behavior

The URL in the book is wrong, and this was difficult to find.

This is just slimy (it also locks out competing music stores). If Microsoft had pulled a move like this they would probably be in court by now...

I don't think my next MP3 player will be from Apple.
(was already having doubts after I read the 6G iPods take about 50% longer to boot up and are much slower for collection browsing :( )

If you're familiar with the Logo programming language, how would you like to graduate to using thousands of turtles all at once. This book describes the StarLogo system that allows you to write programs where many different agents act together in concert. There are some great examples of how seemingly complex "social" behaviors can spring from a large number of agents using very simple rules. My favorite chapters describe "Artifical Ants" and "Traffic Jams".

See also "The Ants"

Quoted: Amazon.com: Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds (Complex Adaptive Systems): Books: Mitchel Resnick by Mitchel Resnick

Quoted: Does each of us possess an inner samaritan who is selfless and community-minded, as philosophers have sometimes proposed? Or--as many sociobiologists have suggested--are actions that are seemingly done for the benefit of others really motivated by veiled economic calculations and selfishness or by egoism, with an eye to the very long term?

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The sound of the crowd is eerie. They must be singing a song together. Interesting bits (to me):

- Is there a risk the can knock down the stadium doing synchronous jumping?
- There are definite wave patterns in the crowd. Why is that? How is each person getting his cue about the time to jump...could it be they are listening to music and jumping in beat to the audio (we'd then seeing sound propogation velocities in the crowd).

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