On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Robert Holmes rob...@holmesacosta.comwrote:
What's the point of determining whether a phenomenon is emergent or not?
What useful stuff can I actually do with that knowledge?
In other areas of my life, classification can have actionable consequences.
For
From my perspective, which is probably a minority, your question makes very
little sense.
The basic conditions for emergence were laid down by Mill in 1843,
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27942/27942-h/27942-h.html#toc53, and there's
not much to it: when you combine some things, the properties of
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Russ Abbott russ.abb...@gmail.com wrote:
Roger, Well said.
But there is a further question. Can anything be added to your (Mill's)
statement that when you combine some things (e.g., combining a bunch of cows
into a herd) the result has properties that the
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Russ Abbott russ.abb...@gmail.com wrote:
With aggregativity defined that way, Wimsatt notes that Very few system
properties are aggregative. Then what? Is the point that emergence,
defined as failure of aggregativity has now been fully characterized?
Problem
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Russ Abbott russ.abb...@gmail.comwrote:
An interesting example to which this approach might be applied is an ideal
gas. Such a gas satisfies all the aggregativity conditions. Yet it has
properties (the gas laws) that the individual components lack.
I read
I read this to my MythBuntu server, and it's only comment was: ow, butthead.
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On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Douglas Roberts d...@parrot-farm.netwrote:
Far, far removed, thankfully, from the topic of 'should, or should not
FRIAMers be encouraged to ramble enthusiastically about
No, and I cannot help you pick which Conway to read, either.
But, if you really want to know about Quaternions, there are several
digitized editions of Sir William Rowan Hamilton's Elements of Quaternions
available, both the original (1866) single volume prepared by his son and
the two volumes
Nice. That sort of turns Bedau on his head without rearranging his features
much. Where he is saying that an emergent process cannot be compressed into
a smaller computation than a full simulation, you're saying for given
computational resource the full simulation of an emergent process gives
So yesterday I'm reading about solar energy and thinking -- blah, blah, blah
-- of all the known solutions.
Today Slashdot gives me a blurb about synthetic black holes, which I follow
to new scientist and on to http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.2159v1
The abstract:
Traditionally, a black hole is a
So how do you test a hypothesis that the future is interfering with the
present?
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On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Douglas Roberts d...@parrot-farm.netwrote:
Fairly far out there. Here's one I stumbled across yesterday that is way
far out there:
The Collider, the Particle and a
“[that life expectancy in Canada is higher than in the USA] is to be
expected, Peter, because we have 10 times as many people as you do. That
translates to 10 times as many accidents, crimes, down the line.” Bill
O’Reilly
http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2009/07/bill_oreilly_on_life_expectanc.php
I've been on an ebook binge lately, mostly collecting classics in the public
domain at archive.org and gutenberg.org, with detours to Canada and
Australia when Mickey Mouse copyright extensions demand. I just had a
vision of myself as retired, homeless, pursuing the great books reading
program on
So, this Baars fellow who you're discussing, this is the Bernard J Baars
whose home page at http://vesicle.nsi.edu/users/baars/ links to copies of
all the books and papers under discussion?
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On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Stephen Thompson
spth...@frontiernet.netwrote:
Nick:
Innocentive published a $15000 challenge this week which some of you might
find interesting:
https://gw.innocentive.com/ar/challenge/8919320 Mathematical models are an
essential tool in studying complicated systems. The Seeker of this Challenge
is interested in exploring adaptation within a
This article appears in PLOS Biology today, titled: University Public-Access
Mandates Are Good for Science
http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000237
Why would university faculty choose to place their scholarship on electronic
archives for a world-wide audience?
Yah, doesn't complete it's own installation test script on Ubuntu 9.10, the
gopher's cool.
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On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
Gawd, YAPL, from Google:
http://golang.org/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/10/google-go-language/
compilation, no exponential growth in compile time with
project size, garbage collected, built in strings, built in maps, concise
syntax, no pointer arithmetic, and the gopher's still cool, if a little
obscene.
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On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Roger Critchlow r...@elf.org wrote:
Yah, doesn't
I just wandered onto mathoverflow.com and checked the fourth (subject to
resorting by activity) question on their front page:
http://mathoverflow.net/questions/1722/free-high-quality-mathematical-writing-online
The first comment on that question led me to:
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Nicholas Thompson
nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
Does anybody have anything kind or unkind to say about Driver Detective
for a year at 30 bucks.
My computer runs like doing aerobics in a swimming pool full of molassas.
DD's free scan says i have 59
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I don't see any, but they'll probably turn up eventually.
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On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
Could one of the recipients check to see if they too have 8 invites? I'm
hoping that is the case, so that the community we create can spread a bit
Returning to the purple state discussions, here's an article about how
Florida's plurality democratic electorate and its compact, contiguous,
ungerrymandered voting precincts favor republican candidates.
http://www.stanford.edu/~jowei/identified.pdf
The paper appeared on Andrew Gelman's
Google Wave is a beta product undergoing a controlled growth phase, so you
need an invitation to join.
Wave, among many other things, lets you turn email conversations into
documents that can be scrolled back and forth in time. That allows someone
who joins the conversation late to replay and
Same power production as existing wind farms in 100th the land area.
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/1124/1
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*Subject:* [FRIAM] flocking windmills
Same power production as existing wind farms
. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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*To: *nickthomp
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On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote:
I've always wondered how sophisticated the algorithms for arranging
windmills might be.
Here's a micro-engineering variation to keep you out of macro-trouble.
Now -- back into macro-trouble again -- if you had a flock
...@snoutfarm.comwrote:
Roger Critchlow wrote:
if you had a flock of egg-beater generators on a piece of Iowa farmland,
could you run them as mixers and give a tornado a leg up over the next town
down wind?
Why should Iowa have all the fun? Howzabout making waterspouts with
flocking tidal turbines
Okay, this one is for Nick, too, in his guise as a weather geek.
NASA Earth Observatory picked up the press release for this:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=41646src=eorss-manews
But it turns out that the New Journal of Physics is open sourced, so you can
go read the
Lot's of curl up in front of the fire reading in Philosophical Transactions
of The Royal Society B:
http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/365/1537.toc
- Simon Levin
Crossing scales, crossing disciplines: collective motion and collective
action in the Global Commons
- Martin A.
Twitter centric twitters. Someone who studies tweets and reports their
results in the same form.
At the recommendation of a New York Times blogger,
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/adding-controlled-serendipity-to-the-web,
I have begun following @atul and @brainpicker on twitter, thus
Google actually gets a direct hit on your error message, but I can't figure
out whether the responses are pertinent.
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On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Nicholas Thompson
nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
Anybody recognise this error. Microsoft Disowns it. I am running xp
sp2.
It's hard to believe I beat Tom Johnson on this one, but here's a five
minute talk from IgniteDC on the politics of data visualization.
http://www.targetpointconsulting.com/ToThePoint/2010/01/05/chart-wars
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Add this to the stack:
http://www.eurodroid.com/2010/01/nokia-has-a-reason-to-carry-on-android-booted-on-an-n900/
A dual boot phone?
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On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Marcus G. Daniels mar...@snoutfarm.comwrote:
On 1/28/10 1:57 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
Apple just sucks less than
The ancient Asian game was referred to as yi by Confucius and Mencius. it
only spread to Japan and became known as go in the second millennium of
its existence. The best international players call the game weiqi
(Chinese) or baduk (Korean).
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On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Robert J.
The most interesting point I've seen made is the question of what does the
new Apple A4 CPU bring to the table? Oh, you didn't notice that Apple is
building it's own CPU for the iPad?
For the consumer's benefit, I expect that it will be the most power stingy
CPU that has ever been seen in an
A Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet is my principle computer, on the desktop or on the
road, running Ubuntu primarily or Windows if required. A G1 serves as a
WWAN modem and as a portable computer on many trips. A Chumby as a home
alarm clock, though it may be reitired in favor of the phone.
The Thinkpad
There's already a movement to save his job.
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/04/campaign-to-save-dav.html
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On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Douglas Roberts d...@parrot-farm.netwrote:
DOH!
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Jochen Fromm jfr...@t-online.de wrote:
Have you heard of
I agree with Glen, I think, the all over the place is the plan.
And it's the same plan that Microsoft tried and failed to execute because,
as the blogs have been noting this week, Microsoft let a thousand flowers
bloom, and then set them to trial by combat, with the result that the most
vicious
The fish schooling vertical axis windmill grouping paper is out on arxiv.org
http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.2250
The other paper from Nature
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v463/n7282/abs/nature08736.html
titled Competition drives cooperation among closely related sperm of deer
mice notes
I think Schmidt is dreaming, that the USA had an innovation policy that
worked, that it could have an innovation policy that would work in the
future.
We had a population that was willing and eager to try new things, once, and
from the consumers to the entrepreneurs they did try new things, and
Via the Arts and Letters Daily, http://www.aldaily.com/, a review of Timothy
Ferris' book about science and liberal democracy,
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/books/review/Rosen-t.html, which brings us
back to the question of innovation, and back to whether google is a company
with a technical
I think Glen was just working up a Presidents Day troll. The day we
celebrate the births of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln is the perfect
day to appear to deny that rights exist.
But I think he really means that their existence is problematic, and if you
scan the Wikipedia article on
According to UsingEnglish.com
Similar to *ahead of the pack*, *ahead of the curve* literally refers to
your position on the statistical bell curve, where the top of the curve
represents the median, average result. By being ahead of the curve you
represent the top percentile of results that either
Hugh --
I like the analysis very much. There should be other cases of velocity
sorting in microbiology and perhaps in developmental biology, any place
where cells are potentially crowded and need to get some where.
I think that sustainability for sperm is an oxymoron -- they have fixed food
Carlos Gershenson's definition to be included in Springer's Encyclopedia of
Astrobiology: http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.5947
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The deeper story is that Steve Jobs is being driven crazy. If people don't
stop telling him how to run his fiefdom, he's going to go join the Taliban
with Harmid Karzai, and then you'll all be sorry. That's the real reason
they purged all the boob apps from the app store.
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On Mon, Apr
So here's another speculation on the Apple XCODE lockup clause:
that the iPad CPU is not the ARM variant that most analysts think, it's
actually a PA Semi dual core Power Architecture CPU running ARM emulation.
The argument is that the die size is too big for the ARM Cortex, and it's
too small
I once read a comment on a writer's blog which liked her multi-dementional
characters.
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On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:11 AM, lrudo...@meganet.net wrote:
Explains a lot about surgeons, maybe...
That certainly explains a lot.
--Doug
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:12 AM, peggy miller
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Jochen Fromm jfr...@t-online.de wrote:
I guess people back then were not that
different from today, some just wanted
to be peaceful farmers, while others
insisted on repulsive rituals, bloody
sacrifices and endless wars. The film
Apocaylpto from Mel Gibson
Exactly. I sat there looking at the full moon and imagined Mel Gibson
whipping the solar system through 14 days of celestial mechanics in the 12
hours elapsed in the script. In my mind it made this horrible grinding
noise.
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On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:07 PM, sarbajit roy
.
- Original Message - From: Roger Critchlow
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 10:57 PM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Palenque, Chichen Itza and more
Exactly. I sat there looking at the full moon and imagined Mel Gibson
whipping the solar system through
Owen --
But when push comes to shove, standards can go hang themselves.
The iTaser that Jon Stewart showed on The Daily News only runs on Apple
electrons.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-april-28-2010/appholes
Don't iTase me bro!
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On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Owen Densmore
Last month Science reported the results (
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/sci;328/5975/208) of a social
learning tournament (http://www.intercult.su.se/cultaptation/tournament.php).
In non-social algorithmic learning, an agent has the choice between
exploiting what it already
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Russ Abbott russ.abb...@gmail.com wrote:
It's not Arizona. Arizona was simply the first state to have the guts to
act. More than 50% of Americans apparently approve the Arizona law. We
should boycott the entire country--except perhaps enclaves like Sante Fe (?)
The complete conference proceedings are here,
http://www.ifaamas.org/Proceedings/aamas2010/resources/_fullpapers.html, and
a lot of them look interesting.
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Here's a little linked verse on the general subject from someone saying
goodbye to apple development.
From http://rentzsch.tumblr.com/ http://rentzsch.tumblr.com/
http://rentzsch.tumblr.com/It’s not about Adobe.
It’s not about Flash.
It’s not about cross-platform.
It’s about less code.
It’s
PNAS has published the papers from the latest Sackler Colloquium: In the
Light of Evolution IV: The Human Condition with open access.
http://www.pnas.org/content/107/suppl.2
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And if you want to see if the argument confuses you as much as it confuses
the physicists:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.0785
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On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Pamela McCorduck pam...@well.com wrote:
Great food for thought. Gravity might be no more than
Working from the context, I'd guess: the tensor product between the
components idxsupa/sup/i and idxsupb/sup/iof the stress
energy tensor iTsubab/sub/i, but I've never been too sure about
tensors.
I was lost in the introduction.
The proposition of entropy causing action at a distance reminded me
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Gravity as an emergent phenomenon
Working from the context
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Ted Carmichael teds...@gmail.com wrote:
Russ, I don't get this at all. Two points:
1) There are an infinite number of ways that a line can be parallel to a
plane; there is exactly one way it can be perpendicular to the plane. Is
that the point?
2) The
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Russ Abbott russ.abb...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey Roger, Your posts inspired me to track you down a bit. Nice website (The
Entropy Liberation Front http://elf.org/puzzle). Not many posts, though.
You should post more. I like your Puzzle Earth
Rob Pike made a presentation at the O'Reilly Open Source
Conference yesterday slamming Java and C++ as part of explaining how the Go
Language came about.
http://infoworld.com/d/developer-world/google-executive-frustrated-java-c-complexity-375
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Roger Critchlow r...@elf.org wrote:
Rob Pike made a presentation at the O'Reilly Open Source
Conference yesterday slamming Java and C++ as part of explaining how the Go
Language came about.
http://infoworld.com/d/developer-world/google-executive-frustrated-java
.
;-] ;-]
--Doug
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.netwrote:
Thanks, good .. er .. pointers. :)
-- Owen
On Jul 23, 2010, at 9:16 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
Oh, I see Pike gave two other talks at OSCON, no video but pdfs of the
slides:
Go http
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Marcus Daniels mar...@snoutfarm.comwrote:
Roger Critchlow wrote:
I found it even more apparent on this pass through that the language is
very well built for the kind of parallel programming that I've become
comfortable with in erlang. That is, go makes
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
So .. here's the question, given our current understanding: can Go succeed?
Generally a new technology has to have a 10x improvement over the current
tech to make it. Its just too hard to change for it to merely be
ACM Technotes reported today:
Java/J2EE is the programming and developing skill in most demand with more
than 14,000 open job positions nationally, according to a July report from
IT job board Dice.
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On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Grant Holland
grant.holland...@gmail.comwrote:
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Douglas Roberts d...@parrot-farm.net wrote:
Re: backups, I find rsync to the perfect solution for me. Here's an excerpt
from one of my backup scripts:
/usr/bin/rsync -vurltD --exclude-from=/home/roberts/.rsync/exclude
/home/roberts /mnt/backup
Introducing another thread, the measure of diversity used in ecology
is Shannon's entropy.
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http://www.semcoop.com/book/9780226562261
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Biology's First Law: The Tendency for Diversity and Complexity to
Increase in Evolutionary Systems
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Nicholas Thompson
nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
He is humming along talking about the universe since the Big Bang, when he
reminds me that the planets in the solar system are in a higher entropy
state than the gas cloud from which they formed. (“The Solar
No, but I just starred this posting this morning:
http://lifehacker.com/5611300/the-pay+as+you+go-sim-wiki-outlines-prepaid-data-offerings-overseas
which looked like a good place for research.
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On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
I'm planning a
The Odyssey -
Genji Monogatari - I liked Seidensticker's translation, though it was years
before I finally finished reading it. I see there's yet another translation
available now.
The Journey to the West - how the dharma came to the middle kingdom, and no
abbreviated description could do it
The principal nuclear bomb casualties in New Mexico, that I'm aware of, were
Navajo Uranium miners and their families.
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On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Jochen Fromm jfr...@t-online.de wrote:
Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan was a primary testing area for the nuclear
weapons of the Soviet
Here's another pertinent book, reviewed in brief by Nature today. So
experts, minds brimming with facts, are more likely to choke.
- Joanne Baker
Nature 467 , 785 (14 October 2010) doi:10.1038/467785a
Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal About Getting It Right When You
Have To
Sian
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 6:51 AM, ERIC P. CHARLES e...@psu.edu wrote:
To connect this with the other thread, and Rich's eloquent statement, the
transcendent person is LESS complicated than the average person. They have
let go of unnecessary complications. When you accept everyone and let
them
Jambo, in College Plaza, Between the Ace Hardware and the Office Whatever,
East African/Caribbean.
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lectures, archives, unsubscribe,
Fascinating how difficult it is to distinguish pomo from porno in my
sanserif mailbox,
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On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Nicholas Thompson
nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
Glen,
Is there an example of a pomo discussion that actually got anywhere? Or by
using the terms getting
I wish I had personal experience to share on the subject, but it's all
vicarious.
My own recommendation is to go see what Edmund Scientifics has to offer,
http://www.scientificsonline.com/, because I have always coveted one of
their Astroscan telescopes, and because I've been always impressed
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:39 PM, glen e. p. ropella g...@tempusdictum.comwrote:
[*] FWIW, I find it odd for you to ask, of this particular article, why
is this important? Of all the obscure, mumbo-jumbo journal articles
out there (our discussion of PoMo aside ;-), it seems blatantly obvious
Well, that's the issue, isn't it? The people in the government justify
secrecy by one standard and then use it for whatever they can get away with,
and you can get away with a lot if no one is ever allowed to see what you've
done. So they claim strenuously that exposing secrets will endanger
Why worry about gmail? Worry about the NSA backdoor that Intel added to the
x86 microcode years ago, until you get tired, then go back to your regularly
scheduled activities.
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On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
BTW: one concern I've had lately
Ah, a microbiologist rips the NASA research:
http://rrresearch.blogspot.com/2010/12/arsenic-associated-bacteria-nasas.html
finding lots of places where they didn't do (or didn't report the results
of) additional experimental work she would have sent any graduate student
back to the lab to do.
The reviews for the Nexus-S I've scanned were generally underwhelmed. It's
a nice phone, but not much of an advance on the Nexus-One, which should get
the Gingerbread release of Android before Christmas. And no support for
the HSPA+ digital service on T-Mobile, so you probably will need wifi to
The author of the original paper speaks to criticisms:
http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/12/author-of-controversial-arsenic-.html?rss=1
http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/12/author-of-controversial-arsenic-.html?rss=1Science
is making the paper freely available for the
tree?
Nick
Ps: if you are too young to know what an elephant joke is, you won’t get
this. In fact, if you’re old enough to know what an elephant joke is, you
still may not get it.
*From:* friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On
Behalf Of *Roger Critchlow
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 7:24 AM, ERIC P. CHARLES e...@psu.edu wrote:
[ ... ]
On a more serious note (and the previous part was fairly serious already):
Given that half the major discoveries promoted in psychology are assuredly
garbage, how does this surprise you? Are you a hard-science snob,
This one looked interesting:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/get-started-with-git/
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On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
Speaking of git, it turns out my hosting service uses (and
I just moved my keepassx password vault onto my dropbox folder, and
installed the android keepassx client on my phone.
Seems that every few days I get an email from some online account that
noticed my email address in the compromised gawker data and wonders if I
should change my password. But
The IP address that the x-spam-report lists as blacklisted [209.86.89.62
listed in list.dnswl.org] maps to elasmtp-dupuy.atl.sa.earthlink.net which
doesn't have any relationship to anything that Owen sent. Ah, but it is one
of smtp servers that Nick's email client uses, it shows up in the headers
, which one you is linking to friam.org from your drive by download
emporiums?
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On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Roger Critchlow r...@elf.org wrote:
The IP address that the x-spam-report lists as blacklisted [209.86.89.62
listed in list.dnswl.org] maps to elasmtp
the filtering in the long headers as psmtp.com entries.
-- Owen
On Jan 3, 2011, at 2:20 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
The IP address that the x-spam-report lists as blacklisted [209.86.89.62
listed in list.dnswl.org] maps to elasmtp-dupuy.atl.sa.earthlink.net which
doesn't have any
much work, don’t
bother.
Nick
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Behalf Of *Roger Critchlow
*Sent:* Monday, January 03, 2011 5:28 PM
*To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
*Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] dropbox?
*McAfee SiteAdvisor
The article on flowingdata.com includes a link to the source of the map in
the line of text that appears directly under the map.
The source is http://aschmann.net/AmEng/ and that page has two larger
versions of the map embedded in it.
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On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Nicholas Thompson
A Digital Orrery, James Applegate, M. Douglas, Y. Gursel, P Hunter, C.
Seitz, Gerald Jay Sussman, in IEEE Transactions on Computers, *C-34*, No. 9,
pp. 822-831, September 1985, reprinted in Lecture Notes in Physics #267 --
Use of supercomputers in stellar dynamics, Springer Verlag, 1986.
But also
I think Stallman would argue that there are good technologies for making
portable communication devices which do not share the problems he sees with
cell phones. The government knows what these technologies are and uses them
for military tactical communications, which makes those communications
Of course, that's the whole issue. Do we let faceless bureaucrats figure
these things out and impose burdensome regulations? Or do we let gangs of
rapacious attorneys sue for ruinous damages after the fact? Or is there
another way to force consideration of public good into decisions about
I got annoyed with swype after the beta timed out and just stopped working
for the second time without warning, and I never really go the hang of it.
When the Vibrant offered to let me use it, I said no thanks.
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On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Robert Holmes
This is has been cooling its bits in the moderator queue for five days.
(Because I appended a maxwell demon cartoon from the principle author's web
page.)
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