Re: [FRIAM] Unix Nightmare

On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 8:00 PM, Steven A Smith wrote: > Prolog dreams involving natural language understanding, and eventually VR > and mixed reality dreams. In fact the latter two I would say I still have, > though they are polluted/mixed with myth-dreams based in various

[FRIAM] Document management

We have talked a little on this list about related topics, but I figured I would ask people's opinions outright. I have about 3 cubic meters of assorted paper documents -- and by assorted I mean both unsorted into categories, but also of various types. For example, there are papers that are

Re: [FRIAM] Subjectivity and square roots

Fine with me. Reminds me of https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thripple, and for some reason marshmallows also (perhaps by way of "ripple"?). -Arlo James Barnes FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St.

Re: [FRIAM] Subjectivity and square roots

On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Nick Thompson wrote: > a sign IS a thrupple .. or whatever that lovely word is A 3-tuple? I believe "tuple" itself is just a generalisation of "double, triple, quadruple, quintuple, [...]", with "singleton" being the odd one (pun?

Re: [FRIAM] Opera (the browser)

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 4:39 AM, Patrick Dufour wrote: > Vivaldi I do not think that was the one I was thinking of, but interesting nonetheless. Looks like it used to be shareware ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8953796), but is now MIT-licensed. -Arlo

Re: [FRIAM] Opera (the browser)

I think some former Opera developers also made a free software spinoff, but the name of it escapes me currently. -Arlo James Barnes FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: Fwd: RE: NASA wants to work with you

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 3:09 PM, Parks, Raymond wrote: > The NSA wants to play > > On this site, you can learn all about codes and ciphers, play lots of > games and activities, and get to know each of us - Crypto Cat®, Decipher > Dog®, Rosetta Stone®, Slate®, Joules™,

Re: [FRIAM] The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) - Joel on Software

Definitely a good potted history up until 2003; much has changed in the succeeding 13 years (not quite enough, though, as programmers still mess up their encodings occasionally). -Arlo James Barnes FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv

Re: [FRIAM] ADVISORY: City Will "Flip the Switch" on Gigabit Internet Speeds at 12/14 Special Event

On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Barry MacKichan < barry.mackic...@mackichan.com> wrote: > On 7 Dec 2015, at 11:20, Nick Thompson wrote: > >> On Monday, December 14th from 9 until 11 AM Mayor Gonzales will be joined >> by special industry guests to flip the switch [...] >> > Does anybody know how

Re: [FRIAM] ADVISORY: City Will "Flip the Switch" on Gigabit Internet Speeds at 12/14 Special Event

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Tom Johnson wrote: > As he said, that space, which now has gigabyte cnx There is an eightfold difference between gigabits and gigabytes :) Thanks for the

Re: [FRIAM] book sale in santa fe, sunday, december 5

On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Gary Schiltz wrote: > Instead of paying to ship them, she had the bindings cut off and had them > scanned - a lot easier for automatic document feeding systems. > If the thought of undoing of the binder's trade upsets you, there are

Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] Blog+wiki?oO

I think you have a different conception of a wiki than I do. I think of the collaboration being the root of it, the Wiki Way http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiWay: not only many collaborators, but potentially infinitely many (although quite a bit less than that in practice). Whereas it sounds like you

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: How brand-new words are spreading across America

On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Parks, Raymond rcpa...@sandia.gov wrote: My wife hates New and Improved and news-stories about vehicular homicide that state the car hit the group of children at the school bus stop. The first has been a staple of language comedy - how can something be new and

[FRIAM] 'Playing' Versioned Source Repositories

So Etherpad http://etherpad.org/ (that collaborative editing web-app that was closed source, got real popular at one point, closed shop, was cloned into 'PiratePad', then the original acquired and open-sourced by Apache) has this feature called 'Timeslider', which allows one to watch the

Re: [FRIAM] a week on just linux...

I believe the pair of extensions that are AdBlock / AdBlockPlus are designed to be cross-browser, and are in the Chrome Web Store. I seem to get by with just FlashControl (which is immaterial because I do not have the Flash .so anyway since it is nonfree), but I have also heard good things about

Re: [FRIAM] a week on just linux...

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Frank Wimberly wimber...@gmail.com wrote: Speaking of Windows, a button has recently appeared on my Windows 7 machine which appears to download and install Windows 10. Any recommendations? Recommendations for what? Whether you should push the button? How to

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: DOH!

Another example of something that is unambiguously a game, due to the competitive and puzzle-like nature it has, and is also (perhaps unrelatedly) useful, due to the research potential of it, is Foldit http://fold.it. -Arlo James Barnes

Re: [FRIAM] DOH!

That is kind of like asking What am I missing by not attending live music shows?. Perhaps nothing, if it turns out you would not have liked the music anyway, but perhaps you would have and it would have given you some enjoyment. I do not play computer games often enough to want to call myself a

Re: [FRIAM] Fun Times in Ecuador

On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 6:55 PM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote: a bullet (to bite on) I have heard this expression, but I have always thought that there are much better choices of things to bite: a second belt, a folded saddlebag strap, and so on. This website makes some ventures as to the

Re: [FRIAM] The Attack on Truth - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Well, if we are using physiological shock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_(circulatory) as an analogy for the life of the mind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_the_Life_of_the_Mind, then avoiding it would be imperative since it would cause a stiffening, ceasing effect on activity

Re: [FRIAM] Free 32-bit flat-bed scanner

I would be interested (sorry to send this on-list, but at least it is FriAm rather than WedTech :P -- I thought people might be vaguely mollified by any information in the following link), it looks like there are drivers for GNU/Linux systems:

Re: [FRIAM] Solar Panels Drain the Sun's Energy, Experts Say | National Report

On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote: All this just leads me back to the Dyson Sphere http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere. I wonder which faction (Conservative, Progressive, Green or Libertarian at the moment) are most likely to lead us to that point

Re: [FRIAM] GMO and the evil you know

Interesting that Apollo and Dionysus are contrasted. What about Bacchus, the darker and even more mercurial (heh) alter-ego of Dionysus? -Arlo FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: It’s Buggy Out There - NYTimes.com

Actual insects, which include bugs as a subset, also affect atmospheric conditions, but are not to be conflated with bacteria, yeast, and other micro-organisms. -Arlo James Barnes FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays

Re: [FRIAM] Google's Graveyard

The desktop thingy was OK, and Wave looked promising, but really the only one I cared about was Sidewiki. -Arlo James Barnes FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Forum hacked

What would really help is websites publishing a file that can be found in an automated way (perhaps, like robots.txt, it is standardly named at the root) that defines what areas of the site require what type of login (for example, it could say that forums.foobricks.ninja requires an OpenID, and

Re: [FRIAM] Twitter: worth the effort!

Why, because it offers you twice-indirected stories? I think that is less an argument why it is 'worth the effort', and more an argument for why it allows you not to put in the effort. You could just as easily browse Reddit and have seen the screencapped comment

Re: [FRIAM] If you have time to waste

Who, pray, is this emulating - Tim Leary? I do not remember Win95 being so...snowy. Or gravityless. Also, they usually crop Lenna to be SFW, but not this time. -Arlo James Barnes FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays

Re: [FRIAM] If you have time to waste

Looks like the terminal is not working yet. dir is not defined ReferenceError: at eval (eval at anonymous (http://www.windows93.net/c/sys42.js? v=1419261125:75:30163), :1:1) at eval (native) at HTMLTextAreaElement. (http://www.windows93.net/c/sys42.js?v=1419261125:75:30163)

Re: [FRIAM] GAS

For convenience: Etymonline http://etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0search=gassearchmode=none says 1650s, from Dutch gas, probably from Greek khaos empty space (see chaos). The sound of Dutch g is roughly equivalent to that of Greek kh. First used by Flemish chemist J.B. van Helmont

Re: [FRIAM] NetFlix Internet Share: 1/3 down, 10% up!

On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Joshua Thorp jth...@redfish.com wrote: The article lays the blame at ACK packets... “”These ACK packets are so numerous that they can sometimes interfere with downloads.“” Not having ever used Netflix, I know almost nothing about it. Why not use UDP? More

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Signature needed: FCC insiders now believe our victory is nearly inevitable

I do not (yet), sorry. However, it seems there are a few speakers around the area - I was at the Santa Fe Comic Con http://santafecomiccon.com this past weekend, and there were two separate vendors selling bladed weapon props (including a bat'leth each), plus Miss Klingon Empire 2014

Re: [FRIAM] Linux and WInderz Qs

If you are thinking of getting into Linux, you might consider attending a meeting of the nmglug.org at the Santa Fe Baking Company - it is really nice to have physical people to vent to and ask for advice, especially about a good setup (which distro to pick can be confusing. I use Debian and like

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Signature needed: FCC insiders now believe our victory is nearly inevitable

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Gillian Densmore gil.densm...@gmail.com wrote: Can someone pretend i'm a klingon or some caveman for a moment and explain to me using small words this is still a thing. My guess is it's related to money. Klingons are not regulated by the FCC, having their

Re: [FRIAM] How to reduce the influence of money in US politics! he7a1agy

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Roger Critchlow r...@elf.org wrote: If you squint, you might wonder if the Mayday PAC is all that different from the Republican efforts to disenfranchise the poor, they're both focused on solving the problem why is my side not in control? by removing the

Re: [FRIAM] Samsung Note

This thread prompts me to wish that the next big thing in phones/whatever other tech would be called the Clue™ - think about it, how cool would it be to hear Do you have a Clue? or For my birthday, I think you should give me a Clue. or Ah yes, the later models do tend to need percussive

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Fwd: iClarified - Apple News - On-Demand Music Streaming Up 42% Over Last Year, Digital Track Sales Down 13%

I use Grooveshark and the streaming functionality of Bandcamp, but I prefer to download music (from the source or...otherwise) where I can. I find myself balancing my passion for completionism and archivalism with my low bandwidth, but a high quality file will always be favoured over a low quality

Re: [FRIAM] Smart Forums

Well, I generally think of the improvement of forum interactions as a community phenomenon, eased or impeded by the structure of communication and interaction with the site infrastructure*, rather than as a computational dilemma *per se*; but I would be interested to hear what ways you think fora

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Judge Shoots Down ‘Bitcoin Isn’t Money’ Argument in Silk Road Trial | Threat Level | WIRED

It is interesting - I would agree on the principle that anonymity is a right - similar to the EU's recently introduced 'right to be forgotten', and the twin brother of free speech (that is, the right *not* to leak information). Of course, when you are talking about money, people's minds

Re: [FRIAM] Source Forge, inter alia

On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Marcus G. Daniels mar...@snoutfarm.com wrote: On Thu, 2014-07-03 at 09:51 -0600, Barry MacKichan wrote: The HeartBleed bug is an example of a serious, unintentional, problem in an open source package. In that case, even though the software was available to

Re: [FRIAM] How to reduce the influence of money in US politics!

On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 5:36 PM, glen g...@ropella.name wrote: But, again, hyper-focus on how we vote is probably no better than hyper-focus on how campaigns are funded. If only there were some way we could compose multiple mechanisms into some magic machine and, oh I don't know, run it

Re: [FRIAM] Telehack

I found and signed up for Telehack a few months back, but have not done too much with it. FriAM-ers may also enjoy the Super Dimension Fortress http://sdf.org/, which despite the name is less gamelike than Telehack. Of course, if you want something less expansive, there is always hackertyper.net

Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?

Muave - mauve + suave. -Arlo James Barnes FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Let's level the playing field for SAT prep - odensm...@gmail.com - Gmail

For everyone who does *not* have access to Owen's email :) that link is: https://www.khanacademy.org/sat -Arlo James Barnes FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: iClarified - Apple News - How to Disappear Online [Infographic]

I think there are too many trails you simply cannot close. Which is why the title is *not* 'How to Disappear Online Completely and Never Be Found'. :) -Arlo James Barnes FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: [IP] Re Read re Losing a Generation of Scientists

Perhaps apropos to this thread, perhaps not, is the following piece by Paul Graham (who you may know as that guy who says inflammatory things and clarifies them later, or that guy who worked at Yahoo!); the piece itself covers a larger scope, but part of it seems relevant to 'the role of

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: NTY: Buy Apple gadgets, use Google services, buy media from Amazon

1. 2 is easy to ignore and move on from, but one (at least, I do) sincerely wants 1 to get ahead. I will reply regarding the UEFI thing later. -Arlo James Barnes FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Tufte on Users (via twitter)

I was just reading an articlehttp://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail_pr.html from 2004 in WIRED magazine about the Long Tail - the idea that most of a market is not the most popular items, but the mass of niche items that specific people will buy. In conventional brick-and-mortar stores, it

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: NTY: Buy Apple gadgets, use Google services, buy media from Amazon

.aspx, so you can see the disdain before clicking ;) I liked that post, it seemed sincere - but the (extensive) comments provide more depth. You have people commenting that never use MS, always use MS, or use a mix. In each of those categories, there are various levels of animosity or lack

Re: [FRIAM] QRE: Spelling of Spanish Surnames

While I certainly would not try making the US (or any Anglophone country) convert, I kinda like how post-year-20 English looks. A friend of mine made a conlang called v0tgil http://reddit.com/r/v0tgil#LookInTheSidebar, which uses some of the same alterations. -Arlo James Barnes

Re: [FRIAM] Santa Fe New Mexican: Our View: For mayor, no perfect choice

The rationale Dimas gave (in a Generation Next interview) is that he thinks the public fora Bushe`e and Gonzales have been debating in (the usual places, that is) are frequented predominantly by insiders, and not the public at large. Apparently, he thinks the best way to contact the actual public,

Re: [FRIAM] Spelling of Spanish Surnames

Those work. I think I was thinking of something else, but I will probably just have to run across it in the wild again to remember. I was going to say but forgot: C de Baca is one of my favorite local surnames, because it is the only surname I know that has an abbreviation baked in (for Cabeza,

Re: [FRIAM] Amazon Patents “Anticipatory” Shipping — To Start Sending Stuff Before You’ve Bought It | TechCrunch

When at Powell's in Portland, they had a Print and Bind on Demand system, I think they were mainly offering works from Project Gutenberg (Copyright free, cost of printing only) but maybe some others. It is an idea that would have been powerful 20 years ago... but... I'm afraid with eBooks

Re: [FRIAM] Fascism?

It seems one has to infer what fascism is from societies that have been called by someone at some point 'fascist', along with an evaluation of whether it was an accurate characterisation at the time (which is somewhat paradoxical). A friend of mine claims a necessary but not sufficient condition

Re: [FRIAM] Fascism?

While a distinction should be drawn between the Federation of Planets (which has taken over government of Earth, in addition to being the coalition between Earth and planets like Vulcan) and Starfleet. The first is pretty lax, and they hint at some sort of utopian society with ecological

Re: [FRIAM] right vs left

That is Dewey decimal system, unless you were making a pun that went over my head. Duodecimal is base 12. -Arlo James Barnes FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: [sethmessageboard] ten core beliefs that most scientists take for granted [1 Attachment]

But even the placebo effect is a mechanistic medicine - one is still delivering the 'package' into the body in order to introduce a chemical change, the difference being that the mode of transport is an idea (wrapped around a ball of sugar) rather than a pill. The (somewhat tentative) explanation

Re: [FRIAM] rational

We think of art as a special thing, separate from our normal activities in the world which could make it an attractive candidate for a place where [weak or strong] rational thinking does not apply...but such a 'true art' might never be recognized as such. With few exceptions, art is meant to be

Re: [FRIAM] dotcoin mining

On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Patrick Reilly patrick.rei...@ipsociety.net wrote: Hi Owen: How many BtC's would you wager on your prediction? longbets.org On Sunday, December 22, 2013, Owen Densmore wrote: Just like other digital replacements (think of Kindle/Ebooks .. nice to read,

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Forum hacked

CryptoCards Anything like a SecurID? From Kevin Mitnick's autobiography excerptedhttp://books.google.com/books?id=p-nRxITKc34Con Google Books: [image: Inline image 1] [image: Inline image 2] -Arlo James Barnes FRIAM Applied

Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] Fwd: A New Programming Book and a Holiday Wish - Google Groups

Agree with what Josh has said; it is nice to separate the concepts from technique (like readability) while also beginning to teach ideas like giving variables and functions descriptive rather than throwaway names. Also, I think the process of reëxamining what you have experienced so far that has

Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] Fwd: Cassini Photo: Stunning New Views of Saturn’s Hexagon Storm – News Watch

On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Tom Johnson t...@jtjohnson.com wrote: If these systems move into a dynamic hexagonal mode, might it be possible that, if one could drill down into the thing, some fractal relationships would appear? Hm. What was your thinking behind that? When I first heard

Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] Fwd: Cassini Photo: Stunning New Views of Saturn's Hexagon Storm - News Watch

On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Nick Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.netwrote: Could somebody say a bit more about what we are looking at here. Are we looking, as it appears, at a large proportion of the whole disc of Saturn, or are we looking at a round photograph of what could be a very

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Langton's ant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

He has a Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Langtonarticle, a Wikiquote https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chris_Langton page, and a/an NNDBhttp://www.nndb.com/people/787/80547/page. The latter says he started the Swarm development group, which is now apparently the Center for the

Re: [FRIAM] Case study of Massachusetts Tornado: June_1_Sever_Weather_Analysis.pdf

This should probably be it's own thread, but since we are on the topic of weather-ish things I just wanted to note that there was [when I first drafted this email two weeks ago] an okay (sadly they all seem to be merely that now) NOVA

Re: [FRIAM] keyboards and mice

My friend has one of those gamer keyboard-and-mouse pairs that attempt to look sleek and dangerous and that have black plastic with colourfully glowing sections and names like 'the Viper' or something (actually, I think the mouse was a Rat). The keyboard is very clicky but apparently very nice to

Re: [FRIAM] Manifesto Project Database

A minor motto / rule of thumb I have is: when confronted with two options without a criterion to arbitrate by (although in this case the name as used in the Constitution is a pretty good criterion), choose the third option. It seems other people have this rule too, as shown by the option to the

Re: [FRIAM] Ever read the Google Agreement you signed

You retain the rights because you give Google a *non*exclusive license - see thishttp://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/1sndxe/weve_rewritten_our_user_agreement_come_check_it/apropos thread about the recent update to Reddit's TOS/EULA http://TermsOfService, EndUserLicens/ceAgreement. Still does

Re: [FRIAM] Manifesto Project Database

A rather hackish proxy, but

Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] Fwd: Langton's ant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Looks like a http://js1k.com/ entry from the source. James Taylor at SF Prep once described the wick-stretching segment of VAnts as the ant 'knitting' the wick, and ever since I have been waiting for someone capable with both computation and knitting to make a fabric-arts piece. Maybe Bathsheba

Re: [FRIAM] Why I was wrong about the nuclear option

You are bit by bit dragging me out on thin ice here (statistics and probability) which is fine, so long as you are prepared to rescue me. I think, as a matter of practice, that the strength of an inference is determined *a priori* when you define your population and select your sample size.

Re: [FRIAM] UTAustinX: UT.5.01x: Linear Algebra - Foundations to Frontiers | edX

I am subscribed to a MOO programmers list, and someone offered a Vagrant file for MOO tools; so besides eliminating dependency problems it can be used to giftwrap goodies. However, virtualisation still takes a little setting up and although performance has improved considerably in recent times

Re: [FRIAM] BitCoin Smart Card

This device (or others like it?) might make the difference... A fully wireless/electronic/mostly?-secure electronic-debit system? A few months back my friend paid for our high-speed cab ride (to catch my train...unsuccessfully) with Square. I had heard people talk about it on the lists (The

Re: [FRIAM] BitCoin

On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote: Someone in our FRIAM community (who can claim credit if they wish) once suggested to me, based on HashCash http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash and GeoHash http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/Main_Page and

Re: [FRIAM] Why I was wrong about the nuclear option

The adjective “weak” seems to relate to how much money you should be willing to bet on it. In this case, with the sample size at one, and the population at billions, Peirce would advise you to bet very little if anything, until you had a much larger sample. So is strength of an inference

Re: [FRIAM] BitCoin

Just heard of Zerocoin, an attempt at anonymization. -Arlo FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com

Re: [FRIAM] Manifesto del Macchinismo - Bruno Munari (1938)

I stumbled across the Viridian Manifestohttp://www.viridiandesign.org/viridiandesign.htmlast year, when the movement was supposed to end (complete it's goal). Of course, Bruce Sterling had already declared it ended in 2008, but that did not stop me from finding it a wonderful speech. -Arlo

Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] BitCoin

Ah, like Sealand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand, except that they already use the SX$https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coins_and_postage_stamps_of_Sealand . I would volunteer my nation http://aericanempire.com/, except we already use http://aericanempire.com/money.html the ƺ and

Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] BitCoin

Just listened to an NPR discussion of bitcoin. Fascinating! Good for bad-guys, and good-guys. See Comment two paragraphs below. The Silk Road market where you can buy all sorts of illegal things. And some legal things. What amuses me about the Silk Road is the nicknames of the once and

Re: [FRIAM] pride and entitlement (was 11 American Nations)

I also was happy I spent much of last weekend *not *on my computer, for once. Anyway, I can't accept determined attributes as being something worthy of pride. Enter the free will -- for individuals -- and stigmergy -- for collectives -- debate(s). What attributes can we really be proud of

Re: [FRIAM] For the life of me

There was a news article recently about a biohacker who inserted a box apparently the size of a smartphone under the skin of his left arm to measure temperature and some other metrics. It was pretty cringeworthy. While in general self-experimenters seem to have a reckless element, most are more

Re: [FRIAM] disorder caused by individual, or collective human agents, in hierarchically-ordered and complex systems--systems composed of sub-systems that, in turn, have their own subsystems, and so o

*Old email:* What a great cascade here... I'm not sure anyone but you and I are properly enjoying it however grin. The delete key suffices. And, in the spirit of hiding in plain sight, we have to populate caches like Arlo's with _something_ to lower the SNR. Personally, I feel successful

Re: [FRIAM] BS measure

In the language of science often an exaggerated face style has crept. It also often serves to order the bush herumzutexten - in this respect, there are parallels to the typical PR language. I am sure we have all thought this at one time or another. It is disappointing the metrics are not

Re: [FRIAM] Time needs some sanity!

Neo-retro luddite that I am, I would like my calender *more*, not less registered on solar and lunar cycles. Meanwhile, I vote to not bother changing our clocks... stay on standard time. And while we are at it, let's not be too hasty about declaring Pi to be equal to 3 just because it is

Re: [FRIAM] Message from Cambridge

nothing you find can be used in court against me. The problem is the same one government has right now: we cannot immediately know Snowden is not making up any given leak (although we probably have good reason to think not by now), but most any claim he makes we can FOIA. It is the knowledge

Re: [FRIAM] Time needs some sanity!

Come the Apocalypse you will probably wish you were a farmer ;) Yes, but that is what fuels evolution is it not? Huge numbers of failures and a very very few successes? Well, the US government is a lot more likable during the war. They have a career retraining program to teach office workers

Re: [FRIAM] Message from Moscow

I had composed a big email about the quoted statement below, but it was too wandering for my taste, so the parallel universe FruAM group, and Curl received that one. The FriAM group and Carl will get a more succinct response. He loves his country, like any real American. This is my impression.

Re: [FRIAM] OSX Memory Management - Apple/Mac FanBois only

Except for the very unfortunate codename Mavericks it sounds very promising... supposedly the name came from a Surf Beach near Half Moon Bay, possibly suggesting a new wave in OS... despite apparently being very similar to Mountain Lion, maybe it *does* portend a new wave. One has to

Re: [FRIAM] disorder caused by individual, or collective human agents, in hierarchically-ordered and complex systems--systems composed of sub-systems that, in turn, have their own subsystems, and so o

I'm reminded of your idea of using Wiki technology (plus some conventions) for what you called Noodles or Noodling some time back. Found thishttp://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.region.new-mexico.santa-fe.friam/7818/match=noodlesby

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Nexus 7 review (2013)

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote: What you did here entertained me, even though I don't quite know why. KYM needs a better article on 'Parodying HashTags'. And speaking of noise versus signal in online communities,

Re: [FRIAM] the answer to several common FRIAM topics:

I have submitted several, with no result of course. The whole FriAm list should think up a good one and send it *en masse*! Or not. -Arlo James Barnes On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote: 1. Nick's cogitations about swirlies 2. What to do about rising sea

Re: [FRIAM] Firefox phone

[Cleaning up the very last of the old email] Arlo? Are you back from summer camp on the ISS or somewhere equally amazing? Oh man, I wish!I was somewhere only marginally less awesome, a Santa Fe Institute summer camp...in Groton, Massachusetts. Some more details

Re: [FRIAM] Beyond the visible - pushing science forward

I have been twice, and the second time I was fortunate enough to be with a group (my school) who was permitted a tour of the control room and the correlator (parallel computing) room. There was a hallway with a chalkboard laying out the operating plan for 1991, and in a corner was scrawled Jody

Re: [FRIAM] Haiku for gChat

Dear Internet Community at Large: If a site carries ads such as WATCH: Baby In India Spontaneously Catches Fire, and if said site also has autoplaying video ads that restart a little while after being paused, it is not a site you should link to. Find a better site or copy/paste content. Thanks.

Re: [FRIAM] asymmetric snooping

It seems unacceptable that a statement could stand like X is 52% classified where X is not an aggregate disconnected set of things, but some single fact in context. It would be just muddy guidance. The fact in context can be disclosed to a specific audience, or it cannot. It can't be

Re: [FRIAM] Atmospheric mechanics and thermodynamics

In this case, I think the conceit was that the computer found the *strong correlation* between tornado damage reports and trailer parks (since that is where the threshold for damage is lower than conventional homes). Populated areas might have been defined for the computer as 'areas with a

Re: [FRIAM] Google Reader – Google

Actually, all the recent discussion of people's RSS workflows has made me want to get into using it (I have relied on routine and bookmarks and email subscriptions previously). I might use an RSS client rather than a website, though. Still need to research, but in that my archived FriAm / other

Re: [FRIAM] Hardware Trojans - was:] Urgent: skype vulnerability?

That said, they clearly are not everybody, unless we all have some hidden memories. :P And Anonymous does have official channels to publish statements of intent, and has disavowed afiliation with other parties claiming to work on behalf of Anonymous; all of the confirmed Anonymous attacks have had

Re: [FRIAM] J T Tom, please add me to your LinkedIn network

Something went wrong here in a potentially interesting way. -- Arlo James Barnes On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 9:21 PM, michael barron via LinkedIn mem...@linkedin.com wrote: [image: LinkedIn] http://www.linkedin.com/e/-1hr2nv-hl1ozvsn-6k/hom/?hs=falsetok=3awxRomT_FslU1 Hi J T Tom, I'd

Re: [FRIAM] XOAB: Socks, done right. by Rick Neil Levine — Kickstarter

Who knew socks could be so exciting? Maybe Twitter is like socks. But not like SOCKS, which is what I thought the KickStarter link was going to be about. -Arlo James Barnes FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30

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