Wow, thanks Rich. And the follow-on conversation on the website is also
interesting.
I have to admit the Axiom of Choice has been puzzling to me, why its
importance, how it is applied and so on.
-- Owen
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Rich Murray rmfor...@gmail.com wrote:
no one
Thanks, Rich, for the interesting note.
For another kind of completeness, I'll comment that I speak Esperanto.
In the period 1900-1905, approximately, there was a lot of interest
among French intellectuals in the possible use of a constructed
language for the purpose of international
Humans acting as individuals forecast fairly well and can be proactive. For
the most part, our institutions can not.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-18/descended-from-apes-acting-as-slime-molds-commentary-by-nathan-myhrvold.html
I appreciate your post Rich and owen and Bruce's responses.
I have a couple of observations:
1) I am always amazed (euphemism for offended) at our use of hyperbole
and superlatives in such things. We all know that mathematics and
science only has false-summits and that all ultimates are
Interesting reaction to Esperanto vocabulary, which has no Portuguese
roots at all except to the extent that there are many Romance-language
roots in Esperanto, which were borrowed mainly from French or Latin
forms.
A large number of constructed languages including Interlingua were
simplified
Bruce -
Interesting reaction to Esperanto vocabulary, which has no Portuguese
roots at all except to the extent that there are many Romance-language
roots in Esperanto, which were borrowed mainly from French or Latin
forms.
Bruce-
Thanks for the correction...
It has been 30+ years since I
Yup. Esperanto is rather well known in Brazil (which still means that
the number of Brazilian speakers of Esperanto is small). In fact,
every week (in 10 minutes in fact) I meet on video Skype with
Esperanto-speaking friends I came to know in the Raleigh area when I
was at NCSU (I now live in
OK: Time for our Stat-Porn of the day: lots of pretty graphics about
Android/iPhone:
http://blog.hunch.com/?p=51781
Its pretty fluffy, seeing that ATT/GSM was a big part of the equation until
recently. So carrier, I think, is also part of the equation, especially on
the travel stats (GSM more
Rich,
Wow. Thanks for passing on such a refreshing and informative article.
You get my vote for the most entertaining FRIAM post of the year (so far).
Grant
On 8/18/11 9:11 AM, Rich Murray wrote:
no one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created,
Hugh Woodin's ultimate L:
Where did you see pretty graphics? It looks like a spreadsheet with
Powerpoint chart junk in pastel.
-- rec --
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
OK: Time for our Stat-Porn of the day: lots of pretty graphics about
Android/iPhone:
Shameless plug: I have started a academically-oriented blog. I suspect my most
recent post, on 'http://fixingpsychology.blogspot.com/', is relevant to many
of the discussions that I have been part of on this list, and will be of
interest to at least a few people here.
I now return you to your
More in the vein of sharing, actually. I've been riding around British
Colombia and Alberta on the motorcycle for the past couple of weeks, here
are some of the pics:
http://mc2-canada-trip-2011.blogspot.com/
Some of the best shots were taken on days 10+
--Doug
--
Doug Roberts
I was imprecise: lots of colors, fonts, icons, and so on ... I like chart
junk in pastel just fine! Maybe side-by-side comparisons with eye-candy?
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Roger Critchlow r...@elf.org wrote:
Where did you see pretty graphics? It looks like a spreadsheet with
Whoa, how about more? Why did you feel a need to start the blog? What is
your goal? Why psychology or fixing? .. possibly Cognitive Science, or
History of Science, or xx?
We need at least a trailer .. maybe the first post was it?
-- Owen
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 6:03 PM, ERIC P.
Cool, a BMW. German enginering! Nice, pictures, too. How did you record the
route? A self-made app? I use the Runtastic app to record my jogging tracks.
-J.
Sent from Android
Douglas Roberts d...@parrot-farm.net hat geschrieben:
More in the vein of sharing, actually. I've been riding
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