Given the recent kerfuffle related to John Kekes’ hatched job review and of Eric Schliesser’s witty observation thereon, it’a an opportune time to repost our intro. Bob Grant will chime in later but for the moment he makes the following points: Of course my chapter is not about MO’s work (except indirectly), which is why it is…
This from NPR’s The Salt. calasfoodFrench QuarterMardi Grasnew orleans
Computer Science > Cognitive Systems Research. A pretty good showing as action editor on all these articles: thanks to all for such good work. October to December 2012 1. Cognitive stigmergy: A study of emergence in small-group social networks Cognitive Systems Research, Volume 21, March 2013, Pages 7-21 Lewis, T.G. 2. Stigmergic self-organization and the improvisation…
Eric Schliesser makes a very witty observation about Kekes’ review of Paul and my “Companion” regarding Bob Grant’s biographical piece. It’s especially witty since there are in fact two “companions“. Kekes’ comments again reeks of sour grapes. Bob makes it quite clear: Though as my main topic will be his love life, which is not…
Clarence “Gatemouth” really does swing on this terrific recording. “Pops” and the “Count” would have been proud. Great to see that trumpeter Jamil Sharif is on the album. If ever you are in NOLA head to the Maison Bourbon where Jamil is resident – a great time guaranteed. I’ve just noticed that Jamil has a new…
A nice simulation from the Maastricht Swarm Lab See also the great video posted by Simon Garnier of The Swarm Lab @ NJIT Artificial intelligenceCognitive sciencecomplexitydistributed knowledgeExtended Mindsocial epistemologySpontaneous orderStigmergy
Here are some extracts from Jim Wibble’s fascinating paper, the full version available here. When exploring ideas on philosophy of science and economic methodology, one of the most unusual articles that one can encounter is Hayek’s well-known piece, “The Primacy of the Abstract”. In a note in the article, Hayek tells us that he had thought…
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A lovely piece by the very excellent Ricky Riccardi who tells the story. One could just imagine how big, musical and wild “Pop’s” funeral would have been were it held in NOLA (see the Italian coverage of the Flushing funeral that Ricky has posted). ArmstrongJack TeagardenJazzLouis ArmstrongRicky RiccardiVelma Middleton
I want to give a plug to the superb biography on JK Toole written by Cory MacLauchlin. He brilliantly marshals the Toole story into a plausible and coherent whole given that much of what we know was severely modulated through Thelma Toole and who along with Robert Gottlieb tend to be cast (for different reasons) as the…
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