[FRIAM] Entropy, irreversibility and inference at the foundations of statistical physics

My google news feed is generally infuriating, but then it redeems itself by finding something like this: Jonathan Asher Pachter, Ying-Jen Yang, and Ken A. Dill, https://www.nature.com/articles/s42254-024-00720-5, in Nature Reviews Physics. Statistical physics relates the properties of macroscale

Re: [FRIAM] A hundred words for swindle

The web apps were originally done while I was in Boston, I like the idea of web pages which can be downloaded and installed on your phone, or tablet, or laptop to provide entertainment while trapped in airplane mode. change.elf.org - the iching in multiple translations which install lazily,

[FRIAM] A hundred words for swindle

Talking with John Zingale at Friam about conniving chatbots, I remembered this essay from 2009, https://elf.org/etc/swindle.html, which starts from real estate speculators in early US history and gets to the deplorable state of the internet. -- rec -- -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-.

Re: [FRIAM] Meeting Location

Hey, I just got dropped off at downtown sub, anyone give me a ride? --rec-- On Fri, Mar 29, 2024, 9:07 AM Frank Wimberly wrote: > Everything is open but it's the way into the building is different. Walk > clockwise around all the cyclone fencing. > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo

Re: [FRIAM] death by ubiquity

but the "dark side" of the moon is sunlit for half of every month? On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 11:33 AM glen wrote: > Bandwidth might be a problem. But the dark side of the moon seems like an > option ... assuming you can negotiate with the aliens that live over there. > The best thing about coral

Re: [FRIAM] the inequities of uniquity

https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/ Twenty years of Not Even Wrong, an anniversary blog post. -- rec -- On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 8:48 AM glen wrote: > [...] > And "unusual" is even worse. Both tokens require one to describe the > context, domain, or universe within which the

Re: [FRIAM] Sleep trackers

I wore the cheapest fitness tracker I could find on Amazon, an Amazfit, for a while. It believed it could distinguish all the phases of my sleep and give me a colorful chart of my night every morning. The charts appeared reasonable but there was never anything I could do about it, the tracker's

Re: [FRIAM] The lies of Trump and ecDNA

I went looking for depressing news in 1924, you know, lying politicians and cancerous social movements: April 1 - Adolf Hitler is sentenced to 5 years in Landsberg Prison

Re: [FRIAM] The problems of interdisciplinary research

Yeah, it seems like the premise of the cartoon, or maybe Jochen's interpretation, was that people have limited scopes of application, and the average scope of application doesn't include interdisciplinary research. But there are people who have larger scope and have a lot of fun doing

[FRIAM] Teach a quadrotor to fly with 18 seconds of simulation on a MacBook Pro

This article probably deserves more critical attention than I've given it, but it's published in IEEE Spectrum: https://spectrum.ieee.org/drone-quadrotor they have videos on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRD43ZA1D-4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYtPG_HmBd8 source code

Re: [FRIAM] Slow AI

From: Roger Critchlow Date: Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:10 AM Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Next Dictator To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group I keep thinking that the next big dictator isn't new. Das Kapital is an artificial life form which by a process of natural selection pursues

Re: [FRIAM] Slow AI

Das Kapital is our most successful experiment in artificial life, but it's still feral and no one has the least clue how to domesticate it, and the grey goo we're constructing is a mass of collateralized debt instruments. -- rec -- On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 11:03 AM Steve Smith wrote: > >

Re: [FRIAM] The last Lighthouse Keeper in America

On Tue, Dec 26, 2023 at 8:51 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > [...] > > Really hoping the machines can take over soon. > > > I just yesterday finished rereading all the Iain M Banks "Culture" novels in the Boston Public Library e-collection, seven between Halloween and Christmas. The "Culture" is a

Re: [FRIAM] Working for the Military Institute of Technology Causes Cognitive Dissonance

I see I missed this on HackerNews yesterday, the comments cover a range of positions. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38642651 -- rec -- On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 12:48 PM Roger Critchlow wrote: > On the subject of cognitive dissonance, and working for large research > instit

Re: [FRIAM] Working for the Military Institute of Technology Causes Cognitive Dissonance

On the subject of cognitive dissonance, and working for large research institutions https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/ai-priority-disputes.html in which Jürgen Schmidhuber complains that LeCun, Bengio, and Hinton claim to have invented modern AI when they were actually mostly reinventing,

Re: [FRIAM] Off the wall question about turbulence

Seems to me that if the design of household drains was sensitive to turbulence, someone would have figured out how to fix it in the 19th century. -- rec -- -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns

Re: [FRIAM] Open AI

This Washington Post article brings up some interesting issues. For instance, I didn't know that Altman considered Thiel a mentor. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/22/sam-altman-fired-y-combinator-paul-graham/ -- rec -- On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 6:38 AM Pietro Terna wrote: >

Re: [FRIAM] Mirror Neurons & Intersubjective Reality

A 60 second search found this behind a paywall: William G Chase and Herbert A Simon. 1973. Perception in chess. Cognitive psychology 4(1):55–81. The abstract sounds right, but there were only three subjects in the study. -- rec -- On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 6:21 AM David Eric Smith wrote: >

Re: [FRIAM] Theil

The stars have aligned to make this assembly theory day! First this article on How Did Life Begin: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/11/14/1082828/how-did-life-begin/ pointed me to an open access article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06600-9 Assembly theory explains

[FRIAM] We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus

Text of Charlie Stross' talk to Next Frontiers Applied Fiction Day in Stuttgart on Friday November 10th, 2023, concerning where the techno-industrial elite found their horrible philosophies/secular religions. https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2023/11/dont-create-the-torment-nexus.html

Re: [FRIAM] Language Model Understanding

Did anyone else notice Geoffrey Hinton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrvK_KuIeJk and Peter Norvig https://www.noemamag.com/artificial-general-intelligence-is-already-here/ among everything else that's been going on? Oh, and Youtube just rudely informed me that my adblocker is no

Re: [FRIAM] Language Model Understanding

-- On Sun, Oct 8, 2023 at 1:27 PM Roger Critchlow wrote: > The book sounds intriguing, but it's not in my lending library. > > Happily, there are lots of Tanner Lecture videos available online: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI-MCqeCILs Wendy Brown from 2019 > https://

Re: [FRIAM] cults

Feels like an AI-fake, or maybe time erodes us into the worst imaginings of our enemies. -- rec -- On Fri, Oct 6, 2023 at 12:02 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > I was tempted to dive into the L vs. E as it may apply to psychology and > sociology, but will just offer this instead. Formal

Re: [FRIAM] Language Model Understanding

The book sounds intriguing, but it's not in my lending library. Happily, there are lots of Tanner Lecture videos available online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI-MCqeCILs Wendy Brown from 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJprCvmrpoY Kim Stanley Robinson from March 2023 -- rec --

Re: [FRIAM] On Apple Podcasts: Solving Tornadoes: Woke Meteorology

Anyone who needs to call "woke" to make a scientific argument has lost my ear. An attention seeking proto-populist weatherman. The electrostatics of individual water molecules, that the hydrogens have some positive charge and the lone pairs of oxygen have some negative charge (which is actually

Re: [FRIAM] Swirlies redux

Or the waypoints in formulating a false confession, under the guidance of a police interrogator. -- rec -- On Sat, Aug 5, 2023 at 10:30 AM Stephen Guerin wrote: > More seriously, I see a series of prompts as vector compositing to give > context and then exploring the synthesized space created.

Re: [FRIAM] Swirlies redux

Who made up the exact timings? -- rec -- On Sat, Aug 5, 2023, 9:10 AM Stephen Guerin wrote: > There were 10 or so intermediate prompts to drive chatGPT to that lab > report. > > On Sat, Aug 5, 2023, 8:52 AM Stephen Guerin > wrote: > >> chatGPT, you are a graduate student at c the Santa Fe

Re: [FRIAM] overshoot day

My sister has a fire up in the Okanogan valley this week, the Eagle Bluff Fire, which blew north into BC. A step-niece, who is working the fire lines in Washington state this summer, recommends the "Watch Duty" app for tracking wildfires. Watch Duty is the only wildfire mapping and alert app

Re: [FRIAM] Watch "The Most Important Idea in Physics: The Principle of Least Action - Ask a Spaceman!" on YouTube

Geometric and physical interpretation of the action principle An open access article from Nature. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-39145-y -- rec -- On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 12:01 PM Barry MacKichan < barry.mackic...@mackichan.com> wrote: > This is late since another ISP cut my fiber

Re: [FRIAM] What is an agent [was: Philosophy and Science}

On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 2:35 PM David Eric Smith wrote: > [...] [Yoshi Oono's The Nonlinear World] > in which he argues that the phenomena you mention are only > “pseudo-complex”. Yoshi, like David but with less of the predictable > “Darwin-was-better; now what subject are we discussing today?”

Re: [FRIAM] McCarthy v Peirce

Seems like there should be an aspect of fine/coarse graining that covers this, I'll just twiddle the focus a bit and see if things make more sense. -- rec -- On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 9:16 AM glen wrote: > Ha! Yes. That's a doozy of a metaphor right there, something the > metaphor-addicted

Re: [FRIAM] Watch "The Most Important Idea in Physics: The Principle of Least Action - Ask a Spaceman!" on YouTube

For more on the wondrous Emmy Noether, listen to https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00025bw and find out how she solved Einstein's problem with the conservation of energy while he was formulating general relativity. -- rec -- -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM

Re: [FRIAM] bespoke turbulence

iz, > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > > 505 670-9918 > Santa Fe, NM > > On Thu, Jun 29, 2023, 5:26 PM Roger Critchlow wrote: > >> I was going to post the University of Chicago press release, >> https://phys.org/news/2023-06-tempest-teacup-physicists-breakthrough-turbulence.html,

[FRIAM] bespoke turbulence

I was going to post the University of Chicago press release, https://phys.org/news/2023-06-tempest-teacup-physicists-breakthrough-turbulence.html, but let it slide until this other article turned up, https://phys.org/news/2023-06-approach-properties-turbulence.html, the original report is

[FRIAM] The Three Toed Sloth meets the Shoggoth

I was trawling through my saved bookmarks looking for insights into Prigozhin's mutiny, when I stumbled to http://bactra.org/weblog/ and found that Henry Farrell and Cosma Shalizi have just published an essay in The Economist,

Re: [FRIAM] From Merle--AI News

There probably already is a law, but no one knows what it is? The law suffers from the same curse as the scientific literature, most of it gets ignored because no one has the time to read it all. So maybe that's what LLM's are for. We can set one to read the collected works of Carl Friederich

Re: [FRIAM] crackpots and privilege

glia, and microbes that can convert moon/mars-dust > to Soylent/Huel/Water/??? etc. > >>>> My PsychoHistory hatted self (Asimov - Foundation < > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychohistory_(fictional)>and > thenon-fictional variant < > https://en.wikipedia.or

[FRIAM] crackpots and privilege

Google news decided to surface an article from Fortune today. It's headlined "Society's refusal to have enough babies is what will save it from the existential threat of A. I., Eric Schmidt says". The headline is accompanied by a very serious head shot of Eric. Nice try, Google, but you're not

Re: [FRIAM] selective optimism

My reaction to the prepper revelation was to seriously question his rationality. Maybe he's just prepping because the other styles of conspicuous consumption didn't appeal to him. Maybe he's running OpenAI because it was the most prestigious gig he could get. Doesn't really have a rational bone

Re: [FRIAM] Cory Doctorow on AI hype vs Crypto Hype

This evening's hackernews contribution: https://hai.stanford.edu/news/ais-ostensible-emergent-abilities-are-mirage AI’s Ostensible Emergent Abilities Are a Mirage According to Stanford researchers, large language models are not greater than the sum of their parts. Which is a gloss on

Re: [FRIAM] Cory Doctorow on AI hype vs Crypto Hype

Oh, the "We Have No Moat" posting is just holding on to the front page of hackernews 24 hours later, 954 comments so far https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35813322 -- rec -- On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 1:01 PM Roger Critchlow wrote: > On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 12:57 PM Roger Cri

Re: [FRIAM] Cory Doctorow on AI hype vs Crypto Hype

On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 12:57 PM Roger Critchlow wrote: > Ah, found the RSS feed that sends text around the paywall. > > -- rec -- > Geoffrey Hinton tells us why he’s now scared of the tech he helped build <https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/05/02/1072528/geoffrey-hinton-googl

Re: [FRIAM] Cory Doctorow on AI hype vs Crypto Hype

ime. **Tickets are available* <https://event.technologyreview.com/emtech-digital-2023/home>* from the event website.* <https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/05/02/1072528/geoffrey-hinton-google-why-scared-ai/> On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 12:16 AM Roger Critchlow wrote: > Merle -- &g

Re: [FRIAM] Cory Doctorow on AI hype vs Crypto Hype

Merle -- I tried, but it's paywalled to me now. -- rec -- On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 4:39 PM Roger Critchlow wrote: > Didn't read Cory's blog, though I'm still laughing at the blurb for Red > Team Blues. > > But I read Geoffrey Hinton's interview with MIT Tech Review yesterday.

Re: [FRIAM] Cory Doctorow on AI hype vs Crypto Hype

Didn't read Cory's blog, though I'm still laughing at the blurb for Red Team Blues. But I read Geoffrey Hinton's interview with MIT Tech Review yesterday. https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/05/02/1072528/geoffrey-hinton-google-why-scared-ai It's not hype that chatgpt dazzled everyone with a

[FRIAM] governing ghostbots

Have you added a "do not bot me" clause to your will? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S02673649232X Via the-syllabus.com, -- rec -- -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns

Re: [FRIAM] Anyone on Friam know Linux capabilities on Pentium PCs ?

I would expect that it should be able to do it. It should also be able to produce a log of all keystrokes and mouse events received and processed. An audit laptop would be able to independently sniff the keystroke and mouse events off the LAN and verify that the log from the test scoring machine

Re: [FRIAM] AI Musings

: > The real numbers are an uncountable set. > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > > 505 670-9918 > Santa Fe, NM > > On Mon, Apr 3, 2023, 3:14 PM Roger Critchlow wrote: > >> I'm just noodling around. >> >> So

Re: [FRIAM] AI Musings

at 12:57 PM Stephen Guerin wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 1, 2023, 8:29 AM Roger Critchlow wrote: > >> >> I tried to get Bard to talk with me about the adjacent possible (AP) the >> other day. It agreed that the AP could not be represented as a >> mathematical

Re: [FRIAM] AI Musings

I think that it depends on having a board of directors/private owner prepared to take their hands off the wheel. The main problem would be trolls attempting adversarial prompts. However comfortable you might get with the ai's ability to handle the day to day affairs, would you ever feel safe

Re: [FRIAM] emergent mind - ai news by ai

Maybe they should just call them "Socratic engineers"? -- rec -- On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 12:13 PM Steve Smith wrote: > REC- > > https://www.emergentmind.com/ > > The user Emma is a robot scanning for postings and tweets about ai news. > They get logged and summarized in the timeline. The user

[FRIAM] emergent mind - ai news by ai

https://www.emergentmind.com/ The user Emma is a robot scanning for postings and tweets about ai news. They get logged and summarized in the timeline. The user Matt is the creator of the site. Bloomberg reports an AI Whisperer prompt engineering job offering $335000/year,

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Cool AI Tools of the Week - ChatGPT Website Builder & More!

I know, I can't wait until we get the first AI wikipedia page edit war, where they attempt to construct evidence for inconsistent hallucinations in the same wikipedia page. But maybe they'll observe ethernet protocols and back off when they detect epistemic co-channel contention. -- rec -- On

Re: [FRIAM] ChatGPT and William James

This was good, too: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html And microsoft laid off its responsible AI team: https://www.platformer.news/p/microsoft-just-laid-off-one-of-its And your Ring doorbell has just been taken hostage for ransom

Re: [FRIAM] ChatGPT knows FRIAM

Watched Wolfram's entry in the um6p complexity slam last night. At the end of his talk he argues that the Chat GPT epiphany is evidence that language has shallow computational complexity. We're surprised because we imagined it was deep and irreducible, but we just kept spreading the data and it

Re: [FRIAM] ChatGPT knows FRIAM

I'm surprised that Nick didn't get an office at Descartes, too. -- rec -- On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 2:29 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > I am glad that ChatGPT ha promoted me to be CTO of Descartes Labs because > my motto is, "I think therefore I am." > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo

Re: [FRIAM] Datasets as Experience

broChatGPT? we told them they needed more diversity in AI development teams. -- rec -- On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 2:52 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > I am a little surprised that gaslighting / mansplaining would be so > prevalent in the media sources used to train chatGPT. Cold-blooded >

[FRIAM] LLM's starting to formulate Theories of Mind

This is from hackernews, https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02083. GPT-3 in 2021 had no theory of mind, january 2022 had a seven year old child theory of mind, november 2022 had progressed to a nine year old. -- rec -- -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied

[FRIAM] A wireless heat engine

This turned up on TheConversation.com which I recently added to my occasionally scanned sources. https://theconversation.com/device-transmits-radio-waves-with-almost-no-power-without-violating-the-laws-of-physics-196271 This sort of invalidates most of my expectations about what communication

Re: [FRIAM] new thermal tech

ch-and-such, then by running an exemplar Carnot engine in > reverse, you could make a perpetual-motion machine of type-XYZ). But I > never did anything with it that yielded a new calculation, as opposed to > just a restatement of common knowledge. > > Anyway… > > Eric > > >

[FRIAM] precision biology

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05563-7 Take your pluripotent human stem cell line, make 25 cell lines with different molecules tagged for fluorescent microscope imaging, run an automated pipeline to grow and gather images, align according to the apical basal axis, express the

[FRIAM] new thermal tech

I was amused to see an announcement of a thermoacoustic heat pump the other day: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/01/02/residential-thermo-acoustic-heat-pump-produces-water-up-to-80-c/ then an ionocaloric refrigerator announcement turns up this morning

Re: [FRIAM] Friday AM

There was a hacker news item this morning about maintaining hydration and chronic illness: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/ebiom/article/PIIS2352-3964(22)00586-2/fulltext those who exceeded 142 mmol/l of serum sodium in middle age got sicker more often later in life. It's the first

Re: [FRIAM] First Sign of Spring

Thanks, Frank, I shouldn't need the reminder. -- rec -- On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 1:37 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > Las Cruces. Feminine noun. > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > > 505 670-9918 > Santa Fe, NM > > On Thu, Dec

Re: [FRIAM] First Sign of Spring

Los Cruces On Thu, Dec 8, 2022, 11:29 AM Nicholas Thompson wrote: > And Roger!? Where are you going to fetch up? > > Where is this vintage 1941 House? > > N > > On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 9:14 AM Roger Critchlow wrote: > >> And a fine day for my return to New Mex

Re: [FRIAM] First Sign of Spring

And a fine day for my return to New Mexico. Flew into El Paso, drove to Las Cruces, picked up my daughter, had enchiladas verde at Chachi's, went to see my vintage 1941 new house, and drove through the earliest dusk of the year to my airbnb in Mesilla. Feel like crap, but I am already improving

Re: [FRIAM] election day distractions

inguished_Gentleman >> their's also a classic about presidential candidate >> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ> >> So is this one <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Groove> >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 5:19

Re: [FRIAM] collective sheepishness

Hmm, not apparently users of arxiv.org either. Here are the raw videos of sheep in pastures, might be good bedtime watching? https://zenodo.org/record/6905807 In my experience, swarms are following the mouse, or chasing a randomly fleeing agent, or just wandering around randomly, or following

[FRIAM] collective sheepishness

>From hackernews https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-022-01769-8 corrected link from comments to "Sheep flocks alternate their leader and achieve collective intelligence" The secret sauce of american democracy. -- rec -- -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM

Re: [FRIAM] (not) leaving Twitter

ond class players to the big banks (LANB/Enterprise included). > There are two major bank branches (buildings) evident in Los Alamos, > though I couldn't name them). Credit Unions are now offering > Mortgages, they did not last time I took one out (16 years ago). > > - Steve > &g

Re: [FRIAM] (not) leaving Twitter

life > sciences" but something more refined). > > Does your play with etoro suggest that's possible there? > > On 11/17/22 08:16, Roger Critchlow wrote: > > Tsk, so many bad investments, so little time! > > > > Binging Sandy Pentland led me to etoro.com &

Re: [FRIAM] (not) leaving Twitter

Tsk, so many bad investments, so little time! Binging Sandy Pentland led me to etoro.com, where everybody can see how everybody's portfolios are doing. The front page gives the top crypto traders on the site, who are all around -70% for the past year. But scroll down and you find out that they

[FRIAM] The other side of Web 3.0

Since crypto is doing so great this week, here's Sandy Pentland explaining why and how he thinks blockchain is about to take off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbd_QHtLTp0 The lecture is from May this year. The questioning from the Stanford audience is instructive. Interestingly, the

Re: [FRIAM] Getting Verbed...

t; https://alternativeto.net/ >>> >> >>> >> which doesn't necessarily solve anything, it just makes it obvious >>> how challenging "too many choices" can be... >>> >> >>> >> After a lame attempt to go with Mastadon I decided to

[FRIAM] election day distractions

Just found Adventures of a Mathematician free with Amazon Prime: The warmhearted story of Polish immigrant and mathematician Stan Ulam, who > moved to the U.S. in the 1930s. Stan deals with the difficult losses of > family and friends all while helping to create the hydrogen bomb and the > first

Re: [FRIAM] books by cheng and chang

scientific questions. These are possibly consequences of being a realisitic realist. -- rec -- On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 9:57 AM glen wrote: > There. I fixed that for you. 8^D > > On 11/1/22 19:36, Roger Critchlow wrote: > > Interesting visit with my old boss/friend today, he

[FRIAM] books by cheng and chang

Interesting visit with my old boss/friend today, he mentioned some books of interest, and while looking for them I discovered yet another book. https://www.amazon.com/Joy-Abstraction-Exploration-Category-Theory/dp/1108477224 Eugenia Cheng, The Joy of Abstraction: An Exploration of Math, Category

Re: [FRIAM] phones with keyboards, or a keyboard you can buy for a phone?

ven exist? > > On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 4:37 PM Roger Critchlow wrote: > >> Pity you can't just switch your computer keyboard to act as your phone's >> character input, as if you were swapping the phone in as another screen. >> >> Almost any bluetooth keyboard shoul

Re: [FRIAM] phones with keyboards, or a keyboard you can buy for a phone?

Pity you can't just switch your computer keyboard to act as your phone's character input, as if you were swapping the phone in as another screen. Almost any bluetooth keyboard should work, and there are tons of them on amazon if you search "bluetooth mini keyboard", and they're cheap. They're

Re: [FRIAM] cable modem?

wirecutter says motorola MB7621 for 600Mb plans, netgear CM500 for up to 300Mb plans, and motorola MB8600 for gigabit plans. I use the 600Mb recommended modem for my 300Mb comcast service on the theory that I get to use channels which 300Mb modems cannot see, so I have less resource contention

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Black holes may hide an odd secret about our universe

You're following too much click bait, follow only healthy links to substantial content and you'll be fine. -- rec -- On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 3:20 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > What a depressing article. I'm not sure why. > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > >

[FRIAM] DeepMind matrix multiplication

Open access https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05172-4 Found faster ways to multiply matrices by gamifying the algorithm search space. As summarized in https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/10/05/1060717/deepmind-uses-its-game-playing-ai-to-best-a-50-year-old-record-in-computer-science/

[FRIAM] monte carlo geometry processing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZbuKOxH71o Via hackernews. How to evaluate partial differential equations without building a finite element mesh of the domain, as inspired by monte carlo ray tracing. Very high quality math/computation video presentation. By Keenan Crane, CMU, 2022-08-29. The

Re: [FRIAM] Still more faking it till you make it

In a similar vein, this article showed up on hackernews last week https://bam.kalzumeus.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fraud/ though a fraudulent credit card transaction has an irate customer generating negative feedback, where a badly edited journal merely pollutes the commons. -- rec -- On

Re: [FRIAM] Uber in Santa Fe

Fun fact, uber was asking for a 50% markup over the cost of a yellow cab at Logan Airport the other evening, bute we only found out when we took the cab. -- rec -- On Tue, Sep 6, 2022 at 10:58 PM Tom Johnson wrote: > It's still here. Our house cleaner used it yesterday mid-morning. > >

Re: [FRIAM] Jack Cowan / Visual Hallucinations and structure of Visual Cortex (was Re: dystopian vision(s))

No compliment so cleverly crafted that it cannot be twisted into an insult. It seems like misinformation, whether our con-specifics are purposefully lying to us or just being so badly informed that they're not even right twice a day, is the actual human condition. So the massive nervous system

Re: [FRIAM] "tech" companies suck

I've lately run into two mentions of "group chat" as the organizing principle of social media for the day. You keep different groups for different purposes, and you don't let social media into the chat. I think Friam actually functions as a group chat, aside from google scanning everything. But

Re: [FRIAM] Advice sought: data compromise

I got a "data security incident notification" in the mail from the "Professional Finance Company, Inc." of Livonia, Michigan that offered me an account with "Cyberscout" to monitor my online credit. That sounded so sketchy, that I ignored it. It turns out to be entirely true, one of the largest

Re: [FRIAM] Isness: Using Multi-Person VR to Design Peak Mystical-Type Experiences Comparable to Psychedelics

ExPoMo? On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 2:58 PM Steve Smith wrote: > I could (almost) claim that I don't understand a word of what you wrote > here. ("I don't even know what you just said). It has the earmarks of a (n > un) natural text generator working with a fairly rarified "gamer/fanboi" > lexicon?

[FRIAM] Isness: Using Multi-Person VR to Design Peak Mystical-Type Experiences Comparable to Psychedelics

https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00940 This must be on some topic around here. Originally picked up from https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/08/06/1056727/vr-virtual-reality-psychedelics-transcendence/, which is paywalled. The original arxiv posting is 20 years old, but the work was just published

Re: [FRIAM] All Of Feynman’s Lectures Now Available Online Completely Free

I'm just > old. > > On 7/25/22 14:38, Roger Critchlow wrote: > > Glen -- > > > > Glad to facilitate. There is no whole document pdf link that I could > find. I figure they just supplied the output files from TeX. The next step > for the publisher do

Re: [FRIAM] All Of Feynman’s Lectures Now Available Online Completely Free

pointer. Maybe I missed the whole > document link. But I've assembled the PDFs into 1 file if anyone would like > me to send it to them. > > On 7/24/22 06:12, Roger Critchlow wrote: > > Here's a new free book at MIT Press which I'm finding readable. > Suggested by hackernews. &g

Re: [FRIAM] All Of Feynman’s Lectures Now Available Online Completely Free

Here's a new free book at MIT Press which I'm finding readable. Suggested by hackernews. https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5329/The-Art-of-Abduction >From the Introduction: If you are a linguist, I encourage you to read on because abduction has > been said to be fundamental to

Re: [FRIAM] All Of Feynman’s Lectures Now Available Online Completely Free

Ah, but google finds the complete text at https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/ and the videos on youtube.com -- rec -- On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 9:16 AM Roger Critchlow wrote: > This content isn't available right now > When this happens, it's usually because the owner only

Re: [FRIAM] All Of Feynman’s Lectures Now Available Online Completely Free

This content isn't available right now When this happens, it's usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it's been deleted. On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 5:45 AM Tom Johnson wrote: > >

[FRIAM] AI etiquette, Marijuana research

Two articles from MIT Tech Review. https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/07/19/1056176/sonys-racing-ai-destroyed-its-human-competitors-by-being-nice-and-fast/ Training AI drivers for Gran Turismo racing, it turns out that they can learn to physically drive faster than people, but they're too

[FRIAM] Experian customer account recovery practice

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/07/experian-you-have-some-explaining-to-do/ -- rec -- -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to

Re: [FRIAM] self-care

And they're discussing how to adapt the Texas bounty hunter law for catching people who cross state lines for forbidden practices. -- rec -- On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 3:12 PM Marcus Daniels wrote: > I can see it now. Netflix and others won't let me watch when I'm a VPN. > When folks ask the

Re: [FRIAM] Web 3 is going great!

- > >TechScape: They used my identity to flog a doomed cryptocurrency – and >then things got weird > > > https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/01/cryptocurrency-tsuka-alex-hern "In the meantime, the Telegram channel was moving so fast that I could >see history

Re: [FRIAM] Web 3 is going great!

re-piqued by FileCoin and AR. But the anti-crypto rants are > fantastic. Perfect examples of healthy criticism. This one was a lot of fun: > > Web3.0: A Libertarian Dystopia > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-sNSjS8cq0 > > On 5/27/22 17:02, Roger Critchlow wrote: > > The lon

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