Re: [FRIAM] The Primacy of Primeness!
Ah, Peter, lovely story. By chance, we visited Bletchley Park on the day that the Brits returned--with great ceremony--an Enigma machine to the Poles, the people who'd first supplied the Brits with one. (We ourselves have two.) However, my sense is that pure mathematicians look down a tad on applied mathematicians. Okay if something you discovered/invented a hundred years ago turns out to have a practical use today, but to actually invent/discover math with the hope of finding an application for it, or with the hope of having it describe some phenomena--useful, sure; but, you know, intellectually tacky. P. On Dec 11, 2011, at 11:24 PM, plissa...@comcast.net wrote: Prime Theory -- not to be Mocked, or Knocked! My tutor in grad school math at Cambridge was one Shaun Wylie, dead now; a famoso number expert. He was a supervisor at Bletchley where a chappie called Turing worked for him. They broke ENIGMA, that may have won the war -- certainly shortened it by a year or so. Interestingly, the Krauts were so convinced of their profs' bloody brilliance that for years they refused to believe that some bloody non-Aryan Limeys coulda broken it. Thus giving us lotsa running room! Being a young ignorant prick (now, regrettably, an Old IP), I made stupid jokes like that the number one to the nth power had n divisors. With his modest integrity, he quietly filled me in on some of the practical uses of prime theory for code breaking. And he NEVER just talked about math -- he DID things with it!! There is indeed more in heaven and earth, Horatio, than thy philosophy dreams of. Peter Lissaman, Da Vinci Ventures Expertise is not knowing everything, but knowing what to look for. 1454 Miracerros Loop South, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505,USA tel:(505)983-7728 FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] Just FYI - This message may not have been sent by:
Interesting! I'm not on this list, and I use a direct gmail address (from the web gui presently), so this is a sort-of test to see if my email is flagged. How does it look? On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: Here are the 27 email addresses I've seen so far that give the weird gmail error message .. I think its any direct @gmail.com account, i.e. not those of us using our own domains. I'd really like it if a sysadmin would look at the problem to see if our mail lists could include the headers Google wants. This message may not have been sent by: alfredocoval...@gmail.com brittgris...@gmail.com bruce.sherw...@gmail.com carrera.fa...@gmail.com ckief...@gmail.com collida...@gmail.com drew.einh...@gmail.com editorst...@gmail.com erik.nels0...@gmail.com ewhitm...@gmail.com gil.densm...@gmail.com glennwi...@gmail.com grant.holland...@gmail.com gregortr...@gmail.com gsonn...@gmail.com mhbar...@gmail.com mree.wh...@gmail.com mthomasart...@gmail.com ppary...@gmail.com redfishgroup...@gmail.com rmfor...@gmail.com russ.abb...@gmail.com scottwittenb...@gmail.com sidh...@gmail.com sroy...@gmail.com stalkingt...@gmail.com tylerwhitedes...@gmail.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
[FRIAM] CERN to announce Higgs boson observation at LHC | ExtremeTech
fyi http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/108599-cern-to-announce-higgs-boson-observation-at-lhc Perhaps. We shall see. -tj FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] CERN to announce Higgs boson observation at LHC | ExtremeTech
Been hearing rumors of this for about a week. On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Tom Johnson t...@jtjohnson.com wrote: fyi http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/108599-cern-to-announce-higgs-boson-observation-at-lhc Perhaps. We shall see. -tj FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org -- Doug Roberts drobe...@rti.org d...@parrot-farm.net http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] Just FYI - This message may not have been sent by:
It's flagged as possibly not from you in the gmail web interface. -- rec -- On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Dale Schumacher dale.schumac...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting! I'm not on this list, and I use a direct gmail address (from the web gui presently), so this is a sort-of test to see if my email is flagged. How does it look? On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: Here are the 27 email addresses I've seen so far that give the weird gmail error message .. I think its any direct @gmail.com account, i.e. not those of us using our own domains. I'd really like it if a sysadmin would look at the problem to see if our mail lists could include the headers Google wants. This message may not have been sent by: alfredocoval...@gmail.com brittgris...@gmail.com bruce.sherw...@gmail.com carrera.fa...@gmail.com ckief...@gmail.com collida...@gmail.com drew.einh...@gmail.com editorst...@gmail.com erik.nels0...@gmail.com ewhitm...@gmail.com gil.densm...@gmail.com glennwi...@gmail.com grant.holland...@gmail.com gregortr...@gmail.com gsonn...@gmail.com mhbar...@gmail.com mree.wh...@gmail.com mthomasart...@gmail.com ppary...@gmail.com redfishgroup...@gmail.com rmfor...@gmail.com russ.abb...@gmail.com scottwittenb...@gmail.com sidh...@gmail.com sroy...@gmail.com stalkingt...@gmail.com tylerwhitedes...@gmail.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
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On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Roger Critchlow r...@elf.org wrote: It's flagged as possibly not from you in the gmail web interface. -- rec -- And Minimalist, with the css I sent before, is not flagged so the stunt works. -- Owen FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] CERN to announce Higgs boson observation at LHC | ExtremeTech
Not a physicist myself- one of the articles the article linked to did mention the possablility of there not being a higgs-boson but other mechanics to explain how stuff aquires mass. -GD On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Tom Johnson t...@jtjohnson.com wrote: fyi http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/108599-cern-to-announce-higgs-boson-observation-at-lhc Perhaps. We shall see. -tj FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] CERN to announce Higgs boson observation at LHC | ExtremeTech
Another discussion: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/ I think the odds are quite high that there will be a press conference. One should not take anything said as evidence for or against any particular string theory, despite what media commentary will happen afterwards. carl On 12/12/11 1:07 PM, Tom Johnson wrote: fyi http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/108599-cern-to-announce-higgs-boson-observation-at-lhc Perhaps. We shall see. -tj FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] Just FYI - This message may not have been sent by:
What is the stunt? Is it just suppressing the warning message? --joshua On Dec 12, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Roger Critchlow r...@elf.org wrote: It's flagged as possibly not from you in the gmail web interface. -- rec -- And Minimalist, with the css I sent before, is not flagged so the stunt works. -- Owen FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] CERN to announce Higgs boson observation at LHC | ExtremeTech
I think the odds are quite high that there will be a press conference. Yes, i would say it falls between 2.0 and 3.5 standard deviations. Greg Sonnenfeld Junior programmers create simple solutions to simple problems. Senior programmers create complex solutions to complex problems. Great programmers find simple solutions to complex problems. The code written by topnotch programmers may appear obvious, once it is finished, but it is vastly more difficult to create. On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Carl Tollander c...@plektyx.com wrote: Another discussion: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/ I think the odds are quite high that there will be a press conference. One should not take anything said as evidence for or against any particular string theory, despite what media commentary will happen afterwards. carl On 12/12/11 1:07 PM, Tom Johnson wrote: fyi http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/108599-cern-to-announce-higgs-boson-observation-at-lhc Perhaps. We shall see. -tj FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
