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  • From: Scott Pittman <pci@permaculture-inst.org>
  • To: Permaculture Plant Database <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] Synth, comments, etc
  • Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 09:03:11 -0700

Stephanie Gerson wrote:

YESYESYES!

Bear wrote, "Where do you draw the boundary on a system. Do you count the intestinal micro-fauna of a chicken as part of the system. If you do, can you lump the lower details together into a higher system level, and what kind of search function would do that. Items have constraints (only grows in Sunset Zones 1,2,5-7). I'm wondering if there is or are ways to represent this like a UML diagram or some such."

This relates to the levels of zoom I just asked about - zooms like lenses, a spectrum from a microscope to human eye scale (and further perhaps) - ya dig?

Bear also wrote, "There was a semantic network project I was looking at once. The nodes consisted of words. A large number of people were given a random pairing of words, and asked to rank how similar or different they were. This information weighted the connections between the nodes, which when arranged using Elastic Interval Geometry (the rubber-band networks that TouchGraph[?] et al use), would lump into related clusters of words. I wonder the "Interaction Matrix of Two Species" (table 3.5 page 62 of the DM) could be used for a system like that. Would it just require a 1 to 1 table with columns for the rankings? You'd need another to store the individual rank, source, and comments that are averaged into the main table."

Beautiful again. Ecological networks aren't flat democracies. Things *
are* weighted. Just tough when we have to assign the weights ourselves, but perhaps if we create algorithms (using Elastic Interval Geometry - wow, what is that?) it will be easier and more meaningful?

"Let me know if all this talk hinders development."

No way, man. Keep talking.

peace
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Stephanie Gerson
sgerson@stanfordalumni.org
(c) 415.871.5683


Many moons ago I suggested that we look at Dahlgrin's bubble charts of plant tribes as one way of graphically representing our guild, a guild is essentially the extended tribe that Dahlgrin described. I will try to did up some old Dalgrin charts and see if I can scan them for your further edification.
Scott




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