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Marc Raibert founded Boston Dynamics after he and I published a paper "Tabular Control of Balance in a Dynamic Legged System" in IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. I am not suggesting a causal link. --- Frank Wimberly My memoir:

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Just think of the possibilities. https://www.bostondynamics.com/spot  FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe

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Can it beg, sit, and lie down? My god! It could walk itself n Nicholas Thompson Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology Clark University thompnicks...@gmail.com

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Still some tricks to learn..https://youtu.be/QxysX27CA1o?t=560 From: Friam on behalf of "thompnicks...@gmail.com" Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Date: Monday, February 10, 2020 at 12:01 PM To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' Subject: Re:

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I think it must be destiny.Small flamethrowers, maybe. From: Friam on behalf of Frank Wimberly Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Date: Monday, February 10, 2020 at 11:32 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Up and Out

[FRIAM] Eric Smith's interview on Jim Rutt's podcast

Just listened to this on a flight today. Always great to get your perspective, Eric! https://www.jimruttshow.com/eric-smith/ Multidimensional thinker Eric Smith has a wide-ranging talk with Jim about the origins of life, monetary systems, language & sustainability. Eric starts by sharing how

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Hi Merle, I am sorry, but the curriculum is long buried on a Zip drive somewhere in a container in Utah. An idea for your science fiction writer consortium: write a novel that was mostly utopian with enough conflict to make it interesting and readable that could be a point source for

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There was a Sixty Minutes episode a few years back re: who owned the largest automated army on the planet? It was all about Boston Dynamics robots. But the punch line was that Google owns them, and hence the Army. Depending on whether or not employees or executives control Google politics, it

[FRIAM] mode over path

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00349-1 > Fruit hauled by container ship can prove more environmentally friendly than > that carried shorter distances by road. -- glen FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays

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Glen, Marcus, Thank you for your always surprising suggestions, for your thoughts outside the box. I confess to being attracted to the pristine hypocrisy of HireAThug.com. Speaking of Thuggs, I wonder how many of you know about the Wide Awakes. These were a paramilitary organization

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Glen writes: < What matters is to put some active MEAT between the fascists and the [couter]protesters. > I'm seeing app-for-that opportunities. Have you heard of Lugg.com? Now enter Thugg.com, your quick access to a thug in your neighborhood. To busy to drive down to the protest in

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You've hidden the most important part of your question at the very bottom: "in the next year". As always, the system contains feedback loops. And each loop has its own speed. There are lots of things you can do in the next year that won't show any impact *within* the year, but may show impact

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Nick, A model for the kind of enlightened discussion / social action of the type you might want to see put in place. The Bellamy Clubs. Several thousand were formed in a loose confederation across the US — all inspired by Edward Bellamy's book (Science Fiction by the way), Looking Backward.

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Very interesting and a great idea, Prof. West. Do you still have a copy of your curriculum for the honors course? I'm just back from Ottawa, where I met with the Board of the Canadian Institute for Conflict Resolution. I discussed our (CED's) new generative dialogue process based on "the