"PowerPoint festival of bureaucratic hyper-rationalism"

Nice article on NASA foibles with Edward Tufte (of "Visual Display of Quantitative Information" fame) quotes. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/04/science/04SHUT.html?pagewanted=2 Carl Tollander carl@... (505) 660-5003

CHANGE OF VENUE for FRIDAY MEETING

All, Stephen has asked me to announce that the Friday, February 9th FRIAM meeting will take place at the St John's coffee shop. Usual time. Apologies for the late notice. Note that the friam.org site may not reflect this change yet. Carl Tollander

zero intelligence market traders

Just to add fuel to the bonfire of rational economic agents.... http://www.nature.com/nsu/030922/030922-6.html One wonders how much the same observations might to other kinds of markets and risk assessments. Carl Tollander carl@... (505) 660-5003 "Nobody knows, and you can't find out..." -- Brockman

list for SFI events

Several FRIAM folk have asked me how to get notices of events up at SFI. Here's a link: http://www.santafe.edu/mailman/listinfo/activities-announce Carl Tollander carl@... (505) 660-5003 "Any specific prediction we make about upcoming inventions is bound to be wrong--even...

The AP kerfuffle   (Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: PRISM/AP kerfluffle, etc)

Depends on what authorities one defers to. I first heard the term on a "West Wing" episode. Kerfluffle sounds so kawaii, like there are fluffy pink kittens involved or something. On 7/17/13 10:03 PM, Steve Smith wrote: > On 7/17/13 9:01 PM, Carl Tollander wrote: >> BTW, just so...

Ok STEM folks, explain?

Sorry try this.... https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156937272769369&id=645414368 On Wed, Jul 25, 2018, 00:17 Carl Tollander <carl@...> wrote: > https://www.facebook.com/100000731093992/posts/1994344690599881/ > > This is local in Santa Fe (Arroyo Chamiso bike trail I...

The Brain and Creativity   (Re: The Brain and Creativity 2)

Günther, "it" == The Crowd. Sorry, was attempting an argument against the strawman view that the crowd needn't listen, but got caught up in the overpith. Carl Günther Greindl wrote: > Carl, > > Carl Tollander wrote: > >> Cosmic Pez Dispenser >> > > I like that picture...

Google Play

So they have some box that figures out that its the same performance on the same day by the same artists of the same song from the same angle? On 3/23/12 9:49 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:00 PM, Carl Tollander <carl@... > <mailto:carl@......

watch this

... interferometry, so there's an avenue for cooperation. 9000 near earth asteroids so far - a lot to see. On 4/25/12 9:40 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > Interesting .. a swarm of 16 or more space explorers. Wow! > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Carl Tollander <carl@... > <mailto:carl...

Rule driven agent-based modeling systems

..., fair enough, but since it was Russ's question originally.... Carl Marcus G. Daniels wrote: > Carl Tollander wrote: >> Rather, we are looking to world states as other regulatory systems or >> n-categories (topoi?), themselves operating "on-the-fly". I'm not >> at all sure that simple...

On Quaternions and Octonions, by John Conway and Derek Smith

More specifically, http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/octonions/ Carl Tollander wrote: > Look octonions (denizens of Octonia, which borders Philistia?) up in > 'This Weeks Finds'....John Baez wrote on 'em a bit awhile back... > > glen e. p. ropella wrote: >> Thus spake Owen Densmore circa 09...

looking for a word

There's also a book, "Kinematics of Mixing", which was more exciting than it sounds, but it seems to have escaped my bookshelf so I don't have an author handy. On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 8:00 PM, Carl Tollander <carl@...> wrote: > If you are in search of a river analogy word, you...