Re: [FRIAM] Graphics Class at the Complex

2011-01-31 Thread Marcos
d only be able to audit w/o credit. Thanks for offering it here. I think the Complex will be a very interesting venue. marcos sfcomplex.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John'

Re: [FRIAM] Quote of the week

2011-06-05 Thread Marcos
asier and some people seem to prefer it." > Not to be pedantic, but I suspect that s/he has conflated "philosophy" with "new age", as much of science owes itself to philosophy. marcos FRIAM Applied Compl

Re: [FRIAM] Quote of the week

2011-06-18 Thread Marcos
times. So the brain seems to be parsing an enormous amount of information from each explosion There's probably a better example than a fire-cracker Marcos On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Tom Johnson wrote: > I certainly would be interested.  I have issues with Claude's wor

Re: [FRIAM] Quote of the week

2011-06-18 Thread Marcos
n-theoretic sense) that it confers with each explosion even though there's hardly anything new at our own cognitive level. Consciousness was nature's way of solving the problem of "the heat death of the universe", or alternately, those universes whi

Re: [FRIAM] [sfx: Discuss] Fwd: DuckDuckGo

2011-06-22 Thread Marcos
as well as the items themselves, forming a meritocracy. To continue with your landscape metaphor, I'm trying to solve the problem at the "center of the cyclone" where small perturbations have a huge effect across the content-landscape over time. Marcos, sf_x pangaia.sf.net On Tue, J

Re: [FRIAM] Apropos of a certain off-limits thread

2011-07-06 Thread Marcos
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Steve Smith wrote: >  In 1992 I bought a house that a Physicist started building in the late > 1960's... it was impeccably designed (to his very strange tastes) and > exquisitely built (with only the best materials and tools) virtually all by > the hands of the Phys

Re: [FRIAM] The Grand Design, Philosophy is Dead, and Hubris

2011-07-07 Thread Marcos
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: >>> [...]philosophy is dead. >>> >> Odd. On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > Refreshing. Haha, hilarious. In a dramatic twist of irony, the neo-theologians will have to settle the argument... mark =

Re: [FRIAM] Neural glitch

2011-07-24 Thread Marcos
There's a title: Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything that mentions it. marcos sfcomplex.org On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: > Can anybody remember the author and title of the book that came out in the > last five years that pr

Re: [FRIAM] Santa Fe

2011-07-26 Thread Marcos
It's a secret. On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote: > I have come across a new (German) article about Santa Fe. It says Santa Fe > is special, everyone seems to be an artist, similar to L.A., where everyone > is an actor (except Russ, perhaps). All houses are made in the Adobe sty

Re: [FRIAM] Harald Haas: Wireless data from every light bulb | Video on TED.com

2011-08-06 Thread Marcos
On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > This is an interesting idea: LiFi .. wireless in the light spectrum rather > than radio spectrum. > > http://www.ted.com/talks/harald_haas_wireless_data_from_every_light_bulb.html > > The idea is simple: using LED light bulbs, and a small modu

Re: [FRIAM] datum vs. data

2011-08-22 Thread Marcos
datum", then I have to > be _capable_ of adopting it.  I don't seem to be capable of that. Hypothesis: you are Greek in ancestry and the old disagreement with the Romans at Sparta is making your biology *refuse* the adoption of Roman linguistic conventions. marcos sfcomplex.org =

Re: [FRIAM] datum vs. data

2011-08-23 Thread Marcos
t sounds funny, but I've actually found that irrational idiosyncrasies can be traced back to genetics; i.e. ancestral history. So are you Greek or not. :) ? marcos FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30

Re: [FRIAM] datum vs. data

2011-08-24 Thread Marcos
, you've seemed to eliminated all the personal Glen-as-memeplex set of possibilities. The only thing that remains then is genetics, yes? marcos FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John'

Re: [FRIAM] Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple, Replaced By Tim Cook

2011-08-26 Thread Marcos
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: > On 8/25/2011 12:11 AM, Jochen Fromm wrote: > >   Cancer research needs more funding, don't you think?! > > Even from a pure profitability perspective, the return on investment > justifies the spending -- from $3 to $141 of economic activi

Re: [FRIAM] Cancer Research, was Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO

2011-08-27 Thread Marcos
relationship between using GDP (and the like) as a metric of economic health and the self-organization of expensive medical procedures in the economic system. marcos FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at

Re: [FRIAM] All Together Now - NYTimes.com

2011-09-05 Thread Marcos
bject (ascentofhumanity.org) and it's worth buying a copy. The tools in which to implement it are being explored and developed mostly outside the mainstream consciousness and traditional centers of dialog, but no doubt, the Internet is what is enabling it and also what will allow it to succeed

Re: [FRIAM] All Together Now - NYTimes.com (Friedman+Krakauer)

2011-09-05 Thread Marcos
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Grant Holland wrote: > Excellent high-level description of IP. Actually it is specifically Metcalf's Ethernet protocol, and it still remains a brilliant solution to the traffic contention problem. All sorts of "intelligent" attempts at making a complex rule for pa

Re: [FRIAM] Friam @ Lucky Bean this Friday

2011-09-07 Thread Marcos
Certainly works better for me marcos sf_x On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > Yup .. but being near sfx, might be more. >         -- Owen FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 a

Re: [FRIAM] [Vo]:OT - Sunday's Sermon: Peace-Of-MInd

2011-10-10 Thread Marcos
n Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Rich Murray wrote: > A Zen saying: two thieves who happen to meet one another by chance at > night in a wealthy target urban area, > recognize one another instantly... marcos sfcomplex.org

Re: [FRIAM] [Vo]:OT - Sunday's Sermon: Peace-Of-MInd

2011-10-10 Thread Marcos
nowledges the concept, where its called the "ein sof". It's the center of the Tree of Life, which is to say, the heart of YHVH him/herself. marcos FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at ca

Re: [FRIAM] Theory, and Why It's Time Psychology Got One

2011-11-13 Thread Marcos
erly a science? Science deals with the objective. As soon as it tries to breach that barrier you get delusions grandeur. ...Ducks... marcos sf_x FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College

Re: [FRIAM] Oh my gawd...

2011-12-10 Thread Marcos
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 2:17 AM, Russell Standish wrote: > Has one ever been prime? Never in my lifetime... Primes start at 2 in my world. There was mathematician doing a talk once, and before he started talking, he checked his microphone: "Testing, testing, 2, 3, 5, 7" That's how I remembe

Re: [FRIAM] Oh my gawd...

2011-12-14 Thread Marcos
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Robert J. Cordingley wrote: > Shouldn't theorems be independent of arbitrary decisions regarding what is > or is not a prime number?  Otherwise I'll have to believe that > mathematicians are just making up stuff. Of course its all "made up". What do you think an