Re: [FRIAM] The myth of knowledge

2011-08-20 Thread ERIC P. CHARLES
Resend: I have not seen this post yet, apologies if it is a repeat. Owen, Alas, the first post was not a trailer (Nick has been haranguing me about this). Instead, the first post was an attempt to crudely connect my blog with the other blogs I have been actively commenting on for the past year or

[FRIAM] Who has the most patents? Apple sues despite smaller patent portfolio | 9to5Mac | Apple Intelligence

2011-08-20 Thread Owen Densmore
Interesting article on the number of patents held in the telecom world: http://9to5mac.com/2011/08/18/who-has-the-most-patents-apple-sues-despite-smaller-patent-portfolio/ http://www.iclarified.com/images/news/16544/57309/57309.jpg Turns out Apple, and Google before the Moto acquisition, are rathe

Re: [FRIAM] Just FYI - This message may not have been sent by:

2011-08-20 Thread Sarbajit Roy
As posted previously, I suspect the problem is "milan.hostgo.com" which seems to be forwarding the FRIAM / Redfish mails, and which triggers red flags in gmail. On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Alfredo Covaleda wrote: > > Interesting to see how these smart guys from google resemble dogs barking

Re: [FRIAM] The myth of knowledge

2011-08-20 Thread ERIC P. CHARLES
Forwarded to list at Owen's request... Owen, I'll meditate on a more thorough answer, but the quick one is: Yes, psychology is "fragmented in the sense of having little or no basis upon which psychologists agree." The original umbrella organization, the American Psychological Association now has 5

Re: [FRIAM] The myth of knowledge

2011-08-20 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Oh, dear, Eric. You have just confirmed Owen’s worst suspicions about psychology. Next we will be hearing from the pomo crowd that the reason psychologists cannot agree is that there is no such thing as human psychology, that the study of human behavior is like the study of English literat

Re: [FRIAM] viable systems agent

2011-08-20 Thread Robert Carleton
I thought I'd followup on Professor West's pointer to my VSA project. Thanks for the post, I'm glad to see that it drew some attention. I started out with simply trying to create a software implementation of the Viable System Model (VSM), the model for autonomous systems developed by Stafford

Re: [FRIAM] datum vs. data

2011-08-20 Thread glen e. p. ropella
Greg Sonnenfeld wrote circa 11-08-19 10:33 AM: > Data is now accepted as a mass noun by most computing organizations > including those in IEEE. I remember having a long debate about this at > Ames in regards to a publication. Well, that might be an indirect cause for my bad behavior, I suppose. I

Re: [FRIAM] datum vs. data

2011-08-20 Thread Greg Sonnenfeld
> Well, that might be an indirect cause for my bad behavior, I suppose. I > could say that "So many of my colleagues do it that it's only natural > that I would do it sporadically as well, even if I'm trying not to do > it." > >What makes "data" trickier than those others? Well here are somet

Re: [FRIAM] datum vs. data

2011-08-20 Thread ERIC P. CHARLES
Glen, I have this problem too, but before your post had not thought about how localized a problem it is. Having thought about this for a few days, I have a hypothesis you might find more satisfying: The reason you often use 'data' as a singular noun is because you are often referring to (or thinki

Re: [FRIAM] datum vs. data

2011-08-20 Thread Robert Holmes
The subject is discussed in depth here: http://purl.org/nxg/note/singular-data The conclusion? "The data is in: it is massive, and it is singular." —R FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's