Re: [FRIAM] Literate CoffeeScript

2013-02-26 Thread glen e. p. ropella
couldn't find a way to execute the a.out content to a pipe without saving it to disk. 8^( -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-255-2847, http://tempusdictum.com Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. -- Bertrand Russell

Re: [FRIAM] cloud backup recomendations wanted

2013-02-20 Thread glen e. p. ropella
oh sure. I'm not sure i'd get the same instant: aha that's a known work safe place reaction from google competitors. (even if they are cheeper) -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-255-2847, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity

Re: [FRIAM] Business opportunity

2013-02-18 Thread glen e. p. ropella
learn from either device. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-255-2847, http://tempusdictum.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

Re: [FRIAM] Business opportunity

2013-02-18 Thread glen e. p. ropella
and if it doesn't pique you, forget it and stick with what you know. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-255-2847, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http

Re: [FRIAM] Two (and more) Cultures

2013-02-12 Thread glen e. p. ropella
peaceful about old artifacts that still work. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-255-2847, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com

Re: [FRIAM] IS: wHEN IS COMPLEXITY A GOOD? WAS: Windows Resource Monitor

2013-02-08 Thread glen e. p. ropella
to retain the monolith, but coerce it into a suboptimal satisficing for your compromised use case, then you have to continually react to the slight changes in the toolchain. Your compromised use case (and its generating machinery) is _fragile_ to changes in context. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-255-2847

Re: [FRIAM] Two (and more) Cultures

2013-02-08 Thread glen e. p. ropella
me in a way I can't describe. Reflectively, however, I should like WINE better than VBox... I guess I'm just confused. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-255-2847, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays

Re: [FRIAM] WHEN IS COMPLEXITY A GOOD?

2013-02-08 Thread glen e. p. ropella
e. p. ropella, 971-255-2847, http://tempusdictum.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] Two (and more) Cultures

2013-02-08 Thread glen e. p. ropella
burrow themselves deep into our ecology, the concept of a logical abstraction layer makes less and less sense. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-255-2847, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30

Re: [FRIAM] Two (and more) Cultures

2013-02-08 Thread glen e. p. ropella
. Otherwise I'd have to interpret my own tendency to lose and recreate things as incompetence. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-255-2847, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St

Re: [FRIAM] Ho, Hum. Another Day, Another Blog Post Critical of Google

2013-02-04 Thread glen e. p. ropella
],MathML] You'll get a bunch of MathML: -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-255-2847, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com

Re: [FRIAM] Ho, Hum. Another Day, Another Blog Post Critical of Google

2013-02-01 Thread glen e. p. ropella
PM: Two of them, actually. http://things-linux.blogspot.com/2013/02/epic-fail.html http://things-linux.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-natives-are-getting-restless.html -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-255-2847, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM

Re: [FRIAM] Privacy vs Open Public Data

2013-01-15 Thread glen e. p. ropella
of information. But it seems quite distinct from guilt or shame. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-255-2847, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http

[FRIAM] Winter Solstice Sunrise

2012-12-20 Thread glen e. p. ropella
Cornucopia at Kin Kletso to view a winter solstice marker. Park gates will open at 6:00 am. Park at Pueblo del Arroyo and walk to Kin Kletso. When the parking lot fills, visitors will park at Pueblo Bonito. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-255-2847, http://tempusdictum.com

Re: [FRIAM] Auto-Threading Compilers Are Here

2012-12-06 Thread glen e. p. ropella
with either specialization or failure. I think Kellogg was claiming that FP is a specialist technique, great for moorlocks but not useful for eloi. But, to me, it seems more like slow adoption. I was interested to hear a web programmer yammer on about closures the other day. -- glen e. p

[FRIAM] Auto-Threading Compilers Are Here

2012-12-05 Thread glen e. p. ropella
Does anyone have any insight to share about this? http://developinthecloud.drdobbs.com/author.asp?section_id=2284doc_id=255275; -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-255-2847, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv

Re: [FRIAM] Auto-Threading Compilers Are Here

2012-12-05 Thread glen e. p. ropella
. We're still learning how to not engineer the grid on the fly, because it's a parallel distributed system which only works like a clock when it wants to tease us. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-255-2847, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM

Re: [FRIAM] Auto-Threading Compilers Are Here

2012-12-05 Thread glen e. p. ropella
Steve Smith wrote at 12/05/2012 03:59 PM: On 12/5/12 12:49 PM, glen e. p. ropella wrote: Does anyone have any insight to share about this? http://developinthecloud.drdobbs.com/author.asp?section_id=2284doc_id=255275; But more importantly, as always, we must ask: will it Blend? I think

[FRIAM] Will it Blend?

2012-11-08 Thread glen e. p. ropella
Kindle Fire HD vs Nexus 7 http://youtu.be/5MMmLQlrBws -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-255-2847, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe

Re: [FRIAM] faith, zombies, and crazy people

2012-09-20 Thread glen e. p. ropella
it yet, but I know it is (among other things) an attempt to apply modern, non-statistical, mathematics to this problem. That would include math that can adequately deal with discrete and non-discrete aspects, etc., which you point out we would need. Lee, can you give a more skilled plug? -- glen e

Re: [FRIAM] faith, zombies, and crazy people

2012-09-20 Thread glen e. p. ropella
carry it. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.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] Fwd: America and the Middle East: Murder in Libya | The Economist

2012-09-14 Thread glen e. p. ropella
of their beloved religion. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http

Re: [FRIAM] re virtual library

2012-04-20 Thread glen e. p. ropella
. If it is the universities, then it comes out of federal grants and/or tuition = taxes and students covering costs anyway. So I don't get the views being expressed here. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: The disappearing virtual library - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

2012-04-17 Thread glen e. p. ropella
the sentiment... carrying things to their logical conclusion ... or runaway inference. It reminds me of a few of my friends who are especially attached to the concept of downloading their minds into a computer. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com

[FRIAM] ABM of rigorous conversation (was: a further tangent)

2012-03-30 Thread glen e. p. ropella
. If we could build networks of agents that exhibit these laws under some conditions and do not under other conditions, then we'd be in a position to vary the conditions and construct hypotheses about which network structures help avoid crap, non sequiturs, and false positives. -- glen e. p. ropella

Re: [FRIAM] Clarifying Induction Threads

2012-03-28 Thread glen e. p. ropella
to the set or not. I suppose I think there are 3 categories: 1) predicative (well-founded), 2) impredicative (non-well-founded), and 3) psychological induction (what most of this conversation is about). -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com

Re: [FRIAM] Clarifying Induction Threads

2012-03-28 Thread glen e. p. ropella
constructed object. That's why mathematical induction is a form of induction. Reasoning methods are not entirely disjoint. Any non-trivial act of reasoning requires all 3 forms. Hence, it's reasonable and pragmatic to think that induction and deduction aren't crisp sets either. -- glen e. p

Re: [FRIAM] Clarifying Induction Threads

2012-03-28 Thread glen e. p. ropella
that arguments of this type are trivial and don't address anything. In another life... -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College

Re: [FRIAM] Just as a bye-the-way

2012-03-26 Thread glen e. p. ropella
Russell Standish wrote circa 12-03-23 10:21 PM: In order to persuade me that induction is invalid, Here's a great example of how a belief in induction allows us to think in sloppy ways:

Re: [FRIAM] Just as a bye-the-way

2012-03-26 Thread glen e. p. ropella
of the phenomenon could be derived. But, without that understanding, we are left with cosmological magic dust, instead of a real understanding of the observed dynamics. --Doug -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com

Re: [FRIAM] a tangent from Re: Just as a bye-the-way

2012-03-26 Thread glen e. p. ropella
, I suspect. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.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] Disenfranchised? Americans Elect?

2012-03-16 Thread glen e. p. ropella
their delegates by percentage, rather than maximum percentage. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures

Re: [FRIAM] syncing google calander with a android

2011-11-07 Thread glen e. p. ropella
Douglas Roberts wrote circa 11-11-07 10:13 AM: You don't need to; the Android Google Mail and Calandar apps sync themselves to your Google account. Well, it depends on your Menu-Settings-Accounts Sync settings. You can set it to sync just gmail or just the calendar or ... -- glen e. p

Re: [FRIAM] Syncing between devices...why? [was Android Choice]

2011-11-02 Thread glen e. p. ropella
believes that some objective is achievable without thought, with simple stimulus-response ... automation, is externally invested. But, as I said, it's a spectrum. You won't find any functional extremes. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com

Re: [FRIAM] Android Choice

2011-10-31 Thread glen e. p. ropella
is to get one with a 1GHz or higher processor. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe

Re: [FRIAM] heart beats

2011-10-26 Thread glen e. p. ropella
glen e. p. ropella wrote circa 11-10-24 11:11 AM: Scaling, why is animal size so important? By Knut Schmidt-Nielsen I checked out a copy of this one, and in Chapter 11, we find these gems: The rate of oxygen consumption in mammals, relative to body size, decreases with increasing body size

Re: [FRIAM] heart beats

2011-10-24 Thread glen e. p. ropella
, ... That seems pretty flimsy to me. So, I'm still looking. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe

Re: [FRIAM] Capturing Tweets

2011-10-19 Thread glen e. p. ropella
-places https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/geo/reverse_geocode -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures

Re: [FRIAM] Mind-Body (was: The Psychology Of Yogurt)

2011-09-20 Thread glen e. p. ropella
dense for me to explicitly extract knowledge molecules. But it does seem to make progress toward the case that patterns of firing and collective action form the components of the mind. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: The Psychology Of Yogurt

2011-09-19 Thread glen e. p. ropella
workings easier to triage. The iPhone ... not so much. Take that reasoning to another layer and we have the _lack_ of ability to triage hypotheses about the human body vs. the very competent ability to triage hypotheses about the workings of a computer. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: The Psychology Of Yogurt

2011-09-19 Thread glen e. p. ropella
of such, of course ... the FSM knows I would never touch such stuff). We (humans and some animals, it seems) purposefully make worse some specific body processes in order to think badly. It seems to me that a little bad thinking now and again can be a Good Thing(TM). -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: The Psychology Of Yogurt

2011-09-19 Thread glen e. p. ropella
glen e. p. ropella wrote circa 11-09-19 03:30 PM: Nicholas Thompson wrote circa 11-09-19 01:07 PM: You are talking to a man with an insulin pump. I start to think VERY BADLY if anything goes wrong with it. Yeah, I don't know either. But part of my fascination with this topic lies

Re: [FRIAM] Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple, Replaced By Tim Cook

2011-08-26 Thread glen e. p. ropella
/27544383 Thanks for posting those links! -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe

Re: [FRIAM] vol 98, iss.25 psychology cont'd

2011-08-24 Thread glen e. p. ropella
. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.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] datum vs. data

2011-08-24 Thread glen e. p. ropella
suspect smarter than me is less of an obstacle to language flow than smarter than I. ;-) -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's

Re: [FRIAM] datum vs. data

2011-08-20 Thread glen e. p. ropella
to that collection of collections as the data. Flocks are only less vague because everyone we're likely to talk to is a human with eyeballs. It's our eyeballs that define the flock and allow us to say flocks. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com

[FRIAM] datum vs. data

2011-08-19 Thread glen e. p. ropella
and look inside anyway. But these are excuses. Are my excuses preventing me from using English properly? -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30

Re: [FRIAM] Europe: 2 questions

2011-08-09 Thread glen e. p. ropella
always dissolve, and have power over their fiscal policy. So the questions are how can either MC or a non-political euro work? -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv

Re: [FRIAM] Europe: 2 questions

2011-08-09 Thread glen e. p. ropella
available. So, I can't help thinking there's also a biological basis for (lack of) mobility as well as an economic one. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a

Re: [FRIAM] Electrodynamics

2011-07-14 Thread glen e. p. ropella
is simply wrong headed. So, the fact that the concept doesn't exist is not a problem for relativity or anything else. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11

Re: [FRIAM] Philosophy vs. science

2011-07-12 Thread glen e. p. ropella
plumbers who have a philosophy of plumbing over the lazy yahoo who just wants to get paid and go home to watch American Idol or play XBox. ;-) -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group

Re: [FRIAM] Philosophy vs. science

2011-07-12 Thread glen e. p. ropella
my first physics journal article, I was very puzzled to get to the end of the paper without seeing any brand new physics. I thought that what physicists did was discover new principles, not apply existing ones to new situations. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com

Re: [FRIAM] Philosophy vs. science

2011-07-12 Thread glen e. p. ropella
be assembly code ... or something like legislative statutes. Too far in either direction numbs my mind. But there's a reasonably thick band in the middle that's interesting. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM

[FRIAM] Philosophy vs. science

2011-07-11 Thread glen e. p. ropella
satisfaction. But it would be interesting to use the contents of this paper to find out _why_ you think philosophy is so different from so much of what we (perhaps mistakenly) call science. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com

Re: [FRIAM] The Grand Design, Philosophy is Dead, and Hubris

2011-07-07 Thread glen e. p. ropella
. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.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] The Grand Design, Philosophy is Dead, and Hubris

2011-07-07 Thread glen e. p. ropella
glen e. p. ropella wrote at 07/07/2011 07:03 PM: Vice versa, science is engaged with proving your theories false. You can't pursue science without philosophy and you can't pursue philosophy without science. Sorry, mea culpa. You can _pursue_ philosophy without science... but you'd suck

Re: [FRIAM] thought experiments

2011-07-01 Thread glen e. p. ropella
Nicholas Thompson wrote at 06/30/2011 05:51 PM: By the way, I have always thought of mathematics as the field in which people do formalized thought experiments. That depends on what you mean by formalized. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com

Re: [FRIAM] thought experiments

2011-06-30 Thread glen e. p. ropella
that! ;-) Cosmic Pluralism: How Christianity briefly conquered the solar system http://io9.com/5817219/ -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30

Re: [FRIAM] On Apps and Browsers

2011-06-14 Thread glen e. p. ropella
years ago I used a CAD system called GDS which predated graphic terminals. It had a command line which could do anything you could now do with a mouse or digitizing tablet. Most of my colleagues used digitizers, but the real experts used the command line and were way more efficient. -- glen e. p

Re: [FRIAM] On Apps and Browsers

2011-06-10 Thread glen e. p. ropella
a healthy diversity in our devices, interfaces, ontologies, firm/software, and security protocols. The homogeneity Apple brings to the table can be very attractive, especially to the 1 sigma band. But in the end, homogeneity is fragility. Robustness comes from heterogeneity. -- glen e. p. ropella

Re: [FRIAM] On Apps and Browsers

2011-06-10 Thread glen e. p. ropella
signature. The key is the index, which is why Jobs cleverly prestidigitates our attention away from the one who owns the ontology. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv

Re: [FRIAM] On Apps and Browsers

2011-06-10 Thread glen e. p. ropella
the index, which is provided by the markup of an ontology (and requires more expressibility than a 2D GUI). -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30

Re: [FRIAM] Android: Root It? Or are there phones that come unlocked/jailbroken?

2011-06-07 Thread glen e. p. ropella
/demoted -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.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] Modeling obfuscation (was - Terrorosity and it's Fruits)

2011-05-09 Thread glen e. p. ropella
Clever! [...] The harder question for me is, how can we undo it if it is engineered as above? - -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: [FRIAM] Modeling obfuscation (was - Terrorosity and it's Fruits)

2011-05-09 Thread glen e. p. ropella
in democracy. - -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFNyFjZpVJZMHoGoM8RAgKsAJsH4BF8gFLpmS5ea0pci4LeBIrNGACdGqXC A19hw9ZuONMFJK8dJiPkrrk

Re: [FRIAM] Modeling obfuscation (was - Terrorosity and it's Fruits)

2011-05-09 Thread glen e. p. ropella
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 glen e. p. ropella wrote circa 11-05-09 02:12 PM: Similarly, we should come up with a suite of measures for openness. Obama's execution of bin Laden, interviews on 60 minutes, and keeping the pictures secret is a good example. We should pick

Re: [FRIAM] off topic....., but still

2011-05-04 Thread glen e. p. ropella
available, but how to translate that into a gradient agents will follow? -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College

Re: [FRIAM] off topic....., but still

2011-05-04 Thread glen e. p. ropella
for the ramble... I suspect only a dedicated few could stick with me on this one, but if I make the effort to go back and tighten it up, I will probably just delete it. - -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment

Re: [FRIAM] off topic....., but still

2011-05-03 Thread glen e. p. ropella
of making another small step toward world peace. - -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFNwJH

Re: [FRIAM] vol 93, issue 22

2011-03-29 Thread glen e. p. ropella
Douglas Roberts wrote at 03/29/2011 09:33 AM: People don't want to do the right thing. There is no evidence for this conclusion. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv

[FRIAM] Fwd: [iacap-announce] Re: Special issue of TopiCS on mathematical practice and cognition

2011-02-24 Thread glen e. p. ropella
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Given our earlier seminar on math, I thought this might be of interest. - -glen - Original Message Subject: [iacap-announce] Re: Special issue of TopiCS on mathematical practice and cognition Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:52:17 +

Re: [FRIAM] A question for your Roboteers out there

2011-02-07 Thread glen e. p. ropella
it easily, please get back to me and I will find it for you. Nick -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures

Re: [FRIAM] [Vo]:Proposition to the Membership of Vortex List in Regards to Andrea Rossi

2011-01-25 Thread glen e. p. ropella
Sarbajit Roy wrote circa 11-01-24 10:06 PM: 2) Such repeated usage of FRIAM to publicise this experiment, may affect the credibility of the group. I think Doug's infected me! I just passed on an urge to suggest the converse. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com

Re: [FRIAM] [Vo]:Proposition to the Membership of Vortex List in Regards to Andrea Rossi

2011-01-25 Thread glen e. p. ropella
onto the slippery slope of censorship, here. Even if the cold fusion thing is completely unfounded, it has more interest as a cultural phenomenon than many of the topics in good standing on Friam. Don't go there, Steve. Don't listen to him, Rich. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http

[FRIAM] British eight-year-olds publish study in top science journal

2010-12-23 Thread glen e. p. ropella
British eight-year-olds publish study in top science journal http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/eight-year-olds-publish-science-journal/ Blackawton bees http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2010/12/18/rsbl.2010.1056.full -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http

Re: [FRIAM] NASA-Funded Research Discovers Life Built With Toxic Chemical

2010-12-07 Thread glen e. p. ropella
. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.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] NASA-Funded Research Discovers Life Built With Toxic Chemical

2010-12-07 Thread glen e. p. ropella
was supposed to be the end of a conversation, not a beginning. I don't know if, and where, that view survives. I hope it's completely dead. It should be obvious that authoritarianism is bad. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com

Re: [FRIAM] The FRIAM journal. WAS: NASA-Funded Research Discovers Life Built With Toxic Chemical

2010-12-07 Thread glen e. p. ropella
visit: http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures

Re: [FRIAM] Peer review

2010-12-06 Thread glen e. p. ropella
Russell Standish wrote circa 10-12-04 02:31 PM: On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 10:18:26AM -0800, glen e. p. ropella wrote: to change, etc. So, they really do have to commit to work like this. No scientist will do peer review for the sake of paying bills. Sorry, that was not my implication. I

Re: [FRIAM] Peer review

2010-12-06 Thread glen e. p. ropella
of my work. But as my dad always said: I'd rather be lucky than good. ;-) -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College

Re: [FRIAM] pond scum update

2010-12-06 Thread glen e. p. ropella
/converting-android-15-camcorder-videos-with-samr-audio-codec-on-ubuntu-jaunty-with-ffmpeg -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's

Re: [FRIAM] NASA-Funded Research Discovers Life Built With Toxic Chemical

2010-12-03 Thread glen e. p. ropella
. although I am persuaded by Mooney's rhetoric, I would support Smith's effort. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College

[FRIAM] NASA-Funded Research Discovers Life Built With Toxic Chemical

2010-12-02 Thread glen e. p. ropella
and reproduce using the toxic chemical arsenic. The microorganism substitutes arsenic for phosphorus in its cell components. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays

Re: [FRIAM] NASA-Funded Research Discovers Life Built With Toxic Chemical

2010-12-02 Thread glen e. p. ropella
, though. Is it fairly common to find and report substitutes for DNA components? -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College

[FRIAM] more on debt and zero sum games

2010-12-01 Thread glen e. p. ropella
I found this post interesting: Money Is Not Real http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/003326.html -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11

[FRIAM] Save 60% on all ebooks and videos @ O'Reilly Media -today

2010-11-29 Thread glen e. p. ropella
http://oreilly.com/store/index.html -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps

[FRIAM] Project Gutenberg – Pirate?

2010-11-29 Thread glen e. p. ropella
that my birthday has the same character as a poem I write. (Ha!) But it seems clear that my favorite movie is Mad Max does have the same character as a poem I write. Anyway, sorry for rambling. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com

Re: [FRIAM] TSA, security technology, and opting out

2010-11-24 Thread glen e. p. ropella
philosophy ... bringing the abstract, obscure, musings of those weirdos at the EFF and ACLU down to the people, in terms they can understand. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group

Re: [FRIAM] ssh port scans .. w/in 1 hour of opening firewall!

2010-11-23 Thread glen e. p. ropella
smaller. I have ~700 entries in my /etc/hosts.deny file. [sigh] Having said all that, though, I usually don't change the port. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets

Re: [FRIAM] TSA, security technology, and opting out

2010-11-23 Thread glen e. p. ropella
of human degradation is very intriguing. More fodder: My TSA Encounter http://noblasters.com/post/1650102322/my-tsa-encounter -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets

[FRIAM] Open-and-Shut Case: Do Open-Access Journals Enhance Scientific Progress?

2010-11-16 Thread glen e. p. ropella
readers to learn more about the complex issues. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps

Re: [FRIAM] PoMo, the value of literary fiction, and realism

2010-11-09 Thread glen e. p. ropella
to this complex model we now have to use in a more densely populated, mostly urban world. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's

[FRIAM] More what is math?

2010-11-05 Thread glen e. p. ropella
-stimulation-re-2010-11-05 Here's the DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2010.10.007 -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's

[FRIAM] connectivity and the 7R allele of the dopamine receptor D4 gene

2010-10-29 Thread glen e. p. ropella
: http://jhfowler.ucsd.edu/ -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http

[FRIAM] Method, system, and apparatus for virtual modeling of biological tissue with adaptive emergent functionality

2010-10-26 Thread glen e. p. ropella
emergent functionality, such as self-repair, are developed and identified. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College

[FRIAM] The Penguin and The Leviathan: The Science and Practice of Cooperation

2010-10-26 Thread glen e. p. ropella
Penguin is nibbling at the view of society that animates Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College

Re: [FRIAM] Chomsky Supports Thompson

2010-10-22 Thread glen e. p. ropella
might survive the downstream. I've even been known to actually _read_ the output of Eddiington typewriters like the Chomskybot looking for interesting statements... kinda the same as reading individuals evolved with genetic programming. ;-) -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com

Re: [FRIAM] Chomsky Supports Thompson

2010-10-22 Thread glen e. p. ropella
in a quagmire of language, culture, hysterical rearing, genetic memory, and circumstance and that you'd better be crazy careful before you ever commit to believing any given idea, especially if you (we, people) came up with that idea. I.e. PoMo fosters skepticism. Is that got anywhere? -- glen e

Re: [FRIAM] Chomsky Supports Thompson

2010-10-22 Thread glen e. p. ropella
. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.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] Art is a Lie

2010-10-18 Thread glen e. p. ropella
that is not potentially scientific knowledge. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://agent-based-modeling.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives

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