Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Your workspace "sfComplex" is inactive, and is scheduled to be reclaimed

2018-12-29 Thread Nick Thompson
If Steve sees no use in it, I don’t have the spectrum right now to do anything with it. Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturalde

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Your workspace "sfComplex" is inactive, and is scheduled to be reclaimed

2018-12-29 Thread Steven A Smith
Wow!   Blast from the past! I recommend letting entropy continue to reclaim everything, including this. On 12/29/18 9:29 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: Should we just let this die? Or would it be of use?  -- Owen -- Forwarded message - From: *PBworks*

[FRIAM] Fwd: Your workspace "sfComplex" is inactive, and is scheduled to be reclaimed

2018-12-29 Thread Owen Densmore
Should we just let this die? Or would it be of use? -- Owen -- Forwarded message - From: PBworks Date: Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 7:53 PM Subject: Your workspace "sfComplex" is inactive, and is scheduled to be reclaimed To: Hello, We noticed that you haven't used your workspace

Re: [FRIAM] 2019 - The end of Trumpism

2018-12-29 Thread Marcus Daniels
Owen writes: "The NFL paper certainly gave me some doubts but it seemed amazing how effective GA's, Ant Algorithms, and so on were .. at least in their own domain." GA's are not an effective way to solve NP-hard, high-dimensional constrained optimization problems (> 1000 variables). Problems

Re: [FRIAM] 2019 - The end of Trumpism

2018-12-29 Thread Owen Densmore
This reminded me of a seriously ancient post on Arrow's theorem, see forward below. I particularly liked the examples in http://www1.udel.edu/johnmack/frec444/444voting.html showing the surprises that can pop up. The first showed the example where the majority favorite was the most disliked!

[FRIAM] Preference Order Ecosystems: was Trumpism

2018-12-29 Thread Steven A Smith
Eric - I wonder if there is a game theory problem to be worked on here. Naturally there would be, the question of course would be about the relevance and interest in such a problem (or suite o Arrow's Impossibility is real but no more significant IMO than the real-world ambiguities and parado

Re: [FRIAM] 2019 - The end of Trumpism

2018-12-29 Thread Eric Smith
Steve, I wonder if there is a game theory problem to be worked on here. Referring to your statement: >> Arrow's Impossibility is real but no more significant IMO than the >> real-world ambiguities and paradoxes introduced by practical realities such >> as voter suppression and fraud, system