Ruth Charney on Modeling with Cubes [Macromedia Flash Player]

[Tom Johnson]

From the Internet Scout....

 

 

Ruth Charney on Modeling with Cubes [Macromedia Flash Player]

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The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) continues to build on their already solid online presence with the addition of this lecture by noted mathematician and scholar Professor Ruth Charney. This particular lecture was given at the MAA's Carriage House Conference Center in the fall of 2008 and it deals with how cubes can be used to represent a variety of systems. As Charney notes, "The geometry of these spaces is strange, complicated, and a lot of fun to study." Visitors to the site can watch several particularly lucid examples from Charney's talk, read her biography, and also read a detailed interview with her conducted by Michael Pearson. [KMG]

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[Peter-2-2]

Yes great stuff BUT sad that the you tube postings of the presentations suck and are un-viewable due to poor camera work ( I have emailed Ruth for a copy of her power point presentation and will post it when I get it )

There is also a fascinating guy on a similar program called Martin Golubitsky http://www.maa.org/news/090508mg.html and http://www.math.uh.edu/~mg/ discussing " Patterns Patterns Everywhere " which will blow your socks of ( Sadly same problem as Ruth's with the camera work  and ditto with the powerpoint posting if he will send it to me.)

I heard a lecture or interview of his once in which he says " Its especially important to realize that most models are just theories which may have no connection to anything in real life except in the mind of the modeler "  Just about says it all.

( : ( : pete



Tom Johnson wrote:

From the Internet Scout....

 

 

Ruth Charney on Modeling with Cubes [Macromedia Flash Player]

<a moz-do-not-send="true" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.maa.org/news/102308charney.html" target="_blank">http://www.maa.org/news/102308charney.html

The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) continues to build on their already solid online presence with the addition of this lecture by noted mathematician and scholar Professor Ruth Charney. This particular lecture was given at the MAA's Carriage House Conference Center in the fall of 2008 and it deals with how cubes can be used to represent a variety of systems. As Charney notes, "The geometry of these spaces is strange, complicated, and a lot of fun to study." Visitors to the site can watch several particularly lucid examples from Charney's talk, read her biography, and also read a detailed interview with her conducted by Michael Pearson. [KMG]

tj
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www.analyticjournalism.com
505.577.6482(c)                                    505.473.9646(h)
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existing model obsolete."
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[Stephen Guerin]

Pete received the original presentaion PDF from Ruth Charney. It's now
uploaded here for those interested:
  http://www.redfish.com/friam/Charney_MAA10-08.pdf

Thanks, Pete!

-Steve

On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 3:47 PM, peter <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Yes great stuff BUT sad that the you tube postings of the presentations suck
> and are un-viewable due to poor camera work ( I have emailed Ruth for a copy
> of her power point presentation and will post it when I get it )
>
> There is also a fascinating guy on a similar program called Martin
> Golubitsky http://www.maa.org/news/090508mg.html and
> http://www.math.uh.edu/~mg/ discussing " Patterns Patterns Everywhere "
> which will blow your socks of ( Sadly same problem as Ruth's with the camera
> work  and ditto with the powerpoint posting if he will send it to me.)
>
> I heard a lecture or interview of his once in which he says " Its especially
> important to realize that most models are just theories which may have no
> connection to anything in real life except in the mind of the modeler "
> Just about says it all.
>
> ( : ( : pete
>
> Peter Baston
>
> IDEA-
>
> www.ideapete.com
>
>
>
>
>
> Tom Johnson wrote:
>
> From the Internet Scout....
>
>
> Ruth Charney on Modeling with Cubes [Macromedia Flash Player]
>
> http://www.maa.org/news/102308charney.html
>
> The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) continues to build on their
> already solid online presence with the addition of this lecture by noted
> mathematician and scholar Professor Ruth Charney. This particular lecture
> was given at the MAA's Carriage House Conference Center in the fall of 2008
> and it deals with how cubes can be used to represent a variety of systems.
> As Charney notes, "The geometry of these spaces is strange, complicated, and
> a lot of fun to study." Visitors to the site can watch several particularly
> lucid examples from Charney's talk, read her biography, and also read a
> detailed interview with her conducted by Michael Pearson. [KMG]
>
> tj
> ==========================================
> 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                 [hidden email]
>
> "You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
> To change something, build a new model that makes the
> existing model obsolete."
> -- Buckminster Fuller
> ==========================================
>
> ============================================================
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
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[Peter-2-2]

Here is the actual presentation that was unreadable on Youtube

Ruth sent it to me and Steve reposted it at

http://www.friam.org/Charney_MAA10-08.pdf

She does remarkable work and thanks Tom for the heads up

Will do the same with Marty Golibitskys similar presentation " Patterns Patterns Everywhere " when I get it

( : ( : pete


Tom Johnson wrote:

From the Internet Scout....

 

 

Ruth Charney on Modeling with Cubes [Macromedia Flash Player]

<a moz-do-not-send="true" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.maa.org/news/102308charney.html" target="_blank">http://www.maa.org/news/102308charney.html

The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) continues to build on their already solid online presence with the addition of this lecture by noted mathematician and scholar Professor Ruth Charney. This particular lecture was given at the MAA's Carriage House Conference Center in the fall of 2008 and it deals with how cubes can be used to represent a variety of systems. As Charney notes, "The geometry of these spaces is strange, complicated, and a lot of fun to study." Visitors to the site can watch several particularly lucid examples from Charney's talk, read her biography, and also read a detailed interview with her conducted by Michael Pearson. [KMG]

tj
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Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA
www.analyticjournalism.com
505.577.6482(c)                                    505.473.9646(h)
http://www.jtjohnson.com                 [hidden email]

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the
existing model obsolete."
-- Buckminster Fuller
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[Kenneth Lloyd]

Pete,

 

First, thanks for the Charney link. For the past several years I have been working with connective Compositional Pattern Producing Networks (CPPNs) in HyperNEAT. 

 

http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/papers/stanley_alife09.pdf

 

Specifically, I have been using CPPN's for pattern discovery in evolving complex systems. Jason Gauci wrote this interesting introduction to unsupervised pattern learning in a simple checkers game using these techniques - an definite improvement on Blondie24:

 

http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/papers/gauci_aaai08.pdf

 

Ken

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From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of peter
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 10:01 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group; Tom Johnson
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Ruth Charney on Modeling with Cubes - The readable one

Here is the actual presentation that was unreadable on Youtube

Ruth sent it to me and Steve reposted it at

http://www.friam.org/Charney_MAA10-08.pdf

She does remarkable work and thanks Tom for the heads up

Will do the same with Marty Golibitskys similar presentation " Patterns Patterns Everywhere " when I get it

( : ( : pete


Tom Johnson wrote:

From the Internet Scout....

 

 

Ruth Charney on Modeling with Cubes [Macromedia Flash Player]

<A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.maa.org/news/102308charney.html" target=_blank moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.maa.org/news/102308charney.html

The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) continues to build on their already solid online presence with the addition of this lecture by noted mathematician and scholar Professor Ruth Charney. This particular lecture was given at the MAA's Carriage House Conference Center in the fall of 2008 and it deals with how cubes can be used to represent a variety of systems. As Charney notes, "The geometry of these spaces is strange, complicated, and a lot of fun to study." Visitors to the site can watch several particularly lucid examples from Charney's talk, read her biography, and also read a detailed interview with her conducted by Michael Pearson. [KMG]

tj
==========================================
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Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA
www.analyticjournalism.com
505.577.6482(c)                                    505.473.9646(h)
http://www.jtjohnson.com                 [hidden email]

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the
existing model obsolete."
-- Buckminster Fuller
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[Peter-2-2]

Nice work Ken

Its especially interesting when this field breaks into multi dimension ( or hypercube in Ruths words )  start including hologram memory retention and the shifting POVS as you can now change your vector all around the dimension and all sorts of wonderful patterns come into view. Maybe mother nature with her fractal geometry for everything has some real relevance but we just have difficulty laying everything out in 2d and start from the wrong perspective

Keep it up and feed more to the group

( : ( : pete


Kenneth Lloyd wrote:

Pete,

 

First, thanks for the Charney link. For the past several years I have been working with connective Compositional Pattern Producing Networks (CPPNs) in HyperNEAT. 

 

http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/papers/stanley_alife09.pdf

 

Specifically, I have been using CPPN's for pattern discovery in evolving complex systems. Jason Gauci wrote this interesting introduction to unsupervised pattern learning in a simple checkers game using these techniques - an definite improvement on Blondie24:

 

http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/papers/gauci_aaai08.pdf

 

Ken

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From: [hidden email] [[hidden email]] On Behalf Of peter
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 10:01 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group; Tom Johnson
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Ruth Charney on Modeling with Cubes - The readable one

Here is the actual presentation that was unreadable on Youtube

Ruth sent it to me and Steve reposted it at

http://www.friam.org/Charney_MAA10-08.pdf

She does remarkable work and thanks Tom for the heads up

Will do the same with Marty Golibitskys similar presentation " Patterns Patterns Everywhere " when I get it

( : ( : pete


Tom Johnson wrote:

From the Internet Scout....

 

 

Ruth Charney on Modeling with Cubes [Macromedia Flash Player]

<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.maa.org/news/102308charney.html" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.maa.org/news/102308charney.html

The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) continues to build on their already solid online presence with the addition of this lecture by noted mathematician and scholar Professor Ruth Charney. This particular lecture was given at the MAA's Carriage House Conference Center in the fall of 2008 and it deals with how cubes can be used to represent a variety of systems. As Charney notes, "The geometry of these spaces is strange, complicated, and a lot of fun to study." Visitors to the site can watch several particularly lucid examples from Charney's talk, read her biography, and also read a detailed interview with her conducted by Michael Pearson. [KMG]

tj
==========================================
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                 [hidden email]

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the
existing model obsolete."
-- Buckminster Fuller
==========================================

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