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THE RETURN - BACTRA
The Return Edna St. Vincent Millay Earth does not understand her child, Who from the loud gregarious town Returns, depleted and defiled, To the still woods, to fling him down. JAMES BENIGER, THE CONTROL REVOLUTION Beniger puts the modern synthesis (not his phrase) of industry and information in the period 1880-1920. By the latter date, the technology of control had been so perfected that the economies of all the warring powers in the Great War could be managed by centralplanning --- those
THEOLOGICAL EFFORTS AT COMPROMISE. Warfare of Science with Theology Chapter XVIII: From the Dead Sea Legends to Comparative Mythology Theological Efforts at Compromise - Triumph of the Scientific View The theological effort to compromise with science now came in more strongly than ever. FRANCOIS ROUSTANG, THE LACANIAN DELUSION Studies in the French Disease (I) It requires no great familiarity with psychoanalysis or structuralism, or even particular cunning, to guess that a book with a title like The Lacanian Delusion is not a reverent exposition of the ideas of the Master. Roustang is, one gathers, a disillusioned former disciple, aiming to destroy Lacan's system root and branch by ``subjecting it to a minimum of ERNST CASSIRER, AN ESSAY ON MAN Ernst Cassirer (1874--1945) was a Jewish German intellectual historian and philosopher, the originator of the ``philosophy of symbolic forms.'' After a distinguished teaching career in Germany, he fled the Nazis, first to Oxford, then Goteborg, then finally Yale, which gives an annual series of lectures in philosophy in his honor; he died as a visiting professor at Columbia. THE LAIR OF GREAT CTHULHU The Lair of Great Cthulhu Mr. Lawrence Press writes: ``It has sometimes been mis-credited to Clayton Clark, but he nothing to do with it. Joan Carruth, David Geller, and I wrote it in late '78 or early '79.'' To the tune of ``Chatanooga Choo-Choo'': Pardon me boy, FATIMA MERNISSI, THE VEIL AND THE MALE ELITE One hopes for an analysis of the relationship between the custom wearing veils, and all that goes with it, and the male elite in Muslim countries. Here Mernissi gives us only the obvious: the elite supports an interpretation of the Qur'an and hadith which makes Muslim women at best second-class citizens --- good believers, no doubt, but no one FRANCO MORETTI, ATLAS OF THE EUROPEAN NOVEL Franco Moretti is a rare bird, perhaps unique: a full-fledged advanced, "theoretical" literary critic; a clear and enjoyable writer, witty when he wants to be; someone with good taste in books (i.e., it often agrees with mine) and generally sensible ideas (he was nearly the only one of his kind to take the correct side in the Sokalaffair); and
RADICAL ORGANIZATION THEORY DENRELL: RADICAL ORGANIZATION THEORY 41 One result of this contest for control and power is, according to Pfeffer, the routinization of work: Since routinization of tasks makes the individual worker much morereadily replac-
GOODISON AND MORRIS, ANCIENT GODDESSES There is a load --- especially in the first few chapters --- of methodological baffle-gab. For instance, in the introduction Goodison and Morris write as though archaeologists must have spiritual or mystical experiences of their own in order to adequately address the spiritual lives of ancient peoples, which is akin to saying they must use wooden rulers to measure wooden objects.THE RETURN - BACTRA
The Return Edna St. Vincent Millay Earth does not understand her child, Who from the loud gregarious town Returns, depleted and defiled, To the still woods, to fling him down. JAMES BENIGER, THE CONTROL REVOLUTION Beniger puts the modern synthesis (not his phrase) of industry and information in the period 1880-1920. By the latter date, the technology of control had been so perfected that the economies of all the warring powers in the Great War could be managed by centralplanning --- those
THEOLOGICAL EFFORTS AT COMPROMISE. Warfare of Science with Theology Chapter XVIII: From the Dead Sea Legends to Comparative Mythology Theological Efforts at Compromise - Triumph of the Scientific View The theological effort to compromise with science now came in more strongly than ever. FRANCOIS ROUSTANG, THE LACANIAN DELUSION Studies in the French Disease (I) It requires no great familiarity with psychoanalysis or structuralism, or even particular cunning, to guess that a book with a title like The Lacanian Delusion is not a reverent exposition of the ideas of the Master. Roustang is, one gathers, a disillusioned former disciple, aiming to destroy Lacan's system root and branch by ``subjecting it to a minimum of ERNST CASSIRER, AN ESSAY ON MAN Ernst Cassirer (1874--1945) was a Jewish German intellectual historian and philosopher, the originator of the ``philosophy of symbolic forms.'' After a distinguished teaching career in Germany, he fled the Nazis, first to Oxford, then Goteborg, then finally Yale, which gives an annual series of lectures in philosophy in his honor; he died as a visiting professor at Columbia. THE LAIR OF GREAT CTHULHU The Lair of Great Cthulhu Mr. Lawrence Press writes: ``It has sometimes been mis-credited to Clayton Clark, but he nothing to do with it. Joan Carruth, David Geller, and I wrote it in late '78 or early '79.'' To the tune of ``Chatanooga Choo-Choo'': Pardon me boy, FATIMA MERNISSI, THE VEIL AND THE MALE ELITE One hopes for an analysis of the relationship between the custom wearing veils, and all that goes with it, and the male elite in Muslim countries. Here Mernissi gives us only the obvious: the elite supports an interpretation of the Qur'an and hadith which makes Muslim women at best second-class citizens --- good believers, no doubt, but no one FRANCO MORETTI, ATLAS OF THE EUROPEAN NOVEL Franco Moretti is a rare bird, perhaps unique: a full-fledged advanced, "theoretical" literary critic; a clear and enjoyable writer, witty when he wants to be; someone with good taste in books (i.e., it often agrees with mine) and generally sensible ideas (he was nearly the only one of his kind to take the correct side in the Sokalaffair); and
RADICAL ORGANIZATION THEORY DENRELL: RADICAL ORGANIZATION THEORY 41 One result of this contest for control and power is, according to Pfeffer, the routinization of work: Since routinization of tasks makes the individual worker much morereadily replac-
COSMA'S HOME PAGE
Cosma's Home Page. Research. What I work on, and links to my publications and CV. Teaching. Lecture notes, students' evaluations of my courses, etc. Book Reviews. There was a time when I'd write a half-dozen book reviews every few weeks, and add them to The Bactra Review. (There were a hundred and thirty-odd reviews the last time Icounted.)
TEACHING - BACTRA
Cosma Teaching We dress like students Lecture Notes and Other Teaching Materials In reverse chronological order. Undergraduate Advanced Data Analysis (36-402, Spring 2011--2013 and 2015--2016), a.k.a. Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View; Undergraduate Modern Regression (Carnegie Mellon University, 36-401, Fall 2015) ; Introduction to Statistical Computing (36-350, FallTHE BACTRA REVIEW
The Bactra Review. I have to sing about the book I read. To reach the suqs and madrassas of Cyberistan , and with them you, Dear Reader, the Review comes by caravan from Bactra. The caravans take off at right angles to the Silk Road, crossing the mountain wastes and deserts of the Real World (so-called), by yak, by camel, by foot: and sometimes ORATION ON THE DIGNITY OF MAN Oration on the Dignity of Man Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Most esteemed Fathers, I have read in the ancient writings of the Arabians that Abdala the Saracen on being asked what, on this stage, so to say, of the world, seemed to him most evocative of wonder, replied that there was nothing to be seen more marvelous than man. JAMES BENIGER, THE CONTROL REVOLUTION Beniger puts the modern synthesis (not his phrase) of industry and information in the period 1880-1920. By the latter date, the technology of control had been so perfected that the economies of all the warring powers in the Great War could be managed by centralplanning --- those
ERNEST GELLNER, NATIONS AND NATIONALISM Cultural differences in fact often went with economic specializations, and so served to fix people in their inherited professions. It is Gellner's thesis that economic change requires cultural homogeneity, and that the demand for cultural homogeneity, and the state apparatus to provide it, is what drives nationalism. The argument runs asfollows.
FRANCOIS ROUSTANG, THE LACANIAN DELUSION Studies in the French Disease (I) It requires no great familiarity with psychoanalysis or structuralism, or even particular cunning, to guess that a book with a title like The Lacanian Delusion is not a reverent exposition of the ideas of the Master. Roustang is, one gathers, a disillusioned former disciple, aiming to destroy Lacan's system root and branch by ``subjecting it to a minimum of EDWIN HUTCHINS, COGNITION IN THE WILD Edwin Hutchins proposes to change that. By training he is a cognitive psychologist and an anthropologist. He is alive to the problem of collective cognition, especially in its most starkly computational forms, and has conducted valuable field-work, studying navigation on a US navy ship based in San Diego, with this problem in mind. RAY JACKENDOFF, FOUNDATIONS OF LANGUAGE 504 pp. Bibliography and index Cognitive Science / Language and Linguistics Currently in print as a hardback, ISBN 0-19-827012-7, US$40 , and as a paperback, ISBN 0-19-926437-6, US$19.95 A precis of Foundations of Language appeared as an article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences , with extensive commentary by others [pp. 666 FRANCO MORETTI, ATLAS OF THE EUROPEAN NOVEL Franco Moretti is a rare bird, perhaps unique: a full-fledged advanced, "theoretical" literary critic; a clear and enjoyable writer, witty when he wants to be; someone with good taste in books (i.e., it often agrees with mine) and generally sensible ideas (he was nearly the only one of his kind to take the correct side in the Sokalaffair); and
GOODISON AND MORRIS, ANCIENT GODDESSES There is a load --- especially in the first few chapters --- of methodological baffle-gab. For instance, in the introduction Goodison and Morris write as though archaeologists must have spiritual or mystical experiences of their own in order to adequately address the spiritual lives of ancient peoples, which is akin to saying they must use wooden rulers to measure wooden objects.THE RETURN - BACTRA
The Return Edna St. Vincent Millay Earth does not understand her child, Who from the loud gregarious town Returns, depleted and defiled, To the still woods, to fling him down. JAMES BENIGER, THE CONTROL REVOLUTION Beniger puts the modern synthesis (not his phrase) of industry and information in the period 1880-1920. By the latter date, the technology of control had been so perfected that the economies of all the warring powers in the Great War could be managed by centralplanning --- those
THEOLOGICAL EFFORTS AT COMPROMISE. Warfare of Science with Theology Chapter XVIII: From the Dead Sea Legends to Comparative Mythology Theological Efforts at Compromise - Triumph of the Scientific View The theological effort to compromise with science now came in more strongly than ever. FRANCOIS ROUSTANG, THE LACANIAN DELUSION Studies in the French Disease (I) It requires no great familiarity with psychoanalysis or structuralism, or even particular cunning, to guess that a book with a title like The Lacanian Delusion is not a reverent exposition of the ideas of the Master. Roustang is, one gathers, a disillusioned former disciple, aiming to destroy Lacan's system root and branch by ``subjecting it to a minimum of ERNST CASSIRER, AN ESSAY ON MAN Ernst Cassirer (1874--1945) was a Jewish German intellectual historian and philosopher, the originator of the ``philosophy of symbolic forms.'' After a distinguished teaching career in Germany, he fled the Nazis, first to Oxford, then Goteborg, then finally Yale, which gives an annual series of lectures in philosophy in his honor; he died as a visiting professor at Columbia. THE LAIR OF GREAT CTHULHU The Lair of Great Cthulhu Mr. Lawrence Press writes: ``It has sometimes been mis-credited to Clayton Clark, but he nothing to do with it. Joan Carruth, David Geller, and I wrote it in late '78 or early '79.'' To the tune of ``Chatanooga Choo-Choo'': Pardon me boy, FATIMA MERNISSI, THE VEIL AND THE MALE ELITE One hopes for an analysis of the relationship between the custom wearing veils, and all that goes with it, and the male elite in Muslim countries. Here Mernissi gives us only the obvious: the elite supports an interpretation of the Qur'an and hadith which makes Muslim women at best second-class citizens --- good believers, no doubt, but no one FRANCO MORETTI, ATLAS OF THE EUROPEAN NOVEL Franco Moretti is a rare bird, perhaps unique: a full-fledged advanced, "theoretical" literary critic; a clear and enjoyable writer, witty when he wants to be; someone with good taste in books (i.e., it often agrees with mine) and generally sensible ideas (he was nearly the only one of his kind to take the correct side in the Sokalaffair); and
RADICAL ORGANIZATION THEORY DENRELL: RADICAL ORGANIZATION THEORY 41 One result of this contest for control and power is, according to Pfeffer, the routinization of work: Since routinization of tasks makes the individual worker much morereadily replac-
GOODISON AND MORRIS, ANCIENT GODDESSES There is a load --- especially in the first few chapters --- of methodological baffle-gab. For instance, in the introduction Goodison and Morris write as though archaeologists must have spiritual or mystical experiences of their own in order to adequately address the spiritual lives of ancient peoples, which is akin to saying they must use wooden rulers to measure wooden objects.THE RETURN - BACTRA
The Return Edna St. Vincent Millay Earth does not understand her child, Who from the loud gregarious town Returns, depleted and defiled, To the still woods, to fling him down. JAMES BENIGER, THE CONTROL REVOLUTION Beniger puts the modern synthesis (not his phrase) of industry and information in the period 1880-1920. By the latter date, the technology of control had been so perfected that the economies of all the warring powers in the Great War could be managed by centralplanning --- those
THEOLOGICAL EFFORTS AT COMPROMISE. Warfare of Science with Theology Chapter XVIII: From the Dead Sea Legends to Comparative Mythology Theological Efforts at Compromise - Triumph of the Scientific View The theological effort to compromise with science now came in more strongly than ever. FRANCOIS ROUSTANG, THE LACANIAN DELUSION Studies in the French Disease (I) It requires no great familiarity with psychoanalysis or structuralism, or even particular cunning, to guess that a book with a title like The Lacanian Delusion is not a reverent exposition of the ideas of the Master. Roustang is, one gathers, a disillusioned former disciple, aiming to destroy Lacan's system root and branch by ``subjecting it to a minimum of ERNST CASSIRER, AN ESSAY ON MAN Ernst Cassirer (1874--1945) was a Jewish German intellectual historian and philosopher, the originator of the ``philosophy of symbolic forms.'' After a distinguished teaching career in Germany, he fled the Nazis, first to Oxford, then Goteborg, then finally Yale, which gives an annual series of lectures in philosophy in his honor; he died as a visiting professor at Columbia. THE LAIR OF GREAT CTHULHU The Lair of Great Cthulhu Mr. Lawrence Press writes: ``It has sometimes been mis-credited to Clayton Clark, but he nothing to do with it. Joan Carruth, David Geller, and I wrote it in late '78 or early '79.'' To the tune of ``Chatanooga Choo-Choo'': Pardon me boy, FATIMA MERNISSI, THE VEIL AND THE MALE ELITE One hopes for an analysis of the relationship between the custom wearing veils, and all that goes with it, and the male elite in Muslim countries. Here Mernissi gives us only the obvious: the elite supports an interpretation of the Qur'an and hadith which makes Muslim women at best second-class citizens --- good believers, no doubt, but no one FRANCO MORETTI, ATLAS OF THE EUROPEAN NOVEL Franco Moretti is a rare bird, perhaps unique: a full-fledged advanced, "theoretical" literary critic; a clear and enjoyable writer, witty when he wants to be; someone with good taste in books (i.e., it often agrees with mine) and generally sensible ideas (he was nearly the only one of his kind to take the correct side in the Sokalaffair); and
RADICAL ORGANIZATION THEORY DENRELL: RADICAL ORGANIZATION THEORY 41 One result of this contest for control and power is, according to Pfeffer, the routinization of work: Since routinization of tasks makes the individual worker much morereadily replac-
COSMA'S HOME PAGE
Cosma's Home Page. Research. What I work on, and links to my publications and CV. Teaching. Lecture notes, students' evaluations of my courses, etc. Book Reviews. There was a time when I'd write a half-dozen book reviews every few weeks, and add them to The Bactra Review. (There were a hundred and thirty-odd reviews the last time Icounted.)
TEACHING - BACTRA
Cosma Teaching We dress like students Lecture Notes and Other Teaching Materials In reverse chronological order. Undergraduate Advanced Data Analysis (36-402, Spring 2011--2013 and 2015--2016), a.k.a. Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View; Undergraduate Modern Regression (Carnegie Mellon University, 36-401, Fall 2015) ; Introduction to Statistical Computing (36-350, FallTHE BACTRA REVIEW
The Bactra Review. I have to sing about the book I read. To reach the suqs and madrassas of Cyberistan , and with them you, Dear Reader, the Review comes by caravan from Bactra. The caravans take off at right angles to the Silk Road, crossing the mountain wastes and deserts of the Real World (so-called), by yak, by camel, by foot: and sometimes ORATION ON THE DIGNITY OF MAN Oration on the Dignity of Man Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Most esteemed Fathers, I have read in the ancient writings of the Arabians that Abdala the Saracen on being asked what, on this stage, so to say, of the world, seemed to him most evocative of wonder, replied that there was nothing to be seen more marvelous than man. JAMES BENIGER, THE CONTROL REVOLUTION Beniger puts the modern synthesis (not his phrase) of industry and information in the period 1880-1920. By the latter date, the technology of control had been so perfected that the economies of all the warring powers in the Great War could be managed by centralplanning --- those
ERNEST GELLNER, NATIONS AND NATIONALISM Cultural differences in fact often went with economic specializations, and so served to fix people in their inherited professions. It is Gellner's thesis that economic change requires cultural homogeneity, and that the demand for cultural homogeneity, and the state apparatus to provide it, is what drives nationalism. The argument runs asfollows.
FRANCOIS ROUSTANG, THE LACANIAN DELUSION Studies in the French Disease (I) It requires no great familiarity with psychoanalysis or structuralism, or even particular cunning, to guess that a book with a title like The Lacanian Delusion is not a reverent exposition of the ideas of the Master. Roustang is, one gathers, a disillusioned former disciple, aiming to destroy Lacan's system root and branch by ``subjecting it to a minimum of EDWIN HUTCHINS, COGNITION IN THE WILD Edwin Hutchins proposes to change that. By training he is a cognitive psychologist and an anthropologist. He is alive to the problem of collective cognition, especially in its most starkly computational forms, and has conducted valuable field-work, studying navigation on a US navy ship based in San Diego, with this problem in mind. RAY JACKENDOFF, FOUNDATIONS OF LANGUAGE 504 pp. Bibliography and index Cognitive Science / Language and Linguistics Currently in print as a hardback, ISBN 0-19-827012-7, US$40 , and as a paperback, ISBN 0-19-926437-6, US$19.95 A precis of Foundations of Language appeared as an article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences , with extensive commentary by others [pp. 666 FRANCO MORETTI, ATLAS OF THE EUROPEAN NOVEL Franco Moretti is a rare bird, perhaps unique: a full-fledged advanced, "theoretical" literary critic; a clear and enjoyable writer, witty when he wants to be; someone with good taste in books (i.e., it often agrees with mine) and generally sensible ideas (he was nearly the only one of his kind to take the correct side in the Sokalaffair); and
COSMA'S HOME PAGE
Cosma's Home Page. Research. What I work on, and links to my publications and CV. Teaching. Lecture notes, students' evaluations of my courses, etc. Book Reviews. There was a time when I'd write a half-dozen book reviews every few weeks, and add them to The Bactra Review. (There were a hundred and thirty-odd reviews the last time Icounted.)
TEACHING - BACTRA
Cosma Teaching We dress like students Lecture Notes and Other Teaching Materials In reverse chronological order. Undergraduate Advanced Data Analysis (36-402, Spring 2011--2013 and 2015--2016), a.k.a. Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View; Undergraduate Modern Regression (Carnegie Mellon University, 36-401, Fall 2015) ; Introduction to Statistical Computing (36-350, Fall ORATION ON THE DIGNITY OF MAN Oration on the Dignity of Man Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Most esteemed Fathers, I have read in the ancient writings of the Arabians that Abdala the Saracen on being asked what, on this stage, so to say, of the world, seemed to him most evocative of wonder, replied that there was nothing to be seen more marvelous than man. FRANCOIS ROUSTANG, THE LACANIAN DELUSION Studies in the French Disease (I) It requires no great familiarity with psychoanalysis or structuralism, or even particular cunning, to guess that a book with a title like The Lacanian Delusion is not a reverent exposition of the ideas of the Master. Roustang is, one gathers, a disillusioned former disciple, aiming to destroy Lacan's system root and branch by ``subjecting it to a minimum of BOOKS AND OTHER TEXTS I'VE PUT ON THE WEB Books and Other Texts I've Put on the Web. The neo-conservative intellectual, author of Cultural Contradictions of Late Capitalism and Post-Industrial Society, writing ``The Cultural Contradictions of Newt Gingrich'', doubtless with a certain chickens-come-home-to-roost feeling. 20th century British physicist, author of The World, theFlesh and
REVIEW OF EASLEY AND KLEINBERG, NETWORKS, CROWDS, AND MARKETS Given the authors' backgrounds — Easley is a professor of economics and Kleinberg a professor of computer science, both at Cornell — it is fitting that their book focuses on social networks, especially those defined by transactions, and on computer networks, with a special devotion to places where these intersect (online auctions, forexample).
FATIMA MERNISSI, THE VEIL AND THE MALE ELITE One hopes for an analysis of the relationship between the custom wearing veils, and all that goes with it, and the male elite in Muslim countries. Here Mernissi gives us only the obvious: the elite supports an interpretation of the Qur'an and hadith which makes Muslim women at best second-class citizens --- good believers, no doubt, but no one RADICAL ORGANIZATION THEORY DENRELL: RADICAL ORGANIZATION THEORY 41 One result of this contest for control and power is, according to Pfeffer, the routinization of work: Since routinization of tasks makes the individual worker much morereadily replac-
REVIEW OF JOEL MICHELL, MEASUREMENT IN PSYCHOLOGY The mystery is how this appallingly bad notion became so entrenched within an academic field. The mystery deepens when it's made clear, as Michell is at pains to , that much better ideas about measurement are certainly available, and indeed are targeted specifically at the problems of psychological measurement. LATE NIGHT THOUGHTS ON LISTENING TO MAHLER'S NINTH SYMPHONY Now I hear it differently. I cannot listen to the last movement of the Mahler Ninth without the door-smashing intrusion of a huge new thought: death everywhere, the dying of everything, the end of humanity. The easy sadness expressed with such gentleness and delicacy by that repeated phrase on faded strings, over and over again, nolonger comes
COSMA'S HOME PAGE
Cosma's Home Page. Research. What I work on, and links to my publications and CV. Teaching. Lecture notes, students' evaluations of my courses, etc. Book Reviews. There was a time when I'd write a half-dozen book reviews every few weeks, and add them to The Bactra Review. (There were a hundred and thirty-odd reviews the last time Icounted.)
TEACHING - BACTRA
Cosma Teaching We dress like students Lecture Notes and Other Teaching Materials In reverse chronological order. Undergraduate Advanced Data Analysis (36-402, Spring 2011--2013 and 2015--2016), a.k.a. Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View; Undergraduate Modern Regression (Carnegie Mellon University, 36-401, Fall 2015) ; Introduction to Statistical Computing (36-350, Fall ORATION ON THE DIGNITY OF MAN Oration on the Dignity of Man Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Most esteemed Fathers, I have read in the ancient writings of the Arabians that Abdala the Saracen on being asked what, on this stage, so to say, of the world, seemed to him most evocative of wonder, replied that there was nothing to be seen more marvelous than man. FRANCOIS ROUSTANG, THE LACANIAN DELUSION Studies in the French Disease (I) It requires no great familiarity with psychoanalysis or structuralism, or even particular cunning, to guess that a book with a title like The Lacanian Delusion is not a reverent exposition of the ideas of the Master. Roustang is, one gathers, a disillusioned former disciple, aiming to destroy Lacan's system root and branch by ``subjecting it to a minimum of BOOKS AND OTHER TEXTS I'VE PUT ON THE WEB Books and Other Texts I've Put on the Web. The neo-conservative intellectual, author of Cultural Contradictions of Late Capitalism and Post-Industrial Society, writing ``The Cultural Contradictions of Newt Gingrich'', doubtless with a certain chickens-come-home-to-roost feeling. 20th century British physicist, author of The World, theFlesh and
REVIEW OF EASLEY AND KLEINBERG, NETWORKS, CROWDS, AND MARKETS Given the authors' backgrounds — Easley is a professor of economics and Kleinberg a professor of computer science, both at Cornell — it is fitting that their book focuses on social networks, especially those defined by transactions, and on computer networks, with a special devotion to places where these intersect (online auctions, forexample).
FATIMA MERNISSI, THE VEIL AND THE MALE ELITE One hopes for an analysis of the relationship between the custom wearing veils, and all that goes with it, and the male elite in Muslim countries. Here Mernissi gives us only the obvious: the elite supports an interpretation of the Qur'an and hadith which makes Muslim women at best second-class citizens --- good believers, no doubt, but no one RADICAL ORGANIZATION THEORY DENRELL: RADICAL ORGANIZATION THEORY 41 One result of this contest for control and power is, according to Pfeffer, the routinization of work: Since routinization of tasks makes the individual worker much morereadily replac-
REVIEW OF JOEL MICHELL, MEASUREMENT IN PSYCHOLOGY The mystery is how this appallingly bad notion became so entrenched within an academic field. The mystery deepens when it's made clear, as Michell is at pains to , that much better ideas about measurement are certainly available, and indeed are targeted specifically at the problems of psychological measurement. LATE NIGHT THOUGHTS ON LISTENING TO MAHLER'S NINTH SYMPHONY Now I hear it differently. I cannot listen to the last movement of the Mahler Ninth without the door-smashing intrusion of a huge new thought: death everywhere, the dying of everything, the end of humanity. The easy sadness expressed with such gentleness and delicacy by that repeated phrase on faded strings, over and over again, nolonger comes
RESEARCH - BACTRA
Cosma Research Changing my shape I feel like an accident. I work on methods for building predictive models from data generated by stochastic processes, and applying those models to questions about neural information processing, self-organization in cellular automata,and so forth.
TEACHING - BACTRA
Cosma Teaching We dress like students Lecture Notes and Other Teaching Materials In reverse chronological order. Undergraduate Advanced Data Analysis (36-402, Spring 2011--2013 and 2015--2016), a.k.a. Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View; Undergraduate Modern Regression (Carnegie Mellon University, 36-401, Fall 2015) ; Introduction to Statistical Computing (36-350, FallTHE BACTRA REVIEW
The Bactra Review. I have to sing about the book I read. To reach the suqs and madrassas of Cyberistan , and with them you, Dear Reader, the Review comes by caravan from Bactra. The caravans take off at right angles to the Silk Road, crossing the mountain wastes and deserts of the Real World (so-called), by yak, by camel, by foot: and sometimesIN THE FUTURE
Cosma In the Future Daedalus, or, Science and the Future by J. B. S. Haldane. Icarus, or, the Future of Science by Bertrand Russell.. These books were written in 1923. Haldane, a distinguished biochemist and evolutionist, originally wrote Daedalus as a lecture to a Cambridge club known as the ``Heretics'', and later expanded it for publication.Icarus was the response evoked from Bertrand BOOKS AND OTHER TEXTS I'VE PUT ON THE WEB Books and Other Texts I've Put on the Web. The neo-conservative intellectual, author of Cultural Contradictions of Late Capitalism and Post-Industrial Society, writing ``The Cultural Contradictions of Newt Gingrich'', doubtless with a certain chickens-come-home-to-roost feeling. 20th century British physicist, author of The World, theFlesh and
GOODISON AND MORRIS, ANCIENT GODDESSES There is a load --- especially in the first few chapters --- of methodological baffle-gab. For instance, in the introduction Goodison and Morris write as though archaeologists must have spiritual or mystical experiences of their own in order to adequately address the spiritual lives of ancient peoples, which is akin to saying they must use wooden rulers to measure wooden objects.ON DENOTING
On Denoting Bertrand Russell 1905 By a `denoting phrase' I mean a phrase such as any one of the following: a man, some man, any man, every man, all men, the present King of England, the present King of France, the center of mass of the solar system at the first instant of the twentieth century, the revolution of the earth round the sun, the revolution of the sun round the earth.VAGUENESS - BACTRA
Vagueness in a cognitive occurrence is a characteristic of its relation to that which is known, not a characteristic of the occurrence in itself. Let us consider the various ways in which common words are vague, and let us being with such a word as "red". It is perfectly obvious, since colours form a continuum, that there areshades of colour
RAY JACKENDOFF, FOUNDATIONS OF LANGUAGE 504 pp. Bibliography and index Cognitive Science / Language and Linguistics Currently in print as a hardback, ISBN 0-19-827012-7, US$40 , and as a paperback, ISBN 0-19-926437-6, US$19.95 A precis of Foundations of Language appeared as an article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences , with extensive commentary by others [pp. 666 THEOLOGICAL EFFORTS AT COMPROMISE. Warfare of Science with Theology Chapter XVIII: From the Dead Sea Legends to Comparative Mythology Theological Efforts at Compromise - Triumph of the Scientific View The theological effort to compromise with science now came in more strongly than ever.COSMA'S HOME PAGE
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Cosma Teaching We dress like students Lecture Notes and Other Teaching Materials In reverse chronological order. Undergraduate Advanced Data Analysis (36-402, Spring 2011--2013 and 2015--2016), a.k.a. Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View; Undergraduate Modern Regression (Carnegie Mellon University, 36-401, Fall 2015) ; Introduction to Statistical Computing (36-350, Fall ORATION ON THE DIGNITY OF MAN Oration on the Dignity of Man Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Most esteemed Fathers, I have read in the ancient writings of the Arabians that Abdala the Saracen on being asked what, on this stage, so to say, of the world, seemed to him most evocative of wonder, replied that there was nothing to be seen more marvelous than man. FRANCOIS ROUSTANG, THE LACANIAN DELUSION Studies in the French Disease (I) It requires no great familiarity with psychoanalysis or structuralism, or even particular cunning, to guess that a book with a title like The Lacanian Delusion is not a reverent exposition of the ideas of the Master. Roustang is, one gathers, a disillusioned former disciple, aiming to destroy Lacan's system root and branch by ``subjecting it to a minimum of BOOKS AND OTHER TEXTS I'VE PUT ON THE WEB Books and Other Texts I've Put on the Web. The neo-conservative intellectual, author of Cultural Contradictions of Late Capitalism and Post-Industrial Society, writing ``The Cultural Contradictions of Newt Gingrich'', doubtless with a certain chickens-come-home-to-roost feeling. 20th century British physicist, author of The World, theFlesh and
REVIEW OF EASLEY AND KLEINBERG, NETWORKS, CROWDS, AND MARKETS Given the authors' backgrounds — Easley is a professor of economics and Kleinberg a professor of computer science, both at Cornell — it is fitting that their book focuses on social networks, especially those defined by transactions, and on computer networks, with a special devotion to places where these intersect (online auctions, forexample).
FATIMA MERNISSI, THE VEIL AND THE MALE ELITE One hopes for an analysis of the relationship between the custom wearing veils, and all that goes with it, and the male elite in Muslim countries. Here Mernissi gives us only the obvious: the elite supports an interpretation of the Qur'an and hadith which makes Muslim women at best second-class citizens --- good believers, no doubt, but no one RADICAL ORGANIZATION THEORY DENRELL: RADICAL ORGANIZATION THEORY 41 One result of this contest for control and power is, according to Pfeffer, the routinization of work: Since routinization of tasks makes the individual worker much morereadily replac-
REVIEW OF JOEL MICHELL, MEASUREMENT IN PSYCHOLOGY The mystery is how this appallingly bad notion became so entrenched within an academic field. The mystery deepens when it's made clear, as Michell is at pains to , that much better ideas about measurement are certainly available, and indeed are targeted specifically at the problems of psychological measurement. LATE NIGHT THOUGHTS ON LISTENING TO MAHLER'S NINTH SYMPHONY Now I hear it differently. I cannot listen to the last movement of the Mahler Ninth without the door-smashing intrusion of a huge new thought: death everywhere, the dying of everything, the end of humanity. The easy sadness expressed with such gentleness and delicacy by that repeated phrase on faded strings, over and over again, nolonger comes
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Cosma Teaching We dress like students Lecture Notes and Other Teaching Materials In reverse chronological order. Undergraduate Advanced Data Analysis (36-402, Spring 2011--2013 and 2015--2016), a.k.a. Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View; Undergraduate Modern Regression (Carnegie Mellon University, 36-401, Fall 2015) ; Introduction to Statistical Computing (36-350, Fall ORATION ON THE DIGNITY OF MAN Oration on the Dignity of Man Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Most esteemed Fathers, I have read in the ancient writings of the Arabians that Abdala the Saracen on being asked what, on this stage, so to say, of the world, seemed to him most evocative of wonder, replied that there was nothing to be seen more marvelous than man. FRANCOIS ROUSTANG, THE LACANIAN DELUSION Studies in the French Disease (I) It requires no great familiarity with psychoanalysis or structuralism, or even particular cunning, to guess that a book with a title like The Lacanian Delusion is not a reverent exposition of the ideas of the Master. Roustang is, one gathers, a disillusioned former disciple, aiming to destroy Lacan's system root and branch by ``subjecting it to a minimum of BOOKS AND OTHER TEXTS I'VE PUT ON THE WEB Books and Other Texts I've Put on the Web. The neo-conservative intellectual, author of Cultural Contradictions of Late Capitalism and Post-Industrial Society, writing ``The Cultural Contradictions of Newt Gingrich'', doubtless with a certain chickens-come-home-to-roost feeling. 20th century British physicist, author of The World, theFlesh and
REVIEW OF EASLEY AND KLEINBERG, NETWORKS, CROWDS, AND MARKETS Given the authors' backgrounds — Easley is a professor of economics and Kleinberg a professor of computer science, both at Cornell — it is fitting that their book focuses on social networks, especially those defined by transactions, and on computer networks, with a special devotion to places where these intersect (online auctions, forexample).
FATIMA MERNISSI, THE VEIL AND THE MALE ELITE One hopes for an analysis of the relationship between the custom wearing veils, and all that goes with it, and the male elite in Muslim countries. Here Mernissi gives us only the obvious: the elite supports an interpretation of the Qur'an and hadith which makes Muslim women at best second-class citizens --- good believers, no doubt, but no one RADICAL ORGANIZATION THEORY DENRELL: RADICAL ORGANIZATION THEORY 41 One result of this contest for control and power is, according to Pfeffer, the routinization of work: Since routinization of tasks makes the individual worker much morereadily replac-
REVIEW OF JOEL MICHELL, MEASUREMENT IN PSYCHOLOGY The mystery is how this appallingly bad notion became so entrenched within an academic field. The mystery deepens when it's made clear, as Michell is at pains to , that much better ideas about measurement are certainly available, and indeed are targeted specifically at the problems of psychological measurement. LATE NIGHT THOUGHTS ON LISTENING TO MAHLER'S NINTH SYMPHONY Now I hear it differently. I cannot listen to the last movement of the Mahler Ninth without the door-smashing intrusion of a huge new thought: death everywhere, the dying of everything, the end of humanity. The easy sadness expressed with such gentleness and delicacy by that repeated phrase on faded strings, over and over again, nolonger comes
RESEARCH - BACTRA
Cosma Research Changing my shape I feel like an accident. I work on methods for building predictive models from data generated by stochastic processes, and applying those models to questions about neural information processing, self-organization in cellular automata,and so forth.
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Cosma Teaching We dress like students Lecture Notes and Other Teaching Materials In reverse chronological order. Undergraduate Advanced Data Analysis (36-402, Spring 2011--2013 and 2015--2016), a.k.a. Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View; Undergraduate Modern Regression (Carnegie Mellon University, 36-401, Fall 2015) ; Introduction to Statistical Computing (36-350, FallTHE BACTRA REVIEW
The Bactra Review. I have to sing about the book I read. To reach the suqs and madrassas of Cyberistan , and with them you, Dear Reader, the Review comes by caravan from Bactra. The caravans take off at right angles to the Silk Road, crossing the mountain wastes and deserts of the Real World (so-called), by yak, by camel, by foot: and sometimesLINKS
Links. The one, the only Annals of Improbable Research, which has nothing at all in common with the old Journal of Irreproducible Results, except for the staff and the subscribers and the contents. Stream-of-Consciousness A very strange and beautiful sort-of-a-zine, somewhere between electronic painting and COSMA'S STUDENT EVALUATIONS Student Evaluations. Each semester, the physics department at UW-Madison has the students in each section fill out an anonymous evaluation form about their professor, their TA and the class in general. After the semester is over and grades are turned in, they give each TA a typed copy of the student's comments (not all of whichare strictly
BOOKS AND OTHER TEXTS I'VE PUT ON THE WEB Books and Other Texts I've Put on the Web. The neo-conservative intellectual, author of Cultural Contradictions of Late Capitalism and Post-Industrial Society, writing ``The Cultural Contradictions of Newt Gingrich'', doubtless with a certain chickens-come-home-to-roost feeling. 20th century British physicist, author of The World, theFlesh and
GOODISON AND MORRIS, ANCIENT GODDESSES There is a load --- especially in the first few chapters --- of methodological baffle-gab. For instance, in the introduction Goodison and Morris write as though archaeologists must have spiritual or mystical experiences of their own in order to adequately address the spiritual lives of ancient peoples, which is akin to saying they must use wooden rulers to measure wooden objects.ON DENOTING
On Denoting Bertrand Russell 1905 By a `denoting phrase' I mean a phrase such as any one of the following: a man, some man, any man, every man, all men, the present King of England, the present King of France, the center of mass of the solar system at the first instant of the twentieth century, the revolution of the earth round the sun, the revolution of the sun round the earth. RAY JACKENDOFF, FOUNDATIONS OF LANGUAGE 504 pp. Bibliography and index Cognitive Science / Language and Linguistics Currently in print as a hardback, ISBN 0-19-827012-7, US$40 , and as a paperback, ISBN 0-19-926437-6, US$19.95 A precis of Foundations of Language appeared as an article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences , with extensive commentary by others [pp. 666 THEOLOGICAL EFFORTS AT COMPROMISE. Warfare of Science with Theology Chapter XVIII: From the Dead Sea Legends to Comparative Mythology Theological Efforts at Compromise - Triumph of the Scientific View The theological effort to compromise with science now came in more strongly than ever.COSMA'S HOME PAGE
Cosma's Home Page. Research. What I work on, and links to my publications and CV. Teaching. Lecture notes, students' evaluations of my courses, etc. Book Reviews. There was a time when I'd write a half-dozen book reviews every few weeks, and add them to The Bactra Review. (There were a hundred and thirty-odd reviews the last time Icounted.)
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The Bactra Review. I have to sing about the book I read. To reach the suqs and madrassas of Cyberistan , and with them you, Dear Reader, the Review comes by caravan from Bactra. The caravans take off at right angles to the Silk Road, crossing the mountain wastes and deserts of the Real World (so-called), by yak, by camel, by foot: and sometimes ORATION ON THE DIGNITY OF MAN Oration on the Dignity of Man Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Most esteemed Fathers, I have read in the ancient writings of the Arabians that Abdala the Saracen on being asked what, on this stage, so to say, of the world, seemed to him most evocative of wonder, replied that there was nothing to be seen more marvelous than man. ON HEARING A SYMPHONY OF BEETHOVEN Sleep like the scullions in the fairy-tale. This moment is the best the world can give: The tranquil blossom on the tortured stem. Reject me not, sweet sounds; oh, let me live, Till Doom espy my towers and scatter them, A city spell-bound under the aging sun. Music my rampart, and my only one. BOOKS AND OTHER TEXTS I'VE PUT ON THE WEB Books and Other Texts I've Put on the Web. The neo-conservative intellectual, author of Cultural Contradictions of Late Capitalism and Post-Industrial Society, writing ``The Cultural Contradictions of Newt Gingrich'', doubtless with a certain chickens-come-home-to-roost feeling. 20th century British physicist, author of The World, theFlesh and
FATIMA MERNISSI, THE VEIL AND THE MALE ELITE One hopes for an analysis of the relationship between the custom wearing veils, and all that goes with it, and the male elite in Muslim countries. Here Mernissi gives us only the obvious: the elite supports an interpretation of the Qur'an and hadith which makes Muslim women at best second-class citizens --- good believers, no doubt, but no one FRANCOIS ROUSTANG, THE LACANIAN DELUSION Studies in the French Disease (I) It requires no great familiarity with psychoanalysis or structuralism, or even particular cunning, to guess that a book with a title like The Lacanian Delusion is not a reverent exposition of the ideas of the Master. Roustang is, one gathers, a disillusioned former disciple, aiming to destroy Lacan's system root and branch by ``subjecting it to a minimum of REVIEW OF EASLEY AND KLEINBERG, NETWORKS, CROWDS, AND MARKETS Given the authors' backgrounds — Easley is a professor of economics and Kleinberg a professor of computer science, both at Cornell — it is fitting that their book focuses on social networks, especially those defined by transactions, and on computer networks, with a special devotion to places where these intersect (online auctions, forexample).
RAY JACKENDOFF, FOUNDATIONS OF LANGUAGE 504 pp. Bibliography and index Cognitive Science / Language and Linguistics Currently in print as a hardback, ISBN 0-19-827012-7, US$40 , and as a paperback, ISBN 0-19-926437-6, US$19.95 A precis of Foundations of Language appeared as an article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences , with extensive commentary by others [pp. 666 LATE NIGHT THOUGHTS ON LISTENING TO MAHLER'S NINTH SYMPHONYMAHLER S NINTH SYMPHONYMAHLER S 10TH SYMPHONYMAHLER S 2ND SYMPHONYMAHLER 9TH SYMPHONYWHAT IS MAHLER S GREATEST SYMPHONY Now I hear it differently. I cannot listen to the last movement of the Mahler Ninth without the door-smashing intrusion of a huge new thought: death everywhere, the dying of everything, the end of humanity. The easy sadness expressed with such gentleness and delicacy by that repeated phrase on faded strings, over and over again, nolonger comes
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Cosma's Home Page. Research. What I work on, and links to my publications and CV. Teaching. Lecture notes, students' evaluations of my courses, etc. Book Reviews. There was a time when I'd write a half-dozen book reviews every few weeks, and add them to The Bactra Review. (There were a hundred and thirty-odd reviews the last time Icounted.)
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The Bactra Review. I have to sing about the book I read. To reach the suqs and madrassas of Cyberistan , and with them you, Dear Reader, the Review comes by caravan from Bactra. The caravans take off at right angles to the Silk Road, crossing the mountain wastes and deserts of the Real World (so-called), by yak, by camel, by foot: and sometimes ORATION ON THE DIGNITY OF MAN Oration on the Dignity of Man Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Most esteemed Fathers, I have read in the ancient writings of the Arabians that Abdala the Saracen on being asked what, on this stage, so to say, of the world, seemed to him most evocative of wonder, replied that there was nothing to be seen more marvelous than man. ON HEARING A SYMPHONY OF BEETHOVEN Sleep like the scullions in the fairy-tale. This moment is the best the world can give: The tranquil blossom on the tortured stem. Reject me not, sweet sounds; oh, let me live, Till Doom espy my towers and scatter them, A city spell-bound under the aging sun. Music my rampart, and my only one. BOOKS AND OTHER TEXTS I'VE PUT ON THE WEB Books and Other Texts I've Put on the Web. The neo-conservative intellectual, author of Cultural Contradictions of Late Capitalism and Post-Industrial Society, writing ``The Cultural Contradictions of Newt Gingrich'', doubtless with a certain chickens-come-home-to-roost feeling. 20th century British physicist, author of The World, theFlesh and
FATIMA MERNISSI, THE VEIL AND THE MALE ELITE One hopes for an analysis of the relationship between the custom wearing veils, and all that goes with it, and the male elite in Muslim countries. Here Mernissi gives us only the obvious: the elite supports an interpretation of the Qur'an and hadith which makes Muslim women at best second-class citizens --- good believers, no doubt, but no one FRANCOIS ROUSTANG, THE LACANIAN DELUSION Studies in the French Disease (I) It requires no great familiarity with psychoanalysis or structuralism, or even particular cunning, to guess that a book with a title like The Lacanian Delusion is not a reverent exposition of the ideas of the Master. Roustang is, one gathers, a disillusioned former disciple, aiming to destroy Lacan's system root and branch by ``subjecting it to a minimum of REVIEW OF EASLEY AND KLEINBERG, NETWORKS, CROWDS, AND MARKETS Given the authors' backgrounds — Easley is a professor of economics and Kleinberg a professor of computer science, both at Cornell — it is fitting that their book focuses on social networks, especially those defined by transactions, and on computer networks, with a special devotion to places where these intersect (online auctions, forexample).
RAY JACKENDOFF, FOUNDATIONS OF LANGUAGE 504 pp. Bibliography and index Cognitive Science / Language and Linguistics Currently in print as a hardback, ISBN 0-19-827012-7, US$40 , and as a paperback, ISBN 0-19-926437-6, US$19.95 A precis of Foundations of Language appeared as an article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences , with extensive commentary by others [pp. 666 LATE NIGHT THOUGHTS ON LISTENING TO MAHLER'S NINTH SYMPHONYMAHLER S NINTH SYMPHONYMAHLER S 10TH SYMPHONYMAHLER S 2ND SYMPHONYMAHLER 9TH SYMPHONYWHAT IS MAHLER S GREATEST SYMPHONY Now I hear it differently. I cannot listen to the last movement of the Mahler Ninth without the door-smashing intrusion of a huge new thought: death everywhere, the dying of everything, the end of humanity. The easy sadness expressed with such gentleness and delicacy by that repeated phrase on faded strings, over and over again, nolonger comes
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Cosma Teaching We dress like students Lecture Notes and Other Teaching Materials In reverse chronological order. Undergraduate Advanced Data Analysis (36-402, Spring 2011--2013 and 2015--2016), a.k.a. Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View; Undergraduate Modern Regression (Carnegie Mellon University, 36-401, Fall 2015) ; Introduction to Statistical Computing (36-350, FallIN THE FUTURE
Cosma In the Future Daedalus, or, Science and the Future by J. B. S. Haldane. Icarus, or, the Future of Science by Bertrand Russell.. These books were written in 1923. Haldane, a distinguished biochemist and evolutionist, originally wrote Daedalus as a lecture to a Cambridge club known as the ``Heretics'', and later expanded it for publication.Icarus was the response evoked from Bertrand BOOKS TO READ WHILE THE ALGAE GROW IN YOUR FUR, MAY 2021 Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2021. Attention conservation notice: I have no taste. Lauren Henderson, Dead White Female and Too Many Blondes Mind candy mystery from the 1990s. I read all of the later books in this series with great delight as they came out, and while these first two are a bit rougher than her later work, they're still quite tasty, especially if you THE FUTURIST MANIFESTO The Futurist Manifesto F. T. Marinetti, 1909 We have been up all night, my friends and I, beneath mosque lamps whose brass cupolas are bright as our souls, because like them they were illuminated by the internal glow of electric hearts.THE RETURN - BACTRA
The Return Edna St. Vincent Millay Earth does not understand her child, Who from the loud gregarious town Returns, depleted and defiled, To the still woods, to fling him down. THE CAROL OF THE OLD ONES The Carol of the Old Ones Lyrics by A.H. Leman, to the tune of ``Carol of the Bells'' by M. Leontovich: Look to the sky way up on high There in the nigh stars now are right ERNST CASSIRER, AN ESSAY ON MAN Ernst Cassirer (1874--1945) was a Jewish German intellectual historian and philosopher, the originator of the ``philosophy of symbolic forms.'' After a distinguished teaching career in Germany, he fled the Nazis, first to Oxford, then Goteborg, then finally Yale, which gives an annual series of lectures in philosophy in his honor; he died as a visiting professor at Columbia. JAMES BENIGER, THE CONTROL REVOLUTION Beniger puts the modern synthesis (not his phrase) of industry and information in the period 1880-1920. By the latter date, the technology of control had been so perfected that the economies of all the warring powers in the Great War could be managed by centralplanning --- those
I WILL PUT CHAOS INTO FOURTEEN LINES I will put Chaos into fourteen lines. And keep him there; and let him thence escape. If he be lucky; let him twist, and ape. Flood, fire, and demon --- his adroit designs. Will strain to nothing in the strict confines. Of this sweet order, where, in pious rape, I hold hisessence and
RADICAL ORGANIZATION THEORY DENRELL: RADICAL ORGANIZATION THEORY 41 One result of this contest for control and power is, according to Pfeffer, the routinization of work: Since routinization of tasks makes the individual worker much morereadily replac-
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Cosma The Bactra Review I have to sing about the book I read To reach the suqs and madrassas of Cyberistan, and with them you, Dear Reader, the Review comes by caravan from Bactra.The caravans take off at right angles to the Silk Road, crossing the mountain wastes and deserts of the Real World (so-called), by yak, by camel, by foot: and sometimes a part of the manuscript gets left behind in ORATION ON THE DIGNITY OF MAN Oration on the Dignity of Man Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Most esteemed Fathers, I have read in the ancient writings of the Arabians that Abdala the Saracen on being asked what, on this stage, so to say, of the world, seemed to him most evocative of wonder, replied that there was nothing to be seen more marvelous than man. ON HEARING A SYMPHONY OF BEETHOVEN On Hearing a Symphony of Beethoven Edna St. Vincent Millay Sweet sounds, oh, beautiful music, do not cease! Reject me not into the world again. With you alone is excellence and peace, FATIMA MERNISSI, THE VEIL AND THE MALE ELITE This title is certainly more descriptive than that of the French original, Le Harem Politique, but it raises expectations which simply aren't fulfilled. One hopes for an analysis of the relationship between the custom wearing veils, and all that goes with it, and the male elite in Muslim countries. REVIEW OF EASLEY AND KLEINBERG, NETWORKS, CROWDS, AND MARKETS Connecting the Dots This review ran in American Scientist 99 (2011): 335, with some links added.. This is one of the first textbooks on what could reasonably be called "network science" — the study of networks of semi-autonomous but interdependent units and of the way those networks shape both the behavior of individuals and the large-scale patterns that emerge from small-scale interactions. FRANCOIS ROUSTANG, THE LACANIAN DELUSION Studies in the French Disease (I) It requires no great familiarity with psychoanalysis or structuralism, or even particular cunning, to guess that a book with a title like The Lacanian Delusion is not a reverent exposition of the ideas of the Master. Roustang is, one gathers, a disillusioned former disciple, aiming to destroy Lacan's system root and branch by ``subjecting it to a minimum of BOOKS AND OTHER TEXTS I'VE PUT ON THE WEB Cosma Books and Other Texts I've Put on the Web Books? I heard about them once on MTV.---Richard CrossPoetry gets a page of its own. Daniel Bell The neo-conservative intellectual, author of Cultural Contradictions of Late Capitalism and Post-Industrial Society, writing ``The Cultural Contradictions of Newt Gingrich'', doubtless with a certain chickens-come-home-to-roost feeling. RAY JACKENDOFF, FOUNDATIONS OF LANGUAGE 504 pp. Bibliography and index Cognitive Science / Language and Linguistics Currently in print as a hardback, ISBN 0-19-827012-7, US$40 , and as a paperback, ISBN 0-19-926437-6, US$19.95 A precis of Foundations of Language appeared as an article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences , with extensive commentary by others [pp. 666 LATE NIGHT THOUGHTS ON LISTENING TO MAHLER'S NINTH SYMPHONYMAHLER S NINTH SYMPHONYMAHLER S 10TH SYMPHONYMAHLER S 2ND SYMPHONYMAHLER 9TH SYMPHONYWHAT IS MAHLER S GREATEST SYMPHONY Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony Lewis Thomas I cannot listen to Mahler's Ninth Symphony with anything like the old melancholy mixed withCOSMA'S HOME PAGE
Cosma's Home Page And you may ask yourself Well How did I get here? And you may ask yourself "How do I work this?" And you may ask yourself "Where is that large automobile?"THE BACTRA REVIEW
Cosma The Bactra Review I have to sing about the book I read To reach the suqs and madrassas of Cyberistan, and with them you, Dear Reader, the Review comes by caravan from Bactra.The caravans take off at right angles to the Silk Road, crossing the mountain wastes and deserts of the Real World (so-called), by yak, by camel, by foot: and sometimes a part of the manuscript gets left behind in ORATION ON THE DIGNITY OF MAN Oration on the Dignity of Man Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Most esteemed Fathers, I have read in the ancient writings of the Arabians that Abdala the Saracen on being asked what, on this stage, so to say, of the world, seemed to him most evocative of wonder, replied that there was nothing to be seen more marvelous than man. ON HEARING A SYMPHONY OF BEETHOVEN On Hearing a Symphony of Beethoven Edna St. Vincent Millay Sweet sounds, oh, beautiful music, do not cease! Reject me not into the world again. With you alone is excellence and peace, FATIMA MERNISSI, THE VEIL AND THE MALE ELITE This title is certainly more descriptive than that of the French original, Le Harem Politique, but it raises expectations which simply aren't fulfilled. One hopes for an analysis of the relationship between the custom wearing veils, and all that goes with it, and the male elite in Muslim countries. REVIEW OF EASLEY AND KLEINBERG, NETWORKS, CROWDS, AND MARKETS Connecting the Dots This review ran in American Scientist 99 (2011): 335, with some links added.. This is one of the first textbooks on what could reasonably be called "network science" — the study of networks of semi-autonomous but interdependent units and of the way those networks shape both the behavior of individuals and the large-scale patterns that emerge from small-scale interactions. FRANCOIS ROUSTANG, THE LACANIAN DELUSION Studies in the French Disease (I) It requires no great familiarity with psychoanalysis or structuralism, or even particular cunning, to guess that a book with a title like The Lacanian Delusion is not a reverent exposition of the ideas of the Master. Roustang is, one gathers, a disillusioned former disciple, aiming to destroy Lacan's system root and branch by ``subjecting it to a minimum of BOOKS AND OTHER TEXTS I'VE PUT ON THE WEB Cosma Books and Other Texts I've Put on the Web Books? I heard about them once on MTV.---Richard CrossPoetry gets a page of its own. Daniel Bell The neo-conservative intellectual, author of Cultural Contradictions of Late Capitalism and Post-Industrial Society, writing ``The Cultural Contradictions of Newt Gingrich'', doubtless with a certain chickens-come-home-to-roost feeling. RAY JACKENDOFF, FOUNDATIONS OF LANGUAGE 504 pp. Bibliography and index Cognitive Science / Language and Linguistics Currently in print as a hardback, ISBN 0-19-827012-7, US$40 , and as a paperback, ISBN 0-19-926437-6, US$19.95 A precis of Foundations of Language appeared as an article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences , with extensive commentary by others [pp. 666 LATE NIGHT THOUGHTS ON LISTENING TO MAHLER'S NINTH SYMPHONYMAHLER S NINTH SYMPHONYMAHLER S 10TH SYMPHONYMAHLER S 2ND SYMPHONYMAHLER 9TH SYMPHONYWHAT IS MAHLER S GREATEST SYMPHONY Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony Lewis Thomas I cannot listen to Mahler's Ninth Symphony with anything like the old melancholy mixed withTEACHING - BACTRA
Cosma Teaching We dress like students Lecture Notes and Other Teaching Materials In reverse chronological order. Undergraduate Advanced Data Analysis (36-402, Spring 2011--2013 and 2015--2016), a.k.a. Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View; Undergraduate Modern Regression (Carnegie Mellon University, 36-401, Fall 2015) ; Introduction to Statistical Computing (36-350, FallIN THE FUTURE
Cosma In the Future Daedalus, or, Science and the Future by J. B. S. Haldane. Icarus, or, the Future of Science by Bertrand Russell.. These books were written in 1923. Haldane, a distinguished biochemist and evolutionist, originally wrote Daedalus as a lecture to a Cambridge club known as the ``Heretics'', and later expanded it for publication.Icarus was the response evoked from Bertrand BOOKS TO READ WHILE THE ALGAE GROW IN YOUR FUR, MAY 2021 Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2021. Attention conservation notice: I have no taste. Lauren Henderson, Dead White Female and Too Many Blondes Mind candy mystery from the 1990s. I read all of the later books in this series with great delight as they came out, and while these first two are a bit rougher than her later work, they're still quite tasty, especially if you THE FUTURIST MANIFESTO The Futurist Manifesto F. T. Marinetti, 1909 We have been up all night, my friends and I, beneath mosque lamps whose brass cupolas are bright as our souls, because like them they were illuminated by the internal glow of electric hearts.THE RETURN - BACTRA
The Return Edna St. Vincent Millay Earth does not understand her child, Who from the loud gregarious town Returns, depleted and defiled, To the still woods, to fling him down. THE CAROL OF THE OLD ONES The Carol of the Old Ones Lyrics by A.H. Leman, to the tune of ``Carol of the Bells'' by M. Leontovich: Look to the sky way up on high There in the nigh stars now are right ERNST CASSIRER, AN ESSAY ON MAN Ernst Cassirer (1874--1945) was a Jewish German intellectual historian and philosopher, the originator of the ``philosophy of symbolic forms.'' After a distinguished teaching career in Germany, he fled the Nazis, first to Oxford, then Goteborg, then finally Yale, which gives an annual series of lectures in philosophy in his honor; he died as a visiting professor at Columbia. JAMES BENIGER, THE CONTROL REVOLUTION x + 493 pp. plus 37 pp. bibliography, plus index, black and white illustrations Economics / the Information Society / Sociology As of July 1995, the book was in print as a trade paperback, ~US$15. I WILL PUT CHAOS INTO FOURTEEN LINES Edna St. Vincent Millay I will put Chaos into fourteen lines And keep him there; and let him thence escape If he be lucky; let him twist,and ape
RADICAL ORGANIZATION THEORY DENRELL: RADICAL ORGANIZATION THEORY 41 One result of this contest for control and power is, according to Pfeffer, the routinization of work: Since routinization of tasks makes the individual worker much morereadily replac-
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> _And you may ask yourself > Well... How did I get here? > And you may ask yourself > "How do I work this?" > And you may ask yourself > "Where is that large automobile?" > And you may tell yourself > "This is not my beautiful house!"_ Mail to "cshalizi at bactra dot org dot oryx". (My address doesn't really end with the name of a genus of antelope.)
Actual human mail is welcome, though I'm a criminally slow correspondent; if I don't get back to you, rest assured the fault lies with me. (This does not apply to strangers asking me for jobs, internships, post-docs, or for help getting in to grad school. In any case, I am not taking new students until 2020 at the earliest.) _Attention Conservation Notice_: What follows is long, self-absorbed, and boring to look at; much of it was written ten or even twenty yearsago.
* Research What I work on, and links to my publicationsand CV
* Teaching Lecture notes, students' evaluations of mycourses, etc.
* Book Reviews There was a time when I'd write a half-dozen book reviews every few weeks, and add them to The Bactra Review . (There were a hundred and thirty-odd reviews the last time I counted.) I still write reviews, but more sporadically. There are no set subjects, which means I get to spout off about whatever I like; there are no other contributors or editors, which means the opinions are entirely my own; in short, you get what you payfor.
* Notebooks Notes, small essays, explanations, reminders, reading lists and questions on various (400+) topics. * Weblog Writings too occasional to be research, or reviews, or even notes. * Popular Science Pieces and Profiles Articles about other people's science, mostly for the Santa Fe Institute Bulletin, but now also for
Quantitative Finance . I've been paid to write them, so I guess I'm now some sort of science writer. Most of them are about economics and other kinds of social science, subjects in which I have no qualifications whatsoever; I understand this is typical of science writers. * Books Putting old books on the Web used to be one of my hobbies. (I haven't put up any new ones for years.) I started with some strange old books about the future . * Poetry Similarly, I put other people's poems on-line. That was back when we sent packets by tying them to the backs ofgophers.
* Links The links I use frequently. * News Gets a page of its own. * People Friends, relations, correspondents, total strangers with interesting pages. * Madison, Wisconsin I lived there for almost five years. I liked it, after a while. * Older and Even More Pretentious Stuff Things I wrote a long time ago, which might still have some shreds of value. Or mightnot.
* Personal You have better things to do than readthis.
ABOUT THESE PAGES
> _Which is my face, which is a building_ This is the "worst home page ever ," according to yankthechain.com. I'm very proud.
My site is deliberately low on graphics. Not that I object to pictures on principle: here are depictions of me, my office
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my work
(note the matrix for hidden Markov models in the background) and myold neighborhood
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Madison . Nonetheless, this page is proudly optimizedfor PinealWeb.
This website is powered by fossil fuels and contributes directly to global warming and climate change. THE NAME OF THIS BAND The headings of these pages are taken from Talking Heads lyrics . I like the music a lot, the songs are sufficiently cryptic that there's usually at least one line I can twist to the topic at hand, and it's probably some sort of intellectual property offense: what more could one ask for?Details
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