Of interest to some:
https://www.wired.com/2016/01/in-a-huge-breakthrough-googles-ai-beats-a-top-player-at-the-game-of-go
-JS
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Back in the day, Snobol was one of my favorite languages.. I used it
once for a language processing program for a group at IBM, Yorktown.
Joe
On 7/13/15 11:12 AM, Steve Smith wrote:
yup...
where I'm from, the point of digging is not freedom from
digging! fits much of this crew pretty
Borges had an illustrious career making up literary references. Perhaps
you should consider writing short stories... :-)
I believe it is Daniel Kahneman (among others) who talks about our
propensity to fill in the blanks or complete the picture.
Joe
On 1/9/15 11:23 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
I got an email recently about a phone that (I think) I have not seen
mentioned here. The OnePlus One seems to have a large screen, android
based, good camera. Does anybody have any experience / opinion ?
Joe
On 8/24/14, 11:43 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:
My current ancient ios iphone 4s is
http://www.vice.com/read/greenhouse-app-hannah-ewens-nick-rubin-201?utm_source=vicefbus
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Something amazing is happening right now
Joseph,
It looks like the psychology of crowd funding, kickstarting, and looming
deadlines is finally beginning to kick in.
*Right now, on the MAYDAY website, we're seeing a pledge rate of 5
pledges per minute. That's the highest it's ever been. We
It would be nice if someone here could come up with something concrete
besides contributing. Rather than wait for that, I also have created a
pledge page https://my.mayday.us/t/c257-Joseph-Spinden/ for anyone
that would like to contribute to the Mayday Political Action Committee
https
Done. that was easy.
Joe
On 6/9/14, 10:13 PM, Robert J. Cordingley wrote:
Some (US) people on this list with 'kids' (or may be even grandkids)
might find this a worthy cause.
I signed a petition to The United States Senate which says:
Last year Congress lowered interest rates for new
of
the number of logins we have? At a guess, I'd say I have over 200
simply because over the last year I have logged 150+ in 1Password.
One good source, btw, is the monthly mail-list reminders.
-- Owen
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Joseph Spinden j...@qri.us
mailto:j
+ in
1Password.
One good source, btw, is the monthly mail-list reminders.
-- Owen
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Joseph Spinden j...@qri.us
mailto:j...@qri.us wrote:
I certainly do not want to rely on mnemonics, and I find it
(almost) astonishing that people would
I certainly do not want to rely on mnemonics, and I find it (almost)
astonishing that people would devote time to developing a mnemonic
method. I long ago came up with a simple two-step device to keep track
of my 100's of passwords: It is called a spreadsheet. All you need to
remember is the
Or, an extended exercise in the misuse of mathematics and the value of
learning critical thinking..
On 10/31/13, 10:34 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
http://narrative.ly/pieces-of-mind/nick-brown-smelled-bull/ and
http://chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/the-magic-ratio-that-wasnt/33279
describe
Got it in one.
J.
On 10/1/13 12:16 AM, Jochen Fromm wrote:
Is it because the Republicans want to stop health care for the poor?
That would be evil.
-J.
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Date: 01/10/2013 08:01
I hope no one objects to my forwarding this here. I expect it is of
interest to at least some members of this list.
Joe
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/13 11:04 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
I don't think the beautiful woman would accept go read the Wikipedia
article as am answer.
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You can state it pretty simply: There is no algorithm that can decide
whether an arbitrary computer program will ever stop (Halt), or will
loop endlessly..
Definitely a problem for software testing..
Joe
On 4/17/13 10:15 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
Nick: its simple. I married her. Just
On the coursera website, they say 62 universities have partnered with
coursera. What am I missing ?
Joe
On 2013 01 05 8:55 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:
An update on the universities working with coursera. There are now 11
of them. List is below.
I have been using an iPad for a while. I got a Kindle Fire, but found
it way too small; a Kindle DX but found the wireless downloads too much
of a hassle, and also found it not very versatile. The iPad is heavier
than I would like, but otherwise works fine. I will probably buy the
next one
I am referring specifically to the iPad 4, not any of the earlier
versions. I waited for the higher resolution screen before buying any
of these because I did not think I would be satisfied with a lower
resolution screen. Even then, I first tried the Kindle Fire, but found
the screen size
I have bought from OWC and have had generally good experience.
Joe
On 1/24/13 6:16 PM, Robert J. Cordingley wrote:
Does anyone have any experience with Other World Computing (OWC)
memory? I'm thinking of buying 8GB for my for MacBook Pro laptop from
My solution is external hard drives:
1. one-time purchase cost
2. relatively inexpensive
3. not dependent upon the cloud servers. I am not willing to chance a
1-in-a-100-years failure..
Joe
On 1/15/13 9:14 AM, Mark Suazo wrote:
I'd like to find a cloud service for images - problem is, I'd
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 Spinden wrote:
My solution is external hard drives:
1. one-time purchase cost
2
Mann and Ornstein suggest mandatory voting would improve the process by
reducing the incentive to cater to minorities with strongly held beliefs.
Joe
On 10/8/12 10:09 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
I am not a Hispanic New Mexican but my maternal grandmother was. I did live
with those
When I recommended the books I mentioned previously, I hoped the books
would provide food for thought. The authors each present facts to
support their conjectures.
Joe
On 10/5/12 8:44 PM, Sarbajit Roy wrote:
Only 1 in 200 men are descended from Genghis Khan.
So.. W. was the great enabler ?
Sorry. Couldn't resist.
On 10/5/12 10:15 AM, Sarbajit Roy wrote:
Sorry for the blank e-mail.
Historically it seems that dynastic succession gives the
longest stable political systems to enable nation building.
On 10/5/12, Joseph Spinden j...@qri.us wrote
All very interesting, but I would suggest reading the books I
recommended a few posts back to understand the issues and some of the
(possibly feasible) solutions.
Joe
On 10/4/12 2:19 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
Doug -
I'm voting for Gary as my mechanism for voting against Romney, and
I read the books listed in the reverse of the order in which I listed
them. Perhaps because of that, I think the order of relevance is also
increasing.
In particular, the authors of IEWTIL (rhymes with futile) explain why
they believe a third party would not improve the situation at all: If
FWIW: I have read several interesting books lately that might be of
interest to some on this list:
Democracy Lost, by Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law professor - the
corrupting influence of money on Washington
The Price of Inequality, by Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate in Economics
- the
I have a 17 MacBook Pro with the non-glare screen. I like the
non-glare screen a lot. soon after I got it, I came across a friend
from LANL that had a similar MacBook Pro without the non-glare screen.
He said that was the biggest mistake he had made.
I think the 17 is great if you are
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Subject:Re: [FRIAM] The disappearing virtual library
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 09:37:44 -0600
From: Joseph Spinden j...@qri.us
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group friam@redfish.com
I talked yesterday with someone who
Here's an article I came across today:
Opinion: Academic Publishing Is Broken | The Scientist
http://the-scientist.com/2012/03/19/opinion-academic-publishing-is-broken/
This started me thinking about what services publishers perform in
general. As this article points out, for the
My thought was that there could be an intermediate ground that might be
more profitable for the authors and less expensive for the consumers.
Amazon built a tremendous business by eliminating store fronts.
So, I was thinking of what parts of the print publishers' current
functions could be
the publishers' blockade.
Joe
On 4/20/12 3:53 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Joseph Spinden j...@qri.us
mailto:j...@qri.us wrote:
My thought was that there could be an intermediate ground that
might be more profitable for the authors and less expensive
, with MITX following
on their heels. Accreditation is a problem, but being worked on for
these digital classrooms.
-- Owen
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Joseph Spinden j...@qri.us
mailto:j...@qri.us wrote:
I came across an article I found interesting. I was curious about
I came across an article I found interesting. I was curious about the
reaction of the members of this group, if there is an interest.
Joe
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/02/2012227143813304790.html
--
Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
-- Supreme Court Justice Louis D.
Since politics seems to be rearing its ugly head here, I would like to
recommend a book: Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State, by
Andrew Gelman. He is a well-respected statistician and political
scientist at Columbia University. To quote from his web page: Andrew
has done research
If you click on the snopes verification link in the original email from
Doug, it is clear that Warren Buffet [sic] is NOT asking that the email
be forwarded. In fact, he apparently has no connection to it at all
beyond the fact that someone put his name on it.
That said, it is not such a bad
I think the problem is incentives -- not simply on Wall Street, but in
the broader world as well: In general, people act to maximize their own
individual rewards. As long as the system provides individuals with
opportunities for large rewards with little personal risk, people will
act to
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904900904576554063768827104.html?KEYWORDS=climate+jolis
--
Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
-- Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, 1913.
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of being the
smallest.
Is that too facile an argument? Is there a mathematician out there who
can say whether that is sufficient?
/-- Russ/
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Is that an experimental result, or what you think it should
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mailto:j...@qri.us wrote:
x- runif(1000) # generate 1000 random numbers
I pay Verizon $46 / mo. I do not use data. Verizon apparently has some
sort of loaner program for travel up to 3 weeks in GPS countries.
Joe
On 5/30/11 9:02 PM, Bin Hu wrote:
I use a minimum Verizon family plan since T-mobile signal is not good
around where I use cell phone most.
Yes.
I have an MBA -- not that I see the relevance. for me the big issue is
connectivity. If either had Firewire 800, I would definitely consider
it. Without it, neither is significantly better for me than a netbook
(which I have). Obviously, my needs are specialized..
Joe
On 1/22/11 11:08
I have not seen this mentioned on the list yet, but some on this list
might find it interesting:
The Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the Geometry of the
Universe's Hidden Dimensions, by Shing-Tung Yau and Steve Nadis
Yau has been at the center of string theory development.
Joe S
Please. It would certainly be nice to have a copy that did not give me
a workout every time I picked it up.
Joseph Spinden
On 4/25/10 9:07 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:
BTW: there is a digital pre-print version that has some of the
publisher's marginal comments. Let me know if you'd like
Apologies to the group for the spam. I thought I was just replying to Owen,
JS
On 4/26/10 10:06 AM, joseph spinden wrote:
Please. It would certainly be nice to have a copy that did not give
me a workout every time I picked it up.
Joseph Spinden
On 4/25/10 9:07 AM, Owen Densmore wrote
Perhaps of interest to some in the group:
Finding Order in the Apparent Chaos of Currents
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/29/science/29chaos.html?em=pagewanted=all
JS
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On Doug's recommendation, I have been using VirtualBox on a MacBook Pro
for perhaps 6 months. Just running standard vanilla applications, but
no problems.
Joe
Owen Densmore wrote:
Hi Doug. We've been taking a nifty Smalltalk/Squeak based web
applications workshop at the complex. It uses
I just ordered one. No ETA yet.
JS
Owen Densmore wrote:
OK, two things re: the XO:
1 - How many of us have or will get an XO, probably via the Give1Get1
program?
I have one coming before Jan 15 according to a recent email from
them. Claiborne has one. Tom Johnson is getting one.
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