[FRIAM] Santa Fe gang: Laptops in your closet?

Folks: I have a friend to regularly goes to Cuba and would be able to carry down Windows laptops, thumb drives or external USB hard drives to donate to her community there. Only Windows devices -- but any version of the OS -- can work. Of course you should format the HD and reinstall the operati

Re: [FRIAM] Dutch households will use servers to heat their showers for free - The Verge

Compare with Sequoia's closed loop cooling system @ 3600 gallons per minute. A fast way to heat a swimming pool, at least. A few of these 1 gallon per minute closed loop water cooling systems with a radiator is enough to heat the house in winter. Not the che

Re: [FRIAM] Any non-biological complex systems?

Nick: would this thread, and past similar ones, be a good start for your Friam Discussions project? I can help you if you need it. -- Owen FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to

Re: [FRIAM] Any non-biological complex systems?

Eric writes: "I like chemistry as a medium, because the state space itself supports a lot of complexity, and the temporal variability of reactions, plus the fact that catalytic relations exist, offer large separations of timescales that can be used to fill functional classes like memories."

Re: [FRIAM] Any non-biological complex systems?

Hi Steve and Nick, Sorry to have dropped off. I tried to read the very vigorous thread, to the extent I could, as it went by. There is a lot there that seems to remain in the core of one thing that brings this crowd and several others together, and is conceptually far from finished business.