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<p class="MsoNormal">Yes, phylogenetic evolution is often modeled using a matrix exponential.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> on behalf of "thompnickson2@gmail.com" <thompnickson2@gmail.com><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Sunday, July 5, 2020 at 1:35 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' <friam@redfish.com><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [FRIAM] The theory of everything<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Marcus, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">So in your sense, a system evolves if it passes along a predictable pathway from state to state. I wonder if phylogenetic evolution is a special case of yours.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Marcus Daniels<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, July 5, 2020 1:19 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“Evolve” in this sense: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamical_system">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Friam <<a href="mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com">friam-bounces@redfish.com</a>> on behalf of "<a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a>"
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<b>Reply-To: </b>The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <<a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com">friam@redfish.com</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Sunday, July 5, 2020 at 9:47 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' <<a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com">friam@redfish.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [FRIAM] The theory of everything</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jochen, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">FOOD FIGHT! FOOD FIGHT! I absolutely and totally disagree that “everything evolves” [while agreeing that anything that is everything is nothing]. Rocks and tornadoes do not evolve. They change, but the don’t evolve. Evolution (to me)
is a very specific pattern of design arising through phylogenetic descent – lineages being bent through time to match their circumstances. I am not entirely sure that some inanimate things don’t evolve. I would have a hard time arguing ferociously that the
sorting of pebbles on a beach is not the result of some sort of evolution. I certainly don’t want to define evolution as something that only organisms can do, if only because that turns the assertion, “only organisms evolve” into a nothing, or an everything,
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<p class="MsoNormal">In this matter, as in all matters, Eric will correct me. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Nicholas Thompson<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Clark University<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Friam <<a href="mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com">friam-bounces@redfish.com</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jochen Fromm<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, July 5, 2020 4:47 AM<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Russ, I agree. Maybe we found it already, the theory of everything & nothing: Darwin's theory of evolution. It is a theory of everything because everything evolves. It doesn't say anything how fish, insects, dinosaurs, mammals, birds, religions,
civilizations, companies, parties or states look like, though. Therefore it is also a theory of nothing. I have to reread your book.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Date: 7/5/20 11:49 (GMT+01:00) </span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Book publishing advice needed
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<p class="MsoNormal">Being self-published hasn't stopped my book "Theory of Nothing" from<br>
being cited. According to Google Scholar, it has 22 citations, 9th on<br>
my list in terms of citation count, just after "Why Occams Razor", a<br>
peer reviewed paper on similar topics. It got a bit of a boost from<br>
Max Tegmark's book, as he singled it out as inspiration, kind of ironic when it<br>
was one of Max's "crazy papers" that inspired me to write "Why Occams<br>
Razor" and then "Theory of Nothing".<br>
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I think you need to have a reason to publish a book. Making money is<br>
not one them - almost nobody makes money from writing books. Vanity<br>
publications ("it looks good on the CV") is another one to avoid. Best<br>
bet is if you have a story or a topic that needs telling, and you<br>
think would be interesting to other people, then go for it. Marketing <br>
then becomes telling other people about it, advancing arguments from<br>
it in fora like this. With a bit of luck, it goes viral.<br>
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One good reason for writing academic books is that it gives you<br>
expanded scope to explain your ideas more fully, and in less<br>
technically forbidding terms. Allows you to expand your readership<br>
beyond the narrow circle reading your peer revieed articles. But you<br>
probably want those peer reviewed articles to back up/draw upon your<br>
book work. That's probably the reason why old academics write books,<br>
and young ones write papers.<br>
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In my case, I've self-published 3 books so far: "Theory of Nothing",<br>
which has sold over 1000 copies, and perhaps 2-3 times as many free<br>
downloads from my website and the usual pirate websites, but in no way<br>
does the royalties cover the time I put into it (unless being paid<br>
less than a Calcutta rickshaw driver was a career ambition); "Amoeba's<br>
Secret", a translation of a semi-autobiography by Bruno Marchal, which<br>
was about the clearest exposition he gave of his ideas, and "Magic<br>
Cottage", an Anthology of my son's writing, which was quite exquisite,<br>
and sadly something he's not really doing now. Magic Cottage proved to<br>
be more of a vanity publication than I thought it would be - but<br>
partly because he never took up my suggestion of leaving a copy around<br>
his college room, now apartment, where it could act as a conversation<br>
starter. I also envisaged him using the book when going for jobs that<br>
might require writing skills, but it seems he hasn't needed to do that<br>
to date.<br>
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Cheers<br>
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On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 10:25:03PM +0200, Jochen Fromm wrote:<br>
> Thanks. Yes, self-publishing is an option. I am looking for an official<br>
> publisher mainly for one reason, namely that other scientists and researchers<br>
> can cite it, since I still cling to the illusion that someone would actually do<br>
> it. Normally self-published texts are not considered as reliable or trustworthy<br>
> sources. I didn't expect that finding a decent publisher would be so<br>
> difficult. <br>
> <br>
> -J.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
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> From: Tom Johnson <<a href="mailto:tom@jtjohnson.com">tom@jtjohnson.com</a>><br>
> Date: 7/4/20 20:10 (GMT+01:00)<br>
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <<a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com">friam@redfish.com</a>><br>
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Book publishing advice needed<br>
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> Jochen:<br>
> The deal being offered strikes me as a bad deal.<br>
> <br>
> Background: I have been practicing and teaching about "Be Your Own Publisher"<br>
> for nearly 15 years. There are, in my opinion, some major problems with all<br>
> publishers today. It starts with control of the copyright. I think YOU should<br>
> want to maintain control of the copyright to your work. It will depend on the<br>
> contract, but many or most publishers will try to lock down the copyright in<br>
> their favor for all -- ALL -- forms of your work in perpetuity and throughout<br>
> the universe. Sometimes quite literally.<br>
> <br>
> Second, you should assume -- especially with a small publisher and you, not<br>
> being as well known as Stephen King or Daniel Steele -- the publisher will do<br>
> little if anything to promote your book beyond a mention in its catalog and,<br>
> maybe, some promotional links on Amazon. Given that, a 5 percent royalty<br>
> should be seen as a con.<br>
> <br>
> Third, given your computing experience, you should find it easy to format and<br>
> produce the book yourself. I have used Lulu.com for years. It is especially<br>
> good if you want to have both hardback, paperback and PDF editions. Again the<br>
> advantages: you keep the copyright, you can set (and change) the prices and to<br>
> a degree the royalties. Also, Lulu and Amazon handle all the backend financial<br>
> arrangements and administration and pay directly and quickly. I also use a<br>
> very good, high quality digital printer in Albuquerque for paperback editions. <br>
> It is Lithexcel. It handles all the printing (one copy to any number) quickly,<br>
> along with all the fulfillment and accounting. The folks there will also, for<br>
> only $25, set up your book in the Amazon inventory search engine. Finally,<br>
> there is Amazon's self-publishing arm. While Amazon might take a bigger slice,<br>
> the control over all aspects is in your hands.<br>
> <br>
> Here's the problem/challenge with all of these. YOU have to do the marketing/<br>
> publicity/promotion. But so what? If you today sign with any publisher of any<br>
> size you will have to do the same thing.<br>
> <br>
> Hope this helps. Feel free to contact me with questions. Also you might want<br>
> to see <a href="https://bit.ly/2ZvihKc">https://bit.ly/2ZvihKc</a> <br>
> Tom<br>
> <br>
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> On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 1:29 AM Jochen Fromm <<a href="mailto:jofr@cas-group.net">jofr@cas-group.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> At one end of the spectrum there are the 5 big commercial publishers<br>
> Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin Random House and Simon &<br>
> Schuster. They only publish stuff their agents select to make a lot of<br>
> money. There are also the big academic publishers like OUP, CUP, HUP and<br>
> MIT Press, which preferably publish strictly peer-reviewed content from<br>
> professors at Ivy League universities who made their PhD at the age of 20.<br>
> <br>
> At the other end of the spectrum there are "predatory publishers" who<br>
> publish anything you submit as long as you pay enough money for it. Open<br>
> access books can also be very expensive. Publishing an "open access book"<br>
> at De Gruyter for example costs up to 8000 $. You pay for it so that other<br>
> people read it. It is basically some kind of advertising of your own work.<br>
> <br>
> For my own new book I finally have an offer from a small publisher in<br>
> Washington D.C. who is somewhere in the middle of the spectrum. They are<br>
> really small and offer 5% royalties. Should I accept this offer or wait for<br>
> a better one? It is the only one from more than 25 publishers I have asked,<br>
> and the publishers at the moment are flooded with submissions. :-/<br>
> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2020/mar/26/">https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2020/mar/26/</a><br>
> novel-writing-during-coronavirus-crisis-outbreak<br>
> <br>
> -J.<br>
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