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Lee Graham at the Amazing Meeting 5 in Las Vegas, talking about his Java applet.
One of the creationist arguments against evolution is built around "Irreducible Complexity" - if there's a mechanism that doesn't work if any of its pieces is missing, that mechanism can't have evolved. Lee Graham has written a relatively simple game (which, however, doesn't run in my browser, well, that's Java applets for ya), and a genetic algorithm to evolve players for the game, that refutes that theory by frequently - in about half the trials - evolving irreducibly complex players!
This was a good talk. Although Lee is an Artificial Intelligence grad student, he explained genetic algorithms without AI jargon, and his software does things like animate motion between game "DNA" and the center of the screen where mutations take place to really make clear what's going on.
In front of the speaker: Probably the ugliest poster of an event I've actually been to, ever.
The line continued to grow as people waited for their chance to get an autograph from the OpTic Gaming squad.
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Amazing repository of social network visualisation
Complexities in Color No1
by Rosemary Pierce-Lackey
original sculptural painting
Incredible dimension and detail.
Please visit my website at www.RosemaryPierce-Lackey.com for more photos and other available artwork.
Thanks so much!
Complexity driven collapse of economic equilibria. Bardoscia, Livan, Marsili arxiv.org/abs/1511.09203 #q-fin
Matt celebrating after getting the final kill of his 12-4 performance on Freight S&D against CurseNY to win the series.
Doubly extra special Thursday greetings, my collector friends! I'm really thrilled to be releasing today's editions, but quite frankly, I'm also totally nervous. It's a little intimidating for me to be writing about photographer Stefan Ruiz, and it's not just because he has some very impressive credentials. (Former Creative Director of Colors Magazine! Insanely successful editorial and commercial career! Monograph published by the venerable Chris Boot!) What makes the task most formidable is that, talent aside, Stefan is one of the nicest, most decent, thoughtful, compassionate, interested and interesting guys I've ever met. There's not really anything I can write that'll do him justice. So, I'm telling you up front: I'm relying on that old "a picture's worth a thousand words" chestnut, which I can do confidently, considering the gorgeousness of the photographs on your left. They are dazzling! The details included on this page offer just a taste of their overall impact — be sure to have a look at the large versions of each one too.
Cairo, Egypt and La Paz, Bolivia reflect Stefan's globe-trotting ways. He could have a perfectly comfortable existence traveling between Paris, London and New York, but his curiosity and compassion have placed him on roads considerably less traveled. When he came by the office to review proofs a few weeks back, he regaled us with tales of his recent (and, from the sounds of it, at times perilous) trip to Zimbabwe. Other projects have taken him from Kazakhstan, to psychiatric hospitals in Cuba, to the soundstages of Mexican telenovelas; and he's made portraits of subjects as various as Texan rodeo queens, Rwandan refugees and, well, yours truly.
I first met Stefan a bit over a year ago, when he was assigned to take my photograph for the amazing Dutch photography magazine Foam. I'll admit that I wasn't familiar with his work, and the cover of his monograph, People, didn't do much to alleviate the considerable uneasiness I have about having my picture taken at all, ever. A quick conversation with Andrew Hetherington made me realize that Stefan is a photographer's photographer, which meant that the people I cared about most would be paying close attention. It also occurred to me that a fella as accomplished and well-traveled as our Mr. Ruiz had the potential to be, well, kind of a jerk.
So I was just a wee bit nervous heading into our first meeting, and I couldn't have been more wrong about... everything. Stefan was totally low key and unassuming, so much so that I quickly relented when he asked to shoot me in the one part of my apartment that I wanted to keep out of the frame — my kitchen was in chaos, a sink full of dirty-dishes as its centerpiece. So it came to pass that people all over the world now know that of any talents I might have, those pertaining to the domestic arts are not among them. What also came to pass is a friendship, and after a bit of gentle cajoling from me, today's 20x200 editions.
Once we chose these two images for Stefan's 20x200 debut, we knew we'd need to make larger prints in order to do justice to their complexity and scale. The smallest size of each edition is 11"x14", which is a good start, not to mention an excellent value at $50. We also have an extra special uber-glorious 40"x50" version, which is pricey ($5000) but absolutely stunning.
As for describing what's so wonderful about them, Stefan does so best in his statement: Often, one of the things I try to do is find calm amidst the chaos, to simplify things. To me, a good photograph works on many levels. It should be interesting to look at and hopefully have some sort of social context. It should make you think, even if momentarily.
The line to get into the venue continued to wrap around all the way out into the parking lot as spectators poured their way into Full Sail Live.
I got my copy of The Self-Organizing Social Mind by John Bolender , it's an interesting book. I was happy to have one of my photos in this book.
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Optimum operation of the c1900 signalling at Chester required an intuitive understanding of what was going on by eleven signalmen in seven different boxes.
9 Juli, 2020, Documenting Complexity.
Insights from the front of documentary-making and activism, with five of the most exciting makers talking about their projects and new technologies like AR, VR and 360video in MU Hybrid Art House. Speakers are:
- Karen Palmer, storyteller from the future
- Klasien van de Zandschulp & Natalie Dixon
- Alice Wong
- Lana Askari
- Foundland : Lauren Alexander | Ghalia Elsrakbi
Photography: Boudewijn Bollmann
Most of the day has been spent studying (like the good girl that I’m not :-)! I had to laugh when I read the following heading “Complexity & Cognitive Overload”! By this time I had severe brain drain from reading so much techy detail & it struck me that this heading could apply to life in general & not just technology matters. Pre-processing this image was a boring white (& quite hazy due to the paper gloss). I added the purpley filter & over-cropped to add the top & bottom borders & text. I would’ve liked to have achieved a shallower depth of field to emphasise the heading but I could not get my camera to play ball !!
Orchard Road - Singapour
HDA : Facades designer
Client : Swire Properties LTD
Architect : Raymond Woo & Associates Architects
Date : 2009-2015
See more at : www.hda-paris.com/
Subsea production systems can range in complexity from a single satellite well with a flowline linked to a fixed platform, FPSO or an onshore installation, to several wells on a template or clustered around a manifold, and transferring to a fixed or floating facility, or directly to an onshore installation.
Subsea production systems can be used to develop reservoirs, or parts of reservoirs, which require drilling of the wells from more than one location. Deep water conditions, or even ultradeep water conditions, can also inherently dictate development of a field by means of a subsea production system, since traditional surface facilities such as on a steel-piled jacket, might be either technically unfeasible or uneconomical due to the water depth.
The development of subsea oil and gas fields requires specialized equipment. The equipment must be reliable enough to safeguard the environment and make the exploitation of the subsea hydrocarbons economically feasible. The deployment of such equipment requires specialized and expensive vessels, which need to be equipped with diving equipment for relatively shallow equipment work (i.e. a few hundred feet water depth maximum) and robotic equipment for deeper water depths. Any requirement to repair or intervene with installed subsea equipment is thus normally very expensive. This type of expense can result in economic failure of the subsea development.
Subsea technology in offshore oil and gas production is a highly specialized field of application with particular demands on engineering and simulation. Most of the new oil fields are located in deep water and are generally referred to as deepwater systems. Development of these fields sets strict requirements for verification of the various systems’ functions and their compliance with current requirements and specifications. This is because of the high costs and time involved in changing a pre-existing system due to the specialized vessels with advanced onboard equipment. A full-scale test (System Integration Test – SIT) does not provide satisfactory verification of deepwater systems because the test, for practical reasons, cannot be performed under conditions identical to those under which the system will later operate. The oil industry has therefore adopted modern data technology as a tool for virtual testing of deepwater systems that enables detection of costly faults at an early phase of the project. By using modern simulation tools, models of deepwater systems can be set up and used to verify the system's functions, and dynamic properties, against various requirements specifications. This includes the model-based development of innovative high-tech plants and system solutions for the exploitation and production of energy resources in an environmentally friendly way as well as the analysis and evaluation of the dynamic behavior of components and systems used for the production and distribution of oil and gas. Another part is the real-time virtual test of systems for subsea production, subsea drilling, supply above sea level, seismography, subsea construction equipment, and subsea process measurement and control equipment.
Keyboard dust cover
Applique. Cotton. 48 x 23 cm
In 2012 FMQ June Challenge tutorial Cindy Needham shared
an amazing concept of the basic three designs.
I understood it to mean that the quilting design of unrestricted complexity
can be decomposed into simple shapes from the basic set.
I created this pattern with that idea in mind.
Extremely interesting talk. I could link this with strategy, and my ideas on coping with complexity.
changed my view:
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This is the mechanical complexity found under the wing of an A-10 military aircraft - obviously not designed for aesthetics nor for smooth aerodynamics. I believe this is the pylon where bombs and/or missiles are mounted.
I was able to get this close to the aircraft during the air show at the Fort Wayne International Airport in northeast Indiana on Sunday, September 2, 2012.
Schooltrip to China March 2012 - Olimpic city
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Today's VIS image shows a complex region of features in northern Terra Sirenum. Right angle valley intersections were created by tectonic forces, the tops of the mesas are dissected by channels and several cliff sides contain dark slope streaks.
This martian scene spans 18 x 65 kilometers (11 x 40 miles). To see where on Mars this area lies, and to download high-resolution versions of the image go to themis.asu.edu/zoom-20200916a
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