Carl Tollander wrote:
> One should mention that in 13 years living here I've only seen 3 recluses,
> and those not in the same year.
>
> Black Widows, however, are a commodity item. Fortunately they're more brazen
> and thus much easier to avoid.
We used to have one that lived in the red chi
Steve Smith wrote:
> My $.02
>
> It looks (and by description of it's web) like what I know of as an "Orb Web"
> Spider. Common enough in Northern NM and harmless (to humans) despite the
> sinister (downright ugly?) look. There seem to be a *lot* of spiders referred
> to as "orb web" includin
Nicholas Thompson wrote:
...
> Whenever I give the elevator talk on CUSF I get three responses,
> immediately:
> (1)” Get back to me when you have 200 million dollars.”
Get $200 million (or some reasonable amount). The Free University of
Berlin got started with a Ford Foundation grant. Find (
Victoria Hughes wrote:
... Instead, Dijksterhuis’ study suggests that the best
> experts naturally depend on their unconscious mind, on that
> subterranean warehouse of feelings, hunches and instincts"
I know that's how I've always worked. I look at a system (people,
processes, technology)
Roger Critchlow wrote:
> The principal nuclear bomb casualties in New Mexico, that I'm aware of, were
> Navajo Uranium miners and their families.
Also see _Inside_Box_1663_ by Eleanor Jette about the Manhattan
Project and Los Alamos during WWII. Aside from her cat, the book
suggests that there
Ted Carmichael wrote:
> I realize that, with this crowd I'm probably stating the obvious ...
> but for those who haven't read it, this is exactly what Gladwell's
> book Blink is about.
And Dan Arielly's book _Predictably_Irrational_ is about the problems
with instinctive decision-making. Or is
Victoria Hughes wrote:
> (hot shot firefighters, high-stakes poker players, etc)
That reminds me of some work done here at Sandia concerning human
decision-making under stressful conditions. Chris Forsyte (no longer
here) created a model based on a real incident in the PG 1.0 of a
special opera
Ted Carmichael wrote:
> BTW - I wouldn't say the expert cannot explain why he has reached a
> certain conclusion. Largely speaking, she can. A blind person can
> tell you exactly what all the little raised dots and patterns mean.
> I just mean that, as expertise is built up, this process of
> art
Martin C. Martin wrote:
...
> But say that to most AI researchers, and they'll stare at you
> uncomprehendingly. They want a well defined problem, such as using all
> users purchases at Amazon to suggest other purchases for a single user.
A while back, a DARPA program manager (an agent person,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
> Huh, so it's ugly to provide:
>
> 1) Runtime code generation using abstract syntax trees, including cross
> language
> translation
>
> 2) Visual programming
>
> 3) Automatic parallelism
>
> 4) Automatic persistence
>
> ??
?? is exactly what I felt when I wen
Robert Holmes wrote:
> So which is "better" coding style, foo[ 0 ] + bar[ 0 ] or foo[0]+bar[0]?
> Where exactly should your block delimiters go and should they be
> indented? Here's a chap who suggests bypassing whitespace debates by
> building the coding style into the language: if you don't fo
Douglas Roberts wrote:
> An equally reasonable alternative suggestion: write every app as an APL
> one-liner (no indentation nor whitespace needed).
And it can be write-only (no reading and modifying). Which, of
course, is why we keep trying things like WinFX - so that there's some
chance t
Owen,
I have given up on desktops at work and at home.
First, I've used a succession of laptops as my only computer for
about five years at work. I've had a desktop available for most of that
time, but never had the simultaneous time and motivation to configure
the desktop and get it to
Robert Holmes wrote:
> Here's a usability point I forgot about. I much prefer writing code on
> the desktop than on the laptop because I can rotate the screen from
> landscape to portrait. My code tends to be long rather than wide, so I
> get to see more of it at once this way.
That made me
Roger Critchlow wrote:
> unison has always been good to me when synchronizing between Windows and
> Linux, http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/, and I see it's
> available for OSX, too. But the problem is always getting a bit tired
> of waiting for the synchronization to complete when I'm
Russell Standish suggested that one could specify large quantities of
similiar but not exactly the same agents:
> By setting their behaviour parameters from a probability distribution.
But isn't this self-fulfilling? If you collect data about behaviours
to populate your probability distribu
Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
> Or something like this that takes Socket F Opterons...
>
> http://www.microway.com/navion8.html
Wow, the NumberSmasher people are still around! I thought the name
sounded familiar and I checked out the corporate history. I remember
working on a NumberSmasher and
Douglas Roberts wrote:
> Another way to answer this is, "No, it will not be self fulfilling if
> there is an appropriate experimental design for using
> stochastically-generated input parameters for agents in an ABM system."
> EpiSims uses stochastically generated disease parameters to characte
Owen Densmore wrote:
> Now to the question to FRIAM: Has anyone found a good environment
> for agent based modeling with "game-like" 3D realism and with modest
> libraries for collision detection, scene graphs and so on?
Not specifically for agent-based modeling. Some open source game
engi
Owen Densmore wrote:
> Wow! I just got hit with over *400* comment spams on backspaces!
...
> Have any of us friamers had this happen to their sites? Any
> interesting solutions?
I have no site to which this could happen, so take my suggestion for
what it's worth. That said, I think one co
Hugh Trenchard wrote:
> Thanks for all your comments.
I just now had a moment to try and catch up with FRIAM and read your
thread.
As far as drafting goes, I would suggest that there may be some use
of wingtip vortices, a normally harmful phenomenon.
> Also, Phil, I would argue that stro
Douglas Roberts wrote:
> They need to work on the ergonomics of that thing.
>
> ;-}
>
> Wipe the saliva off of your chin, Carl.
Oh, it's not that cool. It doesn't have an electric razor to shave
with on your way to work. Heck, a Swiss Army knife has more stuff - the
iPhone doesn't have a
Doug,
I wonder how EpiSIMS results would compare to introducing a viral
actor into "The SIMS" ore "Second Life"? Would there be some difference
in emergent behavior of real people running their avatars from agents,
however realistically programmed, running their code?
--
Ray Parks
Folks,
This is Ray being random, again, so you may want to skip and delete.
I've noticed, lately, a new social mannerism in which people cough
into their elbows rather than their hands. It makes sense, but I had to
think about why.
Long ago, when I was growing up, I was taught to pul
Doug,
You wrote:
> One will seldom, if ever get identical behavior from two different
> codes, even if the inputs are identical.
>
> The emergent behavior that could be observed from EpiSims, The SIMS, and
> Second Life, assuming the latter two could emulate responses to the
> introduction of
Doug,
You wrote:
> Please explain how the "avatars" will know when they have been infected
> by a virus, and how they will respond to that.
The avatar may or may not know, depending upon the implementation.
The real question is whether the player of the avatar knows. This is
something that
Folks,
If you've already heard about or read Alan Beyerchen's paper,
"Clausewitz, Nonlinearity, and the Unpredictability of War", then delete
and be happy.
Else, check out the paper at:
http://www.clausewitz.com/CWZHOME/Beyerchen/CWZandNonlinearity.htm
--
Ray Parks [E
Stephen Guerin wrote:
> Nigel Gilbert posted this summary of exercises for ABM students on the
> NetLogo
> list. Some good ideas.
...
> > Paul Coates suggested a novel way of implementing bubblesort:
> > When introducing bubblesort my students and I get lots of fun
> > doing it with people. Stu
Robert Howard wrote:
... Those that saw the light early have proof that they were
> smarter, and are entitled to the bragging rights that they helped make
> the world a better place or everyone.
Ah, a gift economy somewhat like the open-source software world.
--
Ray Parks [
Phil Henshaw wrote:
> Well, as an alternate to the CO2 game solution we could create a virtual
> China and pay it the estimated real cost to the earth of China's
> products and only pay the real China the price they'd accept.
> Then we could use the money (essentially the blood money for
> Ch
Folks,
If you are interested in apparent emergent properties of algae
swarming, then check out the link below to Living On Earth, else delete
and be happy.
http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=07-P13-00030&segmentID=6
--
Ray Parks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Consilien
Folks,
The really interesting part of this situation is Apple's stock
performance since Tuesday. I think that drove the refund as much as the
complaints on user forums.
Or, perhaps, the stock price drop is investors fearing that the real
reason for the iPhone price drop is slow sales. If so
Robert Cordingley wrote:
> * What was Web 1.0?
HTML, with or without all the dynamic content capabilities, served by
a web-server to a browser, primarily in a one-way information flow.
Yes, Web 1.0 included information flow from browser to web-site
(eCommerce, webmail, and webforums) but the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Idrisi, a sophisticated and professional GIS program, is available from
> Clark University, Nick's academic home, for much less than ARC View.
> Idrisi is much easier to use than ArcView.
However, I am not willing to make a minimum $1250 investment without
some chance
Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
> Hmm, maybe there's a market for scientific data appliances (no not file
> servers!) say running some microkernel/exokernel that take remote
> procedure calls over Infiniband or such?Calls conceptually like SQL,
> but intended to be way way faster...
Interestingly,
Folks,
I do have one suggestion regarding the "Cultural" section of the
paper. If the SFC is going to include uniform tunics (see 2), then only
the first-time students/participants should be assigned red tunics. I
want a gold tunic so I can shill for PriceLine in the name of complexity.
ObCom
Tom Johnson wrote:
> I'm stuck by the wonderful whimsey of this. Perhaps you will be also.
That's cool. I've liked the Wooden Periodic Table Table for some
time - and it even has samples.
http://www.theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/
--
Ray Parks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Consilien
Richard Lowenberg wrote:
> I mentioned this reference to Paul Paryski this morning, but mis-stated
> Maude's last name. Here you are, Paul. I couldn't find your personal
> email address.
> Richard
>
>
> Maude Barlow: The Growing Battle for the Right to Water
> By Tara Lohan, AlterNet
Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
> Raymond Parks wrote:
>>A non-technical progressive who started writing that water is a
>> scarce resource no more than eight years ago writes sensational books
>> and gets listened to by at least the progressive community and some of
>> the
Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
> Raymond Parks wrote:
>> Um, I'm confused by what appears to be a non sequitur.
>>
> Are the microfiltration/reverse osmosis/UV treatment/Hydrogen Peroxide
> technologies cheaper for large installations?
> As far as I understand, OC puri
Owen Densmore wrote:
> I've recently moved from my old hosting service, HostGo, to a new one,
> Joyent. So after getting the usual out of the way: dumping mysql
> databases and reinstalling (converted to utf8), moving my web site,
> ditto for email and mail forwarders, I started looking at other
>
Russell Standish wrote:
> One problem with this notion, is that Linux does not support write
> access to NTFS (used for WindowsXP), except as a
> "take-you-life-into-your-own-hands-you-have-been-warned" option.
>
> Restoration of data can therefore be difficult.
>
> This is not Linux's fault - MS
Bill Eldridge wrote:
...
> While I simply don't know with accuracy, this sounds like FUD on the
> part of Linux fans.
> NTFS is used on millions of mission critical machines, not to sound like
> a marketing message,
> and if you got errors every time there was a quick boot/power outage
> (i.e. t
Jochen Fromm wrote:
>
> So what do you think ?
Self organization is a part of many systems/networks whether sensors
or otherwise.
> Are self-organization and sensor-networks synonymous ?
No.
> Is it the best area to realize self-organization,
> or just another example where self-organi
Phil Henshaw wrote:
> My guess it won't happen that soon. The major hurdle I see is
> intelligence doesn't come from passively conforming to an imposed
> landscape (Darwin's idea), but from creatively exploring discovered ones
> (the living systems idea). ...I think maybe we're making great
> pr
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