Re: [FRIAM] Open Source Project?

2007-01-01 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Owen Densmore wrote: > So figuring out a good way to manage using different languages > together, synergistically, is pretty important. > A datapoint: Swarm interfaces are declared using an extended version of Objective C protocols. These interfaces are parsed into Lisp data structures an

Re: [FRIAM] Open Source Project?

2007-01-01 Thread Owen Densmore
> I'd like to see simple naive Bayesian classifiers in Ruby .. One issue Redfish deals with quite a bit is use of different languages within projects. We'd like Python to talk to Processing (Java) and Processing to talk to Blender. JDK 1.6 took a tiny step: defining a way for Java to talk t

Re: [FRIAM] Open Source Project?

2007-01-01 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Owen Densmore wrote: > But the bigger picture of my wish is precisely that: we need to build > a far broader set of easily integrated tools for ABM. Far more > important is the synergy amongst them than their ease of use. > My experience with Swarm was that it was not easy to do in an incr

Re: [FRIAM] Open Source Project?

2007-01-01 Thread Giles Bowkett
> 1 - If you/we were to start an open source project, what would it be? > 2 - What open source project would you like to see happen? I'd like to see simple naive Bayesian classifiers in Ruby for blocking blog spam. I was going to do something like this but got distracted. Rails is only getting big

Re: [FRIAM] Open Source Project?

2007-01-01 Thread Owen Densmore
> It's all fine and good to try to lower the cost of entry to ABM, > but to > get science done ABMers need a way to say something precise and > have it > understood by theorists. Pretty visual programming systems, GIS, > etc. > don't necessarily accomplish that. I totally agree, and indeed

Re: [FRIAM] Open Source Project?

2006-12-31 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
> > Well, from our side of the world, obviously a killer simulation environment. I recently watched an interview on the Research Channel with Anders Hejisberg, inventor of Turbo Pascal and C#. A former project manager of his at Borland was talking about their abandoned visual programming projec

Re: [FRIAM] Open Source Project?

2006-12-31 Thread Owen Densmore
> 1 - If you/we were to start an open source project, what would it be? Well, from our side of the world, obviously a killer simulation environment. This would include a "pipe" or "port" interoperability amongst many useful components including the agent modeler, landscape/gis agent environ

Re: [FRIAM] Open Source Project?

2006-12-31 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Owen Densmore wrote: > Just a poll of sorts: > > 1 - If you/we were to start an open source project, what would it be? > 2 - What open source project would you like to see happen? > I'd like to see an interactive functional language like Haskell improved to quickly compile and distribute code a

Re: [FRIAM] Open Source Project?

2006-12-30 Thread Robert Cordingley
My suggestions: 1 - would be two really, a) science and b) comparative religion education software for the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) 2 - has to be auditable Electoral Voting Machines and Servers - which should be made a legal requirement, IMO. Robert C www.cirrillian.com Owen Densmore wrot

Re: [FRIAM] Open Source Project?

2006-12-30 Thread Phil Henshaw
Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Subject: [FRIAM] Open Source Project? > > > Just a poll of sorts: > > 1 - If you/we were to start an open source project, what > would it be? 2 - What open source project would you like to > see happen? > > -- Ow

[FRIAM] Open Source Project?

2006-12-30 Thread Owen Densmore
Just a poll of sorts: 1 - If you/we were to start an open source project, what would it be? 2 - What open source project would you like to see happen? -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net FRIAM Applied Complexity Group