Re: [FRIAM] New Mexico Legacy

Your kids, and especially your grandchildren, will so appreciate this kind of memoir. Often, local historical societies welcome a copy too, because the memoir is fine-grained enough to appeal to somebody doing local history, even if it isn’t a big piece of national history. > On Apr 25, 2019

[FRIAM] My new book

Please let me indulge in a little self-promotion here and tell you that my new book, one part memoir, one part social history, one part group biography, is now available. It’s called THIS COULD BE IMPORTANT: MY LIFE AND TIMES WITH THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENTSIA, and is published by Carnegie Mello

Re: [FRIAM] Harvard

It was called "dropping the H-bomb" a few years ago. (And I get the same question about my Berkeley days, Frank. ) Sent from my iPhone > On May 8, 2017, at 1:43 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > > As many of you are aware, during a discussion of the beverage tax I mentioned > that my wife studied a

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Bookstore Sale

Further to the local congregation: Since the Santa Fe Institute has run out of shelf space, they couldn’t accept Joe’s scientific library. I gave it to St. John’s for their sale instead. Many books on quantum physics, quantum chemistry, and other arcane topics. Get there early! Pamela > On

Re: [FRIAM] Mike Agar: The Professional Stranger 1945-2017

We’ve all lost a great friend in Mike. He came to dinner one night here in New York City while he was doing fieldwork commissioned by Sloan Kettering, trying to figure out a better relationship among patients, institution, and physicians. On that particular project he was as full of great ideas

Re: [FRIAM] the woman behind the woman

Striking for me to go to labs now (for those still exist) and hear the quiet. Computer labs in the beginning were rackety. Almost unbearably so. Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 5, 2017, at 9:58 AM, Steven A Smith wrote: > > Today young people needn't leave their books and classrooms for the comp

Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence

Grant, does it really seem plausible to you that the thousands of crack researchers at Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, Google, MIT, Cal Berkeley, and other places have not seen this? And found remedies? Just for FRIAM’s information, John McCarthy used to call Asimov’s Three Laws Talmudic. Sorry I do

Re: [FRIAM] Quants at CMU

Whatever their secret sauce is, I wish CMU would bottle it and sell it. The School of Computer Science is nearly 50/50 women/men students, and from all over. And it’s no secret, of course: outstanding women faculty, and programs designed to make women at home in a larger field that has been noto

Re: [FRIAM] Climate Change

Yes, he’s really that stupid. And is manipulated by people who know better, but whose short-term interests are best served by pretending global climate change is a fiction. > On Dec 29, 2017, at 12:23 AM, Jochen Fromm wrote: > > This is what Donald wrote on Twitter tonight: > "In the East, it

Re: [FRIAM] Learn languages

The guy who founded Duolingo is also the guy who invented Captchas. > On Aug 19, 2018, at 8:40 AM, Alfredo Covaleda Vélez > wrote: > > https://www.duolingo.com/ is an amazing website > to learn many languages. My mother language is Spanish and I am trying to > lea

Re: [FRIAM] Doug Robert's death

Oh no! He was such a wonderful funny guy. We bantered for years on FB and elsewhere. The parrot man. Peaceful passing, dear Doug. Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 16, 2018, at 2:10 AM, Jochen Fromm wrote: > > I'm sorry to hear that. Sincere condolences from Germany, > > Jochen > > > ---

Re: [FRIAM] Venice and Paying for content!

I pay monthly to the NY Times, the WashPost, the Guardian, and Medium. They work, I enjoy, they deserve to be paid for their work. Pamela > On Jan 7, 2019, at 9:14 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: > > Hey, thanks. The Guardian site popped up a plea for support so I finally did. > > Which reminded m

Re: [FRIAM] More CMU News and Uber

My last visit to CMU (April 2018) told me that the university had made its peace with this kind of poaching (the article’s dateline is 2015). Less obvious than the wholesale lifting of roboticists has been the wooing of other kinds of computer scientists. By “made its peace” I mean that CMU rec

Re: [FRIAM] Greek Crisis & Philosophy

Post World War II Germany was horrible for a couple of years with exactly the kinds of problems you mention, Nick: penicillin could only be had on the black market (i.e., from unscrupulous GIs); food was scarce; labor was mostly women moving bricks from bombed buildings by hand (die Trummelfraue

[FRIAM] The death of Joe Traub

As many of you know, my dear, dear Joe died on Monday morning, August 24. A memorial service will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, September 4, at the United Church of Santa Fe, at the corner of Arroyo Chamiso and St. Michael’s. You are warmly invited to attend. Here is his New York Times obitu

Re: [FRIAM] Physicists and Philosophers Debate the Boundaries of Science | Quanta Magazine

I haven’t heard the terms “thin problems” and “thick problems.” Are these yours, Patrick? They’re wonderfully intuitive: if I hadn’t heard the terms before, I still knew what you meant. Thanks. As for the techno-liberterians of Silicon Valley, it’s useless to remind them that they ride on a gra

Re: [FRIAM] Physicists and Philosophers Debate the Boundaries of Science | Quanta Magazine

Thanks, Nick, for the research on “thick” and “thin.” On Dec 28, 2015, at 4:42 PM, Patrick Reilly wrote: > Not my terms. > > On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 10:32 PM, Pamela McCorduck wrote: > I haven’t heard the terms “thin problems” and “thick problems.” Are these > yours, P

Re: [FRIAM] WiFi Service

Really glad to have that info, George. Thank you. On Feb 16, 2016, at 9:32 AM, George Duncan wrote: > My wifi system had stopped functioning. I called on Dot Foil to see if they > could help. Tom Wise arrived and restored my wifi system. Because this can be > a complicated problem and many of

Re: [FRIAM] Mike Agar's New Mexican Column: State loses from one-way water dialogue

Thanks for sending on this discouraging report. The heart sinks. > On May 17, 2016, at 12:16 PM, Stephen Guerin > wrote: > > It was back in March but I just saw it: > > http://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/my_view/reader-view-state-loses-from-one-way-water-dialogue/article_4662cd14-b808-5

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: [1st-mile-nm] GAO report: Feds spend billions to run ancient technology

OMG! But I remember Joe getting involved with the justice department, and discovering the same thing. You couldn’t maintain the system because nobody knew *how* to maintain it, the software was that old. > On May 25, 2016, at 4:18 PM, Tom Johnson wrote: > > I guess I should stop complaining

Re: [FRIAM] Fascinating article on how AI is driving change in SEO, categories of AI and the Law of Accelerating Returns

I have some grave concerns about AI being concentrated in the hands of a few big firms—Google, FaceBook, Amazon, and so on. Elon Musk says the answer is open sourcing, but I’m skeptical. That said, I’d be interested in hearing other people’s solutions. Then again, you may not think it’s a proble

Re: [FRIAM] Fascinating article on how AI is driving change in SEO, categories of AI and the Law of Accelerating Returns

Parnas was on the faculty with my husband at CMU back in the day. He was known as “the department’s conscience.” Except, Joe said, how can you be considered the conscience when you’re against everything? Everything whatsoever? He was eventually let go, went to, uh, Dortmund as I recall, then to

Re: [FRIAM] Fascinating article on how AI is driving change in SEO, categories of AI and the Law of Accelerating Returns

http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel > <http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel> > >> On Jun 5, 2016, at 4:04 PM, Pamela McCorduck > <mailto:pam...@well.com>> wrote: >> >> I have some grave concerns about AI being concentrated in the hands of a few >> big firm

Re: [FRIAM] Fascinating article on how AI is driving change in SEO, categories of AI and the Law of Accelerating Returns

I like this idea, Glen. Don't necessarily agree, but it's worth examining. Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 9, 2016, at 9:53 AM, glen ☣ wrote: > >> On 06/08/2016 11:27 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: >> `` I'm pretty much a luddite myself, or at least "conservative" in the sense >> of believing that we

Re: [FRIAM] Window Blinds

Owen, my blinds are all “duette” blinds, sort of the same as honeycomb. They were bought by the previous owner (so we’re going back almost thirty years). She bought them from Brother Sun, Sister Moon (or vice versa). Brother Sun etc. isn’t very good about servicing them—the cords eventually rot

Re: [FRIAM] Old Santa Fe Trail Garage

I haven’t used it for a while, but a friend does, and finds them very competent for run-of-the-mill things. > On Aug 15, 2016, at 11:24 PM, Nick Thompson > wrote: > > A > > Does anybody use this garage, and do you recommend it. > > N > > Nicholas S. Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Psy

Re: [FRIAM] Court: Judges Can Consider Predictive Algorithms in Sentencing

So agree. We are *so* far from certain on this one. > On Aug 26, 2016, at 5:11 PM, Tom Johnson wrote: > > I think we should proceed with great caution on this one. > > http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2016/07/13/court-judges-can-consider-predictive-algorithms-in-sentencing/ > >

Re: [FRIAM] Wisdom of Crowds vs Kenneth Arrow

I found that article on Enough with this Basic Income Bullshit an interesting read. I had to wonder why he capitalized Entrepreneur, as if it were Realtor, or some other nonsensical social climbing, but I agree that the system will need major overhauls. He is not alone in believing this, given a

Re: [FRIAM] Wisdom of Crowds vs Kenneth Arrow

cannot be "reformed." We need a revolution > that allows new structures to emerge. Visit our website and read about the > ECOS gathering. > > On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 6:25 PM, Pamela McCorduck <mailto:pam...@well.com>> wrote: > I found that article on Enough with this B

Re: [FRIAM] Mouse issue

Oh, I just paid them a lot to “seal” the house. Joe and I lived with the mice and removed him with ways animal rights people would not approve of, but we didn’t need professionals. (Lots of activated charcoal bags to keep the smell down as putrefying mice had died where their corpses couldn’t be

Re: [FRIAM] Mouse issue

OMG, removed THEM > On Nov 6, 2016, at 6:49 PM, Pamela McCorduck wrote: > > Oh, I just paid them a lot to “seal” the house. Joe and I lived with the mice > and removed him with ways animal rights people would not approve of, but we > didn’t need professionals. (Lots of act

Re: [FRIAM] Stop Calling People "Low Information Voters" | Quillette

I found the article just silly. Yes, the comparison between Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow is apt. Maybe we should call the Trumpists “trigger finger voters” and the Clinton voters, “think before you pull the trigger” voters. Also apt, to this student (and survivor) of WW II are the parallels

Re: [FRIAM] And so it begins: the dark times

Make no mistake, Jochen, there were many men marching in the crowds. The angry white men are generally older, high school graduates or less, though not necessarily in poverty, who see the world around them changing, and imagine that Trump can turn back the clock: coal mines will reopen, old-tim

Re: [FRIAM] cafeteria buddhism

I’d need to know which part of Biblical morality we’re talking about. > On Jan 24, 2017, at 11:52 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > > Well, I’m mulling over opinions like this > . > > "If the anti-Trump forces are to have a ch

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

Before we blame any particular technology for what seems like an epidemic of narcissism, we ought to remember that the 80s—or was it the 70s?—were widely known as the Me Decade. Either way, long before social media. I’m always deeply amused by the libertarians who tell us how wicked government

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

ect the political > and social progress of the 60's, there came a second wave of Narcissism on > top of that which started (I think) with the boom of post WWII industry and a > consumer economy. It took 50+ years to reach the untenable state we are in > today. > > - St

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

> On Jan 29, 2017, at 12:14 AM, Nick Thompson > wrote: > > So we’re stuck, right, Pamela? There’s nothing we can do? Just sit and take > it? > > Nick Oh no. Partly it’s self-correcting. Sherry Turkle (Reclaiming Conversation, and also a new Kindle single interview with Turkle by Paula

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

> On Jan 29, 2017, at 10:11 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > > Pamela writes: > > “Turkle suggests all kinds of times out from technology—dinner time, before > bed, that sort of thing.” > > There’s conflict that is created between those people that use electronic > communication non-stop for th

Re: [FRIAM] AI advance

> On Jan 31, 2017, at 7:32 AM, Steven A Smith wrote: > > >> " AlphaGo itself isn't scary it's what comes next and so on and how quickly >> these advances are progressing that give some great minds cause for concern." >> >> I just hope it comes soon. Humans aren't making very good decisions l

Re: [FRIAM] AI advance

To consider the issue perhaps more seriously, AI100 was created two years ago at Stanford University, funded by Eric Horowitz and his wife. Eric is an early AI pioneer at Microsoft. It’s a hundred-year, rolling study of the many impacts of AI, and it plans to issue reports every five years based

Re: [FRIAM] Globalism in the age of populism? .. & Open Source Software

You sound much more reasonable than Jacques Lacan ever did, Vladimir. But then I’m told you had to be there. I am sorry for your pain. It shows in your post. It’s righteous pain, altogether justified pain, for we have all been deeply wounded in that place where justice and righteousness abide.

Re: [FRIAM] Globalism in the age of populism? .. & Open Source Software

out flyers in Canada. > I don't believe they can take the cold, so it is probably nonsense. Maybe > they dress-up as Jehova Witnesses just to cross the border. > How do you tell the difference? > > > -Original Message- > From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfis

Re: [FRIAM] poker playing AI

Roger, that’s brilliant. My visitors from CMU came by chance the day after the final win. They were pretty excited about it all. > On Feb 4, 2017, at 7:12 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > > I noticed the poker playing AI winning the tournament recently in the news, > but I hadn't noticed until t

Re: [FRIAM] Making math more Lego-like | Harvard Gazette

Oh my goodness, Arthur Jaffe once delegated me to go to an art gallery in Santa Fe to see if the piece he loved really was as lovable as he thought. I stared at it for a half hour or so, and reported back that indeed it was. So he bought it long distance. Long time ago. > On Mar 4, 2017, at 11

Re: [FRIAM] Blinded By Science - When models FAIL taking all the humans

I found that Nature article disingenuous. It just so happened I sat down to dinner with a couple of bigtime modelers on Tuesday night--one models mathematically, one heuristically. They hadn't ever talked about it with each other, but they found out they'd done the same thing: they'd done the

Re: [FRIAM] New Topic: Science-based Fundamentalism

Let me add to the mix a book that was published more than fifty years ago by the social psychologist, Leon Festinger, called "When Prophecy Fails." Festinger was permitted to observe a doomsday cult (he told them who he was, and why he was there, and still they welcomed him) which believed

Re: [FRIAM] Fundamentalist-based Republicanism

I did not see that program, but Joe says he recently saw Mandelbrot (perhaps on that program) assigned by the interviewer credit for the butterfly effect. Instead of saying oh no, that was Ed Lorenz, he just sat there smiling, not contradicting. Bad form, very bad form. On Nov 3, 2008, at 9:3

Re: [FRIAM] Fundamentalist-based Republicanism

Los Alamos? And the parents rose up as one? On Nov 3, 2008, at 9:42 AM, Douglas Roberts wrote: The Los Alamos High School teachers were told last year that they could no longer teach evolution in their classes.  Pretty soon dogma will be all that is allowed to be taught.  One way to eliminate

Re: [FRIAM] Dictionary definitions

Your channel to God is excellent. On Nov 11, 2008, at 10:28 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: I apologize in advance for the didactic tone of what follows. Yes, God IS speaking through me. The closer one gets to the dictionary-making enterprise, the less one is inclined to use a dictionary to c

Re: [FRIAM] Santa Fe Holiday Warning

Laughed out loud! Yes, I will. On Nov 29, 2008, at 7:54 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: Pamela, feel free to use this in your next novel about Santa Fe's complex  society: Tequila my girl, is deceiving: Take two at the very most. Take three and you're under the table, Take four and you're under

Re: [FRIAM] Santa Fe Holiday Warning

Which reminds me, I was emailing a very proper English scientist lady today, trying to figure out if her son and I had a mutual friend. Turns out yes, they both worked at McKinsey about the same time. Son described Michael, my friend, as very informal, lots of fun. Oh indeed, I scribbled back-

Re: [FRIAM] Poll: which scripting languages are available on your computer?

Office 505-670-8195 - Cell 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 Pamela

Re: [FRIAM] What to do with knowledge

void the many opportunities for spinning out. Ideas, issues, topics are welcome. - Steve FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www

Re: [FRIAM] home gardening

All good reasons to eat local. But I remind you all that in some parts of the country, "eating local" would reduce us to rutabagas for most months of the winter. I wouldn't like that, and neither would my body. On Mar 23, 2009, at 9:50 PM, peggy miller wrote: Bringing food local reduces tra

Re: [FRIAM] (no subject)

..@clarku.edu) http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ - Original Message - From: Pamela McCorduck To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Sent: 3/24/2009 8:15:15 AM Subject: Re: [FRIAM] home gardening All good reasons to eat local. But I remind you all

Re: [FRIAM] (no subject)

Cornish pasties loomed large in my family legend: as a young man my father always went to Cornwall for holidays from grim Liverpool, where my family was situated. He loved to talk about the treat that Cornish pasties were. So when I finally visited Cornwall (as full of mines as Wales, and w

Re: [FRIAM] Freeman Dyson and Homo Sapiens Exploitatus

It almost makes me glad I brought up rutabagas. Anyway, I spenched my morning tea all over my screen. Thanks, Doug. P. On Mar 30, 2009, at 5:57 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: Ok, enough yammering about rutabagas. I don't carrot all for this line of discussion. Promiscuous potatoes, on the

Re: [FRIAM] Emergent behavior, or scripted?

Another such video exists that took place at the Liverpool Street station in London. But this one tells all about the rehearsals of the principals, how it was set up, how the professionals worked to get passersby involved. As I recall, the choreography wasn't nearly so complicated, so passe

[FRIAM] Complexity and Institutional Philanthropy

In a talk with an historian of philanthropy the other day, he told me how early 20th century philanthropy was driven by a metaphor derived from the germ theory of disease, very new and exciting just then. Thus the most forward-thinking philanthropists expressed ambitions to "cure" evil at i

Re: [FRIAM] Complexity and Institutional Philanthropy

Apparently I failed to make myself clear. My informant--as I said, an historian of philanthropy--mentioned that the *metaphor* of the germ theory of disease had deeply influenced the big givers at the turn of the twentieth century (e.g., the Rockefellers, even Carnegie). He didn't say that

Re: [FRIAM] Obama on nuclear energy

Excellent rant! On Apr 15, 2009, at 1:14 PM, Steve Smith wrote: I am sympathetic with the desire to eliminate "messy" forms of energy production, storage, transmission and use. England (esp. London) during the early Industrial Revolution understood that Coal was dirty and should not be us

Re: [FRIAM] Complexity and Institutional Philanthropy

d "self-organization" etc. Pamela McCorduck wrote: Apparently I failed to make myself clear. My informant--as I said, an historian of philanthropy--mentioned that the *metaphor* of the germ theory of disease had deeply influenced the big givers at the turn of the twentieth century

Re: [FRIAM] particles have free will

I wonder if Conway isn't making a little fun of the notion of free will here, as many scientists today scoff at the idea. I met Conway once. An interesting experience. On Apr 18, 2009, at 10:26 AM, Robert Holmes wrote: According to Conway (Game of Life inventor), particles have free- will

Re: [FRIAM] H1N1 Swine Google Mashup

Whoa! That's pretty telling. What are you expecting? Should I stash food and water? On Apr 26, 2009, at 6:23 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&t=p&msa=0&msid=106484775090296685271.0004681a37b713f6b5950&source=embed&ll=17.14079,-45.175781&spn=114.994624,1

Re: [FRIAM] FW: NYTimes.com: End the University as We Know It

My impression of the op-ed piece was that it was mostly about the humanities, where I'm sorry to say the numbers are correct: many graduate students spend six to eight years on the worst of the trivium, pile up debt, and face a labor market that has nearly no jobs for them. There's nearly n

Re: [FRIAM] FW: NYTimes.com: End the University as We Know It

t needs to be considered. However, I like her idea that the university is a complex adaptive system waiting to happen, and would love to take that discussion on further. Pamela On Apr 28, 2009, at 10:47 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: On Apr 28, 2009, at 6:47 PM, Pamela McCorduck wrote: Some

Re: [FRIAM] Kyield

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 Pamela McCorduck pam...@well.com ==

Re: [FRIAM] Stewart Brand proclaims 4 environmental 'heresies' | Video on TED.com

thanks for posting that, Owen. The sulfur dioxide release was news to me too. It isn't news that nuclear power is getting more attractive by the minute. I can remember a Japanese guy saying to me twenty years ago, of course we use nuclear power. You're lucky you have other choices. We don

Re: [FRIAM] Remember Rutabagas?

Thanks for this, Robert. Imagine--it could turn the northeast U.S. into an oil patch! On Aug 19, 2009, at 10:56 AM, Robert Cordingley wrote: You won't have to eat them after all: http://www.isa.org/Content/ContentGroups/News/2009/August42/ Rutabagas_that_come_in_87_octane.htm Robert C. ==

Re: [FRIAM] New Study: ‘Publish or perish’ fac tor in spiraling retractions

Tom, very interesting. Not surprising, but very interesting. On Aug 20, 2009, at 12:13 PM, Tom Johnson wrote: fyi http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/08/19/new-study-publish-or-perish- factor-in-spiralling-retractions/ -tj FRIAM A

Re: [FRIAM] code generated art

Harold Cohen, a painter who had represented Great Britain in the Venice Biennale in 1968, began code generated art just afterwards, when he took a sabbatical at UC San Diego (where he actually spent the rest of his teaching career). His program, AARON, is still producing. I have works from

Re: [FRIAM] The victims of the H1N1 virus

But Jochen asks a serious question--well, several serious questions, but the one I mean is, what happened to all the victims? Mass die-off? A nasty week and it was all over? Why don't we know? "I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper."

Re: [FRIAM] ABMs and Psychology

We're all asking ourselves where the Jameson's went. That's why we're quiet. On Sep 23, 2009, at 9:52 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: Steve, Have you ever noticed that after either you or I posts something to FRIAM, it gets ominously quiet for an awkward, uncomfortable interim? Kinda nice,

Re: [FRIAM] Dunbar numbers and distributions

On Nov 24, 2009, at 11:17 AM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: The concept of celebrity is just this confusion between village and mass culture. Brilliant, Nick. Never thought of it that way, but it feels right. "Whatever happens. Whatever what is, is what I want. Only that. But that."

Re: [FRIAM] Owen and the Mac

Owen, that's absolutely fascinating. BTW, Larry Tessler and I go back to graduate school days. Yow! "Whatever happens. Whatever what is, is what I want. Only that. But that." Galway Kinnell FRIAM Applied

Re: [FRIAM] Rethinking artificial intelligence

Most of early AI was heuristics, not algorithms. Some algorithms were incorporated into expert systems, in the belief that if an algorithm could solve the problem, fine; if not, heuristics might. But it was always *might*. True, computers can't solve all problems, neither can humans. P.

Re: [FRIAM] royal society 350th

Thanks for this pointer, Roger. On Dec 15, 2009, at 10:04 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote: 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 discipl

Re: [FRIAM] Rethinking artificial intelligence

con that doesn't use an algorithm somewhere. So do you suppose the Mind Machine Project is a way to break free of this computing/algorithmic model? Robert C Pamela McCorduck wrote: Most of early AI was heuristics, not algorithms. Some algorithms were incorporated into expert syste

[FRIAM] On Crowd Sourcing

I forwarded to my husband this most interesting site (essay, actually). He reminded me of a benign use of innocent crowd sourcing that most people don't know about. At Carnegie-Mellon, they are digitizing old manuscripts. Some of them don't lend themselves to scanning. For those where word

Re: [FRIAM] Kindle Hints & Hacks

Novels and non-fiction. Lines of poetry don't always convert well to the Kindle page. Enjoy it, Owen. P. On Dec 25, 2009, at 1:12 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: I gotta a Kindle for Christmas! So the question is for those of you with one of them: what are your favorite usages of the critter?

Re: [FRIAM] Santa Fe Wi-Fi Fears Keep Getting Weirder - Man sues neighbor for refusing to turn off wireless - dslreports.com

Gah I have it on excellent authority that this guy was banned from La Montanita Co-op a while back because he harassed customers on their cell phones, screaming that they were making him ill. Strangely enough, he had no symptoms from the cash registers On Jan 14, 2010, at 10:38 AM,

Re: [FRIAM] Emergence

On Jan 19, 2010, at 7:15 PM, Miles Parker wrote: It was surprising to me to find the extent to which just basic traditional statistical techniques have not made it into health care practice until quite recently. Is it a stretch to imagine that part of the reluctance of doctors to embrac

Re: [FRIAM] AAAI 2010 CAS Fall Symposium

Please keep me abreast of plans. Pamela On Jan 27, 2010, at 8:20 PM, Ted Carmichael wrote: Dear FRIAM folks: We were extremely pleased with the turnout and participation of last year's AAAI Fall Symposium on CAS and the Threshold Effect. With over 70 participants, it turned out to be qu

Re: [FRIAM] Steven Strogatz in NYTimes starting a column on math

This is great news. I have his Teaching Company course on fractals, and found it clear and very informative. On Feb 1, 2010, at 12:50 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: On Feb 1, 2010, at 1:39 AM, Stephen Guerin wrote: SFI External professor Steven Strogatz: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/201

Re: [FRIAM] Manhattan's Population

Jochen, there's a lot of work being done between SFI and Los Alamos on the idea of a city as a complex adaptive system, as an organism. A city in general obeys some of the rules we understand in biology; disobeys others. Clearest expression is in a paper that appeared in the New Scientist

Re: [FRIAM] Manhattan's Population

Yes, that's the one. On Feb 6, 2010, at 6:38 PM, Steve Smith wrote: Pamela McCorduck wrote: Jochen, there's a lot of work being done between SFI and Los Alamos on the idea of a city as a complex adaptive system, as an organism. A city in general obeys some of the rules we und

Re: [FRIAM] Sources of Innovation

On Feb 13, 2010, at 12:12 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: What an interesting question! Getting to an answer requires setting aside ALL ideology and doing a comparative study, across history and national boundaries, on the phenomenon of technological leadership. Who knows, for instance, how the

Re: [FRIAM] Sources of Innovation

When Kennedy envisioned going to the moon, no lobby existed to fight ferociously for the sole right to take the profits from going to the moon, and the sole right to decide who gets to go. If you read the not-very-deep subtext in this fight, you will see that it's not about giving better he

Re: [FRIAM] Sources of Innovation

Yep. I think it's basically an indictment of the entire educational system. Which seems to spew out people who can't think their way past slogans. On Feb 14, 2010, at 11:04 AM, Douglas Roberts wrote: Pamela, I think the healthcare issue goes way beyond just the usual corporate profit pr

Re: [FRIAM] Sources of Innovation

healthcare insurance industry profit protection. We truly are a nation of idiots. We deserve Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, and Pat Robertson. Model that, if you like. The agents in the individual based simulation won't need much sophistication. --Doug On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Pame

Re: [FRIAM] War has been declared

I read it all with amusement too. When the list gets too prolix, or about something that doesn't interest me, I just use the delete key. I mean, Nick and I got on about rutabagas for a while, and no one accused us of having nothing to do with complexity. Pamela On Feb 19, 2010, at 5:09 PM

Re: [FRIAM] Santa Fe Complex lands Defense contract - The Santa Fe New Mexican

Bah, I'm getting an error message. On Feb 21, 2010, at 3:19 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: Hey, hey, HEY! Way to go, guys! --Doug On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: Wow, SFX is off to a fast start! http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local News/Santa-Fe-Complex-lands- Defe

Re: [FRIAM] Santa Fe Complex lands Defense contract - The Santa Fe New Mexican

i.org/publications/abstract.cfm?pub=11845 On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Pamela McCorduck wrote: Bah, I'm getting an error message. On Feb 21, 2010, at 3:19 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: Hey, hey, HEY! Way to go, guys! --Doug On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: W

Re: [FRIAM] Santa Fe Complex lands Defense contract - The Santa FeNew Mexican

C'est moi. John Horgan claims me? It's true. On Feb 21, 2010, at 4:28 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote: By the way, are you the same Pamela McCorduck who wrote "Machines Who Think" and persuaded John Horgan to become a science journalist? He notices this here: http://www.newswe

Re: [FRIAM] Santa Fe Complex lands Defense contract - The Santa FeNew Mexican

's about "the end of science," written in 1996 or so. On Feb 21, 2010, at 8:31 PM, Pamela McCorduck wrote: C'est moi. John Horgan claims me? It's true. On Feb 21, 2010, at 4:28 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote: By the way, are you the same Pamela McCorduck who wrote &quo

Re: [FRIAM] Comparison of e-book formats - Wikipedia

Ugh. I hate living through transitional periods. Anyway, I was an early adopter of the Kindle (a month after the Kindle 1 came out; pre-ordered the Kindle 2 when it was announced) and on the whole, I've been very happy. In (by now) hundreds of books, I've had no formatting problems save two

[FRIAM] Grateful Dead and onward

Friends in Santa Fe: Forgive this mass email, but I need some help. Some of you know David Gans as the host of The Grateful Dead Hour; some of you know David as a musician in his own right. He's asked me about good venues in Santa Fe for him to do a gig in May. This is my kind of music, bu

Re: [FRIAM] Bertie on Maths

When I saw that subject line I was so hoping it was Bertie Wooster. On Mar 23, 2010, at 1:08 PM, plissa...@comcast.net wrote: Discussions of the "meaning" of math are always interesting --- and revealing. When I was a student of math at Cambridge Bertrand Russell was still around, and much

Re: [FRIAM] fibonacci in bliss

Just got around to watching Nature by numbers, the movie. Extraordinary. So are his other short films. Thanks, Victoria. (In the movie about the Golden Mean, some people here will recognize former Santa Fean John Casti.) On Mar 23, 2010, at 4:48 PM, Victoria Hughes wrote: Nature by numbe

Re: [FRIAM] Sperm pelotons; article in Nature

This man is a treasure. Yeah, you, Doug. On Mar 29, 2010, at 2:30 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: Gentlemen, It was certainly not my intention to hijack this thread... --Doug On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Steve Smith wrote: Nick - Doug, Clearly you have never looked closely at Sperm u

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