On 03/04/2014 04:54 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
I do it at home every night myself. In fact I hear Charles Shaw calling
my name from across the room... I can't wait until his viticulturists
start editing in firefly sequences so I can drink it in the dark after
the electric grid crashes!
I will be
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
Merle, I missed your comment and you are certainly somebody to me
P.
On Mar 3, 2014, at 11:12 PM, Merle Lefkoff merlelefk...@gmail.com wrote:
I commented, and I'm utterly somebody, dear Pamela.
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 7:20 AM, Pamela McCorduck pam...@well.com wrote:
Utterly nobody
Pamela -
I think there are *many* valid arguments up one side and down the other
of this topic, just as the (false?) dichotomy between Art and Craft.
I also think that while there are arguments for the deep pockets of
government, there are also arguments against it. I can't find a
I apologize for getting a little off topic from the original point being
made here:
My rail is against two things, UberScale Science and the
loss/limitation/coopting of Government Funding of Science.
While the free market has some magic to it, there are times when an
entity charged with
FWIW, I thought you were spot on re: the topic. It seems to me that it
doesn't matter whether the big money is from the government or the
private sector. Big money implies things like big returns, cutting
patients to fit tables, etc. Regardless of who employs the bureaucrat,
their @ss is
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
Perhaps it was just incredibly fortunate for us that those people—Licklider,
Kahn, Cerf and others—were in a position at a special time to make a dream come
true. They had the ways and means to spend money, and spent it pretty wisely.
Everything the pioneers did wasn’t successful—a big,
On 03/04/2014 11:50 AM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
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
Pamela,
Shrewd observation.
Going back 25+ years earlier than those people, the Cybernetics movement
was a global intellectual effort that was ultimately interested in a
science of mind. Most of its participants were probably academics, and
it included a broad array of passions - not only
Perhaps it was just incredibly fortunate for us that those people—Licklider,
Kahn, Cerf and others—were in a position at a special time to make a dream come
true. They had the ways and means to spend money, and spent it pretty wisely.
Everything the pioneers did wasn’t successful—a big,
Glen -
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 means to
get them done.
I
Utterly nobody in FRIAM thought my question about the shift from government led
innovation to private sector led innovation was interesting enough to comment
on (even to acknowledge) but I’m going to forward this piece from Dave Farber’s
list which also addresses the issue and ask you again
I didn't see your earlier post, Pamela, but it seems to be that in addition
to the lure of money are (1) the shift to biological rather than physics
research, perhaps because we are destroying the planet; and (2) government
money for anything useful is a thing of the past.
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at
Pamela,
I am personally very disturbed as well. I see the trend that you are
pointing out as an instance of a much larger trend. I can't quite yet
characterize, or even scope, it yet. However, short-term thinking and
various versions of trying-to-get-something-for-nothing seem to
accompany
Pamela, hi
I actually thought it was extremely interesting, but have no knowledge
of my own to contribute.
Somebody you might like is a Swedish economist (now emeritus) named
Gunnar Eliasson, wwho has spent much of his career studying the
detailed planning and mechanics by which
Could you forward your earlier email? I don't seem to have it, and I don't
believe it was part of the current thread, right?
I'm interested in this because of the Small Business Innovation Research
(SBIR) program that has a couple of projects here in Santa Fe, one of which
Redfish is working on.
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
I commented, and I'm utterly somebody, dear Pamela.
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 7:20 AM, Pamela McCorduck pam...@well.com wrote:
Utterly nobody in FRIAM thought my question about the shift from
government led innovation to private sector led innovation was interesting
enough to comment on (even
Perhaps apropos to this thread, perhaps not, is the following piece by Paul
Graham (who you may know as that guy who says inflammatory things and
clarifies them later, or that guy who worked at Yahoo!); the piece itself
covers a larger scope, but part of it seems relevant to 'the role of
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