What they lack is mobility - lacking some sort of mobile platform maybe
they could get together and decide where the next best placement would
be and tell the manufacturing and installation people. Some sort of
distributed instantiation - Group orders another member, turbine shows
up in the
As long as we're on AI and Math (whenever were we not) , recall that
the hard problems in AI are less matters of chess and more those of the
first five years of development. Here are some mathematicians
discussing same - Interesting to see how the conversation
unfolds.got some Category
Also,
Topoi, The Categorical Analysis of Logic
Robert Goldblatt
Dover Publications, Mineola, NY, 1984
and I'm sure Baez has a bunch of stuff on them.
On 4/11/10 5:25 AM, John Kennison wrote:
Thanks very much for the references. A basic reference for much of what is in
my papers would be
It's this stuff. http://www.formerol.comSugru appears to be the
consumer marketing arm for the F.03 / sugru products. They say you can
order it with other properties.
I also like this stuff. http://www.solarcomposites.com It would be
nice to have a less obnoxious-to-work-with
The choice is both and neither, as they are false choices. You have
conflated 'media', 'person', 'corporation', and 'forum'. Congress may
very well restrict media, for example, I may take it as my freedom of
expression to jam some competing media channel with noise, or stray
outside my FCC
Sabine Hossenfelder's summations are fun and interesting and, alas more
informative than the nyt article:
http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2010/03/gravity-is-entropy-is-gravity-is.html
http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2010/07/in-praise-of-black-holes.html
Carl
On 7/13/10 10:55 AM, glen e. p.
Well, like an exercise program, the best books are the one's one
actually rereads.
I was that liberal arts major, until I came across computer science,
then all was lost, then complexity and developmental biology, and all
was *really* lost...virtually nothing on the English major curriculum
Black Widows - Shiny long legs, hourglass on back - worry some, as
they can get agressive and the bites are persistently painful.
Ubiquitous and the big one's can be resilient against 2x4's. They make
more. Lots more.
Brown Recluse - All brown, hides in slight creases on a newspaper -
. Particularly if children are bitten.
Nick
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More complex, less complicated. Knowledge or ontology becomes more
robust if it is independently *accessible*, whereas expertise is the
fluidity of understanding what knowledge is most *reachable*, given some
variety of current contexts. So its more topological (what's the
most or least
Maybe instrument the stones? There is something satisfying about
their physicality. I can see using the projection for a remote
game, but I want to use 'real' stones on my side of the virtual
world. Some network interface through the board where they could
talk to their
Maybe The Art you takeis equal to the Artyou make.
I've always had a bias for the performance arts, in that appreciation
there comes to mean making a piece developed possibly somewhere else
your own by performing it; making it manifest in your own unique
context. Sterling might
Artists who don't lie to themselves usually end up looking for a day
job too.
Carl
On 10/18/10 5:15 PM, Victoria Hughes wrote:
How about the word misdirection?
Lies we tell ourselves are different that the sleight of hand we offer
others, with a wink and a nudge, to say things without being
Ummm, not quite. You could argue that some portion of science is
concerned with obtaining true answers to some questions asked, and there
might be explicit or implicit deception involved there. But another
large chunk is concerned with finding better questions to ask. If I
find, for
Do we harass 10^6 people at a cost of $10^9 for one discovery of note,
one which would stop an air-bomb?
Isn't that the terrorist's victory condition?If so, they don't need
to blow anything up anymore; it's way more cost-effective for them to
just publicly fail periodically.
Carl
On
And what will be in that profile? The bemused smile, the desperate
poker face, the jaded look of resignation, perhaps any attempt at
humor? Perhaps you did not pay your credit card bill this month,
or are behind in your party dues? Maybe you know too much about
spiders,
Well, hmm, ok, I'll take a stab at it. The reason it's important is
that it may be the tip of the iceberg of a category of alternative
biologies, ie 'if this can happen what else can' - is this kind of thing
prevalent? If there are alternative biologies (or 'shadow ecologies')
beyond what
Google Roger Rabbit, which sends you to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_streetcar_scandal Many
links.
On 12/17/10 8:03 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
Many years ago, perhaps more than 40, I swear I read a series of
articles, later published as a book, that laid out the basic
Perhaps it is the other way around. That more complex structures
and processes evolve as a consequence of some developmental ability
to do ever more with less (where 'less' may mean less
pre-specification). While it may be an understatement that that
would be kind
Thanks Vladimyr! I've often felt that the cognitive process you
describe is analogous to extended dynamic range operations a la
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/high-dynamic-range.htm .
Sampling notions also come to the fore when learning a language (or a
new music). A beginner
BBC stories on this seem to have retained a modicum of rationality.
Other google sources are mostly worthless.
The live coverage (press conferences, etc) is here:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/japanhelpchannel though I'm afraid my
japanese is not good enough to translate. Much of it
Yes there is. No, there is no best book about it. There may be a
best sandwich about it, but not for long.
C.
On 3/13/11 3:29 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote:
A new study says it is a piece of missing DNA which restricts brain
growth that makes us human
Oranges and Apples maybe? They're different technologies (BWR vs
PWR). It does not appear that any of the current issues at Fukushima
originated with the basic design, but were due to loss of supporting
infrastructure (e.g., loss of grid power to the pumps, the wave washed
out the diesel
Everything of consequence is on a fault somewhere.
On 3/16/11 5:31 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote:
Well not just that but hopefuly it's a time to apreciat the unreal
amount of help asia does for the global economy. That being said
offshoring is a horrible way to run the US economy. It makes it way
Well, if we stopped using rare earths for refrigerator magnets, it might
make a dent.
On 3/22/11 9:10 AM, peggy miller wrote:
I wondered if any of you know of a way to keep magnet production from
producing enormous toxin byproducts. Turns out magnets are needed for
large wind turbines that
This is a weird turn of phrase, to export externalities. Where are
we exporting them from if they are already, well, external? Hmph.
Of course we import them as well, for example the flight you take today
is safer and cheaper because the complex of airplane manufacturers,
airports and
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mailto:c...@plektyx.com wrote:
This is a weird turn of phrase, to export
Panic over intangibles is the right thing? Promise?
On 3/29/11 11:30 AM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
In the absence of a functioning moral compass, I suppose this is a
workable definition.
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Sarbajit Roy sroy...@gmail.com
mailto:sroy...@gmail.com wrote:
What
Ah, California. Molycorp.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Pass_rare_earth_mine Not online
yet, maybe.
ISO 9001 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9001 Read down.
On 3/31/11 1:52 PM, peggy miller wrote:
Hi -- Since many of us got involved in the wind turbine/magnet
production
DV: Hell is other autonomous agents? Or could it be more one's
awareness of the insidious gnawing persistent illusion of their
autonomy? The bird in the school and the fish in the flock have to
live with such an existential nausea. Yet they have to effectively
treat their fellows as
That is very nearly a tautology.
On 5/15/11 12:16 PM, Parks, Raymond wrote:
No, the END result is everything dies.
Your morbid thought for the day.
Ray Parks
- Original Message -
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Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 02:23 PM
To: The Friday
I replied to Owen separately about my experiences, but I'd like to
reiterate for all what Rich and Pamela said. Don't wait until the
stress is upon you, because you can't really hide that stress. You can
never prepare yourself completely, but you can do the research about
alternatives
I think xkcd draws extremely well. Stick figures, ovals, hats, a few
lines for hair and he ends up with these extremely expressive characters
we can relate to and come to care about (at least for a few panels).
All this brilliance several times a week while under much stress (see
his recent
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xkcd
On 7/5/11 6:49 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
Pamela!
Brilliant!!
Yes, xkcd is definitely brilliant. And Doug, well, he does have a way.
FWIW, until I actually followed up and checked it out I *assumed* that
the cartoonist was a *wicked-smart* young woman...
So glad I already bought new tires.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/
I seem to remember a bet of some kind with somebody on the list about
the unemployment rate?
On 8/8/11 10:14 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
On 8/8/2011 9:33 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
So in sum, yes Doug is right, a flock of
Just in time for elections!
On 9/3/11 2:13 AM, Tom Johnson wrote:
You will never have trouble fitting your data analysis results to
SOMETHING ever again.
-tj
Search by Drawing
Draw an interesting curve, then click 'Correlate!' to find query terms
whose popularity over time matches the
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/09/neutrino-results-depend-on-exquisite-measurements-of-time-space.ars
On 9/24/11 12:23 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
Until you get the real answer, I will offer what I thought I learned
from the expert opinion around the table yesterday.
It was done
The issue may not be how to get the advantaged to include the
disadvantaged as part of 'their' group. The issue is that they do
that by failing to see that anyone is disadvantaged.
On 10/27/11 8:32 PM, ERIC P. CHARLES wrote:
Gillian,
H tryingto put my evolutionary psychology hat on,
Group membership is not necessarily self-selecting. Perceiving group
identity, deciding to be part of the group, working to be accepted into
the group, and having the group 'accept' a member are different
activities, and of course there are multiple groups with competing,
occasionally
Imagine it's not multiple choice...
On 10/29/11 9:44 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:
Oops fat fingered earlier email. I think this, as Tyler sez, is
tricky because of the double 25. You have a 50% chance of 25, but
only 25% of the other two. Like the Monty Hall, I'd like to hear a
pro reason
Levers? There are levers? I was supposed to be pushing levers?
Dang, that explains it.
C.
On 11/12/11 9:32 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
Stephen,
I thought Lakoff's Moral politics was bloody awful -- SHAMEFUL even,
given his earlier stuff which I liked. A terrifying example of what
http://mathbabe.org/2011/10/25/emanuel-dermans-models-behaving-badly/
Worth a look. I like the oath, at least as a halfway measure.
C.
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Most of the music I have on my x2 phone/iPad/iTouch is stuff I'm trying
to learn or appreciate enough so that I can learn it better from some
other source. Since most all the stuff I'm trying to learn has
choreography and staging components; there are very strong visual
elements that
Yeah, you've been sent this ten times already this morning.
http://xkcd.com/980/
C.
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We're looking at various ways to instrument our taiko dojo and are
considering ambient solutions.
Is there a sensordomo-like thing for iOS devices?
Thanks,
Carl
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More here: http://bravenewclimate.com/2010/09/22/twr-vs-ifr There
appears to be some sentiment that Gate's TWR is not as good as the IFR
designs. I don't know enough to judge.
Also, Monbiot has a new screed out on GE-Hitachi's proposal for an IFR:
...last week GE Hitachi (GEH) told the
I believe France is a net energy exporter, quite possibly increasingly
to Germany. Could you say more what this paying dearly business is
about?
The slow moving hydro turbine thing is interesting, but I don't know of
any that aren't experimental. There would of course be a gov't subsidy
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.
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On
There are some sweet yet obscure physics anecdotes for some holidays at
http://backreaction.blogspot.com/ .
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I was wondering if anyone out there had any insight on how search
engines work with mixed phonetic/pictogram queries. If you enter a
search in the phonetic alphabet (e.g. jp Hiragana) does it try to
convert to the pictogram (e.g. jp Kanji) first and then try matches
against a pictogram-based
Any smartphone OS for the foreseeable future will be free as in
kittens. It would be nice if the battery were to last longer. I
don't know what the the battery life is on 'standard' android, never
seen one.
I use my Droid X2 pretty hard, and a days use is usually about 40% of
the full
I'd actually like to see some sort of software radio thing, but again,
kittens.
What is the victory condition? What is the problem we want to solve?
It seems its not really battery life
On 1/10/12 6:10 PM, Victoria Hughes wrote:
What a great solution- the mesh network. Communal,
-frances-free-will-reinvent-mobile/
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Carl Tollander c...@plektyx.com
mailto:c...@plektyx.com wrote:
I'd actually like to see some sort of software radio thing, but
again, kittens.
What is the victory condition? What is the problem we want
Bit of a slog (an editor please!) but once you finess the jargon and get
your mind on the path it's rewarding (that said I'm only up to page
5). Recommended so far, though multiverse and block-universe folks may
become unhappy.
Just off-the-cuff, maybe a way to think about the arguments in
Consider Baez on Octonions - talks about what the issues are. Beyond me
for now. Suspect you are about to pop out of algebra and end up
someplace else as interesting.
Carl
On 1/23/12 5:38 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
Integers, Rationals, Reals .. these scalars seemed to be enough for
quite a
Some further developments:
http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/the-faculty-of-1000/
http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/ban-elsevier/
On 1/27/12 5:28 PM, Arlo Barnes wrote:
I was elated to find JoVE (the Journal of Visual Experiments, a video
database of footage of
Yes, I notice that I have a different facial expression if I'm trying to
speak Japanese than if I'm trying to speak English. It's not that the
phonemes themselves are that different (well, there's the 'rolled d'
style 'r' and English has some that are not present in Japanese (e.g.,
'ye'
No dissing of the Ultimaker intended, but I think the Mobee uses a bit
gnarlier tech.
Should get one anyway
http://www.seas.harvard.edu/news-events/press-releases/pop-up-flying-robots
http://robobees.seas.harvard.edu/
http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewpage/204/bioinspired-robotics
(nice
Better still, getting local folks up to speed on the Ardunio platform
(e.g., Ultimaker uses 'em) might be a good idea.
On 2/18/12 3:56 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
The printer they use, ultimaker, goes for EUR1,194.00, roughly
$1564.14. ( http://goo.gl/Vqcg0)
Is it time we buy one?
-- Owen
Sorry for the misspelling, that's Arduino (arduino.cc).
On 2/18/12 8:03 PM, Carl Tollander wrote:
Better still, getting local folks up to speed on the Ardunio platform
(e.g., Ultimaker uses 'em) might be a good idea.
On 2/18/12 3:56 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
The printer they use, ultimaker
Tooling around on a Sunday, I came across a review of the book Circles
Disturbed, and an interview with Barry Mazur, one of the authors.
Recommended (the interview, haven't gotten to the book yet). Loved his
ideas about templates and explanation futures.
Nick, well, there is the issue of being on-topic or not. I think, it's
on topic, insofar as folks thinking about how, when, and at what pace
advanced civilizations might converse might have religious views that
put a charge on how they are able to think about, say, what advanced,
science,
As it might, in, um, the immune system?
On 4/11/12 4:59 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
With the result that the neural networks _can_ evolve to become larger
over time, the populations _can_ acquire a diversity in strategies
that becomes a selection pressure for increasingly clever strategies
for
There's a webcast on Tuesday. I'd watch.
Carl
On 4/21/12 9:11 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
This is so Star Trek:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303513404577356190967904210.html
As /. said: http://goo.gl/DNDzV
A team including Larry Page, Ram Shriram and Eric Schmidt of
http://www.spacevidcast.com/live/
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, so there's an avenue for cooperation.
9000 near earth asteroids so far - a lot to see.
On 4/25/12 9:40 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
Interesting .. a swarm of 16 or more space explorers. Wow!
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Carl Tollander c...@plektyx.com
mailto:c...@plektyx.com wrote
I've heard the Rust Medical Center in Rio Rancho is quite good, and that
if one had anything seriously awry with one's health that one should
contrive to get transferred there. You could perhaps start there and
get a referral.
On 5/7/12 9:50 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
Does anyone know about
If you are going to lead people, you need to come to some understanding
of the depth of your own ignorance about what they do everyday. Many
administrative crashes come from some manager thinking about what the
managed do in terms of how hard could it be? So yeah, Bloomberg
should learn
OK, what does it MEAN to you to have solved a problem in psychology?
Are there criteria you can state succinctly?
Where did those criteria come from?
If you really can't say, phlogiston will have to do. Folks were
grappling with how to describe their inner experiences coherently, given
all
question or do
you think the category is incoherent?
Eric
On Wed, May 16, 2012 11:15 PM, *Carl Tollander c...@plektyx.com* wrote:
Eric, so you've got a tech problem, not a science problem, and
sure, the tech problem of trajectories wrt local gravitation can
be solved. How do I
Nick,
What if you're not actually in an ice cream store. But, some
combination of:
1) when you believe you're hungry for hot fudge sundae, everything looks
like an ice cream store.
2) you believe in the equivalence of ice cream stores to be all capable
of producing a hot fudge sundae.
3) you
Curiously, most of the folks I know to whom many folks on this list would
ascribe magical thinking to, do, I think, have very little trouble with
the 50 kilofoot level explanation of General Relativity, and might even go
so far as to say, what's the big deal?
Trying to explain Special Relativity
It depends on what your implicit and explicit goals are.
If you start from 'efficiently find out cool stuff' or 'more knowledge
is good' you get one kind of answer.
If you start from 'ask better questions and inform theory and
understanding' you get another kind of answer.
If you start from
.
-- Owen
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Carl Tollander c...@plektyx.com
mailto:c...@plektyx.com wrote:
Not seeing much of a pure commercial story for BEO. COTS isn't
aimed at that. So right now BEO (fuel depot at L2, manned
asteroid visits, Mars) is Orion/SLS-centric and conjecture
I think it was called Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. Theodore
Sturgeon. I recall there were giant squid.
On 5/30/12 9:01 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
I found the article horrifying. Is anybody old enough to remember a
sixties research project with a cute name which centered around a
If you're going to talk about the brain, you need to pause slightly
before you say it,
then turn your head a degree or two, lift your chin slightly, look nobly
into the distance,
and say it in quotes. the brain. Suddenly someone stands, we
all raise our glasses,
and they say,
On 6/12/12 5:43 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
And whiskey goes well with some mixers as well:
I must now go atone to the whiskey gods and undergo a number of
purification rituals for having read that.
Carl
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I think the GR just says you might want to value context over doctrine.
On 9/27/12 7:53 PM, ERIC P. CHARLES wrote:
Well... so much for discussing modeling...
Personally, I am not a big fan of the Golden Rule because it implies
that everyone /should /be happy with the same things. It also
It's sort of like being cool.
If you act like you're cool, and go around telling yourself how cool you
are, you're not cool.
If you care about whether or not you're cool, you're not cool.
So if you get invested in how much you're not caring about whether or
not you're cool, you're still not
New edition of Issac Asimov's Foundation series out, intro by Paul
Krugman. Woo-hoo!
https://webspace.princeton.edu/users/pkrugman/FDT%20intro.pdf
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One is reminded of the inside of a cell. Lots going on...
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On 10/17/12 1:56 AM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
Roger,
You never favored us with a comment on these pieces. Are you speaking
to us as an evolutionist or as a contact lens wearer.
As a drinker of Santa Fe tap
Well, as someone who grew up in Nebraska and up until recently visited
several times a year, I don't think its as weird a place as you
portray. The social networks formed in part from the state's rural
origins, fallout from and reaction to politics (e.g. populist revolt,
you could look it
Perhaps we have been promoting our science all wrong.
http://www.benikurage.com/index_en/index_en.htm
Singing scientists get more coverage. (This guy has 3 articles about
him in the NYTimes in the last couple weeks.)
The scientific *merits* are a different issue. This is about face and
Clever, of course it's not really about a levitating car...
On 12/10/12 8:06 AM, Ron Newman wrote:
I watched it twice!
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mailto:o...@backspaces.net wrote:
From a friend .. cool concept people's car!
On Sat, Dec 8,
There would be some assumptions involved on why the sim was made.
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comicsid=2824#comic
Optimizing one's level may be one of those strategies that didn't pan
out so well. Kind of an artifact that seems to turn up occasionally,
but doesn't get much
:
On 12/18/12 2:03 PM, Carl Tollander wrote:
It seems to me the knee-jerk response to this sort of thing is to
improve detection and mitigate consequences, as with gun control I'd
guess detection can and will be defeated by someone like this (in
part because he probably has someone helping him
Hmm, ok IF one were a sim, then one would have no way of knowing whether
one's actions were efficacious or if the response one saw from one's
environment were some activity slightly disconnected from one's
actions. This might amount to testing whether some aspect of one's
environment were an
My understanding is, the problem is with the 1.7 version plugin for the
browsers. Standalone JRE is ok. OTOH, many folks have trouble with
the disable java buttons or aren't clear on the distinction between the
plugin and the runtime, so they're getting advice to uninstall it
completely.
Go back one generation, get a refurbished one from Apple, pile on the
memory.
Get a real bluetooth keyboard and trackpad, unless you like keys that
don't move very much.
I'd second the motion on investigating a mac mini with a big honking
monitor.You can hang out on the recliner with the
Nothingwhat?
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/tag/neo/
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/03/nasa-exploration-roadmap-evaluation-crewed-missions-asteroids/
As for what we sort of know, survey-wise, start at:
http://www.spaceweather.com/ and scroll to Near Earth Asteroids and
follow links.
But I like it! Should happen an odd number of times a year! Clocks are
arbitrary anyhow; just wake up with the Sun.
On 3/11/13 3:25 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
The title sez it all:
Eliminate the bi-annual time change caused by Daylight Savings Time |
We the People: Your Voice in Our
I do not think it a bad idea, to get hit upside the head, perhaps, say,
twice a year, with the notion that was lives on a planet, not a treadmill.
It is at least an opportunity to occasionally discuss astronomy twice a
year with those who might otherwise remain aloof. The days get longer,
So everyone would have a little bit string (updated incessantly) that
identified How You Relate To Time. There could be some ancillary info:
Best met when shadows are long and so forth. We could go back to the
hour of the tiger way of talking about time.This would open up
whole new
Less used to be more, but now its something more and something less.
Mixins, hmmm, is somebody trying to bring back flavors? In lisp
land they were great until they weren't, it was like buttons and
threads. Suddenly, a mess.
On 3/20/13 9:25 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
Anyone? How about one
You just READ the Google homepage. What actually happened? How do
you digest your dinner? The problem at hand is not a new one.
Couple years ago (2011), David Krakauer gave the Ulam lecture, which had
some observations on outsourcing competencies. I seem to recall he
thought it was a
Perhaps harder to deal with than we think.
http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/meta-rationality/
On 3/23/13 4:47 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
Nick -
I suppose *willful ignorance* is a variant of evil, but I think a
*lot* of what looks like simple incoherence is actually willful.
-
Here be a more or less recent paper about measuring happiness, from the
famous Sabine Hossenfelder. Bears on the philosopher of science
conversation too.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1754423
(just open what gets downloaded as a .pdf, even if doesn't look like
one)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMj_P_6H69gfeature=youtu.be
Just askin', what if funding science was like this? What if this was
the ONLY model available?
Would you have gone into something else?
Get a job, uh huh.
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/*What we need to explain heat bursts perhaps is to discover something
out there on the flatlands to perform the function of the mountain range.
*/
Corn.
Out by Grand Island, everything is planted in corn, due to corn prices.
Supported largely by irrigation from wells (the Platte River being
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