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Mon Jan 5

• Hardwood Paroxysm: What Doesn't Kill You Only Makes You Less Likely To Rebound: Seven Seconds Or Less And The Dark Knight: Mike D'Antoni, seven seconds or less

Sun Jan 4

• 2009 ASHRAE Winter Conference:
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• Pragmatism and the Life-Sciences. The Emergence of an Evolutionary Philosophy: Peirce's The Architecture of Theories (1891) - dropping the assumption of absolute, unchanging states, forms - add a dose of pure-spontanei ty, chance (deterministic chaos?) - "It makes an element of indeterminacy, spontaneity, or absolute chance in nature? - "though restrained within narrow bounds by law.. I account for all the variety and diversity of the universe, in the only sense in which the really sui generis and new can be said to be accounted for? - ongoing, evolutionary morphogenesis

Fri Jan 2

• Did This Man Just Rewrite Science? - New York Times

Mon Dec 29

• Dragon Blogger Review Of Chaos Theory: The movie "Chaos Theory" has one of the best endings out of this type of movie showing how true love overcomes many things

Sat Dec 27

• University of Rochester Press Releases: study shows that the brain's cortex uses seemingly chaotic, or "noisy,&q uot; signals to represent the ambiguities of the real world?and that this noise dramatically enhances the brain's processing, enabling us to make decisions in an uncertain world. "You' ;d think this is crazy because engineers are always fighting to reduce the noise in their circuits, and yet here's the best computing machine in the universe?and it looks utterly random," says Alex Pouget [..] "The cortex appears wired at its foundation to run Bayesian computations as efficiently as can be possible," ;

Thu Dec 25

• Chaos Theory Simplified: Just Follow the Bouncing Droplet: Scientific American

Tue Dec 23

• Math professor discovers chaos on a 'fluid trampoline' - MIT News Office: "What is the simplest physical system that exhibits chaotic behavior? What are the minimum ingredients for chaos?" Bush points out that the fluid trampoline is the simplest when one considers both ease of experiment and theory. The form of bouncing on the fluid trampoline depends on the amplitude and frequency of the soap film vibration. At low amplitude, the drop bounces with the period of the forcing. Progressively increasing the amplitude leads to the bouncing period doubling then quadrupling. Ultimately, chaos emerges via a so-called period-doublin g cascade.

Sun Dec 21

• Chaos theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• ThinkingShift. com - Welcome: Thunderbolt City
• Complex systems - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wed Dec 17

• Chaos Theory: A Brief Introduction | IMHO: What exactly is chaos? The name "chaos theory" comes from the fact that the systems that the theory describes are apparently disordered, but chaos theory is really about finding the underlying order in apparently random data. When was chaos first discovered? The first true experimenter in chaos was a meteorologist, named Edward Lorenz. In 1960, he was working on the problem of weather prediction. He had a computer set up, with a set of twelve equations to model the weather. It didn't predict the weather itself. However this computer program did theoretically predict what the weather might be.
• Edward Norton Lorenz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Edward Norton Lorenz (May 23, 1917 - April 16, 2008) was an American mathematician and meteorologist, and a pioneer of chaos theory.[1] He discovered the strange attractor notion and coined the term butterfly effect.

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