Re: [FRIAM] Who wrote the essay?

Here's what I got when I asked ChatGPT "Please draft a PhD research proposal on The Metaphysics and Ethics of Copyright". Frankly, if Steve's was from a prospective PhD student, they need to start using ChatGPT :) —Robert Title: The Metaphysics and Ethics of Copyright: A Philosophical Analysis

[FRIAM] COVID-19 ICU and hospitalization data no longer available

State-level ICU & hospitalization data is no longer available to the public as of last Wednesday. It's a big deal. https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/07/17/1005391/covid-coronavirus-hospitalizations-data-access-cdc/ - . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. . .-. . FRIAM Applied

Re: [FRIAM] Results of the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum - Wikipedia

I think that Sir Humphrey has the right idea . On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 11:24 AM Owen Densmore wrote: > I find it amazing that, with all the discussion of the Irish border and > the "backstop", the

Re: [FRIAM] Experts explaining stuff at multiple levels of difficulty

ssor of Psychology and Biology > > Clark University > > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > > > *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Robert > Holmes > *Sent:* Wednesday, January 23, 2019 8:12 PM > *To:* The Friday Mornin

[FRIAM] Experts explaining stuff at multiple levels of difficulty

Following on from a conversation I had with Nick last week. Here are some videos from WIRED in which experts explain their field at (widely) varying levels of difficulty. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLibNZv5Zd0dyCoQ6f4pdXUFnpAIlKgm3N —R

Re: [FRIAM] Motives - Was Abduction

Nick, This seems to be an issue of Wittgenstein's Lion —R On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 11:04 AM Nick Thompson wrote: > Once again, I am lost in my own thread. > > > > I will say this: often it seems, with both Marcus, and Glen, and even > Owen and Steve,

Re: [FRIAM] Statistical poser (aka fact checking is hard)

AM > *To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.com> > *Subject: *Re: [FRIAM] Statistical poser (aka fact checking is hard) > > > > Dumb question: Is there anything behind this besides an burst of legal > prescriptions that c

[FRIAM] Statistical poser (aka fact checking is hard)

Early this week I came across a recent press release from NM Dept of Health: "Governor Martinez Announces Continued Improvement in Drug Overdose Death Rankings" . I've been tinkering round with opioid statistics, so thought it might be worth

Re: [FRIAM] the Analemma

As I mentioned, this is the phenomenon that an old colleague of mine would (vainly) attempt to teach me at this time every year. Fortunately we've now got wikipedia , which helps me feel marginally less ignorant. —R On Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 12:33 AM Nick

[FRIAM] Links re the discussion at our end of the table

- "The Fable of the Bees" (link ). Probably the first literary description (1705) of emergence; specifically, how private vice causes public virtue. BTW, I recommend the download rather than the stream: there's about 5 minutes of extra

Re: [FRIAM] Shipping Forecast

esigns/ > > > > *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Robert > Holmes > *Sent:* Friday, October 26, 2018 8:41 PM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.com> > *Subject:* [FRIAM] Shipping Forecast > > >

[FRIAM] Shipping Forecast

Today's conversation with Nick about weather circulation in the North Atlantic inevitably got me thinking about that great British tradition, the Shipping Forecast . I must admit, just hearing the opening notes of its theme gets me all misty eyed…

Re: [FRIAM] Complexity Returns to the Mother Church (or v.v?).

Randall Munroe says this better than I ever could PHYSICISTS By the way Nick, you mentioned a physicist who set ethology back 50 years. Who was it? On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 5:10 PM uǝlƃ ☣ wrote: > On 10/12/18 3:46 PM, Nick Thompson wrote: > > 5. ... From the strength of

Re: [FRIAM] looking for a word

I always call it the Zweigneiderlassung. On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 4:14 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > The explanatory power of all words is limited. See Wittgenstein. Wovon > Mann nicht sprechen kann daruber muss Mann schweigen. > > --- > Frank Wimberly > > My

Re: [FRIAM] What is an object?

Hope this helps https://xkcd.com/2021/ On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 9:53 AM Nick Thompson wrote: > David, and all, > > > > I am overwhelmed (of course) by the diversity and complexity of the > answers. I had expected at most a few answers, highly similar to one > another, of the form, “Nick you

Re: [FRIAM] Science question...re: cold neck scarfs

If you really want to blow your mind, consider these mesh cooling towels: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06Y4RW17N/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8=1 When you've been wearing it for a while and it has warmed up, you take it off, give it a sharp "snap", and it's immediately cold again. I

Re: [FRIAM] How to Understand Your Computer - The New Yorker

The BBC Radio 4 had a short but fascinating documentary on Ada Lovelace several years ago. It's still available in their archive: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0092j0x On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 11:28 PM, Tom Johnson t...@jtjohnson.com wrote: Forgive me if the FRIAM gang has already seen this.

Re: [FRIAM] Crime in Europe and the United States: dissecting the ‘reversal of misfortunes’

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: Oh my. I'm delighted to bow to the EU for having more violence than ourselves. They also have a lot more ISL members. Odd. On the other hand, these stats are likely off, and besides, do they have Zozobra? --

Re: [FRIAM] Android Fragmentation Report August 2014 - OpenSignal

On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Tom Johnson t...@jtjohnson.com wrote: Given your Italian travel, be sure to check out the deals at T-mobile. I can talk to that. I got a Note 3 on T-mobile precisely because of the international data for when I travel to the UK. I learned the hard way that you

Re: [FRIAM] Password Change Requests

On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 8:34 PM, Barry MacKichan barry.mackic...@mackichan.com wrote: Since I use a password manager (1Password) there is very little cost in keeping a 20-character password (which I never type anyway) even for those sites with 2-factor authentication. Doesn't this make

Re: [FRIAM] Password Change Requests

I'm not grokking something then... I thought Barry's setup was automatic, which is why he never had to enter his 20 character password? On Apr 19, 2014 4:26 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 3:15 AM, Robert Holmes rob...@robertholmes.orgwrote: ​snip I must

Re: [FRIAM] Manifesto Project Database

Careful with that the, it's got political connotations. The BBC has a good description of the issue: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18233844 On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:43 PM, glen g...@ropella.name wrote: On 12/12/2013 10:55 AM, glen wrote: ... in the Ukraine is ... I don't know where

Re: [FRIAM] phonebloks teams with motorola

Wikipedia has an interesting summary of various species' contribution to terrestrial biomass (linkhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomass_(ecology)#Global_biomass). The following species are each individually responsible for 30% of terrestrial biomass: 1. humans 2. cattle 3. sheep and goats

Re: [FRIAM] TMobile

This might be a reason to go to T-mobile: http://boingboing.net/2013/10/10/t-mobile-pitches-unlimited-no.html On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: My contract is up at Vzn .. where I went to get an iPhone, get a seniors plan and to have better coverage.

Re: [FRIAM] Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog : Landmark 2013 IPCC Report: 95% Chance Most of Global Warming is Human-Caused | Weather Underground

Here's an interesting take on the issue. What do insurance companies think about climate change? http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/15/business/insurers-stray-from-the-conservative-line-on-climate-change.html On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Nick Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.netwrote: Owen,

[FRIAM] Security flaw in Chrome…

… and Google say they have no intention of fixing it. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/07/google-chrome-password-security-flaw FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: PRISM/AP kerfluffle, etc

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Parks, Raymond rcpa...@sandia.gov wrote: ObComplexity: How does the dynamics of network connection breaking and making affect the analysis of networks? SPILIOPOULOU, M (2011) Evolution in social networks: a survey *in* AGGARWAL, C Social Network Data

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: PRISM/AP kerfluffle, etc

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Parks, Raymond rcpa...@sandia.gov wrote: Before I spend $120 of your tax dollars, does that particular article cover the kind of massive breaking of connections that were attributed (incorrectly as it turns out) to Zuckerberg? Even though the story was false,

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: PRISM/AP kerfluffle, etc

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Parks, Raymond rcpa...@sandia.gov wrote: I have also been infected with the young folks' need for immediate gratification, Of course, you could always see if it's available on http://gen.lib.rus.ecand if it proves useful then get it through ILL/Amazon so

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Go Read: Open-Source Google Reader Clone - Matt Jibson's Blog

Feedly is doing an excellent job of fulfilling all my Reader-related needs. Strongly recommended. On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: So google reader is going away Monday. When announced a while back, several blogs posted alternatives, mainly Feedly but

[FRIAM] I think this is relevant to our discussion on MOOCs

Gary Busey gives to all those who attend online universities and never get a chance for a real commencement speech. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_EPdU8m7uI FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St.

Re: [FRIAM] Using Metadata to find Paul Revere - Kieran Healy

Hmm… isn't this kinda self-selecting? Is it any surprise that the central node in the network derived from the metadata in Paul Revere's Ride is Paul Revere? (Hint: the clue is in the title.) On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Tom Johnson t...@jtjohnson.com wrote: Sniffing out Paul Revere with

Re: [FRIAM] Meta-discussion

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:05 AM, glen ropella g...@ropella.name wrote: Yeah, but at least FOAR allows top-posting!

Re: [FRIAM] bursting the placebo bubble

Steve's post made me think of the Roger McGough poem Let me die a youngman's death: Let me die a youngman's death not a clean and inbetween the sheets holywater death not a famous-last-words peaceful out of breath death When I'm 73 and in constant good tumour may I be mown down at dawn by a

Re: [FRIAM] Presented for FRIAMic Consideration

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Douglas Roberts d...@parrot-farm.netwrote: I've never heard of inflation being attributed to the Higg's boson. Not looking something up in Wikipedia is almost as big a sin as not googling something…

Re: [FRIAM] Google Voice

Google Voice is living on borrowed time. If the Guardian's analysis is correct (linkhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/mar/22/google-keep-services-closed?INTCMP=SRCH), we could have expected Google to kill it off about two weeks ago on 3/9/2013. But until they do, I'll carry on using it

[FRIAM] Google Glass and privacy

tl;dr: Google has empowered you to ignore the privacy of other people. Bravo. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/9939933/Google-Glass-Orwellian-surveillance-with-fluffier-branding.html FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv

Re: [FRIAM] Google Glass and privacy

How very Brave New World. Keep taking the soma, Doug :) On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Douglas Roberts d...@parrot-farm.netwrote: Privacy is an illusion. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St.

Re: [FRIAM] Wow. 6 whole days without a Nexus 4 post.

Massive use in US = normal use in the rest of civilization. Verizon just tried to sign a friend up to a wireless plan as her main internet access. Monthly cap? 5Gb. That's about a movie and a half at HD. —R On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: snip

Re: [FRIAM] WAS:: Cliques, public, private. IS: Preserving email correspondence

Or pay an editor to do it. Is the dollar value of Nick's desire to see this properly recorded and archived greater or less than an editor's fee? Let's watch the free market in action. —R On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: I doubt if it could be

Re: [FRIAM] Eileen Mendel wants to share new pictures with you

According to their website it's where you can create and share your romantic journey. It seems that FRIAM has a suitor… On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: Zoosk?? On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Eileen Mendel ermen...@gmail.com wrote: ** [image:

Re: [FRIAM] The Presidential Election

Yeah, because that never backfires: Ralph Nader, Florida, 2000. On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Douglas Roberts d...@parrot-farm.netwrote: snip Also, and primarily, that vote was a statement against the two party system. FRIAM

Re: [FRIAM] The Presidential Election

Oh, so you're a Romney supporter? On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 1:04 PM, ERIC P. CHARLES e...@psu.edu wrote: snip P.S. I have a nice Gary Johnson sign outside my house. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at

Re: [FRIAM] Seldon seen

Wow, I've not read those in three decades and that intro had me salivating. Off to Amazon… On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Carl Tollander c...@plektyx.com wrote: New edition of Issac Asimov's Foundation series out, intro by Paul Krugman. Woo-hoo!

Re: [FRIAM] dead fish wins igNobel

I don't get why this is an igNobel. The researchers are showing that the standard statistical tests used in fMRI studies give nonsensical results (namely, the dead salmon showed active voxel clusters in the salmon’s brain cavity and spinal column). In contrast, when they use their proposed

Re: [FRIAM] faith

It wouldn't hurt to review the entry on faith in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/faith/). In its second paragraph, it distinguishes between a broad definition of faith as trust or belief and the narrower notion of religious faith (think of the email

Re: [FRIAM] faith, zombies, and crazy people (was America and the Middle East: Murder in Libya | The Economist)

Here's some grounds for denying the non-zombie's account of his zombieness: the non-zombie is mad or pig-headed or over-familiar with solipsism. Or a combination of all three. —R On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Nicholas Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote: Robert, snipSo, there

Re: [FRIAM] faith, zombies, and crazy people (was America and the Middle East: Murder in Libya | The Economist)

You guys clearly know too much about philosophy and not enough about zombies. Your notion that there is a single type of zombie has long been discredited. Here's a handy chart that I hope can inform your discussion. http://www.geekologie.com/image.php?path=/2010/10/05/zombie-chart-full.jpg —R

Re: [FRIAM] PRES12_WTA Prospectus - The University of Iowa

from...? On Aug 19, 2012 3:56 PM, Douglas Roberts d...@parrot-farm.net wrote: It's a gift. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at

Re: [FRIAM] Something for physicists

This http://what-if.xkcd.com/1/, I'm guessing. On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 9:05 PM, Russ Abbott russ.abb...@gmail.com wrote: What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light http://what-if.xkcd.com/1/? *-- Russ *

[FRIAM] Oh Apple…

I've never been a full-on Apple fanboi per se, but I have enjoyed my iMacs and my MacBook Pros since I abandoned Windows half a decade ago. But now Apple are starting to seriously piss me off. - They've completely lost the

Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] Robots Go To War

Interesting, but I'm surprised that the article didn't mention the signature drone strikes that are so popular with the Obama administration, whereby you only need to do something that looks vaguely terrorist-y (attend one of their funerals, live near them, go to the same market) to become a

[FRIAM] Language death

Interesting piece on a mathematical model of what makes languages die out. Contains a link to the original paper, freely available (hurrah!) at the Royal Society. http://discovermagazine.com/2012/jun/31-how-math-can-help-save-a-dying-language - Robert attachment:

Re: [FRIAM] The Climate Fixers May 14 New Yorker

A partially remembered quote from an Atlantic article a year ago: Fighting climate change with particle injection is like trying to fight obesity with a girdle and doughnuts. —R On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Paul Paryski ppary...@aol.com wrote: I submitted a letter (see below) to the editor

[FRIAM] New open source journal from Springer

http://www.epjdatascience.com/ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

[FRIAM] Please Don't Learn to Code

Jeff Atwood's blog posts are always good value. This one is no exception. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/05/please-dont-learn-to-code.html —R FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's

Re: [FRIAM] Old Folks Only: Medicare Plan F

Move to Europe? —R On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: Today I had my first experience of a doctor refusing my medicare insurance. This was particularly surprising because I have the Plan F supplement which purports to pay the difference between the

Re: [FRIAM] Just as a bye-the-way

I like C D Broad's take on this: Induction is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy. (1926, The Philosophy of Francis Bacon). I think there's a lot of truth in this... induction is simply not a problem for science and scientists. Scientists have used induction to give the most

Re: [FRIAM] Just as a bye-the-way

This reminds me of a comment in the Physics vs. Chemistryhttp://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/timc/timc_20111219-1700a.mp3episode of the BBC's Infinite Monkey Cage: Chemistry is better than physics, because if something doesn't work you can't pretend that it does by sticking the word 'dark'

[FRIAM] Nature special edition on Alan Turing

http://www.nature.com/news/specials/turing/index.html FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

Re: [FRIAM] Strange, funny and baffling units for measuring almost anything | Royal Pingdom

There's a similar list on Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humorous_units_of_measurement), where you'll also find a measure of information flow, the Dirac: Physicist Paul Dirac http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dirac was known among his colleagues for his precise yet taciturn

Re: [FRIAM] Oh my gawd...

Actually you can't define primeness any way you want. The definition needs to be negotiated by the community of professionals who are can credibly agree on the definition. My definition of primeness is anything bigger than 3 and painted an attractive shade of blue. But no one listens to me. Nor

Re: [FRIAM] Epistemological Maunderings

Logorrhea (psychology) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logorrhea_(psychology), a communication disorder resulting in incoherent talkativeness On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Douglas Roberts d...@parrot-farm.netwrote: Just out of idle curiosity, what's the '...ysics' or '...ology' word for

Re: [FRIAM] Gates discussing new nuclear reactor with China - Yahoo! News

Yeah, greenest only if you ignore the environmental/human/dollar costs of getting the uranium out of the ground and then you forget about that whole messy decommissioning component (which usually relies on the assumption that national government must ultimately underwrite/pick up the tab and is

Re: [FRIAM] Gates discussing new nuclear reactor with China - Yahoo! News

of safe. Just about anything is safer than coal, so that's not saying much. On 12/7/11 9:27 PM, Robert Holmes wrote: Yeah, greenest only if you ignore the environmental/human/dollar costs of getting the uranium out of the ground and then you forget about that whole messy decommissioning

Re: [FRIAM] Syncing between devices...why? [was Android Choice]

Errr yes, that is a *really* good question. Why *do* you have so many devices? Why do any of us? Do they make us happier? —R On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 12:05 PM, ERIC P. CHARLES e...@psu.edu wrote: To deviate a touch, and head a bit back towards a past thread... how many of us are there left

Re: [FRIAM] [sfx: Discuss] Fwd: FlowingData - Best statistics question ever

Zero. Because the actual correct answer is herring —R On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Carl Tollander c...@plektyx.com wrote: 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

Re: [FRIAM] heart beats

It is approximately invariant. See for example Joseph Bronizino's The Biomedical Engineering Handbook: biomedical engineering fundamentals, section 17.4 Comparative Analysis of the Mammalian Circulatory System —R P.S. So has the Google broken down in your corner of New Mexico? If you Google the

[FRIAM] Editorial survey: swarm intelligence for data mining

The Editorial survey in the latest Machine Learning is worth a read http://www.springer.com/?SGWID=0-0-1500-1493603-0cm_mmc=AD-_-Journal-_-MCS14908_V1-_-0 Free access until 10/31/2011 FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets

Re: [FRIAM] Delicious Alternative

pinboard.in It's a one-off cost of ~$10 but it's a really clean design that I find easier to use than the old delicious —R On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Jochen Fromm j...@cas-group.net wrote: The new Delicious really sucks, what kind of bookmarking service are you using now? Any

Re: [FRIAM] Official Google Blog: When patents attack Android

Poor Google. I think we should all make a commitment to double our search activity today so that they can generate some additional revenue to fight off this awful anti-competitive threat. —R On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: This is a fascinating post

Re: [FRIAM] Santa Fe

Is that special or special? —Robert On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Douglas Roberts d...@parrot-farm.netwrote: Yes, everybody here is special. --Doug FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St.

Re: [FRIAM] iClarified - Apple News - Amazon Launches Textbook Rentals for the Kindle

Hmmm... strikes me as another attempt to extract rents from an already monopolistic market (you must use textbook X for this course and you will pay Y). 80% off list price for a 30 day rental? So if I want it for a year, that's about 240% of list price? Nice business model. —R On Tue, Jul

Re: [FRIAM] iClarified - Apple News - Amazon Launches Textbook Rentals for the Kindle

I hope the Open University is accredited, that's where I got my MBA! They had an interesting approach in the late 90s ( don't know if is the same now): course fees included textbooks, so a week after signing up you would get a big box through the mail full of the textbooks you would need for the

Re: [FRIAM] Creating a Network Like Facebook, Only Private - NYTimes.com

Unfortunately, that's all about to change. See Banks Find Way To Sell Consumers Shopping Datahttp://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/233227/Banks-Find-Way-To-Sell-Consumers-Shopping-Data on Slashdot —R On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: snip I'm less

Re: [FRIAM] The Grand Design, Philosophy is Dead, and Hubris

Owen—I'm afraid that scientists engineers like us have occasionally got to be on the receiving end of go read the book comments just as much as non-scientists who want to know about vortex formation... The contemporary utilitarians who are writing about this stuff include Judith Lichtenberg,

Re: [FRIAM] [sfx: Discuss] Gmail Phishing Warning Messages

Owen—this email is composed in gmail's web interface and it's actually from a gmail address (I've got my send mail as... set to the address you see). One email is going direct to you, the other via FRIAM. Do you get phishing warnings on either of them? —R On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Owen

Re: [FRIAM] The Uncertainty Tax

If you go to regulations.gov and select newly posted regulations, you'll see that there's been 24,476 of them in the last year. For me, that seems quite a lot. But I'm not a trained academic, so perhaps my reading speed is abnormally low. —R On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Russ Abbott

Re: [FRIAM] GMail: Wow: Corsi di italiano a Firenze, Scuola Toscana

I always found it fun seeing the ads that got themselves attached to FRIAM posts... —R P.S. I've disabled ads in Gmail with thishttps://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/coibnogmjcpbccgjofoiklnfpbbjbapochrome extension. Works well. 2011/6/19 Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net I'm trying gmail

Re: [FRIAM] The stopping rule

Errr guys? You might want to check the paperhttp://www.americanscientist.org/issues/issue.aspx?id=5783y=0no=content=truepage=2css=print. It isn't three random numbers. It's two numbers written by a human opponent and a random number. A somewhat different scenario... —R On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at

[FRIAM] Quote of the week

From the BBC's science podcast The Infinite Monkey Cagehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/timc : Philosophy is to physics as pornography is to sex. It's cheaper, it's easier and some people seem to prefer it. —R FRIAM Applied

Re: [FRIAM] Gmail love

An interesting point. So which webmail providers, ISPs *etc.* should we trust not to violate our privacy? And how do we know to trust them? —R On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Sarbajit Roy sroy...@gmail.com wrote: So lets hear your experiences with Gmail and how you like/don't like its

[FRIAM] He sees you when you're sleeping...

http://xkcd.com/838 -- R FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

[FRIAM] Network neutrality

Network neutrality matters. It really, really matters. Here's why. http://www.theopeninter.net/ -- R FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at

Re: [FRIAM] The decline effect

... and this is why probability and statistics should be a compulsory class for *everyone* who goes through our education system :-) -- R On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 5:38 AM, Pamela McCorduck pam...@well.com wrote: The NYer can be obtuse about scientific topics, but this article intrigued me. Is

Re: [FRIAM] WikiLeaks, US Gov't prohibition, Corporate Boycotts, etc.

This is an interesting and—IMHO—nicely balanced piece. It's all shades of grey, man -- R http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/12/wikileaks-and-the-long-haul/ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St.

Re: [FRIAM] NASA-Funded Research Discovers Life Built With Toxic Chemical

http://xkcd.org/829/ On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:59 PM, Miles Parker milespar...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah -- staying out of the name the pill controversy ;) -- one neat little tidbit in the I'm always amazed by how little I know and how little I've thought about what I do know category. We think

Re: [FRIAM] Neat piece of Net art

was sad for me -- My childhood home(s) in Los Alamos burned down in the Cerro Grande fire of 2000. The video shows a wasteland of burned forest around where my home used to be. --Doug On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Robert Holmes rob...@holmesacosta.comwrote: http

[FRIAM] Neat piece of Net art

http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/ It's been around for a few months, but I've only just come across it. I found it surprisingly moving. -- R P.S. You'll need Chrome to view it. Some very cool HTML5 going on there. P.P.S. It's got flocks of boids! The signature of all great art :-)

Re: [FRIAM] Parsing the Bard

And Gamlet is available on Netflix I see. That's one for the queue. Your comment about the mistranslation reminds me of the (almost certainly apocryphal) anecdote about the early days of computerized translation. The researcher types the phrase out of sight, out of mind and requests

Re: [FRIAM] dropbox?

Owen - I work interchangeably on my office and home computers and I use Dropbox to keep particular parts of my setup synced between the two machines. In particular: 1. my to-do lists, engineer's notebook, big file o' passwords (gpg-ed, of course) and simple Python utilities all go into

Re: [FRIAM] dropbox?

On Nov 28, 2010, at 8:07 AM, Robert Holmes wrote: Owen - I work interchangeably on my office and home computers and I use Dropbox to keep particular parts of my setup synced between the two machines. In particular: 1. my to-do lists, engineer's notebook, big file o' passwords (gpg-ed

Re: [FRIAM] dropbox?

On Nov 28, 2010, at 8:07 AM, Robert Holmes wrote: Owen - I work interchangeably on my office and home computers and I use Dropbox to keep particular parts of my setup synced between the two machines. In particular: 1. my to-do lists, engineer's notebook, big file o' passwords (gpg-ed

[FRIAM] The Case for a Scientific Education

Let's leave it to C.P. Snow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures: A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the

Re: [FRIAM] The Best 10 Fictional Works

So I take it that our working definition of best is will look good on the coffee table and impress liberal arts graduates rather than will be read and enjoyed? ;-) -- R P.S. Also: when selecting foreign authors you must specify the translation if you are going to maximize your pseud points. It's

[FRIAM] A brief history of mathematics

A series of 10 15-minute lectures from the BBC herehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00srz5b/episodes/player. Good value. -- R FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures,

[FRIAM] How to do statistics (UK Govt version)

There's a surprisingly solid set of introductions to statistics published by the UK Government herehttp://www.parliament.uk/topics/Statistics-policyArchive.htm. I think the guide to statistical

Re: [FRIAM] Amazon Says E-Book Sales Outpace Hardcovers - WSJ.com

Owen - I nearly got myself the new Kindle DX precisely because I have tons of technical PDFs and no simple portable way of reading them (hey, my failing eyesight means if it's not on 8.5 x 11 I can't see it...). The Kindle was getting dinged by a lot of people for its poor PDF support (no

[FRIAM] Physics World has a couple of good articles this month

Physics World http://physicsworld.com/ is a particularly good read this month. Highlights for me are: - a historical piece (linkhttp://physicsworld.com/cws/article/indepth/43030) on why the US doesn't use the SI system (answer: the phenomenal bad luck of Joseph Dombey); - a review

[FRIAM] It's competition time!

$5000 for IEEE data-mining contest on predicting traffic jams: http://tunedit.org/challenge/IEEE-ICDM-2010 C'mon guys, SF Complex and Friam are *bursting* with brains. Surely we're a shoe-in for this. Go Team Santa Fe! Yay! -- R FRIAM

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