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A decade ago, James Gleick helped popularize the concept of chaos theory with Chaos: The Making of a New Science (1987). Prior to that, the concept had largely been the province of mathematicians, but Gleick showed broader applications for the idea that systems behave in [...]
Another rally in the markets today. The US dollar is down again and the Canadian dollar is up by another four cents, following on oil’s rise above $66 (it’s now at more than $68 after hours as I write). Quite amazing how quickly the cash flows back in once those on the sidelines sense there’s [...]
That members of the same family disagree on how best to deal with a child's autism is not news. (Concerns about divorce among parents of autistic kids recently led the National Autism Association to announce a new program to provide marriage counseling --> to keep parents together.)What is news is that members of the Wright family -- founders of Autism Speaks --> , arguably the nation's most suc
Scientists have linked 32 genetic variations to Crohn's disease, a bowel disorder, highlighting the difficulties facing researchers seeking treatments and the complexity of many common diseases. Crohn's disease affects between one in 500 and one in 1000 people in the industrialized world, causing inflammation, pain, ulcers and diarrhea. Scientists’ new research had tripled the number of genetic
Time after time I run into Darwinists who believe that "science" is on the side of the Evolutionists.Well, those of us who are informed know that is completely wrong.Below is a great example of that. It is an excellent article that we found on the irreducible complexity of blood clotting. It is a long article, but I would encourage you to read it all because it makes amazing points:---- Complexity
This week’s upcoming Time Magazine highlights:
If the basic rules of chemistry are any guide, life should not exist. Scientists showed in the 1950s that shooting an electric spark through a soup of chemicals — thus simulating lightning strikes on the primordial planet earth — could produce simple organic compounds. But complex, self-reproducing chemicals like dna? [...]
One of the great scientific challenges is to understand the design principles and origins of the human brain. New research has shed light on the evolutionary origins of the brain and how it evolved into the remarkably complex structure found in humans. The research suggests that it is not size alone that gives more brain power, but that, during evolution, increasingly sophisticated molecular proce
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Presents a large number of recent research results previously unavailable in book form. Initially deals with the wee-known computation models, and goes on to special types of circuits, parallel computers, and branching programs. Includes basic theory as well recent research findings. Each chapter includes exercises.
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The human body is a marvelous wonder indeed. Scientists still spend countless numbers of hours trying to research our inner workings only to discover pieces of our complex puzzle. The moment we are conceived, our cells are given a blueprint for the building and maintaining of an adult human being. This cellular buildup and maintenance [...]
Why is it that so many people seem focused on making simple things complicated? I suppose that’s a fairly easy question to answer: it’s an ego boost. But how stupid. Complexity never wins; it’s always the brilliantly simple that takes the cake.
One of my favorite quotes is this one from legendary jazz bassist Charles Mingus: “Making [...]
Yesterday when I was at Phillip’s place, he was in a very jovial mood. It was one of those days when he’s not in a mood to teach us the guitar. He was reminiscing about the good old days when love did not have so many profanities attached to it. He was talking how scandals, flings, affairs and everything in between are being passed off as ‘love’. He is not averse to the idea of falling in love, rather he is all for it. He just wants people to be more honest about their feelings.I was thinking about what he said on my way back to the apartment. The apartment was empty. Andrea, my roommate, must have gone out with her boyfriend. That reminded me of Phillip’s words again. Are they really in love or are they just checking out their compatibility quotient? It is a very critical questi
Fred over at GoodShit was kind enough to put up an article that many of us wouldn’t otherwise see…
I’ve been railing about this particular part for years… We’re currently seeing the results of having idiots run our economy and nations… I got thrown out of a high level meeting a few years back when I [...]
This new index incorporates features of both the Index of Orthodontic Need (IOTN) and the Peer Assessment Rating (PAR). The aesthetic component of IOTN is included along with scores for upper arch crowding/spacing; presence of cross-bite; overbite/open bite, and buccal segment relationship. As in the PAR, weightings are added to reflect current orthodontic opinion. The sum of the scores and their weightings gives a pretreatment score, which is said to reflect the need for, and likely complexity of, the treatment required. Following treatment the index is scored again to give an improvement grade (pretreatment score minus 4 × post-treatment score) and thus the outcome of treatment. This ambitious index is currently undergoing evaluation
The main theme is about how DNA doesn’t need to provide information in every detail to produce an organism. Chemical, physical and mathematical forces also play a significant part in the production of an organism. The book is also about how natural selection is not the only process at work for evolutionary advancement. I totally [...]
Author: J. Casti, A. KarlqvistPaperback: 170 pagesPublisher: JAI Press; 1 edition (February 1, 2003)Language: EnglishISBN: 0444509445This title is the result of a one-week workshop sponsored by the Swedish research agency, FRN, on the interface between complexity and art. Among others, it includes discussions on whether "good" art is "complex" art, how artists see the term "complex", and what poets try to convey in word about complex behavior in nature. Zip Password: T0sT@rN@
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ISBN-0071435085 Conquering the complexity in products and services can generate larger contributions to profits and growth than nearly any other business strategy
Here's a guarantee: Somewhere in your business, there is too much complexity. You may also be losing out by having too little complexity where it counts - in the products, services and options you offer to customers.
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Mortgage fraud is up and financing for some borrowers is down. These are among the consequences of the current "cycle of more desperate times" affecting the U.S. housing market, said Amy Crews Cutts, the deputy chief economist for mortgage giant Freddie Mac as she addressed a gathering of business journalists Monday night at the Disneyland Hotel.
Problems in the subprime mortgage industry, which provides home loans to borrowers with shaky credit, could drag out until later 2008, Cutts said at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers convention in Anaheim .
And sophisticated mortgage fraud schemes are ratcheting up, Cutts said. "It is extraordinary the level of complexity of these things."
Cutts noted that the overall housing picture -- relatively flat procing -- fails to reflect isolated pockets in places like Michigan, Ohio and Illinois where home prices are very depressed. Overall lending is falling, too. The
As if traditional meth labs aren’t bad enough, where criminals cook a combination of over-the-counter and acquired hazardous materials to feed the addicts’ need, now these same criminals are evading police in mobile meth labs. When meth labs are housed in a home or apartment, there is the inherent danger of explosion from chemical reactions and fire used to produce the drugs.
Illegal drug makers, though, have been a sitting target fearing police intervention at any moment. Static meth labs have also given government officials, motel owners and other landlords the added obligation of sending out the HAZMAT team to cleanup the hazardous chemicals whenever a meth lab is busted.
But, now the methamphetamine makers have taken to the streets in groves in order to evade detection by police, creating mobile meth labs in cars, vans, trucks and RV’s. According to reports in 2002, at least 20-percent of the meth labs were then mobile. Recent reports state that this number is now over 30-per
According to Microsoft organizations should set strong password creation guidelines that include the following:
•Avoid the use of words from a dictionary in any language, including common or clever misspellings of words.
•Do not create a new password that simply increments a digit in your current password.
•Avoid the use of passwords that begin or end with a numeral because they can be guessed
Rabbi Winston on the reverse order of Tehillim:[Changing the] order of Tehillim is something consistent with all of Torah--which also changes the order of parshios. Why? Well, on a pshat level, because, Torah is primarily a book about moral behavior, and historical accuracy will be pushed aside when it suits this higher purpose of Torah.However, according to the Yalkut, there is another, deeper reason. We have had many discussions before regarding this idea, and I go into a lot more detail about this in "The Big Picture." The Torah is far more than a legal work with a lot of stories; according to the Midrash, Torah is the "blueprint" for creation, and the Midrash is not exaggerating.In fact, says the Yalkut Shimoni, if the Torah were presented in its true order--and the same is true about Tehillim as well--then one could much more easily figure out Kabbalistic secrets. Kabbalistic creations, which are usually only possible through Kabbalah and by seasoned Kabbalists, would become possi
The notes are aimed at exposing the students to the basic results and research directions in the field of Complexity Theory. The focus was on concepts and ideas, and complex technical proofs were avoided.
These notes deal with the foundations of complexity theory for a one-semester graduate course. Part of it is also suitable for an undergraduate course, at a slower pace. Mathematical maturity is the main prerequisite.
These set of introductory notes give the broad picture of modern complexity theory, define the basic complexity classes and give some examples of each complexity class.
I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Despite the explosive growth in size and complexity of the human brain, the pace of evolutionary change among the thousands of genes expressed in brain tissue has actually slowed since the split, millions of years ago, between human and chimpanzee, an international research team reports in the December 26, 2006, issue of the journal, PLOS Biology.
The rapid advance of the human brain, the authors maintain, has not been driven by evolution of protein sequences. The higher complexity of the biochemical network in the brain, they suspect, with multiple gene-gene interactions, places strong constraints on the ability of most brain-related genes to change.
'We found that genes expressed in the human brain have in fact slowed down in their evolution, contrary to some earlier reports,' says study author Chung-I Wu (homepage), professor of ecology and evolution at the University of Chicago. 'The more complex the brain, it seems, the more difficult it becomes for brain genes to change. Calib
I just recently came across a very interesting video about freedom of choice, by Professor Barry Schwartz.
The main point by Schwartz is how freedom of choice leads to anxiety, does the freedom exceed a certain point of options.
Schwartz brilliantly describes the phenomena, and shortly mentions a few cases where this fact has been implemented into business strategies...
I just recently came across a very interesting video about freedom of choice, by Professor Barry Schwartz.
The main point by Schwartz is how freedom of choice leads to anxiety, does the freedom exceed a certain point of options.
Schwartz brilliantly describes the phenomena, and shortly mentions a few cases where this fact has been implemented into business strategies...
As much as 95% of all wireless broadband traffic is generated while wireless users are indoors. For instance, business users often shuttle from office to airport, to hotel, to customers’ office, spending only a relatively short time outdoors. Today, wireless data connectivity in these locations is provided by Wi-Fi access points, the benchmark for ease of use and performance that is nearly ubiquitous in airports, hotels and office.Does this mean that there is little meaningful growth in the Enterprise sector? Motorola believes otherwise.Motorola AXPT was designed to combine the best of Wi-Fi and cellular techniques, enabling mobile service providers to cost effectively deploy UMTS/HSDPA in a far greater range of locations.A Significant Growth OpportunitySuccessful mobile service providers already derive a significant amount of their revenue from the Enterprise market. Nevertheless, this segment is still underserved. Mobile service providers that offer a robust, convenient alternative
It's a mystery why the speed and complexity of evolution appear to increase with time. For example, the fossil record indicates that single-celled life first appeared about 3.5 billion years ago, and it then took about 2.5 billion more years for multi-cellular life to evolve. That leaves just a billion years or so for the evolution of the diverse menagerie of plants, mammals, insects, birds and other species that populate the earth.New studies by Rice University scientists suggest a possible answer; the speed of evolution has increased over time because bacteria and viruses constantly exchange transposable chunks of DNA between species, thus making it possible for life forms to evolve faster than they would if they relied only on sexual selection or random genetic mutations."We have developed the first exact solution of a mathematical model of evolution that accounts for this cross-species genetic exchange," said Michael Deem, the John W. Cox Professor in Biochemical and Genetic Engin
