Hi Tom,
Seeing your name I thought the following: Massachusetts has recently become
aware that it has the least transparent government of any state in the union
with agencies charging hundreds of dollars to fulfill FOIA requests for the
basic knowledge about policies and practices. Shall
Nick --
There is a ton of stuff. Just do a search with the term open data and
also visit sunlightfoundation.com
I can send more links if you wish.
Tom
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Santa Fe, NM
SPJ Region 9 Director
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Although I haven't gone through the MaxEnt tutorial I have a question if
anyone would be willing to think about it.
As I understand it, one aspect of MaxEnt says that nature chooses that path
that maximizes entropy production -- and that satisfies whatever
constraints exist. (Or something like
On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 06:12:16AM +, Russ Abbott wrote:
Although I haven't gone through the MaxEnt tutorial I have a question if
anyone would be willing to think about it.
As I understand it, one aspect of MaxEnt says that nature chooses that path
that maximizes entropy production --
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/what-silicon-valley-can-learn-from-seoul.html
“Much of this was made possible by two decades of enormous public investment. “
From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Guerin
Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2015 9:12 AM
To:
Really good, Tom. I heard Susan Crawford give a talk at Harvard last year where
she talked about what people in Copenhagen get for some very low sum per
month--$25? It made me squirm with embarrassment, envy, and rage. The City owns
the network there.
P.
On Jun 13, 2015, at 10:57 AM, Tom
Is the failure to perform and encourage independent reasoning the same thing as
stifling it?
Are not those that presume that role also imposing a potentially stifling
control system just like religious codes of conduct?
From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Robert J.
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/my_view/are-politicians-foreclosing-on-high-tech-future/article_6813cb82-5952-5926-82c9-725ef0a0aecc.html
Are politicians foreclosing on high-tech future
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Thanks, Marcus. I wanted to include that link, but for various good
reasons, it didn't get in.
Tom
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It has been suggested https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age
that stifling of independent reasoning (aka willful ignorance)
contributed to the end of the Islamic Golden Age. I've seen other
references calling it a rise in anti-rationalism. Western civilization
may be heading the
We have had discussions on this many times, and the usual result is that
everyone gets fed up with all the technical details that need to be kept
sorted out. There are equilibrium vs non-equilibrium systems, classical vs
statistical thermodynamics, closed vs open systems, statistical mechanics
vs
Thanks, Roger.
On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 9:46 AM Roger Critchlow r...@elf.org wrote:
We have had discussions on this many times, and the usual result is that
everyone gets fed up with all the technical details that need to be kept
sorted out. There are equilibrium vs non-equilibrium systems,
Well, if we are using physiological shock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_(circulatory) as an analogy for the life
of the mind
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_the_Life_of_the_Mind, then
avoiding it would be imperative since it would cause a stiffening, ceasing
effect on activity
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