Re: [FRIAM] The Primacy of Primeness!

2011-12-12 Thread Pamela McCorduck
Ah, Peter, lovely story. By chance, we visited Bletchley Park on the day that the Brits returned--with great ceremony--an Enigma machine to the Poles, the people who'd first supplied the Brits with one. (We ourselves have two.) However, my sense is that pure mathematicians look down a tad

Re: [FRIAM] Just FYI - This message may not have been sent by:

2011-12-12 Thread Dale Schumacher
Interesting! I'm not on this list, and I use a direct gmail address (from the web gui presently), so this is a sort-of test to see if my email is flagged. How does it look? On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: Here are the 27 email addresses I've seen so

[FRIAM] CERN to announce Higgs boson observation at LHC | ExtremeTech

2011-12-12 Thread Tom Johnson
fyi http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/108599-cern-to-announce-higgs-boson-observation-at-lhc Perhaps. We shall see. -tj FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives,

Re: [FRIAM] CERN to announce Higgs boson observation at LHC | ExtremeTech

2011-12-12 Thread Douglas Roberts
Been hearing rumors of this for about a week. On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Tom Johnson t...@jtjohnson.com wrote: fyi http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/108599-cern-to-announce-higgs-boson-observation-at-lhc Perhaps. We shall see. -tj

Re: [FRIAM] Just FYI - This message may not have been sent by:

2011-12-12 Thread Roger Critchlow
It's flagged as possibly not from you in the gmail web interface. -- rec -- On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Dale Schumacher dale.schumac...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting! I'm not on this list, and I use a direct gmail address (from the web gui presently), so this is a sort-of test to see

Re: [FRIAM] Just FYI - This message may not have been sent by:

2011-12-12 Thread Owen Densmore
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Roger Critchlow r...@elf.org wrote: It's flagged as possibly not from you in the gmail web interface. -- rec -- And Minimalist, with the css I sent before, is not flagged so the stunt works. -- Owen

Re: [FRIAM] CERN to announce Higgs boson observation at LHC | ExtremeTech

2011-12-12 Thread Gillian Densmore
Not a physicist myself- one of the articles the article linked to did mention the possablility of there not being a higgs-boson but other mechanics to explain how stuff aquires mass. -GD On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Tom Johnson t...@jtjohnson.com wrote: fyi

Re: [FRIAM] CERN to announce Higgs boson observation at LHC | ExtremeTech

2011-12-12 Thread Carl Tollander
Another discussion: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/ I think the odds are quite high that there will be a press conference. One should not take anything said as evidence for or against any particular string theory, despite what media commentary will happen afterwards. carl On

Re: [FRIAM] Just FYI - This message may not have been sent by:

2011-12-12 Thread Joshua Thorp
What is the stunt? Is it just suppressing the warning message? --joshua On Dec 12, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Roger Critchlow r...@elf.org wrote: It's flagged as possibly not from you in the gmail web interface. -- rec -- And

Re: [FRIAM] CERN to announce Higgs boson observation at LHC | ExtremeTech

2011-12-12 Thread Greg Sonnenfeld
I think the odds are quite high that there will be a press conference. Yes, i would say it falls between 2.0 and 3.5 standard deviations. Greg Sonnenfeld Junior programmers create simple solutions to simple problems. Senior programmers create complex solutions to