Re: [FRIAM] the story behind free pdfs of 34 cold fusion papers in Current Science 104(4) 574-7, 2015.02.25: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax: Rich Murray 2015.02.24

2015-02-25 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Just to be clear, not the current issue of Science but another one out of southeast Asia. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe

Re: [FRIAM] The nature of ISIS

2015-02-23 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Glen writes: ``And anyone who takes up arms to achieve anything other than harm reduction, is falling into the exact same ideological trap the believers are in. '' Harm can only be defined. Marcus FRIAM Applied Complexity Group

Re: [FRIAM] fresh Snowden

2015-02-20 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Amazing what is possible when the usual rules don’t apply, and time and money is focused on a problem, e.g. #10 below. https://securelist.com/files/2015/02/Equation_group_questions_and_answers.pdf As this is a multi-national Russian firm that deconstructed this, it alludes that all sorts

Re: [FRIAM] [ SPAM ] Re: Fwd: Share Your Knowledge: Taxonomy Boot Camp

2015-02-20 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Steve writes: Most recently, I worked with other UNM Researchers, Dr's Caudell, Gilfeather, Lugar, Taha, et al on a project ultimately entitled Faceted Ontologies which was primarily about building, from open source Intelligence, knowledge structures, developing a normalized model for

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Share Your Knowledge: Taxonomy Boot Camp

2015-02-20 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On Fri, 2015-02-20 at 09:26 -0700, Tom Johnson wrote: Interesting topic here, at least to me. Has anyone ever attended this? Have not. Some folks, like catalogers librarians are good at this sort of thing, it seems very tedious and hard to scale. To scale it, I would imagine

Re: [FRIAM] .+++.------.--------.+. was: Faber, Sapiens, or Ludens?

2015-02-16 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Carl wrote: “I thought it was a high-level dance notation at first.” http://esolangs.org/wiki/Befunge would probably be better for that. One might conclude these folks are clearly from the Homo Ludens camp, given the apparent uselessness of the activity. Nonetheless, a programming model

Re: [FRIAM] Faber, Sapiens, or Ludens?

2015-02-15 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 2/15/2015 4:05 PM, Steve Smith wrote: This also could be considered another salvo *in* the politics of fear. /If you *don't* approve on my schedule, the unregulated use of any given promising technology to relieve my specific life-threatening condition, you are harming me/. What I would

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Michelle Minkoff

2015-02-15 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On Sat, 2015-02-14 at 12:58 -0700, Tom Johnson wrote: Some interesting observations by a young journalism developer. There seem to be some connections between journalism and software development. There are uber-hard debugging problems that may have some of the qualities of investigative

Re: [FRIAM] response to: Friam Digest, Vol 140, Issue 12

2015-02-15 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Victoria writes: IN the long run it is more profitable, and much less arrogant. If I were sick with one of these conditions, I'd be extra special mad if it approval of these treatments were hung up on the politics of fear.

Re: [FRIAM] Faber, Sapiens, or Ludens?

2015-02-15 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 2/15/2015 5:35 PM, Steve Smith wrote: On the other hand, like so many of us, I can admit to a bias *against* rapid technology deployment (not necessarily against rapid scientific development. ) One treatment for relapsing/remitting multiple sclerosis is dimethyl fumarate. This goes for

Re: [FRIAM] speaking of old people...

2015-02-14 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Steve writes: ``I don't really trust engineering-thinking (GMO) to replace evolution... humans and domesticated flora and fauna co-evolved... just jumping in and replacing things with new and improved isn't as simple/obvious as one might imagine, I contend.'' Perhaps the only way to learn the

Re: [FRIAM] GMO and the evil you know

2015-02-14 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Steve writes: ``I believe we live in the constant fog of the evil you know, working like crazy to fix the problems that are in our face today, often caused precisely by the problems caused by our last round of fixes, whilst being willfully ignorant of an evil we could know but choose not to

Re: [FRIAM] ransomware all the way down

2015-02-03 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Well, now there are people looking to steal the keys to your web services so they can hold your business web site ransom, for a much larger ransom. It's either punishment for careless web administration or nearly impossible to defend against depending on which expert sound bite you want

Re: [FRIAM] [ SPAM ] RE: clinical diagnosis of [a]theism?

2015-02-01 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Vladimyr wrote: I have a Circulant Graph that appears very Hamiltonian in 3D and not so in 2D, but still interesting? Mathematica recently (ver 10) added a graph analysis capability. It has a Hamiltonian predicate (HamiltonianGraphQ). Marcus

Re: [FRIAM] Turing's Cathedral

2015-01-30 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Nick writes: “I thought the whole point was to consider all the branches.” That’s a good goal, if it can be done. But it’s like saying, “Why don’t we just kill the terrorists?” Obviously, because there are no maps and schedules of their activities. It’s hard to find all the branches

[FRIAM] [ SPAM ] RE: clinical diagnosis of [a]theism?

2015-01-28 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Glen wrote: mgd circa Wed Jan 28 00:06:38 EST 2015: Consider counting boolean values. Trial one gives `1', `0', `0'. Trail two gives `1', `0', `0', and, `GodIsGreat'. The practical question is whether or not its good or adequate practice to throw away the outlier. Obviously, I tend to

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Forum hacked

2015-01-28 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
TL;DR - Current GPU-based password cracking using 20-million word dictionaries make truly random passwords below 14 characters and nearl all pass-phrases susceptible to cracking in a relatively short time. There are an increasing variety of cryptographic algorithms being developed

Re: [FRIAM] [ SPAM ] RE: clinical diagnosis of [a]theism?

2015-01-27 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On Tue, 2015-01-27 at 15:25 -0600, Vladimyr Burachynsky wrote: The litigants have no right to enforce their contrived rules on the judges, or do they? Yes, it is just a struggle for power. There are no rules. Marcus FRIAM

Re: [FRIAM] Programming Literacy

2015-01-26 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Owen wrote: This is not developer level .. its literacy level, understanding the basics and having a cultural intuition where it all fits in. I recently advised someone that took Harvard's CS-50 class. Someone with no experience with programming. Initially she said she wanted rules for what

Re: [FRIAM] clinical diagnosis of [a]theism?

2015-01-26 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Glen writes: but Harris, having authored so many books, should be much better at it than he seems to be. It may not be such a bad approach, depending on his goals. Does he want to persuade anyone or just a certain type of person? Wrong approach for a politician, but adequate for tenured faculty

Re: [FRIAM] clinical diagnosis of [a]theism?

2015-01-25 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Glen writes: I feel the same way about Charlie Hebdo and the opinions of Sam Harris (http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/sam-harris-liberals-like-greenwald-aslan-support-thuggish-ultimatum-of-islamic-terrorists/). “This ‘respect’ we’re all urged to show for ‘religious sensitivity,’ is actually

Re: [FRIAM] clinical diagnosis of [a]theism?

2015-01-20 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On Tue, 2015-01-20 at 09:18 -0700, Roger Critchlow wrote: And a month later, though actually submitted two months in anticipation, scientific research responds with: http://pnis.co/vol2/s1.html Neural correlates of people waiting to get into Heaven They joke that The eventual results

Re: [FRIAM] re the French and Furriners

2015-01-18 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On Sun, 2015-01-18 at 08:30 +0100, Michel Bloch wrote: When it comes to sacred and key national matters, your Medias can practice self-censorships which would be unacceptable in France. Is it an important distinction whether it is the force of government or the force of sponsors, if sponsors

Re: [FRIAM] re the French and Furriners

2015-01-18 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On Sun, 2015-01-18 at 12:15 -0500, Patrick Dufour wrote: I don't see any contradiction between the freedom of expression against concepts and beliefs (such as religions) and the expression of hate speech against people. A concept should be powerful enough to be believable and avoid criticism

Re: [FRIAM] re the French and Furriners

2015-01-18 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Russ Abbott quoted the New Yorker: In other words, you can ridicule the prophet, but you cannot incite hatred toward his followers. To take two more examples, the actress Brigitte Bardot was convicted and fined for having written, in 2006, about France’s Muslims, “We are tired of being led

[FRIAM] [ SPAM ] Re: academic fields whose practitioners believe ...

2015-01-16 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
It was wonderful the range of personal experience we were able to bring to bear on this subject and the lack of guardedness with which we were able to explore it given our diverse history. Another benefit of in-person meetings is that this list fails to actually deliver all mails! Marcus

Re: [FRIAM] [ SPAM ] Re: academic fields whose practitioners believe ...

2015-01-16 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
I know... I only occasionally recognize that fact... I think Nick was the first to notice a while back and suggested that it was a conspiracy against him alone... which I also feel sometimes... It is a wonderful outcome if two (hypothetical) agents with diametrically opposed viewpoints can

Re: [FRIAM] [ SPAM ] RE: Slasdhot linked article RE; god

2015-01-12 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Mohammed El-Beltagy wrote: Such holistic grasp and resultant passion may often accelerate our understanding of the natural world in the left brain or analytic sense. This case is very clear in ancient Egypt where that religious passion gave rise to amazing advances in mathematics, geometry,

[FRIAM] decentralized, encrypted storage

2015-01-11 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
A decentralized, secure alternative to Dropbox.. http://storj.io 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] decentralized, encrypted storage

2015-01-11 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
I suppose it hearkens back to what we westerners have always been taught about the relationship between freedom and responsibility. I relate anonymity to freedom, in the sense that I can say whatever outlandish thing I want when I’m anonymous, with no direct repercussions except for

Re: [FRIAM] clueless technology question

2015-01-10 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
“Why not use your phone and get an app that will make your music available.” http://gizmodo.com/apple-watch-will-play-music-on-bluetooth-headphones-no-1634369364 FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at

Re: [FRIAM] clueless technology question

2015-01-10 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Marcus G. Daniels Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2015 4:04 PM To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' Subject: Re: [FRIAM] clueless technology question “Why not use your phone

Re: [FRIAM] Help!

2015-01-09 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
A few years back, there was a visitor, external faculty member, what have you, at the Santa Fe Institute who wrote a book (I swear!) entitled Democracy in the Forest. He commuted for a time from UCLA, or some other LA university. The book title does not pop, although several entries regarding a

Re: [FRIAM] [ SPAM ] RE: Slasdhot linked article RE; god

2015-01-09 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 08:39 -0800, glen wrote: Worse yet, amongst the lay population who _say_ they believe in evolution, their onion is really more of a hollow spheroid, with a flimsy outer layer alone. Sure, religion is just the worst because they do it _on purpose_. Meanwhile, atheism is

Re: [FRIAM] Slasdhot linked article RE; god

2015-01-08 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On Thu, 2015-01-08 at 15:17 -0800, glen wrote: If the US were really more focused on integration, then wouldn't we treat people like this as criminals and not terrorists? Or that they are mentally ill and need `retraining'. But that takes us down the road of recognizing the danger latent in

[FRIAM] [ SPAM ] RE: Slasdhot linked article RE; god

2015-01-08 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Victoria writes: So any belief other than one's own is a delusion? Subjective experience must run counter to objective evidence to get this label. A belief that can be represented by a set of features, understandable by independent observers in a repeatable way is not a delusion. If someone

Re: [FRIAM] Slasdhot linked article RE; god

2015-01-08 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Glen writes: (¬Falsifiable ↛ false) (fantasy ≢ counterfactual) On Thu, 2015-01-08 at 15:47 -0600, Vladimyr Burachynsky wrote: Time, trial and error improves the operation of delusions. [..] So the ultimate goal of terrorism is not to kill all of it's critics but to make as many as possible

Re: [FRIAM] Slasdhot linked article RE; god

2015-01-07 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
And the skeptical response: https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/can-science-prove-the-existence-of-god-b6fefdc52588 Do you want or need your belief in a divine or supernatural origin to the Universe to be based in something that could be scientifically disproven? And so believers who

Re: [FRIAM] advice on a most-portable computer

2015-01-04 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 1/3/2015 4:00 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: It may be possible to take the whole resulting image and run it under VMWare Workstation (for Windows or Linux), but I haven't tried. VMWare Workstation is more though ($250). So VMWare Workstation 11 can run MacOS X (e.g. Yosemite

Re: [FRIAM] clinical diagnosis of [a]theism?

2014-12-29 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Glen writes: I think probability is a red herring, as is high pop variation of any kind. I suppose so. But there are situations, especially in biology, where some aspect of an experiment can be reproduced but only to put a confidence interval on a correlation. Insisting on experiments that

Re: [FRIAM] clinical diagnosis of [a]theism?

2014-12-26 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
General relativity predicts gravitational waves. A result of that prediction, elaborate measurement techniques have been devised like computational filtering of observatory data (Einstein @ Home) or superconducting devices to detect polarization of the cosmic microwave background (POLARBEAR 2).

Re: [FRIAM] clinical diagnosis of [a]theism?

2014-12-26 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Glen writes: ``Well, my specific problem is that I think atheists and theists are delusional. They think they know things they cannot know. So, if Nick's point is that the concept of theist (or atheist) is too muddy to define validatable[*] tests for, then, as an agnostic, I would completely

Re: [FRIAM] [ SPAM ] RE: clinical diagnosis of [a]theism?

2014-12-22 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Nick wrote: Well, 30 or more tiny fm radios placed at strategic locations around the mother board, might be more like it. No? Like if a team of two or three aliens came to watch the Earth from orbit, before there was broadcasting. Relatively speaking, that's how many individual things they'd

Re: [FRIAM] [ SPAM ] RE: clinical diagnosis of [a]theism?

2014-12-22 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Nick writes: So when someone proposes a measure of something complicated such as atheism, it's fair to ask what the validator of that measure would be, what the measure is actually intended to GET AT. And one of the kind of standard observations that my kind of psychologist often makes, is that

[FRIAM] [ SPAM ] RE: clinical diagnosis of [a]theism?

2014-12-21 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Marcus' proposal is for _finding_ the correlates to come up with a functional neuronal biomarker, which might include binding patters across the entire cortex (eg eeg), which I'd prefer. I thinking of complex or hypercomplex cells of the visual cortex -- that a hierarchical combination of

Re: [FRIAM] [ SPAM ] RE: [ SPAM ] Re: Re: clinical diagnosis of [a]theism?

2014-12-20 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
From self-reports, classify a lot of people as being [a]theist. Randomly select half of the people to be used to generate hypotheses, by putting sensors on neurons in the prefrontal cortex and ask questions that would select for consensus builders vs. breakers, [in]tolerance, [anti-]

[FRIAM] [ SPAM ] RE: [ SPAM ] Re: clinical diagnosis of [a]theism?

2014-12-19 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
It seems to me that one could devise various tests for coherence (e.g. smoothness of some class of topological transformations), or, hey some behavior makes sense in some evolutionary context. So, in this sense the coherence is testable, and may even be said to posses a certain artistic,

[FRIAM] [ SPAM ] RE: [ SPAM ] Re: Re: clinical diagnosis of [a]theism?

2014-12-19 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
But I tend to find that everyone has a little bit of Smullyan in them, which is why I brought up horror movies. Anyone who likes fiction, whether they know it or not, enjoys playing with artificial logics. The coherence (or lack thereof) of any given game doesn't really detract from the game

Re: [FRIAM] clinical diagnosis of [a]theism?

2014-12-18 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 12/18/2014 4:28 PM, glen wrote: I've been passively looking out for any hint of an objective way to diagnose whether someone's a[n] [a]theist. The article referenced in the other thread sums it up. But if you think that you can’t test it, you shouldn’t put money into the theory either. The

Re: [FRIAM] Does the world need 5G? Driverless cars, IoT, future devices will demand it - Feature - TechRepublic

2014-12-16 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On Mon, 2014-12-15 at 18:40 -0500, Tom Johnson wrote: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/does-the-world-really-need-5g/?tag=nl.e099s_cid=e099ttag=e099ftag=TREd8c0fa8 Cabling is insane for large supercomputer installations. Some systems have more than 50 miles of Infiniband cabling.

Re: [FRIAM] The Myth of Bernie Sanders

2014-12-16 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Hawks on the left seek to improve the greater good, in part, by ensuring that those that do not will be ineffective in pursuing their goals. What sorts of investments and tradeoffs to make in order to achieve this are good topics for debate among those of this mind.It must depend on who

Re: [FRIAM] 100 MW fusion reactor in 7x10 foot footprint, 10 years to deployment

2014-10-16 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On Thu, 2014-10-16 at 07:32 -0400, Eric Smith wrote: I bet the reactor is the power plant in this: http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/zero-helicopter-concept which makes it so small and elegant. At 19388kW, http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/mi-12.php At 10kW,

Re: [FRIAM] BBC News - Ant colony 'personalities' shaped by environment

2014-08-24 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 8/24/2014 1:30 PM, Eric Smith wrote: The discussion of perpetual motion machines just provides an example where the anal-retentive can dot the i's and cross the t's to verify that it is indeed possible to make statements in which one does not know what one is talking about. I'm torn:

Re: [FRIAM] online markdown editors

2014-07-17 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
https://github.com/coolwanglu/vim.js/blob/master/README.md From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Gillian Densmore Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2014 4:35 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: [FRIAM] online markdown editors Greetings, inlight

Re: [FRIAM] IPViking live

2014-07-14 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
What are those attacks initiating from a .mil address south of Ghana? And why are they mostly attacking the US?! http://www.voanews.com/content/a-13-2004-11-12-voa42-66870572/376603.html -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen ep ropella Sent:

Re: [FRIAM] IPViking live

2014-07-14 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
the American government, where location data is unavailable. -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Marcus G. Daniels Sent: Monday, July 14, 2014 6:59 PM To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' Subject: Re: [FRIAM] IPViking live What are those

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

2014-07-10 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
“Of course, when you are talking about money, people's minds immediately go to another recently-discussed topic on the list, campaign finance reform and the related but separate institution of bribery. That is a pretty good example where transactions should not be private, but that is because

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

2014-07-09 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
“By allegedly designing the Silk Road to use tools like the anonymity software Tor and the potentially tough-to-trace bitcoin, she argues that he had invited drug dealers onto the property.” “Projects like Darkcoin and Dark Wallet that seek to enable the anonymous use of cryptocurrency

Re: [FRIAM] Source Forge, inter alia

2014-07-03 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Open source software is less to have spyware or viruses. That's because the software is in its preferred high-level form - the recipe is published. Proprietary software, in contrast, is delivered as a binary. To know whether bad stuff is in a binary program, a difficult decompilation and reverse

Re: [FRIAM] Source Forge, inter alia

2014-07-03 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
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 millions of eyeballs, not that many actually looked at it. I suspect only the

Re: [FRIAM] NSA deep packet inspection targets

2014-07-03 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On Thu, 2014-07-03 at 09:55 -0700, glen wrote: Everyone should be using and searching for tools and content that puts them on the NSA's list, even as the requirements for that list evolve. That objective is no different than that of working toward higher quality of life, less hunger, more

Re: [FRIAM] Eigenmorality

2014-06-23 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
But I still don't think it speaks quite to morality? One thing missing from that approach is how, given some context, to generate a `moral' behavior, and how to deconstruct why a behavior is moral or immoral. It's just a context, the union of a set of (presumed) value systems.. The

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: Comcast Is Turning The US Into Its Own Private Hotspot | TechCrunch

2014-06-11 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On Wed, 2014-06-11 at 17:47 +, Parks, Raymond wrote: Of course, you could pull off Marcus' idea by sniffing wifi traffic of real Comcast customers looking for that SSID, changing your server's MAC to match the Comcast customer, and then running Tor. Seems likely a neighborhood where one

[FRIAM] 4G LTE in Santa Fe

2014-05-29 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Hi, Does anyone, esp. in Santa Fe, have 4G LTE that they use for their primary Internet connection? If so, how variable is the performance and how reliable is it? I see T Mobile still offers unlimited data plans. Marcus FRIAM

Re: [FRIAM] Telehack

2014-05-01 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 4/30/2014 11:57 PM, Tom Carter wrote: Ah, the joys of curses on a vt100 . . . :-) Install `ed' and learn how to navigate a program only using regular expressions. No excuses, it's still maintained (below). Curses?? What's that pattern matching using the visual cortex?The neocortex

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Math (On Electric Car)

2014-05-01 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On Thu, 2014-05-01 at 12:32 -0600, Roger Critchlow wrote: Your ranter should be forced to breath nothing but car exhaust until he changes his mind. What a moron. The Volt doesn't need to stop for a charge, but gives the user option of doing that. And Tesla has robotic battery swaps that

Re: [FRIAM] NoSQL

2014-04-21 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 4/21/2014 3:16 PM, Alfredo Covaleda Vélez wrote: I wonder, which one is the most usable NoSQL database. I am guessing, maybe MongoDB? I've used db4o for some small projects. Works as advertised. I don't really have any objection to the relational approach and SQL (query planners, etc.)

Re: [FRIAM] Password Change Requests

2014-04-18 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On Fri, 2014-04-18 at 10:45 -0700, glen wrote: Convenience is the _enemy_. Convenience has a cost. Pay it. If there is to be centralization, use economies of scale to detect and adapt to fraud rather try to prevent it. I agree these schemes to find a trustworthy agent are doomed to failure.

Re: [FRIAM] Password Change Requests

2014-04-18 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On Fri, 2014-04-18 at 13:08 -0600, Steve Smith wrote: As individuals with enlightened self interest it would seem to be in our interest to understand how these things work and work *with* them rather than continue to try to brute-force *engineer* these things. In the social context, it is

Re: [FRIAM] basin filling

2014-04-16 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On Tue, 2014-04-15 at 21:37 -0600, Steve Smith wrote: The public is trained to look for simple, linear relationships between things and zeroth order effects, I'm just calling for the development of a broader and deeper description of these very relevant problems. Is it possible that we might

Re: [FRIAM] basin filling

2014-04-16 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
I think the notion of an attractor survives the dimensionality problem. It seems clear that patriarchy is a stable attractor. I don't know why, of course. Because it is by definition? If people are persuaded or forced to participate in matriarchy, patriarchy, or kyriarchy then it

Re: [FRIAM] basin filling

2014-04-15 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On Tue, 2014-04-15 at 13:53 -0600, Steve Smith wrote: I believe that our common understanding of such problems as gender/race inequalities tends to be too simple which might explain why progress in the domain is both slow and somewhat herky-jerky. A master equation for an economic system will

Re: [FRIAM] basin filling

2014-04-14 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On Mon, 2014-04-14 at 10:05 -0700, glen wrote: On 04/14/2014 09:38 AM, Nick Thompson wrote: If we were dedicated to filling that basin, what would that look like? It would look like an understanding of merit and reward that addressed as many dimensions of a human and its environment as

Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?

2014-04-13 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 4/13/14, 12:29 PM, Steve Smith wrote: I think a lot of Apple's success can be attributed to Steve Jobs' tendencies in this area. I'm not saying that his sense of consumer products and design style wasn't important but I think maybe his general management and/or leadership style, might have

Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?

2014-04-13 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 4/13/14, 1:31 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: Both did it by making the team company goals *very* clear, and in a broad context. Why were we different? What is our goal? Why? How is the rest of the Valley looking at this? Why did my part matter. Hey, is this one of those sunny California

Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?

2014-04-12 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 4/11/14, 10:44 PM, Nick Thompson wrote: Then some poultry husbandry professor got a bright idea. Instead of breeding chickens by the individual, he bred and selected them by the cage, so that it was the best CAGES that got to parent the next generation. If you want to extend this metaphor

Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?

2014-04-12 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 4/12/14, 11:32 AM, Steve Smith wrote: On 4/12/14 11:30 AM, Merle Lefkoff wrote: Sorry--it was late and I was getting goofy. I remembered an old joke about physicists and chickens. Neither you nor I are physicists, but we do have to contend with them sometimes. And they are all spherical

Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?

2014-04-12 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 4/12/14, 2:17 PM, Steve Smith wrote: Yeh... since my wife slipped blowfish shashimi onto the sushi tray I've had to trim my beard with toenail clippers... who would have guessed that transgenic effects were so easy to obtain? An unfortunate case of role suction.. Marcus

Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?

2014-04-12 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 4/12/14, 9:02 PM, Nick Thompson wrote: It would be interesting to know if the most enduring and productive corporations are led by assholes, or if, suppressing the competition within corporations leads to better corporations. Crowdfunded private intelligence? Marcus

Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?

2014-04-11 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 4/10/14, 5:09 PM, Gary Schiltz wrote: A very North American (and simply human, I suspect) perspective. I don’t have personal experience, but I believe the more “advanced” democracies of the world have recognized this tendency and legislated to regulate it. To actually regulate it, it would

Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?

2014-04-11 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On Fri, 2014-04-11 at 09:50 -0700, glen wrote: The asymmetries being amplified by our new openness are simply different from those that dominated before the openness. Our new masters will be (are, actually) people like the brogrammers ... people like Musk and Schmidt. And it's not really

Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?

2014-04-11 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On Fri, 2014-04-11 at 10:26 -0700, glen wrote: 2) experiment and analyze for the types of manifolds that lead to more/good symmetry, then support those. Symmetry of what? What is an example of such a manifold? Marcus FRIAM

Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?

2014-04-11 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Well, most of us, I think, agree that symmetry with respect to female and male compensation is a good symmetry. So, there's one example. The problem there is gender culture, and the objectionable enduring aspects of that could be eliminated with some biochemical tuning. Weaken or strengthen

Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?

2014-04-11 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On Fri, 2014-04-11 at 11:49 -0700, glen wrote: That's overshooting just a bit... too easy of a target to knock down because too few people would volunteer. There are Sunday morning advertisements on TV for roll-on testosterone! And of course it is very common for women to take hormone

Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?

2014-04-11 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On Fri, 2014-04-11 at 13:35 -0600, Nick Thompson wrote: Doesn’t a meritocracy favor the children of the meritorious, irrespective of their own merit? Doesn’t a meritocracy favor those who disregard their families? If the first sentence is true, then they aren't disregarding their families.

Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?

2014-04-11 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On Fri, 2014-04-11 at 14:21 -0700, glen wrote: Again, we're limited by our binary, unidimensional, and translational understanding of merit and the reward for merit. That limited/ambiguous understanding is the root of the problem. And it's why both Nick and Marcus are both logically right

Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?

2014-04-11 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 4/11/14, 8:19 PM, Nick Thompson wrote: And, it [Prozac] moves monkeys up the hierarchy. New monkeys are at least a novelty compared to the old monkeys. Marcus FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe

Re: [FRIAM] Major bug called 'Heartbleed' exposes Internet data

2014-04-10 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On Thu, 2014-04-10 at 10:20 -0600, Joshua Thorp wrote: 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

Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?

2014-04-10 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Astra Taylor writes: ``Those women who do fight their way into the industry often end up leaving -- their attrition rate is 56%, or double that of men -- and sexism is a big part of what pushes them out. “I no longer touch code because I couldn't deal with the constant dismissing and undermining

Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?

2014-04-10 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Steve writes: More than anything, I find that a healthy team can help a new member find resonance with the teams values and habits (work ethic, quality work product, open communication, etc.) while an unhealthy one can undermine an individual's natural instincts or choices. I argue that

Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?

2014-04-10 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On Thu, 2014-04-10 at 15:25 -0600, Roger Critchlow wrote: So, what's the question here? [..] Or are you thinking that maybe all those white male losers got their skills and jobs through some sort of structural inequity that tilted the competition in their favor? There's a third possibility,

Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?

2014-04-10 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On Thu, 2014-04-10 at 16:22 -0600, Nick Thompson wrote: But if we are to get out of this mess, and if we believe families are important to human individual and collective well-being, we have to find a way to counter the perverse incentives that afflict corporate managers. IMO, lurking in

Re: [FRIAM] Openness amplifies Inequality?

2014-04-10 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On Thu, 2014-04-10 at 16:38 -0600, Steve Smith wrote: The original (implicit) question was *does* Openness amplify Inequality as a matter of course? Reading over the essay again, all she seems to notice are abusive misogynistic trolls. I guess if they could be compartmentalized and kept from

Re: [FRIAM] Wolfram Language Demo - Business Insider

2014-03-10 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On Mon, 2014-03-10 at 16:07 -0600, Tom Johnson wrote: Perhaps I'm late to this latest party hosted by Wolfram, but has anyone on the list worked with this? If so, what were your results? http://www.wolfram.com/language/ looks to me like Mathematica + domain libraries + marketing. Marcus

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

2014-03-04 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Macros (in the Lisp sense) are still, as far as I know, unique to Lisp. This is partly because in order to have macros you probably have to make your language look as strange as Lisp. It may also be because if you do add that final increment of power, you can no longer claim to have invented a

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

2014-03-04 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 3/4/14, 11:33 AM, glen wrote: Although I haven't participated, I think we can learn quite a bit from the outright generosity shown by Kickstarter participants. To me it is important to believe there are things inherently worth doing, and that there is someone that wants to do them and a

Re: [FRIAM] CrowdFunding

2014-03-04 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 3/4/14, 1:12 PM, Steve Smith wrote: I'll probably trigger Marcus again if I suggest collecting funds to build a neighborhood park Can we make it the Glowing Plant park? http://www.glowingplant.com/ Marcus FRIAM Applied Complexity

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

2014-03-03 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 3/3/14, 8:18 AM, Grant Holland wrote: I worked for some of the best computer companies around over the next many years (Univac, Sun Microsystems, (with) Seymour Cray, others) and saw nothing but a steady decline in the centrality of

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

2014-02-24 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 02/24/2014 10:12 AM, glen wrote: Email? Buy your own domain name and a virtual private server from a local hosting company ... again, have them install Debian on it for you. Pay them to set it up, if you have to. Use that for your e-mail.

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

2014-02-24 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 2/24/14, 12:03 PM, glen wrote: Well, it's less about grudges or even disagreements about business practices or technology, and more about what you _learn_ from using a service/tool. If the objective is to learn, which I argue it should be, at least to some satisficing extent, then you

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