) large graphs in a browser - I've limited graph sizes to what is easily visible in a browser and because large graphs are computation-intensive. But since I'm on a grid system that may not be the big deal I think it is. If anyone would like to experiment I'm willing to give it a try. If it is, installation of MyIdeaTree on one's own server would solve that issue. I'd need to enable zoom. All the other stuff they mention, no Flash or Java, colors, mouseovers, shared interactivity, export to zoom-able,clickable image (actually a .pdf), HTML embedding, programmatic graphing via API, etc., are either already there or available in the underlying system but not exposed yet in the UI for reasons of keeping the UI simple. One difference: their demo opens a sidebar when clicking a node, M.I.T. opens a new window with whatever URL is associated with that node. Other things are possible, like layered maps. Just waiting for someone to ask. Ron On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Tom Johnson wrote: > Taking on some practical, serious needs. > > http://blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk/vis/?p=9 > > -tom johnson > > > > > > 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 > -- Ron Newman MyIdeatree.com <http://www.Ideatree.us> The World Happiness Meter <http://worldhappinessmeter.com> YourSongCode.com <http://www.yourSongCode.com> 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
Re: [FRIAM] Friday 9/14 at the NMHM - The Future of Collaboration
Curt, Interesting how you're using complexity to simplify. From the first paper you link to below: "Learning theory experiments have indicated that students learn more when presented with a general framework", and the application of equilibrium, emergency, cyling, etc., to teaching science...very elegant. I'd like to see the concept maps you did. Ron -- Ron Newman MyIdeatree.com <http://www.Ideatree.us> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Curt McNamara wrote: > Cool! I will have to try it out. I use mind mapping with my students, and > just helped Len Troncale map some of his systems isomorphies using cmap > tools. > > You can find some of the background for that work in a paper linked here: > http://lentroncale.com/?page_id=10 > > Other readers might be interested in his work on systems pathology > mentioned here: > http://lentroncale.com/?page_id=94 > > Thanks for the reply! > >Curt > > > On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Ron Newman wrote: > >> Curt, >> I couldn't help responding... >> Biomimicry was the original inspiration for my collaboration software >> company, MyIdeaTree.com. Especially Janine Benyus' book (I lived in >> Montana at the time, her home state). I also interviewed one of the people >> featured in her book while in Santa Barbara. Gad you are coming! >> >> >> Ron >> -- >> Ron Newman >> MyIdeatree.com <http://www.Ideatree.us> >> The World Happiness Meter <http://worldhappinessmeter.com> >> >> >> >> >> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Curt McNamara wrote: >> >>> I am interested in attending. Live and work in MN however I could fit >>> this in with a trip to Denver the following week. >>> >>> I am a design engineer, scholar of Bucky Fuller, biomimicry education >>> fellow, and teach online sustainable design classes through MCAD. >>> Interested in how I can get my students doing more collaboration. >>> >>>Curt >>> >>> http://www.linkedin.com/pub/curt-mcnamara-m-eng-p-e/3/b21/b89 >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Tom Johnson wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> All: >>>> >>>> My Institute for Analytic Journalism is co-sponsoring this, but that >>>> aside, the topic is key for not just scientific endeavors, but for the >>>> survival and advancement of all organizations hoping to function in the >>>> Digital Age. "Collaboration" here refers to work inside an organization as >>>> well as with entities outside. >>>> >>>> We will limit this to ~25 participants, so let me know quickly if you >>>> would like to attend. >>>> >>>> All the best, >>>> Tom >>>> >>>> * >>>> == >>>> * >>>> >>>> On Friday September 14th we'd like to spend the day exploring the >>>> future of collaboration - from science and models to physical settings to >>>> technological tools to psychological frameworks to who knows what else. >>>> >>>> My partners and I have been involved in designing and facilitating >>>> large group collaborative planning processes for more than 20 years. We're >>>> basically system integrators - where collaboration includes an appreciation >>>> for systems, design, creativity (knowledge of a creative process), >>>> behavioral dynamics, group process, and a whole lot of other stuff. But all >>>> that is 'old.' We'd like to bust out of some of our ways of thinking about >>>> how collaboration works and explore new territory and potentially new ways >>>> of approaching how people work, learn, solve problems and collaborate in >>>> person and across time and space. >>>> >>>> Some of the questions to stimulate conversation during the day might >>>> include: >>>> >>>>- Where is all this social, mobile, cloud and big data trends >>>>headed? What's next? >>>>- What's the influence of these trends on how people will >>>>collaborate? >>>>- What other trends are important and might influence how people >>>>collaborate in the future? >>>> >>>> >>>>- How does complex adaptive systems and complexity theory play into >>>>the way people will collabo
Re: [FRIAM] Friday 9/14 at the NMHM - The Future of Collaboration
Curt, I couldn't help responding... Biomimicry was the original inspiration for my collaboration software company, MyIdeaTree.com. Especially Janine Benyus' book (I lived in Montana at the time, her home state). I also interviewed one of the people featured in her book while in Santa Barbara. Gad you are coming! Ron -- Ron Newman MyIdeatree.com <http://www.Ideatree.us> The World Happiness Meter <http://worldhappinessmeter.com> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Curt McNamara wrote: > I am interested in attending. Live and work in MN however I could fit this > in with a trip to Denver the following week. > > I am a design engineer, scholar of Bucky Fuller, biomimicry education > fellow, and teach online sustainable design classes through MCAD. > Interested in how I can get my students doing more collaboration. > >Curt > > http://www.linkedin.com/pub/curt-mcnamara-m-eng-p-e/3/b21/b89 > > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Tom Johnson wrote: > >> >> All: >> >> My Institute for Analytic Journalism is co-sponsoring this, but that >> aside, the topic is key for not just scientific endeavors, but for the >> survival and advancement of all organizations hoping to function in the >> Digital Age. "Collaboration" here refers to work inside an organization as >> well as with entities outside. >> >> We will limit this to ~25 participants, so let me know quickly if you >> would like to attend. >> >> All the best, >> Tom >> >> * >> == >> * >> >> On Friday September 14th we'd like to spend the day exploring the future >> of collaboration - from science and models to physical settings to >> technological tools to psychological frameworks to who knows what else. >> >> My partners and I have been involved in designing and facilitating large >> group collaborative planning processes for more than 20 years. We're >> basically system integrators - where collaboration includes an appreciation >> for systems, design, creativity (knowledge of a creative process), >> behavioral dynamics, group process, and a whole lot of other stuff. But all >> that is 'old.' We'd like to bust out of some of our ways of thinking about >> how collaboration works and explore new territory and potentially new ways >> of approaching how people work, learn, solve problems and collaborate in >> person and across time and space. >> >> Some of the questions to stimulate conversation during the day might >> include: >> >>- Where is all this social, mobile, cloud and big data trends headed? >>What's next? >>- What's the influence of these trends on how people will collaborate? >>- What other trends are important and might influence how people >>collaborate in the future? >> >> >>- How does complex adaptive systems and complexity theory play into >>the way people will collaborate in the future? >>- What about patch theory? >>- What neurological research will influence the way we work and >>learn? >>- Is there a structured way to create organic, emergent behavior in >>groups? >> >> >>- What's the difference between same time, same place collaboration >>(face to face) and same time different place collaboration (virtual) or >>different time different place (asynchronous)? What other modes will >> emerge? >>- How would we define the landscape of collaboration (for individuals >>and groups)? >> >> >>- What is the relationship between creativity, design and >>collaboration? >>- What are the right uses for collaboration? >>- When is structure required for collaboration? >>- When is no structure 'required' for collaboration? >> >> >>- What's unique about how large organizations will collaborate across >>time and geography? >>- What tools will individuals use? >>- What tools will organizations use? >>- Is there a 'mash up' that would uniquely impact the way people work >>and learn? >>- What's the difference between collaboration for getting work done >>and collaboration for learning? >>- What is particularly important about the 'place' where >>collaboration happens? >> >> What other questions might drive conversation and/or insights? >> >> We'll document the results of the conversation and make th
Re: [FRIAM] Friday 9/14 at the NMHM - The Future of Collaboration
Hi Tom, Michael said you hadn't yet set up for demos, but to bring my laptop and see what transpired. In the meantime, I'm very interested in your work. Do you have articles or papers that I can reference, summarize, link to in my newsletter? Also, I overheard a week ago at FRIAM St. John's coffee that you were looking for a board member for the radio station? What skills are you looking for? I'll keep my ears open. Ron Newman MyIdeatree.com <http://www.Ideatree.us> 505-819-3850 Skype: ronlnewman On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 10:46 PM, Tom Johnson wrote: > You're on the list, Ron. Looks like your project might be a good fit. > Michael Kaufman will let you know about the demo-ing. > > -tom johnson > > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Ron Newman wrote: > >> Hi Tom, >> I'd definitely like to attend. >> >> I'm also the CEO of MyIdeaTree.com, a "connect-the-dots" collaborative >> tool. Any opportunity for demo-ing, with discussion on future trends? >> >> Regards, >> Ron >> -- >> Ron Newman >> MyIdeatree.com <http://www.Ideatree.us> >> 505-819-3850 >> Skype: ronlnewman >> > 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
Re: [FRIAM] Friday 9/14 at the NMHM - The Future of Collaboration
Hi Tom, I'd definitely like to attend. I'm also the CEO of MyIdeaTree.com, a "connect-the-dots" collaborative tool. Any opportunity for demo-ing, with discussion on future trends? Regards, Ron -- Ron Newman MyIdeatree.com <http://www.Ideatree.us> 505-819-3850 Skype: ronlnewman On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Tom Johnson wrote: > > All: > > My Institute for Analytic Journalism is co-sponsoring this, but that > aside, the topic is key for not just scientific endeavors, but for the > survival and advancement of all organizations hoping to function in the > Digital Age. "Collaboration" here refers to work inside an organization as > well as with entities outside. > > We will limit this to ~25 participants, so let me know quickly if you > would like to attend. > > All the best, > Tom > > * > == > * > > On Friday September 14th we'd like to spend the day exploring the future > of collaboration - from science and models to physical settings to > technological tools to psychological frameworks to who knows what else. > > My partners and I have been involved in designing and facilitating large > group collaborative planning processes for more than 20 years. We're > basically system integrators - where collaboration includes an appreciation > for systems, design, creativity (knowledge of a creative process), > behavioral dynamics, group process, and a whole lot of other stuff. But all > that is 'old.' We'd like to bust out of some of our ways of thinking about > how collaboration works and explore new territory and potentially new ways > of approaching how people work, learn, solve problems and collaborate in > person and across time and space. > > Some of the questions to stimulate conversation during the day might > include: > >- Where is all this social, mobile, cloud and big data trends headed? >What's next? >- What's the influence of these trends on how people will collaborate? >- What other trends are important and might influence how people >collaborate in the future? > > >- How does complex adaptive systems and complexity theory play into >the way people will collaborate in the future? >- What about patch theory? >- What neurological research will influence the way we work and learn? >- Is there a structured way to create organic, emergent behavior in >groups? > > >- What's the difference between same time, same place collaboration >(face to face) and same time different place collaboration (virtual) or >different time different place (asynchronous)? What other modes will > emerge? >- How would we define the landscape of collaboration (for individuals >and groups)? > > >- What is the relationship between creativity, design and >collaboration? >- What are the right uses for collaboration? >- When is structure required for collaboration? >- When is no structure 'required' for collaboration? > > >- What's unique about how large organizations will collaborate across >time and geography? >- What tools will individuals use? >- What tools will organizations use? >- Is there a 'mash up' that would uniquely impact the way people work >and learn? >- What's the difference between collaboration for getting work done >and collaboration for learning? >- What is particularly important about the 'place' where collaboration >happens? > > What other questions might drive conversation and/or insights? > > We'll document the results of the conversation and make that available to > everyone who attends. > > Everyone is invited! AND, please let me know if there are people that > should be invited to the conversation. Scientists? Physicists? > Psychologists? Behaviorist? Artists? Designers? SFI fellows? Please share > the invitation with anyone you feel might find value and/or have a point of > view about any of the above. > > > *Date* > September 14, 2012 > > *Location* > New Mexico History Museum > 113 Lincoln Avenue > Santa Fe, NM 87501 > (505) 476-5200 > the best entrance is on the other side of the block at 114 Washington Ave, > Santa Fe (across the street from the Inn of the Anasazi and the Hotel > Chimayo). > > Look for the sign that says: *IAJ Collaboration Workshop* > > > *Times* > 8:30 AM to 5PM (or until we have exhausted the topic) > > We'll break for lunch in there at some point and we'll have some snacks > an
