Hi, Nick. Try neocities: https://neocities.org/. Inspired by good ol'
geocities.

Benny

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> From: Stephen Guerin <stephen.gue...@simtable.com>
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com>
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2024 17:44:56 -0700
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Inexpensive Website Maker
> Nick,
>
> a "easy website platform" can be divided into 3 components
>
>    1. creating the html/css/javascript content and linked media (pdf
>    docs, images, videos, etc)
>    2. claiming and paying an annual fee for a namespace (eg
>    naturaldesigns.org). More reliable long term than being a subdomain or
>    path on someone else's domain like you did with earthlink.net. those
>    can easily go away.
>    3. hosting the pages and media on a public server that the namespace
>    points to
>
> I looked at your expired naturaldesigns site in the wayback machine where
> you were renting space on home.earthlink.net/~nicktompson/naturaldesigns
>
> https://web.archive.org/web/20150910084054/http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/index.html
>
> for shits and giggles, I did step 2 and claimed naturaldesigns.org and
> placed a copy of the limited archive of your site there. Still some broken
> links. see:
>   https://naturaldesigns.org
>
> It is interesting to think about a long term strategy of setting up a
> trust, a kind of digital estate planning / "digital legacy" with an
> endowment of maybe 30x the annual cost to create an annuity stream to
> maintain the cost of a site so that your digital assets may be accessible
> forever. I suspect law firms will get into this space and some are already
> there.
>
>    - annual domain name registration $4-$10/year
>    - hosting $2-$10/month
>    - human admin to move to new technologies which will pop up every 5-10
>    years ($300/annual).
>    - trust admin fee ~$100/year
>
> ~30 * $500 ~= $15,000.
>
> _________________________________________________________________
> Stephen Guerin
> CEO, Founder
> https://simtable.com
> stephen.gue...@simtable.com
>
> stephengue...@fas.harvard.edu
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>
> mobile: (505)577-5828
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>
> On Thu, Dec 26, 2024 at 11:49 AM Nicholas Thompson <
> thompnicks...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Does anybody have recent experience with a easy website maker platform.
>> I want to experiment with a website but GoDaddy wants ten bucks a month
>> just to talk to me.
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> --
>> Nicholas S. Thompson
>>
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Nicholas Thompson <thompnicks...@gmail.com>
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com>
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2024 21:24:08 -0700
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Inexpensive Website Maker
> if II knew what I was doing. It wouldn’t be mugging about, would it?
> Sent from my Dumb Phone
>
> On Dec 28, 2024, at 5:11 PM, steve smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote:
>
> 
>
> Nick -
>
> Try HTMLinstant https://www.htmlinstant.com/ .    It will let you edit a
> page WYSIWYG right inline while showing you the HTML it is generating at
> every keystroke.     Conversely you can edit the HTML and the changes will
> show up in the lefthand WYSIWYG page.
>
> If this is the kind of interface you like you should be able to add it as
> an extension in Chrome (if you use that).  Not sure what to do in MS
> products if that is where you are.
>
> the fundamental reference guide to HTML code is at:
> https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/   Maybe a little dense and
> abstract but a good reference.
>
> A screenshot of a simple page I created for you in just a few
> minutes/clicks
> ------------------------------
>
> <Screen Shot 2024-12-28 at 5.00.32 PM.png>
>
>
> On 12/28/24 3:03 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
>
> Gil,
>
> I just want to muck about a bit. Nothing to monetize. No-one to convince.
>
> Thanks everybody for suggestions.
>
> N
>
> Nick
>
> On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 12:17 AM Gillian Densmore <gil.densm...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Since no one else has asked a silly question:
>> Nick, is there a reason you want a 'webpage builder'? What kind of things
>> do you want to do with it? or make? seems to me kind all bits backwards if
>> we know what what all he's wanting to do.
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 12:13 PM Sarbajit Roy <sroy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> CMS (free)
>>> https://datenstrom.se/yellow/
>>>
>>> Hosting (US$`10 for 200 GB unlimited bandwidth)
>>> https://www.2gbhosting.com/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 8:01 AM Tom Johnson <jtjohnson...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Nick:
>>>> Check this out:
>>>> https://www.wix.com/
>>>>
>>>> Tom
>>>>
>>>> =======================
>>>> Tom Johnson
>>>> Inst. for Analytic Journalism
>>>> Santa Fe, New Mexico
>>>> 505-577-6482
>>>> =======================
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Dec 26, 2024, 12:51 PM Nicholas Thompson <
>>>> thompnicks...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Does anybody have recent experience with a easy website maker
>>>>> platform.   I want to experiment with a website but GoDaddy wants ten 
>>>>> bucks
>>>>> a month just to talk to me.
>>>>>
>>>>> Nick
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Nicholas S. Thompson
>>>>>
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>
> --
> Nicholas S. Thompson
> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology
> Clark University
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Sarbajit Roy <sroy...@gmail.com>
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com>
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2024 10:15:17 +0530
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Inexpensive Website Maker
> Where can I read
> *more, O., Guerin, S., Barr, S., Charles, E., & Thomspon, N. S. (2006). My
> way or the highway: A more naturalistic model of altruism tested in
> interative prisoners' dilemma
> <https://naturaldesigns.org/-nickthompson/naturaldesigns/id48.html>*
>
> Cant find it online or at
> https://naturaldesigns.org/-nickthompson/naturaldesigns/id48.html and its
> not archived at archived.org.
>
> On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 6:16 AM Stephen Guerin <
> stephen.gue...@simtable.com> wrote:
>
>> Nick,
>>
>> a "easy website platform" can be divided into 3 components
>>
>>    1. creating the html/css/javascript content and linked media (pdf
>>    docs, images, videos, etc)
>>    2. claiming and paying an annual fee for a namespace (eg
>>    naturaldesigns.org). More reliable long term than being a
>>    subdomain or path on someone else's domain like you did with
>>    earthlink.net. those can easily go away.
>>    3. hosting the pages and media on a public server that the namespace
>>    points to
>>
>> I looked at your expired naturaldesigns site in the wayback machine where
>> you were renting space on home.earthlink.net/~nicktompson/naturaldesigns
>>
>> https://web.archive.org/web/20150910084054/http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/index.html
>>
>> for shits and giggles, I did step 2 and claimed naturaldesigns.org and
>> placed a copy of the limited archive of your site there. Still some broken
>> links. see:
>>   https://naturaldesigns.org
>>
>> It is interesting to think about a long term strategy of setting up a
>> trust, a kind of digital estate planning / "digital legacy" with an
>> endowment of maybe 30x the annual cost to create an annuity stream to
>> maintain the cost of a site so that your digital assets may be accessible
>> forever. I suspect law firms will get into this space and some are already
>> there.
>>
>>    - annual domain name registration $4-$10/year
>>    - hosting $2-$10/month
>>    - human admin to move to new technologies which will pop up every
>>    5-10 years ($300/annual).
>>    - trust admin fee ~$100/year
>>
>> ~30 * $500 ~= $15,000.
>>
>> _________________________________________________________________
>> Stephen Guerin
>> CEO, Founder
>> https://simtable.com
>> stephen.gue...@simtable.com
>>
>> stephengue...@fas.harvard.edu
>> Harvard Visualization Research and Teaching Lab
>> <https://hwpi.harvard.edu/eps-visualization-research-laboratory/home>
>>
>> mobile: (505)577-5828
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 26, 2024 at 11:49 AM Nicholas Thompson <
>> thompnicks...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Does anybody have recent experience with a easy website maker
>>> platform.   I want to experiment with a website but GoDaddy wants ten bucks
>>> a month just to talk to me.
>>>
>>> Nick
>>>
>>> --
>>> Nicholas S. Thompson
>>>
>>> .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --.
>>> / ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-..
>>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
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>>>   1/2003 thru 6/2021  http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
>>>
>> .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. /
>> ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-..
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>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Stephen Guerin <stephen.gue...@simtable.com>
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com>
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2024 21:56:00 -0700
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Inexpensive Website Maker
> https://www.jasss.org/9/2/4.html
>
> *David Joyce, John Kennison, Owen Densmore, Steven Guerin, Shawn Barr,
> Eric Charles and Nicholas S. Thompson
> <https://www.jasss.org/9/2/4/joyce.html> (2006)*
>
> *My Way or the Highway: a More Naturalistic Model of Altruism Tested in an
> Iterative Prisoners' Dilemma*
>
> *Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation* vol. 9, no. 2
> <https://www.jasss.org/9/2/4.html>
>
> For information about citing this article, click here
> <https://www.jasss.org/9/2/4/citation.html>
>
> Received: 18-Aug-2005    Accepted: 08-Mar-2006    Published: 31-Mar-2006
>
> [image: PDF version] <https://www.jasss.org/9/2/4/4.pdf>
> ------------------------------
> [image: *]AbstractThere are three prominent solutions to the Darwinian
> problem of altruism, kin selection, reciprocal altruism, and trait group
> selection. Only one, reciprocal altruism, most commonly implemented in game
> theory as a TIT FOR TAT strategy, is not based on the principle of
> conditional association. On the contrary, TIT FOR TAT implements
> conditional altruism in the context of unconditionally determined
> associates. Simulations based on Axelrod's famous tournament have led many
> to conclude that conditional altruism among unconditional partners lies at
> the core of much human and animal social behavior. But the results that
> have been used to support this conclusion are largely artifacts of the
> structure of the Axelrod tournament, which explicitly disallowed
> conditional association as a strategy. In this study, we modify the rules
> of the tournament to permit competition between conditional associates and
> conditional altruists. We provide evidence that when unconditional altruism
> is paired with conditional association, a strategy we called MOTH, it can
> outcompete TIT FOR TAT under a wide range of conditions.
>
> _________________________________________________________________
> Stephen Guerin
> CEO, Founder
> https://simtable.com
> stephen.gue...@simtable.com
>
> stephengue...@fas.harvard.edu
> Harvard Visualization Research and Teaching Lab
> <https://hwpi.harvard.edu/eps-visualization-research-laboratory/home>
>
> mobile: (505)577-5828
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 9:45 PM Sarbajit Roy <sroy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Where can I read
>> *more, O., Guerin, S., Barr, S., Charles, E., & Thomspon, N. S.
>> (2006). My way or the highway: A more naturalistic model of altruism tested
>> in interative prisoners' dilemma
>> <https://naturaldesigns.org/-nickthompson/naturaldesigns/id48.html>*
>>
>> Cant find it online or at
>> https://naturaldesigns.org/-nickthompson/naturaldesigns/id48.html and
>> its not archived at archived.org.
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 6:16 AM Stephen Guerin <
>> stephen.gue...@simtable.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Nick,
>>>
>>> a "easy website platform" can be divided into 3 components
>>>
>>>    1. creating the html/css/javascript content and linked media (pdf
>>>    docs, images, videos, etc)
>>>    2. claiming and paying an annual fee for a namespace (eg
>>>    naturaldesigns.org). More reliable long term than being a
>>>    subdomain or path on someone else's domain like you did with
>>>    earthlink.net. those can easily go away.
>>>    3. hosting the pages and media on a public server that the namespace
>>>    points to
>>>
>>> I looked at your expired naturaldesigns site in the wayback machine
>>> where you were renting space on
>>> home.earthlink.net/~nicktompson/naturaldesigns
>>>
>>> https://web.archive.org/web/20150910084054/http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/index.html
>>>
>>> for shits and giggles, I did step 2 and claimed naturaldesigns.org and
>>> placed a copy of the limited archive of your site there. Still some broken
>>> links. see:
>>>   https://naturaldesigns.org
>>>
>>> It is interesting to think about a long term strategy of setting up a
>>> trust, a kind of digital estate planning / "digital legacy" with an
>>> endowment of maybe 30x the annual cost to create an annuity stream to
>>> maintain the cost of a site so that your digital assets may be accessible
>>> forever. I suspect law firms will get into this space and some are already
>>> there.
>>>
>>>    - annual domain name registration $4-$10/year
>>>    - hosting $2-$10/month
>>>    - human admin to move to new technologies which will pop up every
>>>    5-10 years ($300/annual).
>>>    - trust admin fee ~$100/year
>>>
>>> ~30 * $500 ~= $15,000.
>>>
>>> _________________________________________________________________
>>> Stephen Guerin
>>> CEO, Founder
>>> https://simtable.com
>>> stephen.gue...@simtable.com
>>>
>>> stephengue...@fas.harvard.edu
>>> Harvard Visualization Research and Teaching Lab
>>> <https://hwpi.harvard.edu/eps-visualization-research-laboratory/home>
>>>
>>> mobile: (505)577-5828
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 26, 2024 at 11:49 AM Nicholas Thompson <
>>> thompnicks...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Does anybody have recent experience with a easy website maker
>>>> platform.   I want to experiment with a website but GoDaddy wants ten bucks
>>>> a month just to talk to me.
>>>>
>>>> Nick
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Nicholas S. Thompson
>>>>
>>>> .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --.
>>>> / ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-..
>>>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
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>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Robert Holmes <rholme...@gmail.com>
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com>
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2024 07:57:40 -0700
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Boltzmann Distribution
>
> Personally, I found it easier to learn about entropy by starting from
> thermodynamics and then later trying to grok the statistical mechanical
> perspective. Maybe start with a good thermodynamics textbook? A couple of
> popular science options are Hanlon’s *Block by Block* and Atkins’
> *Thermodynamics* in the *Very Short Introduction* series. If you want
> something with more teeth, try Steane’s *Thermodynamics: **A Complete
> Undergraduate Course*. I particularly like his financial analogy: being
> given $1 as a dollar bill versus as 100 cents hidden around your house.
> It’s completely equivalent from a first-law perspective, not so much from a
> second-law perspective.
>
> Cheers,
>
> —Robert
>
> On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 4:14 PM Nicholas Thompson <thompnicks...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> FWIW,  I have been struggling with the concept of entropy for the last
>> month. One of the puzzles was why entropy increased with addition of heat.
>> I  bullied George for a few hours and he finally admitted not only that the
>> mean and variance of the B-distribution are correlated, but that its
>> variance is the square of its mean.   Why that is the case is beyond both
>> of us.
>>
>> He also coughed up eventually the reason that adiabatic compression and
>> decompression don't alter entropy:  there is a trade off between spatial
>> constraint and kinetic energy such that as the gas is confined its kinetic
>> energy goes up and with that a compensating increase in the variance  of
>> the KE.
>>
>> Yeah.  I know.   Fools rush in where wise men fear to tread.
>>
>> N
>>
>> --
>> Nicholas S. Thompson
>> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology
>> Clark University
>> nthomp...@clarku.edu
>> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson
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