http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.org.region.new-mexico.santa-fe.friam hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.region.new-mexico.santa-fe.friam/9079 ============================================================ 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 Nicholas Thompson 2008-12-01T20:03:30 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.region.new-mexico.santa-fe.friam/9078 ============================================================ 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 Phil Henshaw 2008-12-01T18:48:06 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.region.new-mexico.santa-fe.friam/9074 Of late, I've become interested (AKA "mildly obsessed") in/with William Wimsatt's work. (hmmm, U of Chicago, aren't some folks recently in the news from there?) Always liked the notion of processes selecting for accessibility (to maybe see what I'm talking about, study the Hasegawa dyptich at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_(negative_space) for a few minutes/hours). Not to mention the whole Occam's Razor show at the SF Complex continues to reverberate with the local Taiko folk and Wimsatt's paper has some insights there in the first several pages. So anyhow, "interested", so here, have a pod... From N-Category Cafe, originally - http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2008/11/mathematical_robustness.html Thence to the eminently devourable paper: http://www.institutnicod.org/Reduction/7.OntComplSys.pdf (pictures are worth several hundred words). and then to the interviews at: http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/071004/limited-beings.shtml (Nicely assembled, short, pithy.) which refer to his Carl Tollander 2008-12-01T04:46:46 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.region.new-mexico.santa-fe.friam/9073 See the editorial and the interview.... http://tinyurl.com/57ovw4 ============================================================ 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 Carl Tollander 2008-12-01T03:43:50 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.region.new-mexico.santa-fe.friam/9069 A Very Short Introduction to Everything: http://images.amazon.com/media/i3d/01/final_version_of_vsie.pdf .. is an overview of the "A Very Short Introduction" series from Oxford Press. Its an interesting series of books attempting to be brief, pocketable and good surveys of whatever catches the author's fancy. I stumbled over this looking for stuff by one of my favorite authors, Philip Ball, who has two titles in the series (The Elements & Molecules). -- Owen ============================================================ 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 Owen Densmore 2008-11-30T20:22:12 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.region.new-mexico.santa-fe.friam/9064 ============================================================ 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 Douglas Roberts 2008-11-30T00:54:13 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.region.new-mexico.santa-fe.friam/9062 ============================================================ 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 Douglas Roberts 2008-11-28T19:05:33 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.region.new-mexico.santa-fe.friam/9058 Lessig, the brilliant "Internet Lawyer", in interviewed: http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/9618 .. and has some interesting experiences with Obama. They worked together in their early careers, oddly enough, but outside of the political area. He goes into copyright, as usual, but extends his earlier focus nicely. -- Owen ============================================================ 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 Owen Densmore 2008-11-27T18:29:53 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.region.new-mexico.santa-fe.friam/9057 HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE. (Yes, I'm shouting.) Our oven died last night, so this year we are *very* thankful for the casita. Dede and Owen ============================================================ 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 Dede Densmore 2008-11-27T16:35:34 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.region.new-mexico.santa-fe.friam/9056 Has anyone tried Dropbox: http://www.getdropbox.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox_(storage_provider) It looks interesting but I wonder how well it all works. Backup is becoming more interesting nowadays with things like the Apple Time- Machine and the terabyte Time-Capsule. Maybe this'll be an interesting alternative. -- Owen ============================================================ 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 Owen Densmore 2008-11-27T02:43:20 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.region.new-mexico.santa-fe.friam/9050 ============================================================ 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 Russ Abbott 2008-11-24T20:48:20 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.region.new-mexico.santa-fe.friam/9043 Few things I noticed about Sage: 1) Symbolic math is courtesy of Maxima, a.k.a. Macsyma, the classic math Lisp program of MIT. [1] sage: x,y=var('x,y') sage: solve([y==x^2,y==x/2],x,y) [[x == 1/2, y == 1/4], [x == 0, y == 0]] sage: Exiting SAGE (CPU time 0m1.67s, Wall time 1m20.01s). Exiting spawned Maxima process. 2) The R shared library is actually embedded in the package. Witness: sage: r.wilcox_test([1,2,3,10,50,60],[1,2,-1,-20]) Wilcoxon rank sum test with continuity correction data: sage4 and sage26 W = 22, p-value = 0.04157 alternative hypothesis: true location shift is not equal to 0 vs. from the R console: Wilcoxon rank sum test with continuity correction data: c(1, 2, 3, 10, 50, 60) and c(1, 2, -1, -20) W = 22, p-value = 0.04157 alternative hypothesis: true location shift is not equal to 0 3. The package is enormous and integrates dozens of packages. 300k lines of Common Lisp, 500k lines of C++, 1.6 million lines of C, 1.7 million lines of Python. It takes ~ 3 hours on a f Marcus G. Daniels 2008-11-23T22:06:58 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.region.new-mexico.santa-fe.friam/9040 Hey, our friend Mark Newman has an article on NPR: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97338308 .. and also a new book on amazon relating to the article: http://tinyurl.com/6526dr -- Owen ============================================================ 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 Owen Densmore 2008-11-23T15:39:36 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.region.new-mexico.santa-fe.friam/9039 ============================================================ 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 Alfredo Covaleda 2008-11-22T21:49:13 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.region.new-mexico.santa-fe.friam/9031 http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/store/add.php?iid=23707 ============================================================ 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 Jochen Fromm 2008-11-21T19:54:20 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.region.new-mexico.santa-fe.friam/9028 I've been exploring Sage, the nifty python-based unification of the core of open source mathematics. From their docs: The overall goal of Sage is to create a viable, free, open-source alternative to Maple, Mathematica, Magma, and MATLAB." Pretty big task! While wandering the halls of Sage, I came across this: http://vnoel.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/bye-matlab-hello-python-thanks-sage/ Give it a look. I'd like to know who all has used it and what their experiences have been. -- Owen ============================================================ 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 Owen Densmore 2008-11-21T16:47:43 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.region.new-mexico.santa-fe.friam/9020 ============================================================ 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 jstafurik 2008-11-20T20:34:11 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.region.new-mexico.santa-fe.friam/9019 ============================================================ 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 jstafurik 2008-11-20T20:24:44 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.region.new-mexico.santa-fe.friam/9018 Interesting news from David MacKay, the author of the absfab Info Theory book we're using in our Winter's Read wedtech sessions. He's taken on sustainability and has equations as well as surmise: http://www.withouthotair.com/ Here's a synopsis: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sustainable/book/tex/synopsis.pdf Might be of interest for those looking for formality in the sustainability world. -- Owen ============================================================ 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 Owen Densmore 2008-11-20T20:00:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.region.new-mexico.santa-fe.friam/9014 http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/alchemy/ ============================================================ 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 Marcus G. Daniels 2008-11-20T17:35:23 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.region.new-mexico.santa-fe.friam/9013 ============================================================ 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 Douglas Roberts 2008-11-20T17:28:16 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.org.region.new-mexico.santa-fe.friam