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Morons at dunkin doughnuts

fainting_goats_fart — Thu, 13 May 2004 08:51:42 GMT

Why is it that they cant fucking mix the damn sugar in an ice coffee? Come on how hard is it to fucking stick a spoon in something and stir it or at least fucking put the lid on tight and shake it over a fucking sink? I am really mad about this I fucking have to pay for the damn coffee and then pay to have my car washed because the coffee leaks all over the side of the car when I shake it out the window.

Sugar melts in hot fluids not in cold ones so all you dumb fucks at dunkin doughnuts need to learn this and the skill of mixing before I ever get coffee from you again.

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might want to go to this.

Holomos — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:22:11 GMT

http://www.onefamilygathering.org/

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Chaos Encryption

conclusus — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 03:32:14 GMT

Hidden in Disorder: Chaos-encrypted information goes the distance

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20051119/fob5.asp

Katie Greene

On any given day, millions of e-commerce transactions send credit card and bank-account numbers zipping across the globe. To keep the bits of information private, companies such as PayPal use encryption software that employs mathematically intense algorithms. In a more advanced tactic, researchers now report sending a message embedded in light and masked by a wildly fluctuating laser beam. The message successfully traversed a commercial optical-fiber network.

In this new encryption strategy, a private message is converted into and travels as laser light. The information is hidden within a laser beam that undergoes chaotic intensity fluctuations. Such chaos-encrypted communication had already been mastered in laboratories. In the Nov. 17 Nature, an international team details how it sent such a message over 120 kilometers of fiber optics running throughout the city of Athens.

"The main achievement ... is the fact that the transmission has been made over a commercially installed fiber network," says Alan Shore of the University of Wales in Bangor. His team didn't have to modify the optical lines. It was quite a "nice surprise" to see that the team's lab setup translates well to a real-world setup, says Shore.

For the information transfer, the researchers used two virtually identical lasers as transmitter and receiver. The transmitter laser sent a chaotic signal along with the message to the receiver laser. Then, in a process called chaos synchronization, the receiving laser's light output, which hadn't been chaotic, synchronized with the chaotic signal from the transmitting laser.

"When two chaotic systems are coupled in a suitable way, they exert a form of control on each other," explains Lucas Illing of Duke University in Durham, N.C., a researcher unaffiliated with the new study. Such synchronization also makes fireflies flash in unison and clock pendulums on the same wall match their swings.

Although scientists don't understand why the receiver laser synchronizes with only the chaotic signal and not the embedded message, this synchronization permits the message to be extracted. To reveal the message, the researchers simply subtract the receiver's output, which represents the chaotic signal, from its input.

The team transmitted roughly 1 gigabyte of chaos-encrypted information per second. This rate, Shore says, is comparable to those of most commercial transmissions of data. Moreover, the test transmission lost only about 1 byte in every 10 million, Shore notes.

The high transmission and low error rates are "what are so exciting about this research," says Rajarshi Roy of the University of Maryland at College Park, who was not a member of the research team. Before this test, "nobody knew if [chaos communication] would work well" outside a lab, he adds.

The security offered by chaos encryption is currently no better than that of today's standard software-cryptography schemes. However, the researchers suggest that it could be used in conjunction with security software to add another layer of privacy.

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20051119/fob5.asp

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Chaos recognized in Crop Circle

conclusus — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 21:40:47 GMT

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=58022&in_page_id=2

Friday, July 20, 2007
This striking design in a wheat field is an illustration of chaos theory, crop circle spotters say.

http://neobiology.tribe.net/photos/a504b313-d828-49a1-91e1-eb8a27622ee0

Sure enough, the 150m (500ft) long butterfly was soon causing chaos as a crop circle fan who travelled from Germany to Oxfordshire to see it plunged his hire car into a nearby canal.

The so-called 'butterfly effect' is the most famous example of chaos theory, and holds that the beat of a butterfly's wings in the Amazon can, through a chain reaction, lead to a hurricane on the other side of the world.

But it was more of a flood than a hurricane for German tourist Jozef Cene. After stopping for a drink with fellow crop circle enthusiasts at the Barge Inn, near Pewsey, Wiltshire, Mr Cene drove his Fiat Punto straight into a canal.

'I saw the muddy water and thought it was Tarmac,'said the red-faced German. 'So I indicated and drove straight in.'

Mr Cene, 38, became trapped in the car, but pub-goers who jumped into the water were able to free him.

The impressive butterfly crop circle is at Alfred's Castle, near Ashbury.

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=58022&in_page_id=2

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Tribe Main Photo

robster — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 07:15:14 GMT

Anybody know anything about the main photo for this tribe? It reminds me of television static.

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chaos and enviromental sustainability

conclusus — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:01:36 GMT

http://www.scenta.co.uk/Nature/1699319/the-sustainability-of-the-chaos-theory.htm

The sustainability of the chaos theory

A Belgium mathematician hopes to use the butterfly effect, as well as the science of chaos and strange attractors, to build a complete model of climate and resources that will lead to a new approach for sustainable development.

Jacques Nihoul from the department of Model Environment at the University of Liège, in Belgium, wrote in the inaugural issue of the International Journal of Computing Science and Mathematics about how a new approach to sustainable development and climate change could emerge from his research.

"Sustainable development is high on the socio-political and scientific agenda," he wrote.

"However, while it has become the focus of major attention in international from national and international organisations across the globe there is currently no all-encompassing approach to understanding what is needed to achieve it in developed and developing countries."

According to Nihoul, sustainable development involves finding a balance between the exploitation of natural (living and non-living) resources to meet the needs of the present generations without jeopardising the capacity of future generations to meet their own needs.

He explained how a concept of sustainability includes a vision of the Earth as almost a closed system in which we are limited in what is achievable by Earth-bound resources and energy from the Sun.

Current approaches to sustainable development do not fully involve complete methods and techniques for using, recycling and replacing natural resources.

Moreover, they do not take into consideration the effects of ongoing economic policies and fluctuating human populations.

"This is where the butterfly effect of chaos theory fame must be resurrected," said Nihoul.

Small events with large consequences

The phrase 'butterfly effect' was coined to capture the notion that tiny deviations in initial conditions, the flapping of a butterfly's wings in one place, for instance, could ultimately impact through a chaotic chain of events on the weather on the other side of the world.

A single flap would perhaps disturb the airflow minutely, but could lead to a following wind, which builds into a devastating hurricane that makes landfall.

Without the butterfly, the hurricane may have exhausted itself far out to sea instead.

Chaos theory is a major component of the computer models used by climatologists and weather forecasters as well as economists seeking patterns in the rise and fall of stock market values.

Nihoul explained that while these models can provide useful information to feed into a global sustainable development policy, they must also take into account those butterflies on the periphery too.

"Models of sustainable development on the ten-year and century-long timescales must take into account the diversity and the 'turbulence', the fluctuations on much shorter and more local scales," he said.

Nihoul has developed a new modelling approach to climate, resources, economics and policy, that sees the world system as interconnected local happenings rather than taking the smoothed global view favoured in much simpler studies.

The Earth cannot be modelled as a whole, he said, but rather as a mosaic of different systems, each with its own network of smaller systems and so on.

Such an approach recognises the importance of global effects but also of the tiny deviations, the exquisite flapping wing of a butterfly as having a potentially enormous effect, chaotically speaking.

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This post originally contained a link to the article refered to in pdf,

Chaos, diversity, turbulence and sustainable development

Jacques C.J. Nihoul

but a few hours after the post was up on tribe the host server began pointing the link to an index of pay-per-veiw articles. I havent been able to find the article elsewhere and unfortunately it appears that most of this authors works in print are extremely expensive.

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mandelbrot speaks on earthquakes (1/02)

conclusus — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 21:31:12 GMT

Earth Scientists Use Fractals To Measure And Predict Natural Disasters

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/01/020131073853.htm

Date: January 31, 2002

Science Daily — Predicting the size, location, and timing of natural hazards is virtually impossible, but now, earth scientists are able to forecast hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, wildfires, and landslides using fractals. A fractal is a mathematical formula of a pattern that repeats over a wide range of size and time scales. These patterns are hidden within more complex systems. A good example of a fractal is the branching system of a river. Small tributaries join to form larger and larger "branches" in the system, but each small piece of the system closely resembles the branching pattern as a whole.

At the American Geophysical Union meeting held last month, Benoit Mandelbrot, a professor of mathematical sciences at Yale University who is considered to be the father of fractals, described how he has been using fractals to find order within complex systems in nature, such as the natural shape of a coastline. As a result of his research, earth scientists are taking Mandelbrot's fractal approach one step further and are measuring past events and making probability forecasts about the size, location, and timing of future natural disasters.

"By understanding the fractal order and scale imbedded in patterns of chaos, researchers found a deeper level of understanding that can be used to predict natural hazards," says Christopher Barton, a research geologist at the United States Geological Survey, "They can measure past events like a hurricane and then apply fractal mathematics to predict future hurricane events."

In the past, earth scientists have relied on statistical methods to forecast natural hazard events, but when Barton used fractals, he found that these patterns contain a level of information that has never been seen using statistical methods. Barton discovered that by comparing the fractal formulas of the size and frequency of a hurricane's wind speed to the historic record of information about past hurricane landfall location and timing that he was able to predict the approximate wind speed of the hurricane when it made landfall at a given coastal location along the United States Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts.

Forecasts of hazardous natural phenomena based on the application of fractals are now available to government agencies responsible for planning and responding to natural disasters such the Federal Emergency Management Association and other emergency personnel to be able to better forecast the size, location, and timing of future events. "Based on the fractal patterns seen over the past 100 years," says Barton, "We can better forecast the probability of a future event."

Thanks to Dr. Mandelbrot, earth scientists like Dr. Barton have a powerful, new tool to predict future chaotic events of nature.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/01/020131073853.htm

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video- "Instability of the complex cosine"

conclusus — Sat, 26 May 2007 00:38:46 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW3wqcu_QlU

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how many hours a day do you read?

devilchicken — Sat, 11 Dec 2004 21:24:12 GMT

that's it. curious.

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ridge of chaos.

Thu, 05 Jan 2006 17:48:30 GMT

looking at attractor pattern - such as wheather patterns created over time (ie lorenses butterfly) - that area in the the pattern in which life is GREATEST, exists in a narrow band where the pattern lines change from being wide apart to close together - termed 'ridge of chaos'. its a reality in which things fluctuate rapidy between choas and order. it is in those instances where exquisite beauty, supreme control, enlightenment and rapid growth exists.

i find it fascinating. anyone want to reflect on this?

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Knot Theory Tribe

white_wizard — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:29:57 GMT

Knotty Tribe : Knot Theory
Just started a new tribe for lovers of Knots . . . From Celtic, to Shibari, Math and DNA Protiens . . . it is becoming increasing obvious these little devils are particularly good at helping us understand the geometry of the cosmos . . . please join me in my adventure . . .

http://tribes.tribe.net/knottheory

Namaste,

David

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Between Boredom and Chaos the perfect description of my life

TDBrown — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 05:44:34 GMT

Hello all.
When I ran across the name of this tribe all I could say was "At last, at last"
A big shout out to whoever created this!
I hope to become an active tribe-ish member.

again, thanks!

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New Tribe: "Polymaths: Universal Humans"

Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:17:39 GMT

A polymath (also known as a polyhistor) is a person who excels in multiple fields, particularly in both arts and sciences. The most common term for this is Renaissance man. Other terms for this are Homo universalis and Uomo Universale which in Latin and Italian respectively is translated as "Universal Man". Many notable polymaths lived during the European Renaissance period, and a rounded approach to education was typical of the ideals of the humanists of the time. A gentleman or courtier of that era was expected to speak several languages, play a musical instrument, write poetry and so on, thus fulfilling the Renaissance ideal. During the Renaissance, Baldassare Castiglione, in his The Book of the Courtier, wrote a guide to being a polymath. On the other hand "polymath" may be applied more strictly, taking Leonardo da Vinci or Goethe as prime examples, and requiring a universality of approach. A polymath may not necessarily be classed as a genius, which is a more debatable classification; and certainly a genius may not display the breadth to qualify as a polymath. Albert Einstein is a prime example of a genius who was not a polymath.

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath

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John Nash

Swaz — Sun, 09 Jan 2005 18:03:09 GMT

Just curious. Is this tribe inspired by the theorms of John Nash the central character in the movie, "A Beautiful Mind"? From your description it sounds like him.

Swaz

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BACK TO THE BASICS

Wed, 05 Jan 2005 02:55:33 GMT

http://sanfrancisco.tribe.net/tribe/81b361a8-7976-4964-9dc1-9ce3cd691b3c?_click_path=Application%5Btribe%5D.Tribe%5B81b361a8-7976-4964-9dc1-9ce3cd691b3c%5D&r=10535

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Wallowholics Anonomus meeting today only

Mon, 27 Dec 2004 21:13:29 GMT

http://sanfrancisco.tribe.net/thread/12490337-3258-400c-8047-2d300eeccec7?tribeid=03d7f73f-bbb7-45f7-a60b-519c228a3b64&r=10535

let us tread...

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corporate wasteland

SilverdenStarson — Fri, 24 Oct 2003 19:14:17 GMT

its funny...I work a day job in a corporation in lower manhattan, and I see the subjugation of interesting people everyday....any attempts to go against the grain, to be an individual is "frowned upon"....they talk on and on about equality in the work place, but the only people who get ahead are straight people...fags are "frowned upon"....you know I cant even wear my dam Halloween costume to work...I think this boring borg is trying to break my will...but I have endured one more day...***the fight continues***

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Universal figures?

Gollocks — Sat, 27 Mar 2004 01:32:24 GMT

I know universal symbols are probably out of reach-- culture bound.
But I'm dying to find some kind of universal and significant figures. At least pie and the golden mean have applications that appear to represent so much. But the star of tetraheydron is the figure I've been most drawn to for years- especialy with my knew understaqnding of it as the likeliest structure for which life would promote itself, life other than our own. As the strcuture to which RNA first congealed, after running a muck in the primordial ooze as disconnected amino acids.
Anyone have any leads?
Looking for shapes that signify somthing to all of humanity, to all of life.
Not just shapes that occur repeatedly, but figures with significance,

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it's been over a month

Tue, 13 Jul 2004 22:07:08 GMT

i reckon it's time for someone to post here

on the boredom/chaos continuum, i'm leading towards boredom these days

*please play your tiny pea-sized violins for me*

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just for fun

celestialcreaturewinks — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 20:21:21 GMT

http://www.funnyjunk.com/pages/world.htm
hope this link works...it is worth it...

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Enola Gay on Display

Wed, 17 Dec 2003 02:34:17 GMT

They put her in the new National Air and Space Museum in Chantilly, VA. She is the center peice and many people came to look in awe, or to protest.
She's the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb onto Japan, causing massive death and destruction that still effects today's generations in Japan, whether it be physically or mentally.
Is this poor taste?

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social darwinism

dr-yo — Sun, 26 Oct 2003 10:29:08 GMT

What do you think? I think it's evil. And jackassed.

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Cyborgs on the streets!

haywire — Wed, 17 Dec 2003 01:02:26 GMT

http://42012.com

Because we're gonna evolve whether the rest of humanity is ready or NOT.

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flash mobs

Nadine — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 15:39:02 GMT

Flash mobs are upon us. Email is the organizing tool this time, not text messaging as seen in some developing countries. These latest flash mobs are peaceful and nonpolitical. There is no agenda. Why do you guys think flash mobs or smart mobs are happening? People's desire for grassroots community, for being a part of something bigger than themselves? (also manifested by tribe.net) Because they can, i.e. self-organization and emergence enabled by the new networked world?

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Announcing a new THst tribe: MetaBrain Growth Process

neurobionetics — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 08:39:34 GMT

Join it at: http://MetaBrainGrowthProcess.tribe.net

MetaBrain Growth Process tribe is dedicated to the exploration of processes to extend human cognition into alternative substrates.

From cyborg components for theraputic and augmentative ends to the ultimate goal of moving sentient entities into faster, more powerful, and more durable hardware (~5,000 ave. lifespan estimates) in a safe and effective manner, this tribe is intended as a center for discussion, networking, and collaborative effort.

(If you enjoy this topic, you should find the various other Transhumanist tribes of interest.)

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Kurzweil

Mon, 08 Sep 2003 22:31:10 GMT

This guy Ray Kurzweil has a lot of interesting stuff to say that may interest people in this tribe. So if you're not familiar with his stuff, check out the site:
http://www.kurzweilai.net

His book "Age of Spiritual Machines" was really fascinating.

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survey

tony — Fri, 24 Oct 2003 21:08:54 GMT

will you be my friend?

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Still Bored

Mon, 22 Sep 2003 13:27:07 GMT

Man, I'm bored all the time. I wonder, am I ready for another relationship?

... Nah, I think I'd prefer to stay bored.

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i chaosed

io — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 03:29:30 GMT

werpi?

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i bored

Sun, 21 Sep 2003 20:10:48 GMT

'null said

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links

Micah — Sat, 16 Aug 2003 17:07:43 GMT

http://atm.neuro.pub.ro/~radu_d/galleria.html
what do CNNs do? without going too much into the details, it gives some pretty pictures.
http://w-uh.com/index.cgi/articles/030513-emergent_propertie.html
what "emergent" means.

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vants

Micah — Thu, 07 Aug 2003 13:47:23 GMT

http://www.coyotegulch.com/evojava/vants.html
another "cellular automata", that creates a variety of complex patters from simple instructions and input. you can make a turing machine from it, too, i'm sure. not that i'd want to...

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Forcing Anarchy on Hive Insects

Thu, 07 Aug 2003 14:54:19 GMT

http://www.nature.com/nsu/nsu_pf/020422/020422-16.html

This article discusses how similar hives are to police states; and when scientists alter the pheromones & other instincts of the members, what effect that has on the hive.

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Life's improbability

finnb — Sat, 02 Aug 2003 18:46:28 GMT

Thought for the day, from John von Neumann:

"Living organisms are, by any reasonable theory of probability or thermodynamics, highly improbable. However, if by any peculiar accident there should ever be one of them, from there on the rules of probability do not apply, and there will be many of them."

And Schrodinger coined the term "negentropy" to describe the quality life has of reversing (or at least shifting) the burden of information loss and thermal decay.

Not to say that life violates laws of probability, just that it seems to create different laws.

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Wallace Stevens

finnb — Sun, 03 Aug 2003 17:53:05 GMT

A brief poetic note about the problems (as I read it) of linear vs. nonlinear equations (or determinist billiard-balls-on-a-frictionless-surface vs. the weird, small-actions-big-results systems that give rise to, well, things like poets):

(From "Six Significant Landscapes")

Rationalists, wearing square hats,
Think, in square rooms,
Looking at the floor,
Looking at the ceiling.
They confine themselves
To right-angled triangles.
If they tried rhomboids,
Cones, waving lines, ellipses --
As, for example, the ellipse of the half moon --
Rationalists would wear sombreros.

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link

Micah — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 11:55:13 GMT

here's a quick link on the subject (mildly mathematical)
http://www.calresco.org/intro.htm

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Weird desert ecologies

finnb — Fri, 01 Aug 2003 00:36:26 GMT

Thought for the day, from ecologist Tony Burgess of Columbia University --

"Without change, deserts deteriorate. Variable rainfall is the key to the desert. Every year it should be a slightly different ball game to keep every species slightly out of equilibrium. If rainfall is variant then the mixture of species increases by two or three orders of magnitude. Whereas if you have a constant schedule of rainfall with respect to the annual temperature cycle, this beautiful desert ecology will almost always collapse into something simpler. Equilibrium is dead."

I hope to post one of these every day, a bunch of little notations from what looks like a great revolution of thought. (And so much of it due to computers!)

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