(tags: via:cshalizi agri­cul­ture envi­ron­men­tal­ism thought­ful myths complex-​​systems public-​​policy cultural-​​norms farm­ing con­ser­va­tion)

“Sim­u­la­tions of these var­i­ous belief for­ma­tion mod­els show that that this sim­ple heuris­tic is quite effective against other more com­plex ficti­tious play models.”

(tags: duh eco­nom­ics fictitious-​​play plan­ning mod­els agents complex-​​systems)

“… The Center’s objec­tive is to assist our state through its cur­rent period of wrench­ing eco­nomic trou­ble and to lay the foun­da­tion of informed hope for a bet­ter future Michigan.”

(tags: local regional eco­nom­ics public-​​policy plan­ning gov­ern­ment cultural-​​norms social-​​norms busi­ness business-​​culture Ann-​​Arbor Michi­gan)

Under what cir­cum­stances does “The Address of Inno­va­tion™” com­plete with a par­a­sitic trade­mark sym­bol not vividly sig­nal lack of inno­va­tion!? I really do need to know. No, really. It’s important.

(tags: local Ann-​​Arbor inno­va­tion eco­nom­ics econ­omy regional business-​​culture social-​​norms entre­pre­neurs cultural-​​norms several-words-that-begin-with-“revol”)

(tags: local OCR busi­ness Ann-​​Arbor Michi­gan tech­nol­ogy machine-​​learning image-​​analysis ana­lyt­ics dig­i­ti­za­tion)

So it begins. We know where the Shad­ows lie.

(tags: NASA Mer­cury plan­e­tol­ogy sci­ence astron­omy space-​​exploration Babylon-​​5)

via Hugh MacLeod, on Twitter

(tags: copy­right music open­ness shar­ing business-​​model lawyers RIAA com­mons DRM)

(tags: via:complexitydaemon candy evo­lu­tion selec­tion M&Ms humor)

(tags: his­tory sci­ence review books Islam provin­cial­ism ori­en­tal­ism)

(tags: IP intellectual-​​property lawyers Syrowik local Michi­gan)

Used to live down the road a piece. Miss the fos­sil­if­er­ous afternoons.

(tags: fos­sils ama­teurism natural-​​history Ordovi­cian Cincin­nati Oxford-​​Ohio)

Con­sid­er­ing pos­si­bil­ity of sub­mit­ting some MSS

(tags: genetic-​​programming work­shops CFPs research machine-​​learning acad­e­mia con­fer­ences GECCO)

(tags: knowl­edge atten­tion dis­cov­ery inno­va­tion sci­ence curios­ity expla­na­tion acad­e­mia gen­er­al­ism)

(tags: via:o’reilly Amer­ica books data-​​analysis Face­book graphs visu­al­iza­tion read­ing acad­e­mia standardized-​​testing favorites cor­re­la­tion)

(tags: color design Leop­ard plu­gin soft­ware palette graphic-​​design)