It seems I have to forward this message rather than bouncing it. Oh well...
- Forwarded message from Russell Standish [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:17:17 +1000
From: Russell Standish [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Nicholas Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Relaxed
** Today Oct 13 12:30p at sfComplex **
Title: Surveillance and the unmasking of Transparency
Marie Sester http://www.sester.net/
Title: Demonstration of recent works
Maria Mendez http://www.mariafmendez.com/
Where: Santa Fe Complex 632 Agua Fria, 12:30p Oct 13
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Marie Sester is a media
Well, winter is besetting us, so it occurred to me that we might want
to turn either the Krauth book (the subject), or your earlier
excellent find:
Information Theory, Inference Learning Algorithms
David J. C. MacKay
.. into a group reading at the sfComplex. Our Data Mining one was
All,
Here are some comments on various comments. I succumb, reluctantly, to the
community norm about caps.
[grumble, grumble]
Glen Said
The idea of expansion and contraction is
interesting: rapid expansion of populations
(when selection is relaxed) vs. rapid contraction
of
No. That wasn't me that said that. It was Jochen. I added the
content-less post quoting Ehrlich.
Thus spake Nicholas Thompson circa 10/13/2008 11:18 AM:
Glen Said
The idea of expansion and contraction is interesting: rapid expansion
of populations (when selection is relaxed) vs.
I agree with most of Nick's hesitations (except re: all caps.. :-))
Population expansion would increase the variety of individuals to be
selected from, though.I think that was the idea behind Terry Deacon's
theory, still with variation being random and constant, and using the same
old
One of my favorite books of the year is David Sloan Wilson's* Evolution for
Everyone*. Wilson has been arguing for multi-level selection for quite a
while -- and as far as I'm concerned he makes very good points.
The fundamental insight is that everything is both a group and an
individual. And
Russ,
Yes. I agree. However, the problem with the chicken experiment is that the
chickens in the cages were SISTERS. Not a problem, obviously, for the purposes
of egg production, but for peace and quiet of group selection theorists, not so
great.
You could double the readership my paper
