>In thunder token, the protocol proposes a split set-up so that
transactions are confirmed very quickly, with the blockchain only being
used in the case of emergencies. The rest of the time, thunder token will
use something a little less familiar – a system of agents that follows the
direction of
Interesting article regarding making an argument based on the values of
your opposition instead of your own. Makes sense but as is pointed out so
hard to follow through on because why argue if not because of your own
values? Where are our shared values? Are these the ones at the bottom
center
The article lays the blame at ACK packets...
“”
So how do Netflix customers send so much data today? The answer is mostly in
“ACK packets,” Deeth said. Signifying “acknowledgement” that data has been
received, ACK packets are part of the TCP’s (Transmission Control Protocol’s)
three-way
+1 for lastPass. They do an excellent job of managing passwords, including
functionality for sharing passwords with others which is pretty cool.
BTW: LastPass has a new hack to provide passwords to apps and browsers on
Android phones via accessibility functionality, unfortunately not
according to
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/04/heartbleed.html
http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/55382/heartbleed-read-only-the-next-64k-and-hyping-the-threat
apparently the bug gives access to 64K chunk of ram on the server. The private
key might be in that chunk, but
Well said Carl!
+1 for spending some time on the ‘fundamentals’ but also an acknowledgement
that choosing the proper level of ‘fundamentals’ is also very important, and
indeed sometimes it is the outsider/maverick that makes new progress in a field
just because they don’t know the ‘proper’
I am a fan of block based programming languages for younger students. And yes
I think the transition from TNG to Netlogo is pretty straightforward and
painless…
The biggest advantage I see in block languages, and this may seem minor but I
can tell you from experience it isn’t, block based
This is exaclty how we operate at my company and I have found it to be an
incredible time saver. The alternative requires detective work to solve every
problem for every user. If everyone is using the same Vagrant box then solving
the problems of one user can be applied to all of the other
Owen,
Looks like you have things working just how you want them to. You can keep
working in your master branch and whenever you want to update gh-pages,
git checkout gh-pages
git merge master
done.
So long as you never merge gh-pages into master you are golden.
—joshua
On Dec 4, 2013, at
README
https://github.com/backspaces/test
Thanks for the reinforcement, however .. I should go thru all the steps
1-at-a-time and see if there's anything odd there.
-- Owen
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Joshua Thorp jos...@stigmergic.net wrote:
Owen,
Looks like you have
quite possible .. I'll try it this evening or tomorrow.
I'll also see if there's a git history command that'll help clarify things.
Thans!
-- Owen
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Joshua Thorp jos...@stigmergic.net wrote:
This looks to me like at some point gh-pages was merged
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uninterruptible_power_supply
pricy but worth it.
I had been so spoiled after years of using laptops as my primary computer,
that when I went back to a desktop machine I had no idea just how quick you can
lose everything. An uninterruptible power supply gives you
This an interesting if dense approach to doing away with the password:
https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm
a little more high level: http://www.sqrl.pl/
Basically use an app on your phone or desktop to confirm your unique identity
using a cryptographic signature. One click login… No passwords
Yes in case someone missed this, a very interesting little post from
washington post titled:
How we know the NSA had access to internal Google and Yahoo cloud data
http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/nov/01/snowden-nsa-files-surveillance-revelations-decoded
Why does the conversation always hinge on Snowden's morality? We all knew the
US government is rotten -- so no news there? But an individual breaking an
oath to hide this fact -- that
Which leads to this interesting tidbit: A garden snail has a top speed of
about 78 furlongs per fortnight.
http://www.cathedral.org/wrs/chamber/fortnight-explained.htm
On Oct 25, 2013, at 12:02 PM, Robert J. Cordingley rob...@cirrillian.com
wrote:
1,799,884,800,000 f/f give or take, in a
Just wanted to +1 the SSD as a restorative for old laptops. Put one in my 5?
year old macbook pro. Really makes a difference! I also took the failed dvd
drive out. Haven't had the urge, but they do sell hard drive kits that fit in
that space. Might be a compromise for those who want to
Just noting, I think these are visualizations of fire progressions which
means that this is the equivalent of watching an animated radar map (though
perhaps less accurate?). We see where the fire was estimated to be after the
fact. Not what the fire will do.
Amazing to see the scale of the
Thanks Steve!
Very interested in these sorts of things!
FRIAM should defintely have more of a demo vibe, we have such interesting
people and projects out there!
and,
cheers!
--joshua
On Apr 24, 2013, at 4:01 PM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote:
phellow phRIAMers -
I don't know
Interesting a new language I hadn't hear about. But why would you name
anything Rust?
--joshua
On Apr 3, 2013, at 12:50 PM, mar...@snoutfarm.com mar...@snoutfarm.com
wrote:
contrast with..
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/04/03/mozilla-and-samsung-collaborate-on-
Also I doubt Owen ever said top bit, I imagine it was probably high-order
bit…
I like the question though, can a bug be on purpose. Seems like it would be in
the eye of the beholder, one person's bug might be another's feature.
--joshua
On Mar 24, 2013, at 2:57 PM, Douglas Roberts
What I have seen of less has been all good. Having variables and functions
alone make css a lot more fun. Mixins are great with all the clean up they can
bring by abstracting things that in reality have to be dealt with in series of
one offs for different browsers.
It requires a compiler.
Probably the issue pops up when turning the wheel doesn't have the desired
effect. Without knowing more about how the car works all the user can say is
it doesn't work, and all the mechanic can say is bring it in.
Having an idea of how things are supposed to work one or two levels down can
Might be of interest, wish I had the time for realtime…
https://developers.google.com/drive/realtime/
--joshua
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This is a cool little build, plexiglass prism makes a hologram like effect:
http://vimeo.com/59377788#
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Hah and you get perilously close to the long standing battle of spaces or tabs?
And if tabs what should the width of a tab be?
The answer, by the way, is just say no to tabs. Spaces all the way. :)
--joshua
On Mar 17, 2013, at 9:46 AM, Douglas Roberts d...@parrot-farm.net wrote:
Python
But is the time change even needed? What purpose does it really serve? There
are lots of stories about it rooted in wartime/economy etc. But these things do
not seem to be valid anymore. And are they worth the collective cost?
I have to say I prefer light later in the day though.
--joshua
http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/
On Feb 28, 2013, at 11:13 AM, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net
wrote:
Eric,
Your reference to EPIC2014 suggests you remember the provenance of the
original spoof, which I am still hoping to find. But I got nothing when I
googled epic2014.
For those interested in tech companies shooting themselves in the foot, no one
does it like Adobe:
Adobe Director is back!
http://www.adobe.com/products/director.html
Publish 3d content to iOS devices!!!
… and pay Adobe 10% of your revenue on the App store!!!
(but only if your revenue
Interesting, but the big difference here would be that Mac and Linux come with
python installed where windows doesn't. So updating windows isn't likely to
have as big an impact, since presumably you are including python in you
windows installer and not in you mac or linux one. Or am I
For our mac user friends I just came across this neat little command: purge
It apparently frees up memory in caches. See this:
http://osxdaily.com/2012/04/24/free-up-inactive-memory-in-mac-os-x-with-purge-command/
--joshua
On Feb 7, 2013, at 7:35 PM, Merle Lefkoff wrote:
Hi Nick. Tried to
Nick it sounds like you are on the right track.
I would look at the RAM (memory) consumption first. If you can avoid filling
it up, thus causing your computer to swap to disk, your computer will probably
run a lot better. Easier said than done! But finding these background tasks
that you
lol
On Jan 16, 2013, at 2:49 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
Couldn't have said it better myself.
--Doug
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Eric Charles e...@psu.edu wrote:
Nick,
It is a distillation / satire of several of the threads that I only skimmed
briefly over the past few months.
I would say 300GB still seems to be a lot of data for the cloud. S3 quotes
28.50 a month just for the storage with ~5 bucks a month if you do around 50GB
up and 50 GB down per month which is probably actually more than you are likely
to be doing.
Their glacier product which does not have the
Yeah I agree with this, but hard drives do fail so data should be on multiple
drives and should also be located in more than one location so a fire or theft
doesn't lead to losing everything.
Not that I follow this in practice but in theory…
--joshua
On Jan 15, 2013, at 10:10 AM, Joseph
was the one perpetuating an empty argument…. Don't get mad there
wasn't anyone at home.
;)
--joshua
On Jan 14, 2013, at 12:08 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
Joshua Thorp
We would never say the python script was incompetent.
Would you say IBM Watson/Deep Blue is incompetent at Jeopardy/Chess after
Which was the second generation of programmers?
On Nov 7, 2012, at 8:46 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:
Nifty: Udacity has a HTML5/JS/CSS class that builds a game as the structure
of the class.
That's interesting to me because I found so many of the second generation of
programmers got into
Cool from a different perspective. Discrete game of life implemented in the
discrete game of life. Its turtles all the way the down…
http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/05/turtles-all-the-way-down-or-gliders-or-glider-turtles/
--joshua
On Oct 12, 2012, at 11:12 PM, Russ Abbott wrote:
Yes. Very
I think you just replace '9' with 'n-1' in Dean or Frank's answer and you have
a general proof, for n=2.
I suppose you may need to convince yourself that a number like n^k - 1 ==
(n-1)*n^(k-1) + (n-1)*n^(k-2) + … + (n-1)*(k-k).
--joshua
On Oct 8, 2012, at 11:37 AM, Robert J. Cordingley
. Cordingley wrote:
...and I guess (base) n can be rational, irrational or even imaginary.
Thanks
Robert
On 10/8/12 12:02 PM, Joshua Thorp wrote:
I think you just replace '9' with 'n-1' in Dean or Frank's answer and you
have a general proof, for n=2.
I suppose you may need to convince yourself
The site I've been working on this summer just went live on youtube:
The live debate stream should be available there this evening (if everything
goes right!).
http://www.youtube.com/thevoiceof
Check it out.
Also on yahoo and aol:
http://news.yahoo.com/thevoiceof/
http://thevoiceof.aol.com/
But how do we know this? How would you expect a non-extemist to be heard? Its
not like a non-extremist is going to blow up an extremist group… Sort of by
definition.
Plenty of people have spoken out against the events this week. But what more
can they do? The bombs are news worthy. The
Ugh. But can you appeal the thinking of a jury?
On Aug 29, 2012, at 3:37 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
The plot thickens:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120828225612963
The jury foreman describes (in a youtubed interview) his solution to the
prior art problems which consumed
FRIAM or WEDTECH?
I'm guessing *TECH
;)
I've never known Friam to move...
--joshua
On Aug 26, 2012, at 12:10 PM, Stephen Guerin wrote:
I'm open to either day.
On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Edward Angel an...@cs.unm.edu wrote:
Is there any sentiment for moving FRIAM to Tue or Thu this
This one is for Owen but others may find it interesting:
http://jsfiddle.net/
Lets you explore javascript frameworks with JS (or coffeescript), HTML, CSS
and result panels in a webpage…
Pretty awesome.
--joshau
FRIAM Applied
Anyone else notice that closing the tabs in your browser in the evening is like
popping your day's stack of problems, questions, and diversions?
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This sounds right to me. There is a lot of finger wagging at Iran for not
having domestic capacity for petroleum refinement even though they are a crude
exporter. So I guess capacity works both ways. The other thing I know is
currently a hot topic is natural gas production. I believe the US
We gave up on TV about 8 years ago. Haven't looked back. Of course I care
very little for sports and only miss it for big political moments like state of
the union or presidential debates.
I have noticed that my tolerance for advertisements is very low and watching TV
at the in-laws house
Very interesting, running a cloud based windows machine on your iPad.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/23/technology/personaltech/onlive-desktop-plus-puts-windows-7-on-the-ipad-in-blazing-speed-state-of-the-art.html
FRIAM Applied
Thanks Roger, interesting paper.
I have always been fascinated at the relationship between the language of a
mathematics and corresponding science that can be described with it.
--joshua
On Jan 23, 2012, at 11:43 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
Interesting article about the need for privacy in the creative workplace.
--joshua
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/opinion/sunday/the-rise-of-the-new-groupthink.html
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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
Don't you think Apple has been rewarded for all of these things? What more do
they need?
On Aug 10, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:
Interesting quote from the URL you posted:
Ultimately, the U.S. Department of Justice intervened, forcing Microsoft to
sell the patents it bought and
(mail, contacts, calendar, music, bookmarks, ...)
Which of these didn't google have in the cloud before apple? ;)
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** today **
TITLE: DATA SHARING FOR NEW MEXICO POTTERY TYPOLOGIES
SPEAKER: Dr. Eric Blinman, Director, Office of Archaeological Studies New
Mexico
Wednesday August 11, 12.30p
Santa Fe Complex Commons, 632 Agua Fria Street
Lunch will be available for purchase for $7
ABSTRACT: The study of
is a $99 developers licence and *a Mac computer. *Suddenly the
price goes up considerably (particularly for those of us in Windows-land or
Linux-land)I'm not aware of any iPhone dev environment that runs on
anything other than Mac.
Regards,
Saul
On 13 April 2010 02:53, Joshua Thorp jth
I have been using Snow Leopard since it came out. I have had to replace every
part of my development environment (okay, not vi) to make things work. The 64
bit/32 bit stuff is a problem when using native libraries in Java. If the
library hasn't made the transition your java may have to move
The android phone doesn't make the list?
Owen's point is taken about the lack of total integration. Apple would never
let that happen to their products. Android does have a good set of
integrations and some glaring omissions like read only integration with google
docs. It is a good test of
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Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe]
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From: Joshua Thorp jth...@redfish.com
To: The Friday Morning
I don't know anything about cladistics, so I don't know whether this
fits with it.
ABMs can have many different parents, often not directly known. I'm
not sure parentage in any strict sense would be a particularly good
approach. Better would be to identify separate patterns in how the
Amazon's S3 storage system was down for 8 hours due to a few bad
pieces of gossip (flipped bits resulting in well formed but untrue
pieces of information) passed between their servers. This bad
information resulted in a catastrophic cascade of gossip that lead to
a complete shut down of
You can also look at this as being undefined for the point, but
defined for an interval on the curve which is arbitrarily close to
that point.
--joshua
On Jul 9, 2008, at 10:37 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
In differential geometry a curve with a given parameterization has a
velocity at a
Can anyone think of a movie or scene in a movie that exemplifies
complexity science themes, such as many interacting parts with
emergent patterns, non-linear behaviors, self organizing, etc.
Any thoughts?
--joshua
FRIAM
Too bad it is slash dotted...
Very exciting.
--joshua
On May 9, 2008, at 12:20 PM, Stephen Guerin wrote:
From /. this morning:
The Processing API is now partially implemented in Javascript by
John Resig.
wow. This could allow for some very speedy development times for web-
based
Any time when I could drop by to check the things out? I'll take the
other linux computer if it hasn't gone yet.
--joshua
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On Apr 26, 2008, at 11:31 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry if this is off-topic.
I'm closing my santa
http://barcamp.org/BarCampSantaFe
On Mar 4, 2008, at 9:47 AM, Patrick Reilly wrote:
Can someone send me a link to the wiki?
On Mar 4, 2008, at 8:13 AM, Don Begley wrote:
Those of you who are participating in the barcamp this weekend: the
password for the wiki is c4mp. Please feel free to
On Dec 23, 2007, at 2:24 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:
I have not been able to connect to my home WiFi net because,
according to the OLPC website, the software does not yet allow
connections to a WAP router. Can that be fixed?
Is that a WPA router? If so there looks like there may be progress
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I received one on Friday afternoon. I am incredibly impressed
Very interesting nerd's spreadsheet and a potential big win for
IronPython/.NET
A spreadsheet that is round tripped with equivalent Ironpython code
(changes made to code or spreadsheet show up in the other view).
Which can then be served up on the web as an application simply by
saving
Really pretty cool, the globe becomes planetarium:
http://www.ogleearth.com/2007/08/putting_google.html
Interesting bit about the potential for real time event tracking in
google earth with kmls.
--joshua
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Then there is Euler's Formula which gives: e^(i*PI) + 1 = 0
attachment: euler_e_i_pi_1.jpg
http://agutie.homestead.com/files/Eulerformula.htm
For more about the formula, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Euler_formula
--joshua
On Dec 6, 2006, at 11:33 AM, Martin C. Martin wrote:
Pi
An intreresting project to create an automated news cast:
www.newsatseven.com
Brings news articles delivered by avatars from a 3D shooter game
together with stock video footage and commentary plucked from the
blogosphere. Can fall flat but can also be fairly interesting.
--joshua
I was quite surprised that when I voted using this system, the machine actually reported that I had voted for and against an amendment (I had filled in the wrong bubble by mistake and figured I could at least burn my vote on this issue by filling in the other bubble -- perhaps a wrong headed
Another flame war! Why can't we all just get along? Just kidding...
I have been using linux since 1995. First slackware on desktop and
thinkpad (the vintage butterfly keyboard model), then a sony vaio
with an old defunct distro called storm based on Debian which had
probably one of the
Guess I better start putting my name on my code!But I have to say this is really cool. For instance I was reading about a fast inverse square root method that uses the magic number:0x5f3759dfwhich was improved by Chris Lamont to use the number:0x5f375a86both of which reveal a whole set of
? On Sep 20, 2006, at 10:42 AM, Douglas Roberts wrote:It must be working for the Republicans. Bush's approval rating popped back up to 44% recently. I contend that if that many people actually approve of Bush, then America deserves him. On 9/20/06, Joshua Thorp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Hear, Hear!
--joshua
On Sep 17, 2006, at 12:58 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
A FRIAM'er appears in this Sunday's paper:
http://216.17.87.51/ee/newmexican/?
token=23ac7d3bcf4ea3a3a9e79f99a365cf3e
or http://tinyurl.com/m3xom
Click on Section F, Then on the right column or on the
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