[FRIAM] Computing power at Facebook

Interesting metrics and discussion here: RT @pingdom: The Complete Guide to Facebook's Data Centers: http://bit.ly/bpRQvH (via @datacenter) -- tj == J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA www.analyticjournalism.com 505.577.6482(

[FRIAM] The Internet of Things Conference

FYI "The Internet has impacted everything about your organisation and its operational environment. The Internet of Things is here now, and it’s going to get big and quickly, and the ramifications are just as challenging, concerning, exciting and often simply mind-blowing. Hundreds of billions of t

[FRIAM] Software evolution storylines

This will be of interest, I hope, to some of us following the "family-tree" of software linguistics. It's cude, but an interest start. http://flowingdata.com/2010/10/12/software-evolution-storylines/ -tom johnson ===

Re: [FRIAM] URGENT "URGENT!"! Restaurants in SF.

We find that the restaurant in La Fonda does a good job with New Mexican chow. -tj On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Nicholas Thompson < nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Hi, everybody. Sorry for this intrusion. > > > > I just got an urgent email from friends saying that they are in Santa Fe

[FRIAM] [Sighfis-l] 7th edition of the Bibliography of the History of Information Science and Technology, 1900-2009

Perhaps of interest. -tom johnson Santa Fe, NM -- Forwarded message -- From: WILLIAMS, ROBERT Date: Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:42 PM Subject: [Sighfis-l] 7th edition of the Bibliography of the History of Information Science and Technology, 1900-2009 To: sighfis-l , asis-l Folks

[FRIAM] Fwd: [NICAR-L] AWS Offering Free Trial

fyi If anyone is curious about amazon web services (EC2), Amazon just announced a program to allow new customers to try out a limited version of the service for free for a year. http://aws.amazon.com/free/ Obviously, you are not going to run a real production website this way, but if you want to

[FRIAM] Review: Atlas of Science, Visualizing What We Know

Interesting graphic here: http://flowingdata.com/2010/11/03/review-atlas-of-science-visualizing-what-we-know/ --tom johnson FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, arc

[FRIAM] Open Agent Based Modeling Consortium | ... a node in the CoMSES network

http://www.openabm.org/ Welcome to the OpenABM website. The OpenABM site includes a growing collection of tutorials on computational modeling, frequently asked questions about computational modeling, a modeling library intended to provide a locus for authors and modelers to share their models, and

[FRIAM] Algorithmic architecture with balls

/flowingdata.com/2010/11/12/algorithmic-architecture-with-balls/ -tom johnson FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

[FRIAM] The Future of Indian Technology

True, one or two data points do not make a trend, but http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/13/the-future-of-indian-technology/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29 --tom johnson FR

[FRIAM] AT&T Labs Research - Graphs: Getting and Understanding the Bigger Picture

http://www.research.att.com/articles/featured_stories/2009/200910_more_than_just_a_picture.html Getting and Understanding the Bigger Picture --tj FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's Colle

[FRIAM] Dissertation Browser | Stanford

But I wonder how one could measure/rank the degrees of association and dis-association of all the departments pictured here? -tjQuotes:Dissertation Browser | Stanford This message was sent to you by Tom Johnson via Diigo Getting too many email

Re: [FRIAM] Passwords

I use lastpass.com , but I can't swear to how secure it is. -tom On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: > I recently added a mac mini to my digital ecology, and it got me bustling > about tidying up a bit. > > One area is logins. I fixed the mini so that I can ssh to it, but onl

[FRIAM] Anyone FRIAM-ing tomorrow (the 24th)?

If so, where? Garcia Street Books? -tom -- == J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA www.analyticjournalism.com 505.577.6482(c)505.473.9646(h) http://www.jtjohnson.com t

Re: [FRIAM] [sfx: Discuss] Re: dropbox?

I agree. I, too, like DropBox, but I encourage new users to give some thought to how you will organize your HD to maximize the ease of knowing which file is in which folder. That is, will you create one macro-DropBox folder and have subfolders in it or will you keep the file structure you are cur

Re: [FRIAM] Flowing Data/Prezi

cts<http://flowingdata.com/2011/01/05/map-of-american-english-dialects-and-subdialects/> > > > > This site showcases representations of a host of different kinds of data, > from many sources. > > Not sure where I ran across it - sure feels like a Tom Johnson thing. > > If

[FRIAM] A perspective on emergence

Perhaps of interest to some of the gang. http://myweb.fsu.edu/jastallins/courses/research/emergence.pdf -tj Eliminating the mystery from the concept of emergence Brian R. Johnson Received: 30 August 2009 / Accepted: 9 August 2010 / Published online: 11 September 2010 Abstract While some branche

Re: [FRIAM] Reminder: Santa Fe Complex Benefit dinner tonight

The reservation site indicates the dinner is "sold out" Susan told me Wednesday that the woman who was managing the site shut it down on Tuesday or Wed. because she caterer needed a head count. -tj On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Stephen Guerin wrote: > > Having trouble viewing this email?

[FRIAM] InnoCentive "find the fastest path to solutions"

survive and thrive. http://www2.innocentive.com/ -tom johnson FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

Re: [FRIAM] Graphics Class at the Complex

Ed: I'm interested, but do you have a sense of how many times a week and when the class will meet? In any case, I'll sign up (if I can do it as a audit; I don't need no stinkin' credits) and pay the fees if it will help the course "make." -tom johnson On Sun, J

[FRIAM] Deb Roy: The birth of a word | Video on TED.com

This work would seem to have great potential in moving from Complexity Theory to Applied Complexity in multiple social environments and activities. http://www.ted.com/talks/deb_roy_the_birth_of_a_word.html MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language -- so he wi

Re: [FRIAM] A modest proposal

And lotsaluck in getting PG&E -- the power company -- to pay for the decomissioning. -tj On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 1:11 PM, wrote: > The two nuclear plants in CA, San Onofre and Diablo Canyon, produce about > 4.5 GW together. Both are coastline installations vulnerable to seismic > and tsunami

[FRIAM] Model Everything

A new, Santa Fe-based resource for the modeling/simulation communities. http://modeleverything.com/ --tom johnson FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, arc

[FRIAM] Fwd: delightful weirdness

The Scientist outdid itself this week. Ventner. Liz Taylor. artificial leaves. Wow http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/58098/ -- Steve Ross 201-456-5933 mobile 781-284-8810 landline 707-WOW-SSR3 (707-969-7773) Google Voice editorsteve (Facebook) editorsteve1 (Twitter) editorst...@gmail.com

[FRIAM] Today's WedTech: Can we figure out how to recover data from government Flash-based web sites?

Just a gentle reminder: we hope you can come to today's WedTech and help us figure out how to recover the peoples' data from the state government's web site. The SFComplex. Today (Wed, April 6) @ 12:15 p.m. -tom johnson ==

Re: [FRIAM] Today's WedTech: Can we figure out how to recover data from government Flash-based web sites?

Thanks, Ellen. Do you recall the name of the software program you refer to? Can you point us to the regs RE compliance/non-compliance? -tom johnson On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Wilkinson, Ellen O. < ellen.wilkin...@jhuapl.edu> wrote: > There is a software program that captures F

Re: [FRIAM] Today's WedTech: Can we figure out how to recover data from government Flash-based web sites?

This is great, Ellen. Many thanks. -tom johnson On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:58 PM, Wilkinson, Ellen O. < ellen.wilkin...@jhuapl.edu> wrote: > Sothink by Sourcetech, and Etima software flash decompiler trillix. > > They work, but you need to know flash to repair items. >

[FRIAM] Fwd: FlowingData - The city in real-time

Interesting application of public data. -tj -- Forwarded message -- From: FlowingData Date: Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 3:22 AM Subject: FlowingData - The city in real-time To: jtjohnson...@gmail.com FlowingData - The city in real-time

Re: [FRIAM] Invitation to a virtual book signing

Congrats, Doug. I would like to talk with you soon about your experience with Amazon's program. -tom On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > *** Apologies to those of you who see this more than once this due to *social > network overlap* *** > > Dear FRIAM friends, colleagues

[FRIAM] Resource: Physics for the 21st Century

Perhaps of interest From The Internet Scout - http://scout.wisc.edu/Reports/ScoutReport/ -tj *Physics for the 21st Century* http://www.learner.org/resources/series213.html The Annenberg Media organization has created this wonderful new resource for physics teachers, students, and anyone el

[FRIAM] Fwd: Journal of Simulation - Table of Contents alert Volume 5 Issue 2

fyi. Good articles, but unrealistically expensive. --tj -- Forwarded message -- From: Journal of Simulation Alert Date: Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 6:09 AM Subject: Journal of Simulation - Table of Contents alert Volume 5 Issue 2 To: t...@jtjohnson.com

[FRIAM] Potential for $$$ Digest for sunlightl...@googlegroups.com - 1 Message in 1 Topic

Topic: Another data challenge to add to the list! Kathleen Danielson Apr 19 12:21PM -0700 ^<#12f745250b2cb0ef_digest_top> Hi All, Just in case there weren't enough data challenges open right now, I wanted to let you al

[FRIAM] How 'rebel' phone network evaded shutdown - Features - Al Jazeera English

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/04/20114233530919767.html FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

[FRIAM] Why I wish there were more women coming to FRIAM

MIT management professor Tom Malone on collective intelligence and the “genetic” structure of groups http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/05/mit-management-professor-tom-malone-on-collective-intelligence-and-the-genetic-structure-of-groups/ -tj ===

[FRIAM] Drop of water at 2, 000 frames per second - That Video Site

So it is NOT the butterfly beating its wings in China after all. http://www.thatvideosite.com/video/drop_of_water_at_2000_frames_per_second Drop of water at 2,000 frames per second --tom johnson FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv

[FRIAM] What's your cell phone's maximum radiation level? Interactive database - Computerworld

fyi http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9217287/What_s_your_cell_phone_s_maximum_radiation_level_Interactive_database?taxonomyId=15&pageNumber=2&appSession=939113193668168&RecordID=&PageID=2&PrevPageID=2&cpipage=1&CPIsortType=asc&CP

Re: [FRIAM] Gmail love

I especially like the ability to store email in the Gmail folders AND subfolders. -tj On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > OK, I'm moving my email to gmail, finally. It's a work in progress: I've > used IMAP to move my inbox and sent messages and am starting in on lots of >

Re: [FRIAM] Quote of the week

I certainly would be interested. I have issues with Claude's work and what I think is its misconstrued application and definition, at least beyond physics. -tj On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Nicholas Thompson < nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Owen, > > We could do a Wedtech in September

[FRIAM] NYTimes.com: U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors

So what do we have to do to get the U.S. to attack us so it will build open WiFi in New Mexico? -tj [image: The New York Times] [image: E-mail This]

[FRIAM] Complex Systems Conference, Boston June 26-July 1

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday June 13, 2011 World Scientific Leaders to Gather in Boston for Conference on the Complex World Around Us Cambridge, MA --- The Eighth International Conference on Complex Systems, hosted by the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI), is coming to Boston Jun

Re: [FRIAM] Quote of the week

losion > > 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

Re: [FRIAM] [sfx: Discuss] Visualize This: new book from Flowing Data's Nathan Yau

Amigos: In fact, I might know tomorrow or Tuesday about a concerted effort to liberate some potentially interesting voter registration data from the NM Sec. of State. If we can get that, and it won't happen quickly, it might offer an interesting challenge to display -- in a user-selectable manner

[FRIAM] Interactive Art & Computational Design / Spring 2011 » Final Projects at CM

http://golancourses.net/2011spring/final/ Interactive Art & Computational Design / Spring 2011 »Carnegie Mellon University / Spring 2011 Final Projects by Golan Levin @ 11:26 pm

Re: [FRIAM] [sfx: Discuss] DNS Registrar, Name Service & Hosting

I like Hover.com as a registrar, but it doesn't offer any website hosting, so I'm thinking of new registrations at HostGo. -tj On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > Its been a while since I've looked into a new DNS registrar. I'm currently > using RegisterGo, the HostGo servi

[FRIAM] 5 real-world uses of big data — Cloud Computing News

Interesting stories here, thanks to Jim Kraemer. http://gigaom.com/cloud/5-real-world-uses-of-big-data/ -tj FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, ma

[FRIAM] New file format allows journalists [and Ohters] to create interactive infographics

Of interest to some of us, I'm sure http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2011/07/21/new-file-format-allows-journalists-to-create-interactive-infographics/ -tj FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe a

Re: [FRIAM] Where will be The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group?

Yes, at Downtown Subscription. -tom johnson On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Bruce Sherwood wrote: > With the St. John's college coffeehouse closed, will there be a Friday > AM meeting somewhere else in Santa Fe this Friday

[FRIAM] The Physics of Culture: How algorithms shape our world

How algorithms shape our world July 29, 2011 to Statistics | Add Comment Kevin Slavin, chairman and co-founder of Area/Code, describes how algorithms (processing tons and tons

Re: [FRIAM] dream weaver tutor?

Hi, Gil -- Dreamweaver is really quite easy, and there are a ton of tutorials on the web (and probably in the program). I have an old copy for Windows, should you want to borrow it. But for starters, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6rRLw5ggOg -tom On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Gillian De

[FRIAM] The Theory That Would Not Die -

A review of a new book that may be of interest. --tom johnson The Mathematics of Changing Your MindBy JOHN ALLEN PAULOSPublished: August 5, 2011 Sharon Bertsch McGrayne introduces Bayes’s theorem in her new book with a remark by John Maynard Keynes: “When the facts change, I change my opinion

Re: [FRIAM] Sage Introduction

Any obvious advantages over Google Docs Spreadsheet? In fact, since one can't upload an .XML file, it seems Sage is going out of its way to make things hard. -tom On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > I beamed into the sagemath.org site and noticed they had video tutorials. >

Re: [FRIAM] Sage Introduction

e has an importer that > does a great job of CSV's. After loading the CSV as an array, you can do a > LOT with it. > > http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.loadtxt.html > > > Is this what you mean? > > -- Owen > > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2

[FRIAM] Infovis vs. Statistical Graphs? « Blog about Stats

This may be one of those "everybody's correct" arguments, still some of us will find it of interest, I should think. -tom johnson https://blogstats.wordpress.com/2011/08/11/infovis-vs-statistical-graphs/ Infovis vs. Statistical Graphs?<https://blogstats.wordpress.com/201

[FRIAM] AP-GOOGLE JOURNALISM AND TECHNOLOGY SCHOLARSHIP

Should you know any bright folks who could use some money. -tj -- Forwarded message -- Spread the word to our students The AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholarship The Associated Press and Google

[FRIAM] Introduction to Databases - Stanford University

Opportunity? -tj http://www.db-class.org/ A bold experiment in distributed education, "Introduction to Databases" will be offered free and online to students worldwide during the fall of 2011. Students will have access to lecture videos, receive regular feedback on progress, and receive answers t

[FRIAM] Draw - Google Correlate

You will never have trouble fitting your data analysis results to SOMETHING ever again. -tj Search by Drawing Draw an interesting curve, then click 'Correlate!' to find query terms whose popularity over time matches the shape you drew. https://www.google.com/trends/correlate/draw

[FRIAM] Eddie Rosenstein: Tom Hanks Narrates 'BOATLIFT, ' Honors Untold 9/11 Story Of Mariner Heroes (VIDEO)

A nice example of complex adaptive systems at work. -tj Tom Hanks Narrates 'BOATLIFT,' Honors Untold 9/11 Story Of Mariner Heroes (VIDEO) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eddie-rosenstein/tom-hanks-narrates-boatlift_b_956529.html FRIAM Appl

[FRIAM] UPDATE 1-Particles found to break speed of light | Reuters

Sigh. I guess there really are NO absolutes in this universe of ours. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/22/science-light-idUSL5E7KM4CW20110922 -tj FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John

[FRIAM] Data Mining, Quant, Statistics, Computer Science: Jobs, Resumes, Directory

So who's looking for a year of interesting work? *Predictive Modeling and Data Mining Scientists/Analysts* Analyze the campaign data to guide election strategy and develop quantitative, actionable insights that drive our decision-making. Looking for people at both the senior and junior level to j

[FRIAM] Neutrino discussion

Per request from Jan Hauser -to -- Forwarded message -- From: Jan Hauser Date: Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 6:37 AM Subject: Need help with Friam To: Tom Johnson , Tom Johnson , Jan Hauser Tom, I still can't access FRIAM. Would you please post this for me? Make subject

[FRIAM] Science360 - The Knowledge Network

fyi http://science360.gov/files/ *NSF Launches Science360 Radio for Web, iPhone and Android * The National Science Foundation (NSF) has launched Science360 Radio, the first Internet radio stream dedicated to programming abo

[FRIAM] The Top 10 Programming Languages - IEEE Spectrum

The Top 10 Programming Languages They're mostly ones you'd expect'and then there's Lua http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/tech-careers/the-top-10-programming-languages?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IeeeSpectrum+%28IEEE+Spectrum%29 -tj

Re: [FRIAM] Google Correlate

Is this any help? https://www.google.com/trends/correlate/ -tj On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > Has anybody been able to get anything useful out of that thing? Most of > the items I've searched for return totally bizarre results. For example, > searching on ibuprofe

friam@redfish.com

Good questions, and I have another one: What is it about Slinky that young children find so fascinating and fun? -tj On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 7:07 PM, ERIC P. CHARLES wrote: > Below are links to some science videos nifty for two reasons. > > 1) They ask and answers a pretty cool question: What h

[FRIAM] Kill Math

Some things here that will surely be of interest to some of the FRIAM-ers. http://worrydream.com/KillMath/ Designer Bret Victor hopes to make the abstract and conceptual to real and concrete with Kill Math . Kill Math is my umbrella project for techniques that en

[FRIAM] Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest - Tides

http://www.tides.org/impact/awards-prizes/pizzigati-prize/ About the Prize The Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest annually awards a $10,000 cash grant to one individual who has created or led an effort to create an open source software product of significant value to the n

Re: [FRIAM] Delicious Alternative

And I use Diigo.com, not only because it syncs my bookmarks, but more importantly lets me annotate my bookmarks and, especially, let's me share them with "lists" and "groups" I work with, most of whom have international members. Basically, Nick, the bookmarking tools that come with any of the brow

[FRIAM] Nerd humor:

"We don't allow faster-than-light neutrinos in here," says the bartender. A neutrino walks into a bar. -- tj == J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA www.analyticjournalism.com 505.577.6482(c)

Re: [FRIAM] iClarified - Apple News - Steve Jobs Reveals Why He Always Wore the Turtleneck

I knew a guy in San Francisco 20 years ago who was dedicated to reducing all his material possessions to no more than 100 "things" -- books, clothes, shoes, everything. He eventually came up with the idea of two or three all-white jumpsuits that literally were all the wore. Oh, he could add a lay

[FRIAM] Elsevier Journal publishes paper by Cuban complexity scholar

t: Re: Elsevier Journal publishes paper by Cuban complexity scholar To: Tom Johnson > > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 8:06 PM, < > ajuarr...@friendsofcomplexitytheoryincuba.org> wrote: > >> Folks: >> I am delighted to attach the latest paper published (in Elsevier's journ

[FRIAM] When Crime Appears: The Role Of Emergence

Thanks to friend Mike Gizzi for this reference, which some on the list may find of interest. -tom johnson *When Crime Appears <http://tandf.msgfocus.com/c/11ibjK23XFown7mDtUD>* The Role of EmergenceEdited by *Jean McGloin*, *Christopher Sullivan*, *Leslie Kennedy* *Series:* Criminolo

[FRIAM] UI design resources

All If interested in UI design, drill down into this --> http://interaction-design.org/ -- Tom johnson (in Zanzibar) Understanding Social Computing:An Authoritative Review by Tom Erickson of IBM’s Watson Research Lab<http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/UXM/%7E3/1B04U2tum34/understanding-

[FRIAM] How crowdsourcing is changing science - Ideas - The Boston Globe

http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2011/11/11/how-crowdsourcing-changing-science/dWL4DGWMq2YonHKC8uOXZN/story.html How crowdsourcing is changing science -tj FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. Joh

Re: [FRIAM] linux? and also how to backup bookmarks?

RE bookmarking: I really like diigo.com for social bookmarking and Xmarks (a Firefox add-on) for regular bookmarks. Both sync nicely with multiple devices and your stuff is always saved in the cloud. Or should it be The Cloud? -tj On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > Not s

[FRIAM] FYI: Data Science Central

ugh social interaction, peer to peer technical support, the latest in technology, tools and trends --and even job opportunities. We look forward to hearing your feedback as we grow this community of professionals in our exciting industry during times of dramatic change."

[FRIAM] CERN to announce Higgs boson observation at LHC | ExtremeTech

fyi http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/108599-cern-to-announce-higgs-boson-observation-at-lhc Perhaps. We shall see. -tj FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, u

Re: [FRIAM] American Airlines Gets FAA Approval to Use iPad During All Phases of Flight

Yeah, but will they have to turn them off during take-off and landings? Of course it will reduce insurance claims for bad backs given the size of the briefcases those guys lug around. -tj On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > How Star Trek: http://www.iclarified.com/entry/inde

[FRIAM] Astonishments, ten, in the history of version control

I suspect some of us will be interested in this brief history of version control. http://www.flourish.org/blog/?p=397 --tj Santa Fe FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, a

[FRIAM] The Mental Munition Factory: A breakthrough in data visualization,

This may be of interest to some of us Earlier this month, the National Science Foundation announceda new system to help researchers make sense of stores of scientific papers, and potentially find the “next big thing.” The Ac

[FRIAM] Free copy of Introduction to Information Retrieval

Worth the price, especially for those in the teaching biz. -tj = http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/information-retrieval-book.html The book aims to provide a modern approach to information retrieval from a computer science perspective. It is based

Re: [FRIAM] Tomorrow

I'm up for Downtown Subscriptions. On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > If? Where? > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe,

Re: [FRIAM] Tomorrow

Yes, DS is the happening place. -tj On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > Oh dear. Now what? I think I mentioned to others that SJ was closed and > DS was the answer. > > What do you folks think? > >-- Owen > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Nicholas Thompson < > nicktho

[FRIAM] Twitter / @neiltyson: The best engineering flow ...

http://twitter.com/#!/neiltyson/status/149569759485235200/photo/1 The best engineering flow chart ever: -tj FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, ma

[FRIAM] Explainer: understanding Sopa | World news | guardian.co.uk

If you are a U.S. citizen, this is important. Explainer: understanding Sopa Will 2012 see the end of the internet as we know it? The House Judiciary committee tried to finalize the Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) before Christmas for a vote early next year. But fierce opposition – much of it online

[FRIAM] More on "Detecting novel associations in large data sets | Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard"

FYI, folks. Apparently released only recently; I haven't done any test driving yet. -tom johnson Inst. for Analytic Journalism Santa Fe, NM USA Video: http://www.broadinstitute.org/news-and-publications/mine-detecting-novel-associations-large-data-sets MINE: Detecting novel associatio

[FRIAM] Fusion-io passes one billion IOPS barrier thanks to better software, not hardware | The Verge

The Woz still has the right stuff. https://www.theverge.com/2012/1/6/2686627/fusion-io-one-billion-iops Steve Wozniak FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsub

[FRIAM] Erwin Gonzalez • 30 Story Hotel Built in 15 Days

I also want to see how they got the crane off the roof. http://erwinluis.tumblr.com/post/15530473761/30-story-hotel-built-in-15-days -tj FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectur

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: [IP] EFF: Who Is Flying Unmanned Aircraft in the U.S.?

I have two journalist friends working on this. See http://dronejournalism.tumblr.com/about Among other things, we see this as a way to do things like count demonstrations and film the cops vs. occupiers "discussions." I suspect, though, that there will be statutes afoot. -tj On Tue, Jan 10, 20

Re: [FRIAM] Tech has arrived

And a few days ago I downloaded The Daily Show and Colbert while in Phnom Phen, Cambodia. -tj On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Michael Barron wrote: > Gary: > > I had another had day in the garage, packing and sending Emails. > > I do not like football, but if it F1, road racing or America Cup

[FRIAM] Strange, funny and baffling units for measuring almost anything | Royal Pingdom

Just in case you need a special metric http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/07/13/strange-funny-and-baffling-units-for-measuring-almost-anything/ -tj FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's Coll

[FRIAM] Stephen Wolfram Blog : Launching a Democratization of Data Science

FYI. -tom johnson Inst. for Analytic Journalism Santa Fe, NM USA http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/02/launching-a-democratization-of-data-science/ *Launching a Democratization of Data Science February 9, 2012 It's a sad but true fact that most data that's generated or collected

[FRIAM] Announcing the School of Data | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog

ges. Community support and on-demand mentoring will also be available for those who need it.* http://blog.okfn.org/2012/02/08/announcing-the-school-of-data/ --tom johnson FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30

Re: [FRIAM] Elsevier - my part in its downfall « Gowers's Weblog

Ah, but remember that many (most?) articles -- especially in the sciences -- contain tables and illustrations. Getting those formatted -- or even getting authors to read, understand and apply instructions is not a trivial task. I suspect there was always be editing and formatting to do. And then

[FRIAM] Printing Drones by the Sheet (or how we get to tens of billions of drones by 2020) - Global Guerrillas

http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2012/02/printing-drones-by-the-sheet.html Printing Drones by the Sheet (or how we get to tens of billions of drones by 2020) -tom johnson FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv

[FRIAM] Fwd: FlowingData - Live coding and inventing on principle

Yes, Nathan's right. This is worth watching. After you've seen this, do any of you know what program this guy is using to display his code-building and editing in real time, i.e. without compiling? -tom -- Forwarded message -- From: Nathan Yau Date: Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 4:09 AM

[FRIAM] A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors - YouTube

For our "fly by night" colleagues. A "swarm" of nanodrones flying in formation and navigating through obstacles. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FubP0KzeS4w -tj FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at S

[FRIAM] TODAYonline | Singapore | NTU launches complexity science programme for researchers

http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC120228-052/NTU-launches-complexity-science-programme-for-researchers NTU launches complexity science programme for researchers by Amir Hussain 04:46 AM Feb 28, 2012 SINGAPORE - Researchers at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) will soon have oppo

[FRIAM] Factual’s Gil Elbaz Wants to Gather the Data Universe - NYTimes.com

-gil-elbaz-wants-to-gather-the-data-universe.html?scp=1&sq=gilad%20elbaz&st=Search --tom johnson FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

[FRIAM] World’s best and worst hotel Wi-Fi | CNNGo.com

http://www.cnngo.com/explorations/escape/worlds-best-and-worst-hotel-wifi-330879 Best and worst hotel Wi-Fi A new in-depth report lays it all out, calling out the brands that refuse to stop charging for a service that should be free -tom johnson

[FRIAM] Kaggle.com - machine learning contests, datasets, and interviews

Might be some interesting opportunities at Kaggle.com for members of the Friam clan. -tom johnson -- Forwarded message -- From: Dan Nguyen Date: Wed, May 9, 2012 at 4:50 AM Subject: [NICAR-L] Kaggle.com - machine learning contests, datasets, and interviews To: nica

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